ADAIR KLAJD;FA;SD
Yeaaaaaah, I've just gone completely spaztastic over the new teaser for Legend of Sun Knight. Follow-up from part 1. It's actually in Adair's POV. LUCATHIA IS SUPER HAPPY. Adair reminisces about the time Grisia chose him, and then it's followed by the cliff incident. Adair starts pretty much in the state of mind we see him in during the prologue of volume 2 (super in awe of Grisia). Hahahahaha. XD
ETA: now a very quick translation because ADAIR KLADSJFA;DFA; (no spoilers here for the 39th gen, this is a flashback to Adair and the cliff incident.)
"Ah! It must be the God of Light's benevolence that has brought each and every brother to Grisia's presence, allowing us to become closer and even more inseparable brothers. Let us join hands to bring forth an even more beautiful future for the children of the God of Light."
Adair was so excited that he couldn't hide it. He exchanged a few glances with the holy knights next to him and discovered that they had also inadvertently raised their chests and chins high, proudly accepting that this was the Sun Knight that they were going to serve!
"Grisia." The current Sun Knight Neo smiled as he said, "Go and nurture your camaraderie with your platoon. Your teacher must visit the palace today. You don't have to come with me."
"Yes, Teacher. May sunlight accompany you the entire way."
After Neo left, only the future Sun Knight and the twenty or so future Sun Knight Platoon members remained. Grisia still wore a smile, but the Sun Knight Platoon members were all extremely nervous, afraid that they would leave a bad impression on the future Sun Knight.
Among them, Adair could be said to be the one who was able to maintain his composure the best. He was even able to sneakily observe their future captain, discovering that his bearing was much more unperturbed than everyone else on the scene. This inevitably caused him to feel respectful towards him, but compared to the current Sun Knight Neo, this kind of bearing could be said to be much more gentle.
Finally, Adair relaxed a little.
"May I ask, which among our holy knight brothers is most blessed by the God of Light when wielding a sword?"
Grisia suddenly asked them this, but because no one had been prepared for it, and his speech was quite punctilious, no one understood him right away.
"Excuse me, but could you repeat that, sir?" Adair asked fairly naturally. Everyone else widened their eyes, awed by his courage.
Grisia didn't mind as he repeated his question.
Adair understood now, but just in case, he still asked, "May I ask if you are inquiring which person among us is the strongest, sir?"
Grisia, the future Sun Knight, with his eyes that were practically as blue as the sky, now stared fixedly at Adair. This made Adair, who had already relaxed, to become nervous again.
However, the other person only asked, "Could I ask for this holy knight brother's name?"
"You are too courteous. I am Adair."
Grisia nodded and said, "Holy knight brother Adair, pleased to make your acquaintance. Henceforth, I must trouble you to be my vice-captain. Let us spread the God of Light's radiance and glory together."
"Huh?" Adair was stunned. Even though he was quite confident about his own abilities and had considered fighting for the position of vice-captain, he... he didn't think that he would be able to win the position within three minutes!
The other platoon members were also very astonished, especially those who had been wanting to strive for the position of vice-captain.
"Brothers, please follow me this way. Today, the sunlight is resplendent, the perfect opportunity to bathe in the radiance bestowed by God. If we continue to detain ourselves indoors, we will truly waste the God of Light's generosity."
Seeing Grisia's continual smile, Adair suddenly felt that maybe he had relaxed far too early.
***
"Brothers, please jump off."
Grisia turned around and smiled as he gave his orders to his platoon.
Adair blinked and looked around at his surroundings. This was the top of a cliff. Even though the elevation wasn't all that high, they would definitely get hurt badly enough after jumping off that they wouldn't be able to crawl back up. Yet the command that they had just received was "jump off"?
He thought he had heard wrongly.
With even Adair thinking this way, the other members bore expressions that were even more stupefied. They wondered if they had already gone hard-of-hearing despite being so young. However, when they looked around, everyone else was just as confused. It couldn't be that they had all hallucinated together?
Naturally, everyone looked toward Adair, as he was the only one up until now to have spoken with Grisia.
