Starting To Change The World Part 5
Dark... everything Kiran saw was dark...
But it is nothing unusual, after all, the sunrise hadn't come at that time.
"Coño..(damn).." he sighed, considering he had needed to wake up at 5:40 am to get prepared to arrive at the bus stop to travel to his school, that was in other city by the way, he waking up very early was pretty normal. He was pretty much used to it even after a night of barely sleeping. It's probably one of the reasons he loved coffee so much, it helped to survive through the day with his eyes opened.
He put his hand on the wall, then he tried to press something.. but it wasn't there. He continued looking for it a few seconds more before he realized something.
"Ah... claro..(right).." He facepalmed very hard, "Pendejo aweonao (You fucking idiot)."
In this world, there were no lights to be turned on.
He got up from the bed, walking slowly to do not collide with something... specially to do not hurt his little finger... gods, he knew getting hurt in that finger was painful as hell.
Knowing he still had time until everybody woke up, he pulled out from a drawer the book that queen Henriette gave him, he turned three candles on, by generating friction, since the matches didn't exist either.
The dim light barely allowed him to read, he was turning pages until he found the one where there was more information about the orbs... the fact that he saw the text as if it was in Spanish made everything easier for him.
Apparently, the orbs were created using a fraction of the royal family's power and precious stones, spinels, kyanite, tsavorite garnet, and fluorite... Kiran didn't know too much about jewelry, but considering he didn't read ruby, emerald, sapphire, and moonstone... he didn't believe getting those stones would be easy... at least at the beginning.
He just took a look over the blue orb he got from Merric before turning the page, in this one it was explained the process of creating.
"Perfecto. (perfect)". he exclaimed, he continued reading for a while, part of the book was a kind of diary of its creator, where he or she explained what happened since he/she discovered the weapons the Breidablik was based on.
The creator was very curious about those objects, especially because nobody was able to identify them, he/she spent many days trying to figure out how to disarm them, and accidentally killed a person when he/she learned how to fire a gun.
"No chinges... bueno, tiene sentido.. (Don't be kidding.. well.. it makes sense..)." Kiran thought as he grimaced.
Of course, in the beginning, that person still considered that those weapons and their technology could be useful. Unfortunately, as more as they learned about its power and after an incident where one of those weapons was stolen and a massacre happened, they decided to destroy them and make sure nobody was going to know about their existence in the future except the royal family... but the changes in the language erased that memory from the royal family too since almost nobody was able to read the book... and maybe the ones who could just decided it was for the best that the event remained completely forgotten.
The book described how the bodies of the victims ended up.
The first dead man had a tiny hole on the chest, where his heart was. Considering that, he died by a simple gun.
But the ones who died in the shooting had their faces disfigured or their bodies shattered... the ones who survived lost either their arms or legs... this, and considering that on the book was read that only one weapon was stolen, it must have been a shotgun.
The Breidablik's project was already started when it happened so, not wanting to waste it, it was finished anyway.
The book didn't seem to contain any information about the Breidablik might have a mode for shooting real bullets.. or magic.. it made sense, but Kiran still wanted it, he would have enjoyed using both the sword and gun, then he could have played pretending he was Zero.
He noticed the sun was rising on the horizon.. well, it was the sun of 8 minutes ago... or period of time near to that... considering the sun seemed to be equal to his own one in his universe, it was possible that it was at a similar distance, an AU.. about 150 million kilometers, and the light needed 8 minutes to travel that distance.
But if it was, for some reason, much more near then...
He shook his head.
When he opened his closet, he decided that this time, he was going to wear his old clothes.
His blue shirt, blue sweatshirt, blue pants, blue tennis shoes... back in his world he usually only bought blue clothes. He just loved the color that much.
As he began to walk outside his room, through his mind crossed something...
He began to question what he was living.. just like that time when he was with Corrin.
He was able to sleep... to dream, to eat and he had all the biological needings he had in his universe... his senses seemed to work perfectly... and he didn't feel any different about them in this universe compared to what he had experienced in his own... he neither could say he was dreaming... nor prove he was in a coma... he even wasn't able to manipulate the world to transform it at will, something he was able to do in his dreams.
