☀️ Arselia and Akonia

/ Well, I thought so. /-- Yes, I'm not the first commander here; the previous one worked tirelessly to earn all of this.

- My respects to the previous commander. I hope she is happy wherever she is now.
As he walked past the rooms, Amamius was a little upset to see that room number eight was already occupied. Choosing between rooms 4 and 6, he settled on 6.
- Okay, I'm behind the safe! - And ran into the "Tentacle".

After a while, he returns with the delivery staff and installs the safe. Closing the door to his new dwelling, he takes one of Rishi's boots out of his bag, brings it to his face, and takes a deep breath. This procedure calms him down and helps him to gather his thoughts. Then he puts both boots in the safe. He takes out the Asuguh diary - a symbol of the beginning of a new adventure. He makes the first two entries.

About the day I received the boots
Our empire is an interesting place. The imperial treasury is so full of various artifacts that they are sometimes given to citizens as if they were just some junk lying around in the attic or on the balcony. When I was sixteen and writing another school essay on a free topic, life first showed me a circus of enormous proportions. My essay was on the topic of "why I don't hate the state," and, of course, the teachers severely reprimanded me for it, circling around me like peacocks, telling me why what I did was wrong. They strongly demanded that I redo the work, but, unfortunately for them, in our country, only higher authorities could encroach on the freedom of expression. In the end, the essay was accepted, and I received the lowest grade. However, that was not the end of the story. A few months later, I received a notice that my essay had won first prize in the annual essay contest. The Emperor himself praised me "for my honesty and the warmth of my soul," and to "help a promising young man to motivate himself to unlock his future potential," I was even given an artifact as a prize. Should I say that after this incident, the teachers' attitude towards me completely changed? They began to treat me as if I had always been their favorite student. Be that as it may, a few weeks later, I picked up the package with the artifact and found a pair of women's boots inside. I don't know if the emperor decided to play a trick on me, or if the government employee responsible for selecting the prize was annoyed by my essay, but it's just stupid. They must have had my picture, and my name and gender were written on a piece of toilet paper. It was so stupid that I couldn't even laugh about it. If it did anything, it made me believe once again in the correctness of everything that was written in the essay. But I didn't complain, ask for a replacement, or even raise the issue. I kept the boots and put them in the most prominent place in my room. Why? Because I can, that's why. When classmates and other acquaintances came to my house, they gasped and exclaimed, but I just smiled. Over time, I became interested in two questions: first, who is Rishi? And second, what is the profession of a shoemaker? Although I didn't wear these boots myself, the quality of the work could only inspire respect. Therefore, after graduating from school, I went to work as an apprentice to a local craftsman, while also finding materials related to Rishi. Reading them and other theological treatises, I realized one thing: gods are cool. If you are going to build a hierarchy of society, it is better to put a deity at its head, and not some petty, vile people. If a goddess has given you freedom, then it will always be your inalienable right. But if the state has given it to you, then it can take it away from you. That's the simple math. In the end, I didn't become a shoemaker - I learned to make mediocre shoes, but nothing that could compare with this artifact. I wonder, what kind of skin are they made of? It is unlikely that there are suitable animals for this in space.

Me
Name: Amamius
Surname: Okikot
Place of birth: Ratiakhart (Margel)
Race: a bag of meat, bones, and blood.
Gender: ╰⋃╯
Age: eternally 18.
Height: 188 cm.
Weight: 88 kg.
Favorite number: 8
Favorite berry: blackberry
Favorite fruit: plum
Favorite vegetable: beetroot

Closing the diary, the novice puts it next to the boots in the safe and closes it. Then he finds Erefir.

- Well, I'm ready to go. Just to warn you in advance - I don't drink alcohol.