Since everyone was staring at him, Adair could only ask again, "May I ask-"
However, Grisia waved his hand and repeated himself, "Brother holy knights, please jump off the cliff immediately."
This time, no one could convince themselves that they had hallucinated as a group, but now they were even more confused. They never thought that their first command from their future Sun Knight would be to jump off a cliff!
Preposterous! In response to this kind of command, Adair only had this thought, and it was also accompanied by fury. He squashed his anger, saluted, and then said, "As a holy knight, please forgive me that I cannot accept a suicide mission."
Grisia revealed a slightly puzzled expression. "Are our holy knight brothers so weak in body? I believed that this height would not hinder each brother. Under the protection of the God of Light, at most there will only be slight injuries."
So he knew that no one would die from this? But even if they would only be injured, Adair still could not accept jumping off a cliff and getting injured for no reason. "Jumping off is no problem, but please tell us why!"
At this time, Grisia had already stopped smiling. He said indifferently, "There's no reason."
This answer made everyone even more astonished. His words following that were even more frustrating. "Jump off. This is an order."
At that moment, Grisia only looked at Adair. Clearly, he was singling him out.
Adair had always been exalted among his peers, so he of course would have some pride and arrogance. Under the current circumstances where no one dared to speak out, only he dared to go against Grisia. "This order is too unreasonable. Please forgive me that I cannot-"
Abruptly, Grisia waved his hand, and a humongous icicle appeared in the air, knocking Adair flying. In order to check the height, Adair had been standing very closely to the cliff's edge, so once he was sent flying, he fell directly off the cliff. When he was falling, he thought he saw his captain reveal an impatient expression, and vaguely, he heard this:
"I told you to jump, so jump! Shut up already, you failure of a vice-captain!"
***
Adair leaned against the mountainside, gasping in deep breaths. Even though he had prepared himself to land, and had even rolled to lower his injuries, he had still fallen for a long distance, so he hadn't been able to prevent himself from getting hurt. His right leg was pretty much broken, and his back was killing him, not to mention all the countless small injuries like his scratches that he had received.
Just as he wanted to rest for a bit, and then walk back slowly, he heard another loud noise. Unexpectedly, another holy knight had just fallen, and his strength was obviously not as good as Adair's, so he had received far worse injuries than Adair.
Another loud noise sounded as another holy knight fell. He landed very closely to the previous knight and had almost fallen right on top of him, scaring him so much that he immediately tried to scramble to the side. However, because of his serious injuries, he couldn't crawl very fast at all. At this time, more people fell down.
Seeing this, Adair paid no attention to his leg injury as he rushed forward to drag his comrades to the side of the mountain one-by-one. This worsened his injuries even more.
He was more or less done. Adair watched as the last person fell down. This time, he didn't rush forward to drag him, since no one else would be falling. Also, all these large movements had injured his leg so much that he was shaking from the pain. He dropped to the floor, unable to stand up any longer.
"Ah!"
When he heard the loud scream, Adair raised his head. A large shadow had just fallen on top of that last person. Good thing only the person's legs had been squashed. If the shadow had fallen completely on that person, Adair was afraid that he would spit blood right out of his mouth.
Once he got a clear look, he realized that the "large shadow" was actually Grisia. He also fell off the cliff?
Just as everyone was still stunned and couldn't make sense of the situation, a large amount of holy light flashed before their eyes. Grisia stood up as if he had never been hurt, and the person who had been squashed so severely by him also stood up. His movements were very smooth, not at all like someone who had fallen off a cliff and had also been so severely flattened.
What powerful healing magic! Adair was quite awed.
Grisia walked over, looked around, and tossed a few Moderate Heals at them. Then, he said, "Brothers, please rise and follow me."
No one's injuries were mild. This kind of healing magic was like throwing a cup of water at a fire, but since they were holy knights, who were the most durable, and they were even the best of the best who could make it into the Sun Knight Platoon, they would be able to stand up if they really put their hearts into it.