This couldn't be a computer simulation either, because the food he ate gave him energy, something binary numbers couldn't do.
But many things in this world were so similar to his own to levels that his skepticism didn't allow him to believe this was real... there were cows.. cat, dogs, humans, even the food was pretty equal in taste even though you could expect biochemical barriers to do not allow him to get energy through that food... he knew that if the theory of the infinite universes was true, then it wouldn't be impossible that, in at least an infinite number of them, there could be a planet very similar to his own, even having similar species, but... he still didn't believe he was so lucky to arrive there just because one day he decided to go outside for a walk.
"Mi puta cabeza... (My fucking head)..." he said as he placed both hands over his hair.
"Ok, I think I should tell this to Anna." a female voice spoke.
"Uh... Kagero?... is that you?.." He asked as he looked around, unable to find her, gods, she was really good at her job.
"Considering you are having a headache, it proves you need to sleep more... don't think I haven't seen you being awake so early all this time."
Kiran only heard as if someone ran away very quickly.
"Verga.. no la vi... cuando dijo que me iba a cuidar lo decía en serio... no sabría si decir que ya chingé.. o que eso me perturba...(Damn... I didn't see her... when she said she was going to protect me she was very serious... I don't know if I should say it's great... or it's freaking me out...)."
Well, he was going to have a talking with Anna...
"Pues ya que pinches..(well... whatever)." trying to avoid the inevitable was useless, so he marched in direction to Anna's office.
"Okay... let me try to understand it... you go to sleep until like three hours after the sunset... and you wake up two hours before the sunrise?..." the indignant voice of the commander was heard.
"Not exactly. but yeah". Kiran nodded and shrugged, not giving a shit.
This didn't help Anna's patience. "Are you insane!?"
"Technically speaking, yes." from a certain perspective, he could definitely come up as someone who was insane... he just did not care much about it.
"Kiran!" Anna exclaimed with exasperation.
"I used to do this in my original world, and I never needed to change that." he explained. Just like when he sacrificed multiple hours worth of sleeping to ensure he had knowledge and preparation for a future, now he needed to get more knowledge and preparation to make sure the Order survived until the next day, and the next month... and the next year... and so on.
"Mmmmh?." she raised her eyebrow as she responded sarcastically. "Of course, that's why you are asking me for coffee every day right?.
Kiran laughed at this as if he couldn't care less about it. "Yeah..." he smiled and pretended to be holding a cup. "May I have more?..."
Anna just facepalmed while she sat.
"Listen, I understood why you didn't sleep the first days, you were studying tactics... that's fine... but now, if Kagero tells me you aren't sleeping well again, I'm not gonna pay you for two weeks... got it?.."
Kiran sighed in frustration as he frowned. "Aaaah como chingas... (how annoying)... fine..." two days without payment? what a deal! he barely went outside to buy stuff so he pretty much still had all the money he had received so far.
"Very well... now.. talking about economic stuff..." Anna relaxed her face. "The security coffins are already for sale." she winked.
"Perfect... I mean, catalepsy is not very common, but it is still dangerous." Kiran grimaced as he imagined himself inside a coffin and still alive... nightmare fuel indeed.
"Yeah... but the panic it causes to people is helping me..." the commander gave a satisfied smile as she showed him a lot of money.
Kiran laughed a little. "What about the other projects?"
"The carpenter told me they are about to finish that thing you called... mmmh.. table football... but about the... bicycle, think?" Kiran nodded to confirm her that was a thing he had mentioned."It is done."
"Oh yeah?! may I see it?" although it was just a prototype, they had made the deal it would belong to Kiran.
"It is in the main hallway." she explained.
"Great, I don't like to walk a lot, but I don't know to ride a horse so... it's perfect for me, even if it is made completely of wood." it would need repairing more often than a usual cycle... but well, that was the result of having to live in this era.
"The materials for the chalkboards are traveling, they should arrive in a few days." Anna commented as she read a letter.
They continued talking about their business for a while, once they had finished, Kiran stood up, and once he was about to open the door to leave, Anna's hand stopped him from turning the doorknob.
"Maybe we could get more money selling clothes like those..." Anna's smile was... particular.
