Bastard

Kiran and Alfonse walked out from the Kiran's lab. Thanks to the detail that Anna had bought new gems and they had finally arrived at the castle, both were able to create new orbs to initiate a new summoning session.

While it was true they knew this was totally necessary for the future of Askr and now even for all the worlds that would get beneficiated thanks to the knowledge that Kiran's books were going to contain... since the last time they attempted that the heroes weren't exactly their most strong versions... it made them doubt if it was a good moment to try.

"Which one do we use first?" Alfonse questioned as he raised and opened the bag as they finally were at the castle's garden.

"I highly doubt it even matters. I analyzed everything I could with my microscope and the only apparent distinction between each one is just the damn color and the gem we used to. From inside, they pretty much look the same... so, unless my tool is so primitive and, because of that, it does not allow me to discover something new... they are pretty much the same."

With those words, Kiran grabbed an orb, loaded it on the legendary gun and he shoot.

...

He never in his life expected to recognize a single hero of all those he summoned and he was going to convoke.

Yet, he already had seen her before... yes.

He had previously asked Lucina if Naga actually had a daughter whose name was Tiki...

Green hair, a tiara that held a red gem... elf-like ears... a red dress...

Yes, she was her.

Alfonse had his mouth very opened, the same with his eyes...

When the dragon-woman seemed to be wakening up... she didn't need more than two seconds to conclude that she wasn't the same three she lived on.

"W-What?" as she saw two persons standing near her... she frowned.

She hadn't seen them before... yet... a blue-haired person with a sword and what seemed to be a tactician...

They reminded her a lot of Robin and Chrom...

Alfonse didn't want to have an inappropriate behavior while talking to the Voice Of Naga. He knelt immediately without hesitation.

"I-I-It's an honor to have the privilege to meet you, lady Tiki!"

Seeing his tactician didn't react, Alfonse yelled. "Kiran!"

The legendary "hero" didn't care about what the prince of Askr was doing. He approached instead.

"I assume you are Tiki, Naga's daugther." He offered his hand.

Alfonse raised his eyebrow in confusion... when had Kiran learned that information?... he never told him... unless Kiran had been spending some time reading about the worlds, something that he usually preferred to rely on him, Alfonse had no idea...

Tiki nodded... shaking hands with this strange man... she had known people in the past that didn't seem to care that she was considered as an important religious figure and treated her like any other person... but there was something very... off... about this one.

"I am Tiki... and you are?"

"Kiran, royal scientist, tactician, and summoner of the kingdom of Askr."

The woman frowned more as she tried to analyze this person...

"Is something wrong on my face?" Kiran asked.

Alfonse, once more, ordered him to be more polite... but neither Tiki nor Kiran were interested in that at that moment.

The voice of Naga touched the alien's face, placing her hand on his forehead and closing her eyes.

"Any reason to do that?" Kiran also frowned as he crossed his arms.

After a few seconds, Tiki's tiara shone a little... and then she quickly opened her eyes in shock!

She backed off in horror.

"Y-Y-You... have no soul!"

Kiran smiled and shook his head. "Tell me something I don't know already." then he giggled.

Tiki felt tempted to use her dragon-stone to defend herself in the case this... something... was dangerous.

Fortunately, Alfonse decided to get near and help Kiran. "My lady! I can confirm, no matter what, that my friend here is a good person!"

Although Tiki couldn't be sure if this other man was honest... what the soulless said didn't help to support that affirmation.

"Friend? am I your friend?" Kiran smirked.

It took Alfonse some seconds to process correctly what he had said.

"Eh... eh..."

"I mean, you are the one who gave me a putazo (punch) on the face when we had an arguing regarding making friendships with people from other worlds!"

"Eh... well... I..." Alfonse could do nothing but rubbing his face.

Kiran laughed a lot. "Oh well!, I suppose that after I said I'm staying here I'm an exception to the rule." He then patted the prince on the shoulder. "Te quiero too, Poncho (I love you too, Poncho)!"