Everyone slowly stood up one after another, including Adair. Because he hadn't been prepared when he was knocked flying while everyone else jumped out of their own volition, plus he also had to drag everyone afterward, Adair's injuries were the worst out of everyone's.
But when he received the command, he didn't say a word. He got up and followed Grisia; however, he didn't think they would return to the top of the cliff.
"Please jump." The same command, but this time, the only recipient was Adair.
Adair was momentarily stunned. He didn't know why he was being targeted. At this time, the other people by his side whispered, "All of us jumped by ourselves just now. You should hurry up and jump too. Jump, and everything's solved!"
Hearing this, Adair turned his head to look at everyone and discovered that they all wore the same accepting expression. It was evident that everyone had jumped off the cliff by themselves.
This discovery swayed Adair a bit, making him feel like he was the odd one out... He clenched his teeth and replied, "No!"
After receiving this refusal, Grisia's expression didn't change. He calmly said, "My holy knight brothers, as you are members of the Sun Knight Platoon, you have already sworn to the God of Light that you would be loyal to me."
Adair angrily said, "I will be loyal to you, but I cannot accept as absurd a command as jumping off a cliff!"
Grisia knitted his eyebrows together. After he waved his hand, another icicle appeared. This time however, Adair wasn't completely unprepared. His ability wasn't low, so of course he could dodge one icicle... but dodging an entire sky of icicles was another story altogether.
Adair looked at the numerous icicles, heart pounding. He knew he had no more room to dodge, but he still didn't want to jump off. He dodged a few more icicles, but in the end, he was still knocked off the cliff.
The spin-off will be tentatively released around August 21. I can't wait! Especially to find out what other stories will be included.
ajsd;a I didn't know volume 12 of the 1/2 Prince manhua is already out. *buys it* I should get it around the 10th. Here's the new cover! THAT looks like a very uncomfortable position for Prince, ouch! (the other drafts for the cover)
I've turned in my Parallelsfic assignment, but goodness does it still need more editing... I'll still be editing the heck out of that fic before reveals. -__-;; Also on today's menu, colors_tcg decks. I'm so behind on all of my mod duties...
There are three assignments from parallelsfic that need pinch hitters! They may or may not have been claimed yet, but if you feel up to some writing, take a look? :D
I've been watching the Olympics every single day during any free time I have. Yup, not going to get much done like this.
ETA: now a very quick translation because ADAIR KLADSJFA;DFA; (no spoilers here for the 39th gen, this is a flashback to Adair and the cliff incident.)
"Ah! It must be the God of Light's benevolence that has brought each and every brother to Grisia's presence, allowing us to become closer and even more inseparable brothers. Let us join hands to bring forth an even more beautiful future for the children of the God of Light."
Adair was so excited that he couldn't hide it. He exchanged a few glances with the holy knights next to him and discovered that they had also inadvertently raised their chests and chins high, proudly accepting that this was the Sun Knight that they were going to serve!
"Grisia." The current Sun Knight Neo smiled as he said, "Go and nurture your camaraderie with your platoon. Your teacher must visit the palace today. You don't have to come with me."
"Yes, Teacher. May sunlight accompany you the entire way."
After Neo left, only the future Sun Knight and the twenty or so future Sun Knight Platoon members remained. Grisia still wore a smile, but the Sun Knight Platoon members were all extremely nervous, afraid that they would leave a bad impression on the future Sun Knight.
Among them, Adair could be said to be the one who was able to maintain his composure the best. He was even able to sneakily observe their future captain, discovering that his bearing was much more unperturbed than everyone else on the scene. This inevitably caused him to feel respectful towards him, but compared to the current Sun Knight Neo, this kind of bearing could be said to be much more gentle.
Finally, Adair relaxed a little.
"May I ask, which among our holy knight brothers is most blessed by the God of Light when wielding a sword?"
Grisia suddenly asked them this, but because no one had been prepared for it, and his speech was quite punctilious, no one understood him right away.
"Excuse me, but could you repeat that, sir?" Adair asked fairly naturally. Everyone else widened their eyes, awed by his courage.
Grisia didn't mind as he repeated his question.
