Getting To Know The Soldiers Better Part 2

After Kiran finished talking with Lucina, his next move was to start talking with blue haired-woman in red clothes, Lilina.

Since she and the others were hearing what he told about the stars and the earth to Lucina, she wasn't training when he approached her, this time, Kiran decided to start the conversation without being formal. If so many people had told him that did not matter then why should he continue bothering with that after all?

"You're Lilina, right?" he, once more, extended his hand.

"Am... yes..." she extended her own for the handshake, but she seemed to be confused. "And you are?..."

I guess this was normal when they had heard his name probably a single time that morning. "Kiran, It's a pleasure to meet you" he smiled.

"The pleasure is mine" She smiled back too.

"So, just like I said to Lucina and Corrin, as the tactician of this army it's good for me to start friendships with my soldiers," Kiran joined his palms in front of the area of his chest and inclined slightly his head. "So... can you tell me about you?"

"Ok, well, I've been told that the world where I came from is the World of Binding, but I would rather say I'm from Lycia. It's a federation of various territories, I'm from the territories of Ositia. Well, recently, since Roy and I got married, things are changing a lot", as Lucina did when she started to talk about Robin, Lilina had a sad expression.

"Oh... em.. you married him because you love him right?..." this was the medieval age after all... who knows what kind of situation this girl may have suffered due to "marriage"

Lilina raised her eyebrow and scratched her cheek "Yes.. why would I do it if I didn't love him?"

"Forgive me," he moved his left hand to be in front of him, similar to a defensive position, and inclined his head to avoid seeing Lilina at her eyes at that moment."It's just that, in my world, when it was in the medieval age... it was a normal thing that the women were sold to the highest bidder..." and more stuff he did not know about how even princesses were pretty much prizes most of the time.

"Eh?!" Lilina seemed terrorized. "No! that doesn't happen in my world!" she almost yelled.

"At least..." Kiran sighed in relief. "Well... I don't know if I can summon Roy... but it's likely."

"I wish." she said, closing her eyes.

Feeling it was his turn to explain about himself, he did not waste time and started speaking. "Well, I'm a middle-class boy, there's nothing really special in me, the fact that I knew how to use the Breidablik was only luck."

"The what?" and another situation of not knowing the name of the things.

"This" he showed to her the relic " this is the thing with which I have summoned you, remember."

"It.. it doesn't look like anything that I've ever seen before..." those words echoed Anna's ones.

"Do you know why I don't know how to fight like the others?" he did not wait for her response. "Well, besides the detail I'm actually a civilian, it's because, in my world, we don't fight with swords, axes, spears and even the magic does not exist, we fight with things like this."

"... No magic?" Lilina had to blink several times as if what she heard was... well, stupid.

"Or at the very least nothing that could be understood as magic." magic was a word used for primitive people to describe what they did not understand. Even when there were some mysteries regarding the most fundamental laws of the universe... assuming that the things they were ignorant about were magic would probably make anybody the please make me laugh person of the group.

"And how it does work?" Lilina changed her attention to the weapon.

"Well" He opened the bullet cartridge "We need to put things called bullets in those spaces, and then." he started to aim at her forehead "We pull this thing, after that, a bullet is fired"

"Only that?" she seemed confused, it could not be so simple.

"I only know how to use it to kill though, I'm not exactly a weapons expert so I don't understand a lot regarding how these actually do work inside... but don't underestimate its power. Maybe the bullets aren't like your magic that it's able to burn people, but if this was a gun from my world, it would have made a hole in your brain, killing instantly."

"For real?..."

"For real... mostly because bullets are made of metal and they receive an impulse that makes them move faster than the sound itself, and given the fact that the "power" of this thing is the mass of the object multiplied by the square of velocity divided by two... you can understand why they would be so damn powerful..." Kiran gave a nervous smile and shook his head slightly as he described the thing. "And you know what? guns are probably the weakest weapons in my world."

"The... the weakest..." to say she was scared about what kind of weapons could be in Kiran's world was pretty much true.

"We have shotguns, they are like the guns but more potents and bigger but mostly designed for close combat. They are able to disfigure a body if it's used many times." Lilina's face was slowly getting deformed with fear as he continued describing stuff. "We even don't fight with horses or... dragons, we use metal objects called tanks. You can destroy a little town if you have one and enough ammo." probably the ammo of 50 tanks, but that did not seem impossible.

"A town?!" she shouted very loudly, enough to get everyone's attention.

"Not completely but the buildings would be seriously damaged and the place would be transformed into ruins... something very normal to see in Europa during World War 2 according to the history books I read." he loved almost any kind of knowledge, story was a part of it. "It's fascinating how something can take years to get done... and yet you can reduce it to useless in a matter of seconds." he then realized he should not get the fame of pyromaniac... even if he, indeed, enjoyed playing with fire.