Kiran walked to be by Tiki's side again.

"W-What are you?!" she demanded.

"An alien." Kiran yawned. "I'm not a human, at least not the same way you understand that concept."

"You're not from this... planet..."

"No way!" Kiran gave her a thumbs-up.

"Kiran!" Alfonse, recovering himself from the shame, yelled again at his friend. "She's a sacred figure!"

Kiran growled and looked at his friend. "Does it look like I give a shit regarding the "sacred"?" he rolled his eyes. "I mean, for fuck's sake! when I met her mom the first thing I did was to threaten her with the Z-Saber and the Z-Buster!"

That sentence, as anybody could expect, made angry to the daughter "You did what to my mother?!"

"Y-You met Naga?!"

Kiran shrugged. "She entered into my mind when I was sleeping! what do you do when somebody you don't know enters into your house without permission or any warning?! it was perfectly logical for me to be cautious and prepare my weapons. After some talking, she said she wanted to transform my Espada Maestra Azul into a genuine legendary weapon as a recompense for saving Ylisse. I had to reject the offer since we had no time left, we needed to return quickly to this world. Although the first time I saw her I thought what she wanted to give me was a... marvelous night, if you know what I mean." he turned to see Tiki. "You really should tell her to get a new dress, at least yours covers you enough!" then he again started to look at Alfonse. "In the end, she just gave me my Triforce mark." he raised his left hand at the same time he smiled and closed his eyes in happiness.

Alfonse... wasn't sure if he believed this. "... Why you didn't tell us?"

"Because I had no real proof to demonstrate that actually happened... and you know how much I hate saying something without evidence to support it..." he shrugged.

"I am here..." Tiki complained.

"Ah! true!" he held her hand and kissed it gently. "It's an honor."

She didn't say anything.

"Hey! I know I'm soulless! whatever your mother and you understand as soul anyway... but that does not mean I'm a putrid undead!"

"Could you please at least explain to me where am I?"

"Alfonse, tell her!"


"In my so long life, I thought I had seen it all... but it seems that always there's something new to discover..."

"Does that mean you're going to help us?" Alfonse smiled.

"I see in you a gentle soul, prince Alfonse, and while I cannot say the same about your friend... you can count on me."

Kiran yawned. "We should bring Lucina or anybody she knows."

"Lucina is here?!"

"A Lucina from the infinite timelines and all that stuff."

"Ah, yes. I understand."

"Also, some time ago, her great-great-great-great and I don't know how many times more great... grandfather beat the shit out of me." Kiran smiled, remembering his first fights.

"What?" Tiki inclined her head in confusion.

Alfonse face-palmed. "He means that time ago we fought against the hero-king Marth himself."

"M-M-Marth?!"

"Yes, that wey is fucking strong!"

Tiki crossed her arms. "What's the meaning of wey?..."

"Dude, or at least in this context. In others, it can mean: idiot, retarded, all that."

The Voice Of Naga seemed to be on the verge of becoming into a degenerated dragon... "I have another question..."

"What?" Kiran asked.

"You thought my mother was a... a..."

Normally, a person would have denied everything.

But it was Kiran.

The one that was stupid and smart at the same time.

"At first I thought she was some kind of local version of Afrodita:"

"And who is she?!"

"The goddess of love, known for having many children."

Alfonse backed off a lot and grimaced when the sound of a powerful slap appeared and Kiran fell.

"Why... why is he here?! he's not a hero!" she looked at Alfonse as if it was his fault. "Why my mother would ever consider to give him a third Falchion?!"

Kiran laughed as he stood up. "A Falchion wasn't the idea, she was going to give to the Espada Maestra the same powers the Levin swords have." He sighed and gave the more serious face he could as he approached his face to Tiki's one.

"And I want you to get this in your head... perhaps from all the trash they could have obtained from my homeworld, I'm the least worse one... but... even so... I'm not a hero... I'm not a villain... I'm more... much more!"

