Tales of Avanturia 1

Chapter 18: Hardly A Liberation

Their home was in the upper district, meaning that it was bigger aswell as fancier looking. Lucia felt just like home... yay..

Anyway, it was a nice house in a nice looking area. Sato showed them a bit around the area, introduced them to everything and then let them do their thing for now. He'd let someone come by in a couple of days to ask about the progress.

The group decided to head to the lower districts first and hear around there. Also, Fenrock talked about a central district, a place of gathering for everyone, rich and poor. The market of the city was there aswell, and similar to the one in Muinn Dir, it was big and you could everything from everywhere there.

As soon as they go there, someone handed them a flyer that said something about a big speech in the central district with capital letters saying 'LIBERATION' on top of it.

„It's in ten minutes." Lucia mentioned.

„Should we go?" Bella asked.

„Well, it would be something to begin with." Fenrock replied.

And so the four headed towards the destination given on the sheet of paper. A lot of people had already gathered in front of an plattform that stood in the center of the big market square. A man wearing a white mask was standing on top of it, next to him were four of those Jiyū no senshi on each side. They all wore those shrouded black outfits, that the attackers wore before.

„Kirishu no shimin, sukui no toki ga kimashita!"

(Citizens of Kirishu, the time of salvation has come!)

„Hey, Fenny, could you translate, please?" Bella asked.

„He says, the time of salvation has come.." Fenrock went on translating the speech.

„We, the Jiyū no senshi have long enough watched and suffered seeing the aristocracy living carefree while the poor struggle for survival! No longer will we tolerate this and no longer are we going to do nothing! It's time, that we, the common people make a change! Everyone can help to make living here better! So, I, Makoto, ask everyone to come and meet at the king's palace on the day of the Amaharu festival, for the day that changed this land, shall yet be the one to make another change! And to all of you nobles, heed my words; either give in to live in equality with everyone – or perish!"

The crowd then started to cheer loudly, chanting 'Jiyū Jiyū Jiyū' wich means freedom and liberty. The Blood Roses didn't know what to do or think about this, but they knew, that they had to do something. The Jiyū no senshi will do something on this day and even if they didn't know, what it was, it was obvious, that it wouldn't be something good.

The four walked through the streets, aiming to hear around if someone could tell them about this movement. They asked around but no one seemed to want to tell them, which felt odd enough already, but not even the poorer people wanted to talk about it. One only said, that it's prohibitted to talk about this matter in public.

„So, what should we do?" Brynjolf asked.

„Honestly, I have no idea." Fenrock replied.

„Maybe we could split up and ask around individually, sooner or later, we'll stumble upon someone that's gotta say something." Lucia suggested.

„Sure, why not," Fenrock agreed, „Ok, then. We've got four districts, Lucia, you'll go to the poorest district on the lower parts, Bella, you'll take working district, Bryn, you'll here in the central district, and I will go upstairs to see, what the nobles have to say about it."

„Ok!" Everyone agreed.

„And if something should happen, don't forget about Telenomichrons." Fenrock reminded, „We'll meet up here at the market square in three hours."