"I would not say that... but if you say so..." Lilina, being a mage who specialized with fire spells, knew very well how destructive her power was... but she was about to learn about a power that could make seem fire tame.

"I know, it's horrible, but that does not erase the fascinating factor. There's a reason why we like stuff like horror books," he shrugged. "Besides, the tanks are just the beginning. if I had to name the worst weapon constructed by the people of my world, it would be the atomic bombs..." he considered his answer for a second before nodding. "Yeah, those."

"Bombs?" again, more expectable confusion.

"Yeah, I don't know how much territory could be destroyed by using the strongest magic in all the worlds... but I'm pretty sure that the bombs from my world are stronger, I mean.. can the magic destroy 468.728 square miles?" he said such a number as if it was nothing.

The face of everyone turned pale as they weren't able to imagine something like that.

"W-W-What?... but... that's... impossible..."

"Horrible, isn't it? and as I said before, it's only the beginning. After a bomb destroys a territory, they give off radiation, to explain it... the radiation is like.. like the light, but it is deadly for any form of life, if you didn't die in the explosion, you would die because of the damage radiation does to your internal organs few hours after the bombing, and if you survived... well.. your sons will have deformations and things like those... fortunately, only two bombs were used in the history... against humans..." he understood very well the menace that could present the nuclear power.

"Wh...wh..." the shock was too much, she wasn't going to be able to talk. Lilina wanted to believe that he was speaking something you could expect from a fantasy story... but he was serious... he was damn serious! talking about the thing as if it was just normal stuff anybody knew!

"Well, there's always a good thing about everything, that kind of bombs would be able to protect us if a giant rock from the space is on course to collide with the earth... that, and the fact nuclear power seems to be the only practical substitute for oil in the near future." he shrugged with a nervous smile.

A rock from outer space?...

"How... how it's possible to build something like... like... that abomination?!"

"I don't know all the process, I only know that you must have too much knowledge about the atoms. Before you make another question... the atoms are things even smaller than the bacteria, they are like spheres made up of more spheres that we call protons, neutrons, and electrons... in fact, all the things of the world are made up of atoms." he pointed at each example as he spoke. "You, me, the floor, the sun, everything. In my world, we know the existence of at least 118 types of atoms... there's a curiosity, the atoms never really touch each other, there's a little "force field". We have the sensation of touching, but things never really touch each other, it's just another illusion." he then placed his index finger on Lilina's forehead.

Lilina started to see her hands and she started to touch her left hand with her right hand.

"Our senses tend to deceive us... due to that, some men invented science. it's a system to correct ourselves that prevents us from deceiving ourselves." he recalled a certain scientist as he spoke those words.

"I never imagined that one day, I would learn things like these..." Lilina was in shock.

"Well, it's probably because you never had a teacher from a modern world." he started to pat her back, "Don't worry, I'm going to share all the knowledge that I have with all of you, I hope with that your future be bright because this knowledge must be in good hands..." noticing she needed some time to process all this, he decided to leave her alone for now. "I'm going to figure out how to summon Roy, I just ask you to wait and be patient."

"T-Thanks."

"Well, the next day we could talk about medicine or things like those, it's more beautiful... don't worry, you won't deal with bombs or things like that." although he knew some stuff about explosives... he was not very tempted in replicating them here. "Anyway, you should continue with your training, I'm gonna leave"

"Uh, yes."

Kiran walked in the direction to the ninja of the group, Kagero. Kiran noticed that she must have been listening to what he said, since she looked scared, a weird thing, considering that he had only seen her having a serious face... or at least that was in the three battles that they had fought together.

"Uhum... Hey." he made a signal of hello.

"...Yes, sir?" she attempted to remain stoic, but her voice tone kinda betrayed that.

"You are Kagero... a ninja, correct?" he just wanted to be sure, who knows if she had some insistent terminology or her type of ninja missions were of a special kind. Although given ninjas usually needed to steal information and that could mean... sleeping with the enemy... at least she had good weapons besides her knives and stuff to do get the job done.

"Affirmative." she nodded.

Her stoic speech was of his liking, it really gave that feeling she was a professional.

"And I guess your camouflage skills are very good."

Kagero crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes. "I'm the best at my job, I've trained for years to improve my skills, I'm glad to say that my lord Corrin was always safe under my protection." the pride of her voice better be backed up by her skills, Kiran thought.

However, there was a problem with her claiming regardless of the truth of her ninja skills.

Kiran narrowed his eyes "Uh, but Corrin is a girl."

"I don't know who is she, the Corrin I know is a man... although they look so similar that they could easily seem twins at each other's side." Kagero rubbed her chin as she looked in direction of the dragon princess.