"You'll never be even a half of what Marth is!"

"Is that a challenge?" Kiran smirked.

"Goddamit!" Alfonse yelled as he ran to be in the middle of each other. "You! continue summoning!"

"Ah, right!" Kiran did as if he just had forgotten about everything that had just happened and grabbed a new orb.

"I'm so sorry, lady Tiki."

"It's not your fault..." she shook her head.

Tiki decided she had enough, asked Alfonse where Lucina was, and then she left.

Alfonse knew Kiran was... different... but this was too much.

"Kiran, you're crossing a line with this! I appreciate a lot what you have done for us... but please... just... stay silent for a while... please. If the heroes are mad at you this is not gonna work correctly!"

"If you say so." Kiran growled.

While the next person wasn't a dragon... certain detail made her "important"."

Kiran helped to another little red-haired girl to stand up. "Are you okay?"

"Y-Yes... em... where am I?" the girl had a white dress. Kiran helped her to clean it from pieces of grass.

"I'm Kiran, a guy who can summon people." Kiran... noticed some chains that used to hold the girl's hands...

"Summon?... I don't think I understand it very well... but... could you please help me to return to Dell? if they discover I'm not there my brother and the people may suffer!"

Alfonse decided to speak. "Eh... I'm not sure if it's a good idea to obey her or it's a bad one..."

"Why? because the people of that Dell place are responsible for her having chains?..."

"B-But I need to! Michalis needs me to maintain the alliance between our country and Dohlr!"

"And Dohlr is?" this was a question to Alfonse.

Alfonse gulped. "The empire that attempted to conquer the Archanean continent... Marth, his army and the other nations managed to defeat them in the end but... Michalis was one of his foes... he's Minerva brother actually, and she is their little sister." he pointed to the summoned girl.

"And she's the key that maintains the alliance between that empire and the kingdom of this little girl?"

"That's right! I need to go back!" she demanded.

"So, if we keep her safe here... we're doing a favor to a version of Marth stilling fighting that war?"

"I can't be sure about that." Alfonse grimaced.

Kiran turned to see the girl. "What is your name?"

"I'm María, princess of Macedon!"

...

...

...

Kiran grimaced and gave a weak growl...

He inclined his head to do not see the girl and smiled sadly. "Sorry... María... but I don't think I'm sending you back."

"W-What?!"

"First I need to confirm that's a good idea in the first place... if your-"

"Kiran!"

"Ah... right... yeah... em... just, follow his orders..."

She attempted to back off. "I-I-I don't want to."

"Do it and I'll send you back later."

María, having no other option, obeyed.

Once she was gone, Alfonse placed a hand on Kiran's shoulder. "What's wrong?... you look so sad now... as if you just had seen a ghost or something comparable."

Kiran laughed. "It's something so silly that's pathetic...it's just that... my mother's name is also María..."

"Oh... I understand..." The prince gulped. "I would have said something... but knowing you... anything that you don't consider something more than cute words would have irritated you instead of helping..."

Kiran snapped. "You know me very well now, friend."

Friend...

"True... regarding that..."

"Mmmh?" Kiran looked at him.

"I suppose... you in part are right."

"... Explain..."

Alfonse scratched his head's back part in shame. "I've been reflecting on everything you have taught to me... and in part is thanks to the fact I lost part of my memories but..."

"Yes?"

Alfonse sighed in sadness. "I was being very immature by not wanting to get close to anybody... after what happened to Zacharias I... I was being an idiot... as you said... reality does not care about what I prefer..." he gave a more determined face after that. "And it's my duty as the future king to leave the pain in the past. I must continue moving forward. I must prepare myself to deal with that kind of situation again..."

Kiran... was... impressed... he smiled. "Alfonse, I'm very proud of you."

Now it was the prince who backed off a little.

"What?"

"It's just... as if I've wanted to hear those words before... perhaps from my father... from what my mother told me... he was very strict with me..."

