Chapter 1186 - One Beautiful Night IV (1/2)

These two people when they were warlords is still a high school senior. Probably just a day before the Fall, they were playing around with friend, worrying about the next exam, thinking where to go when school ends, what they should with their future

They might even be thinking of what certificates and what kind of skills that they need to have to enter the working world

Who could have thought that these two young kid would then be a warlord that in the end split the island nation into two in an agreement signed in Kyoto.

One of them would be in charge of the Kanto area. The other one would be in charge of the Kansai area.

As for the other island around the nation it is free game for anyone. That is the origin story of Oreki and Hikigaya, the Twin Sages of Japan.

But who remembers that? The people of Japan only remembers the powerful appearance of these two people that protect the people of Japan from the encroachment of the world power.

When they spoke of Hikigaya, the first image that comes to their mind is a wisely sage inside a cave surrounded by mist.

Everyone knows that the Illusionist Archmage usually meditates in caves to further his illusion powers. And when one thinks of Oreki, they would think of thunder and lightning and the Raijin Army.

They would not think that these godlike beings that some of the people of Japan worshipped had normal feelings, normal concern and regardless of how they portrayed themselves to the world, Katarina knows that there are some parts of Hikigaya and Oreki that is still childish.

They have feelings and sentimentality that they would not shows other but only to their loved ones.

Then there is Jean, the son of the alley, living in the dark side of France. The child of the street, the son of a prostitute.

At least that is what some people said about his mother. Katarina herself did not know whether this is true or not since Jean is not exactly forthcoming about the details of his past

Azief is also someone whose past is not known to many people. Some people only knew that he came from the ruined nation of Malaysia, a country in Southeast Asia.

Other than that, nobody knows who is his old friends, his parents and before his conflict with the World Government, nobody really knows who he is.

It is the same for Jena. Most of what known of his apt is hearsay and rumors, some is true and some are exaggerated.

Most of the people he conquered did not like him and it is not unreasonable for them to make up rumors about the sordid background of Jean the Time Monarch.

But one thing is true. It is that Jean was the children of the street. This is something he acknowledged.

He nearly became the Emperor of Europe, nearly unifying all of Europe under his rule. But unlike others influential people in the world, during his rule, there were a sense of terror and his expansion ideas runs counter with the World Government

The reason why he was reviled so much is because most of his general is very racist.

Such problems had abated after the Weronian Occupation but during the rise of Jean in France, humanity still see each other as different.

France is color blind when it is about race. But reality isn't. There is a difference, a dissonance between its universal ideals and its day to day life.

Katarina did not know much about France

In fact, she did not know much about the world before the Fall since she is usually at home.

There was no internet at her home because her father believes that the corporations is spying on them and honestly, her father is not exactly wrong.

What she knows about France is what she found out from Jean and the people that lives there and they all have different perspective on what France is like

And Jean is a boy in the street, making money dealing drugs. Though jean had never admitted it publicly, his silence against the assertion is enough

France ideals were noble but it run up against the complexities of lived reality

France before the Fall is one of the most multiethnic societies in the West and just because it doesn't formally recognize race doesn't naturally mean that race or racism doesn't exist.

France, unlike other nations does not formally keep statistic about race or religion, recognizing only two categories of people, citizens and immigrants

But racism exits and it is instituted by Jean general. And it is not the normal white racist men oppressing the black man narrative.

Jean had many generals.

Some of them are Algerian and some of them are Arabs.

But they are French.

There is also a few Chinese French, the Roman, the Berbers and he had diverse people becoming his general.

Europe is not a small continent. And Jean could not be everywhere at the same time….at least not during that period of time.

Some of his generals are very racist. When one of his general went to Algeria, this general which is very racist against people of religion had massacred the entire city