☀️ Arselia and Akonia

—Maybe you'll also need a heraldic emblem and a motto later... 🤔 After all, even intelligence agencies have their own distinctive insignia at the official level. —they expect.

- Sonata Reim is the strongest and most beautiful of all," Amirega suggested his own version of the motto, "and we can use this as the emblem:

- I'm also in favor of that, but I think the people of the empire won't understand," Anpan's face showed a hint of arrogance. Opening the door to his new home, Bubben greets his guests.
- Count! What brings you here?

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- By origin, I am just an ordinary person from Ratihart, and I don't have any dramatic story about how I became a follower of Rishi. Do you remember the day we met? I made a note in my diary that day; have I shown it to you yet? In any case, take a look; it describes my fateful meeting with Rishi.

[spoiler=About the day I got 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 scolded me a lot for it, they walked around me like peacocks, telling me why what I did was wrong. They insisted that I redo the work, but unfortunately for them, in our country, only higher authorities could infringe 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 develop 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 official 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 this 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. So, 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, not some petty, vile people. If the goddess gave you freedom, then it will always be your inalienable right. But if the state gave 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.[/spoiler]

- And I must tell you that your opinion about me may be partially wrong. I am not as blissful a person as you say... Do you remember Darius from "Abundance"? I killed him, not because of any strong conviction, but just for money. In the end, this is what helped me in all my subsequent endeavors, including getting closer to you, but it doesn't justify what I did. So... in a way, the words of your priestess make sense.