"Mmmh..." Kiran looked at his clothes for a moment... they were clearly very particular seen from the perspective of a medieval person, yeah. "Right, you could promote them with a slogan like: The Clothes Of The Legendary Hero or any bullshit like that." he smiled.
"Yeah... and you know?..."
He... did not like that voice tone...
Then Anna touched Kiran's chest.
"if all this makes us very rich... maybe I will consider to give you some... privileges..." the smile she gave him made Kiran feel very uncomfortable.
He was not stupid... he knew what kind of thoughts Anna was having right there...
"Um... glad to hear that... whatever..." He opened the door as fast as he could and ran away. "VERGA VERGA VERGA VERGA NO MAMES NO MAMES NO NO NO NOOOOO! AAAAAAH! (DAMMIT DAAMIT DAAMIT DAMMIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT PLEASE NO!, PLEASE NO! NOOO! AAAH!).
Anna laughed a lot while she saw him trying to escape like a scared kid.
"Having maybe the biggest brain or not, he's still stupid somehow." Anna had to remove a tear of laughter from her eye.
Once Kiran was sure he was safe, he stopped walking or running and he breathed deeply for a while.
Did the commander was insinuating she was going to have sex with him?... he had learned she was kinda obsessed with the money but...
"Ok ok, olvida esa mierda," he hit with his palm the area of his forehead. "Sólo... ve por la bici.. (Just forget that shit.. just.. go get the bicycle)." he shook his head and started walking again.
Once the object was in his range of vision, he noticed how a blonde and a green-haired were analyzing it with curiosity.
"Do you like it?" he asked happily.
"Is... is this another of your inventions?..." Sharena asked excitedly.
"That's right Sharenita, it is called bicycle... or bike..." He took the training wheels off from the bicycle and he rode it. "It's very practical to travel around a town, it does not need to be fed like a horse... it does not leave shit down the road... and using it is good for your health." perhaps having one of these was the reason he still had some good health even though most of his time he spent it inside his room.
"May I use it?..." Nino asked, as excited as her new friend.
It was something about Nino that made Kiran thought she was... very cute... was it her green hair? something that didn't exist in his own universe? was it the fact she was still a young girl?.. or maybe the fact she wasn't as annoying as any other kid he met?... maybe it was all that...
He just couldn't say no.
"Well, unfortunately, you cannot ride this just because you want to, you need to train. Most of the people use to fall from it in their first attempts."
"Owww..." she seemed to be disappointed... not only Kiran told her yesterday that, in the end, he couldn't really teach her to read since they actually didn't speak the same idiom... now, this.
Kiran got off from the bicycle and he put the training wheels back on their place. "That's why there are training wheels."
It didn't take too much time until Nino was riding the bike around the castle, giggling, even Sharena and she played races.
Okay, maybe this is a filler chapter.. this was supposed to have like 4500 words.. but well, I didn't want to leave you all more time without a new chapter so... I'm just gonna leave the rest part for the next one and then, we can continue with the normal history.
Considering Anna loves the money at an insane level, it would be logical that she would do something like that... I mean.. do I need to explain why?.
Time for answers.
JP I'm Italian.
But there is a problem, being different is not something that could be considered as intrinsically good, I mean, as humans we have the desire to be special, relevant... but science proves we are not.
Honestly, considering how badly the story of the canon game is written (something I'm gonna have to fix...), that actually could happen... but if my memory works perfectly... Fjorm has more sisters... doesn't she?..
KiraLight-san.
Well, I was kinda sure I was going to need to change the rating from T to M.. let me watch some horror videos about torture and weas (things) like those and maybe I will be able to do it.
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Well, I once heard a phrase: having mental health in a world filled by stupid and crazy people is insane...
I'm happy you are liking this version of Kiran of the infinite amount of them there is in the existence.
I read a few chapters of that fic.. and yeah, if this Kiran was born in Mark's place, not having all the knowledge he has, he would have been even more like that Mark, I mean, even if their personalities are similar, there are differences about their beliefs.
You should read Pale Blue Dot.. on that book, there is more information that will make you think deeper.
As I always ask.. is there an error there?.