"And he can transform himself into a dragon too?" at first he started guessing that perhaps there was a guy who shared the name with the princess... after all, Corrin sounded like a very unisex name just like his new one... but if they looked like twins.

"Actually, yes... but I can see something, that girl is more attached to Nohr than to Hoshido" Kagero narrowed her eyes more.

"Nohr... Hoshido?" were those some noble houses or something like that?

"Those are the two nations of my world, the world of Birthright... although I was confused about the existence of that Corrin... prince Alfonse was kind enough to explain to me that she belonged to the world of Conquest... that seems to be like a copy of my world but with some major differences..." the woman seemed puzzled regarding the concept... but Kiran's eyes went a little wide...

Was that true?

"So, the world of Conquest is a parallel version of the world of Birthright, with a Corrin that is a girl..." it wasn't exactly a question but rather a conclusion extracted from what he just heard.

"I guess." Kagero scratched her hair.

"Interesting, so, the quantum physic was right..." Kiran one of the biggest smiles he had ever displayed.

Naturally, the word was not something Kagero understood. "Quantum?"

Kiran walked around her with moving his left hand's index finger "It's a theory of the scientists of my world, it says that every possibility generates new timelines... or at least that's one of the interpretations of the theory... and due to the fact that the possibilities are infinite, there's an infinite number of timelines, and yes... another version of you in many of them... and now I seem to have proofs of it." Kiran excitedly clapped before transforming his hands into fists, move them forward and backward very quickly and almost ready to jump.

"So, are there more worlds of Birthright and more worlds of Conquest?" Kagero guessed.

"In fact, there are more versions of me talking with other versions of you right now." a certain light seemed to get on inside Kiran's mind as the gears of his mind started working faster. "Considering that... it's possible that I'd able to summon many versions of the same hero. Tell me, would you like to talk with another version of you?"

"I guess would be a weird but interesting experience." Kager started imagining how lord Corrin would react to his female counterpart... it sounded like an interesting idea.

"Yes! even once I saw a history of a man who was the smartest man in the universe and a few thousand versions of himself formed an alliance... maybe... maybe..." Kiran stopped talking as he realized the possibilities...

"You're thinking to do the same thing." Kagero did not seem to think too much to "read" his mind.

"Maybe I could... but I guess Alfonse won't let me, he has the problem that he cannot close the portals. What would happen if we arrived at a version of Askr where he and everyone are evil?" Kiran clenched his teeth.

"Nothing good." Kagero shook her head. Fighting a copy of herself... did not sound like a good experience.

"Yeah... until we get the way to close the gates, I won't be able to do that plan..." the "hero" finally realized the subject of the conversation had diverged a lot. "But anyway, tell me more about you."

"Well, since I came here, I keep a new diary to retain the memories that I could get here." Kagero nodded slightly.

"Maybe I should do the same." he realized that, if one day he returned to his world even if he did not want to, he would like to have something to remember all his time spent in this world... he actually already had a journal back home.

"You should, it's always nice to read what you wrote." Kagero actually displayed a smile this time.

"Do you like to read other things?" Kiran asked... as he guessed that science-fiction stories would not exist in this world... what a shame he sucked at art stuff... he could have invented them...

Granted, more art stuff like rock and roll would be impossible for him to invent since he did not know to play guitar, but even in the literature that would be such an improvement.

"Since I had to protect my lord almost every time, I didn't have time for that, but maybe here..."

"You can be able to do it now." Kiran nodded.

"I can." a bigger smile appeared on Kagero's face.

"Well, maybe we can read together..." Kiran grimaced before placing his hands in a defensive position. "I mean... if you don't mind..."

"Considering the fact that you're supposed to be the great hero of this war, I should protect you as I did with my lord Corrin and my lord Ryoma... reading together would help me to do that... I accept."

"Uh..." well, he was not expecting to get a bodyguard... "Well... thanks, em, I'll leave you to carry on with your training, I'll see you later"

"Yes, sir!"


"So, let's begin the training, friend." Kiran said to Alfonse as he prepared the stance the prince had taught him.

"Friend?" Alfonse raised his eyebrow.

"I'm not your friend?" Kiran reflected the movement of Alfonse's face.

"Well, We just met yesterday... and besides, I don't like to make friendships with heroes from other worlds... it's likely that someday we will have to say goodbye forever." the prince sighed in frustration

"Oh, interesting..." he coughed. "Well, as I said, I don't have much motivation for returning to my world... but if you mind being my friend, don't worry, I won't push you to do something you do not want." Kiran shrugged as he looked at his new sword.

"Oh, thanks." Alfonse scratched his neck.

"So... master, please teach me how to use this sword!" he raised said weapon.

Alfonse prepared his stance too. "First, show me what you got!"


Chapter 5 updated.