Adair understood now, but just in case, he still asked, "May I ask if you are inquiring which person among us is the strongest, sir?"
Grisia, the future Sun Knight, with his eyes that were practically as blue as the sky, now stared fixedly at Adair. This made Adair, who had already relaxed, to become nervous again.
However, the other person only asked, "Could I ask for this holy knight brother's name?"
"You are too courteous. I am Adair."
Grisia nodded and said, "Holy knight brother Adair, pleased to make your acquaintance. Henceforth, I must trouble you to be my vice-captain. Let us spread the God of Light's radiance and glory together."
"Huh?" Adair was stunned. Even though he was quite confident about his own abilities and had considered fighting for the position of vice-captain, he... he didn't think that he would be able to win the position within three minutes!
The other platoon members were also very astonished, especially those who had been wanting to strive for the position of vice-captain.
"Brothers, please follow me this way. Today, the sunlight is resplendent, the perfect opportunity to bathe in the radiance bestowed by God. If we continue to detain ourselves indoors, we will truly waste the God of Light's generosity."
Seeing Grisia's continual smile, Adair suddenly felt that maybe he had relaxed far too early.
***
"Brothers, please jump off."
Grisia turned around and smiled as he gave his orders to his platoon.
Adair blinked and looked around at his surroundings. This was the top of a cliff. Even though the elevation wasn't all that high, they would definitely get hurt badly enough after jumping off that they wouldn't be able to crawl back up. Yet the command that they had just received was "jump off"?
He thought he had heard wrongly.
With even Adair thinking this way, the other members bore expressions that were even more stupefied. They wondered if they had already gone hard-of-hearing despite being so young. However, when they looked around, everyone else was just as confused. It couldn't be that they had all hallucinated together?
Naturally, everyone looked toward Adair, as he was the only one up until now to have spoken with Grisia.
Since everyone was staring at him, Adair could only ask again, "May I ask-"
However, Grisia waved his hand and repeated himself, "Brother holy knights, please jump off the cliff immediately."
This time, no one could convince themselves that they had hallucinated as a group, but now they were even more confused. They never thought that their first command from their future Sun Knight would be to jump off a cliff!
Preposterous! In response to this kind of command, Adair only had this thought, and it was also accompanied by fury. He squashed his anger, saluted, and then said, "As a holy knight, please forgive me that I cannot accept a suicide mission."
Grisia revealed a slightly puzzled expression. "Are our holy knight brothers so weak in body? I believed that this height would not hinder each brother. Under the protection of the God of Light, at most there will only be slight injuries."
So he knew that no one would die from this? But even if they would only be injured, Adair still could not accept jumping off a cliff and getting injured for no reason. "Jumping off is no problem, but please tell us why!"
At this time, Grisia had already stopped smiling. He said indifferently, "There's no reason."
This answer made everyone even more astonished. His words following that were even more frustrating. "Jump off. This is an order."
At that moment, Grisia only looked at Adair. Clearly, he was singling him out.
Adair had always been exalted among his peers, so he of course would have some pride and arrogance. Under the current circumstances where no one dared to speak out, only he dared to go against Grisia. "This order is too unreasonable. Please forgive me that I cannot-"
Abruptly, Grisia waved his hand, and a humongous icicle appeared in the air, knocking Adair flying. In order to check the height, Adair had been standing very closely to the cliff's edge, so once he was sent flying, he fell directly off the cliff. When he was falling, he thought he saw his captain reveal an impatient expression, and vaguely, he heard this:
"I told you to jump, so jump! Shut up already, you failure of a vice-captain!"
***
Adair leaned against the mountainside, gasping in deep breaths. Even though he had prepared himself to land, and had even rolled to lower his injuries, he had still fallen for a long distance, so he hadn't been able to prevent himself from getting hurt. His right leg was pretty much broken, and his back was killing him, not to mention all the countless small injuries like his scratches that he had received.
Just as he wanted to rest for a bit, and then walk back slowly, he heard another loud noise. Unexpectedly, another holy knight had just fallen, and his strength was obviously not as good as Adair's, so he had received far worse injuries than Adair.