Kiran patted him on the back. "Je, you're not the only one who wants to hear that from a father, Poncho... you're not the only one..."

"It's the same case with you?"

"I've always desired to stop being the cheap copy of my brother... but let's not talk about sad stuff. Anything else you've learned?"

"Well... since your five rules imply I must question everything... I've been wondering... is it really a good idea to allow the throne to be... inherited?"

Now, this was amazing... "I gotta admit I never thought you'd start to have doubts about monarchy this fast..."

"I wonder... I'm so willing to be the best king as possible... but... wouldn't it be a better idea... to give the throne to anybody more... capable?"

"... Okay, let's be honest, had I been a manipulative power-hungry bastard, I would have told you to give it to me... but..." He pointed with his finger to the prince. "You, my amigo, deserve your throne. And I can say it with no doubt because you are the first politician I've ever met that has demonstrated to me that he's not a corrupt garbage piece of shit!"

"The first one?... is that why you trusted on me so easily? considering what you say about the ones in charge of your world... I always thought it was weird..."

"Who said I trusted on you back then?" Kiran shrugged. "I was ready to get rid of you in the case you were evil... but you're not. You deserve my fucking respect and I accept you as the king."

"I don't know how to feel about that..."

"It's okay... I'm gonna summon more... so, are we amigos indeed?"

"Amigo is the word in your language for friend?"

"Yes."

"Well, yes." Alfonse smiled. "We are amigos."

"Chido (Cool). Now, let me teach you how amigos salute each other in my world."

After that, they gave each other five, then they collided their fists three times, they gave each other five once more, and both snapped their fingers and, as the final movement: the peace and love signal.

The other heroes summoned were a Samurai called just like Naruto's wife, a spearman called Lukas... and another blue-haired prince, Seliph.


"I'm sorry for leaving now..." Kiran was caressing Azurita's hair "Especially since I only told you the chapter one... but... the duty calls."

The girl sighed.

"At least Fae is still here to play with her." Corrin commented.

"True." Kiran felt a doubt crossing his mind "Where is she? by the way."

"When the manaketes need to sleep, they usually do it for a longer period than a human. She has been in my room but she should wake up soon."

"The same happens to you?"

"Kinda, I also don't need to eat as much as her." Corrin giggled.

"Interesting." Kiran crossed his arms as another question bothered his mind... and he wanted to kick himself for not asking this before.

"Question... what happens to your clothes when you transform into a dragon?"

Corrin felt... not very right. In part happy because, for a moment, she thought Kiran was staring at her breasts and it was fake... and in part uncomfortable because of the question... even though she wasn't naked... she covered with her arms her body. "Actually... it took me some time to figure out a solution..." she said as she showed to him a... different type of orb or something...

"So the first time you..."

"Yes..."

"Oh..." Kiran imagined the scene... he grimaced and shook his head. "So your armor and that are connected."

"Yes..."

"I see... anyway..."

He knelt to see Azurita better.

"Be nice." he kissed her on the forehead.

He stood up. "I'll be back."

"Good luck." Corrin nodded.

After that, Kiran ran away as fast as he could.


As the Order Of Heroes started the travel to reach the army of the grandmaster, Kiran didn't interact a lot with the others. He was only seen when he left his carriage to get some food.

Only Raigh and Nino had been talking to him for a considerable amount of time... with the exception of Robin who was by his side every moment.

The motive?

They were going to meet again the grandmaster... Kiran knew Frank would know this was the perfect opportunity to test Kiran's skills.

While he had learned a lot and he had obtained some experience... Kiran didn't know much regarding assaulting a fortress or sea battles...

So he asked somebody that actually knew about this.

"It was only matter of filling the ships we weren't going to need with oil, make them collide against the Valmese ones and, with magic... set them on fire... everything became ashes..."

Kiran smirked. "Puta madre! (Hell yeah!) there's no kill like overkill, right?!" the earthling laughed.

"I don't understand what you find so funny..."