Another loud noise sounded as another holy knight fell. He landed very closely to the previous knight and had almost fallen right on top of him, scaring him so much that he immediately tried to scramble to the side. However, because of his serious injuries, he couldn't crawl very fast at all. At this time, more people fell down.
Seeing this, Adair paid no attention to his leg injury as he rushed forward to drag his comrades to the side of the mountain one-by-one. This worsened his injuries even more.
He was more or less done. Adair watched as the last person fell down. This time, he didn't rush forward to drag him, since no one else would be falling. Also, all these large movements had injured his leg so much that he was shaking from the pain. He dropped to the floor, unable to stand up any longer.
"Ah!"
When he heard the loud scream, Adair raised his head. A large shadow had just fallen on top of that last person. Good thing only the person's legs had been squashed. If the shadow had fallen completely on that person, Adair was afraid that he would spit blood right out of his mouth.
Once he got a clear look, he realized that the "large shadow" was actually Grisia. He also fell off the cliff?
Just as everyone was still stunned and couldn't make sense of the situation, a large amount of holy light flashed before their eyes. Grisia stood up as if he had never been hurt, and the person who had been squashed so severely by him also stood up. His movements were very smooth, not at all like someone who had fallen off a cliff and had also been so severely flattened.
What powerful healing magic! Adair was quite awed.
Grisia walked over, looked around, and tossed a few Moderate Heals at them. Then, he said, "Brothers, please rise and follow me."
No one's injuries were mild. This kind of healing magic was like throwing a cup of water at a fire, but since they were holy knights, who were the most durable, and they were even the best of the best who could make it into the Sun Knight Platoon, they would be able to stand up if they really put their hearts into it.
Everyone slowly stood up one after another, including Adair. Because he hadn't been prepared when he was knocked flying while everyone else jumped out of their own volition, plus he also had to drag everyone afterward, Adair's injuries were the worst out of everyone's.
But when he received the command, he didn't say a word. He got up and followed Grisia; however, he didn't think they would return to the top of the cliff.
"Please jump." The same command, but this time, the only recipient was Adair.
Adair was momentarily stunned. He didn't know why he was being targeted. At this time, the other people by his side whispered, "All of us jumped by ourselves just now. You should hurry up and jump too. Jump, and everything's solved!"
Hearing this, Adair turned his head to look at everyone and discovered that they all wore the same accepting expression. It was evident that everyone had jumped off the cliff by themselves.
This discovery swayed Adair a bit, making him feel like he was the odd one out... He clenched his teeth and replied, "No!"
After receiving this refusal, Grisia's expression didn't change. He calmly said, "My holy knight brothers, as you are members of the Sun Knight Platoon, you have already sworn to the God of Light that you would be loyal to me."
Adair angrily said, "I will be loyal to you, but I cannot accept as absurd a command as jumping off a cliff!"
Grisia knitted his eyebrows together. After he waved his hand, another icicle appeared. This time however, Adair wasn't completely unprepared. His ability wasn't low, so of course he could dodge one icicle... but dodging an entire sky of icicles was another story altogether.
Adair looked at the numerous icicles, heart pounding. He knew he had no more room to dodge, but he still didn't want to jump off. He dodged a few more icicles, but in the end, he was still knocked off the cliff.
The spin-off will be tentatively released around August 21. I can't wait! Especially to find out what other stories will be included.
ajsd;a I didn't know volume 12 of the 1/2 Prince manhua is already out. *buys it* I should get it around the 10th. Here's the new cover! THAT looks like a very uncomfortable position for Prince, ouch! (the other drafts for the cover)
I've turned in my Parallelsfic assignment, but goodness does it still need more editing... I'll still be editing the heck out of that fic before reveals. -__-;; Also on today's menu, colors_tcg decks. I'm so behind on all of my mod duties...
There are three assignments from parallelsfic that need pinch hitters! They may or may not have been claimed yet, but if you feel up to some writing, take a look? :D
I've been watching the Olympics every single day during any free time I have. Yup, not going to get much done like this.