"You're talking to a guy who enjoys jokes about the genocide of at least 6 million people and terrorist attacks that happened when I was a baby... it's nothing new to me."

For the second time in his life, Kiran received a slap.

"H-H-How can you laugh at something so horrible?!... what kind of bastard are you?!"

"One from the twenty-first century."

The Ylisse's tactician got scared when Kiran used both hands to trap her against a wall.

"I laugh at all that... at the fact the previous century in my world the two biggest wars in the story happened one after the other... wars so brutal that at least 97 million people died... because I must take it as a joke... otherwise..." Robin... felt as if she was seeing Henry's face. "I would cry..."

The difference... however... was that this smile was totally fake...

"And I would have killed myself a long time ago..." he reflected about that two seconds before he laughed again. "Pfff, yeah... the reasons that explain I haven't done that yet is that now I'm here... and the fact I'm so coward, I'm not able to actually hurt myself..."

He then let her go as he closed his eyes and let his head fall on the table.

His smile was fake... just an emotional defense mechanism to ensure he didn't lose the remaining sanity he still had...

She still had to discover a lot to fully understand why he was like that...

But she knew what he needed now.

Kiran didn't understand why she placed her arms around his body and allowed him to rest on her chest.

"Why?"

"You need it..."

"Thanks..."

The comfort he felt was marvelous...

Only the detail that all that might be a dream or a simulation ruined it a little...

"How... how such bloody wars could ever be possible?" she questioned.

"Well... I need to explain a lot... but to give you an idea of how bloody could be a third great war... a man once said that... the destruction it would cause would be so... immense... that the fourth one would be fought wielding sticks and rocks..."

He then started to explain... the age of the story he knew as...

The Century Of Chaos.


I really REALLY wanted to display more of that other side of Kiran that is an asshole.

I kinda laugh when some people leave a review in the first chapter asking if Kiran is a psycho because of how easily he could kill somebody (and he actually HAD WANTED TO DO IT)... it's like... yeah, he himself admits it later XD.

Why do you think the word hero is constantly between these: ""

Now we have the first hero that actually hates him: Tiki!

It's like being hated by Jesus for the Christians.

I know, she also may seem to be out of character... but she heard a guy talking shit about her mother and the man she is so in love with... I think it's a natural reaction.

One of the biggest problems I have is that, due to the very nature of Kiran, he cannot have character development... so I knew Alfonse had to have one... you've seen how he has evolved and now we have this, he finally accepting what happened and making use of the rules Kiran gave to him... kinda strange because it didn't happen in a fight but... you'll see that later.

I know I said we were going to the world of Blazing, just wait for the next chapter. A little talking with Frank and that's it.

Also... since we are going to the world of Blazing... make a guess! Who do you think is gonna appear in the next chapter? it's an easy answer!

By the way, remember Journey Through Pressure? The fanfic I recommended you time ago? IT GOT A NEW CHAPTER!

Seriously, that fic is AWESOME, even with just two chapters I think it's better than mine. The author takes more time to release new chapters... but each one is a chapter of at least... 25000 words... it's epic. And now you can read it on this website, too... so... GO TO READ IT, YOU'RE GONNA LOVE IT!

Anyway... time to answer reviews that I want to go to sleep XD.

Guest1:

XD, I based it on the first time I played, my brother told me to use that so it could be easy.

Guest2:

Because that's convenient and I don't like it... besides, that causes conflict regarding how Corrin ages.

Half-BeastDragonSoul2013:

I barely remember what he does...

And yeah... actually, part of the reason I used Lyn as Roy's mother is that I already said that the hybrids are born without being able to breed... and... well, if you remember correctly... Ninian is... yes.

JustYourAverageIntrovert:

The problem is... Breidablik does not react with heroes it hasn't summoned... there's a few details I haven't said regarding this version of the weapon and I don't want to give spoilers... but you'll understand when we reach the part they meet the dragon Askr.

I already responded to I Love M4gic so... that's it.