Chapter 0 - The change that was meant to be

This novel will begin after the 13th episode of the anime, and after volume 3 of the Light Novel.

-This is an informational chapter, both to inform you to go read the 0th chapter where I explain why I am writing this and what happened in the story that would warrant a rewrite.

-Feel free to make contributions in the comments on the development of the story. Such as giving me suggestions on how to develop the plot as well as what I forgot with the story.

-I will try to match my style with the author, but of course I will change the plot, the whole point of this thing.

-I will officially start this after I have taken more notes and reread the original novel. Within the week of August 16th to August 23rd.

DO NOT READ THE WALL OF TEXT BELOW IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS FROM THE ORIGINAL

Since you are reading this line, I will be assuming that you have either read part of the novel or more likely than not, have watched the anime. Without further ado, I will tell you what happens next in the story that had prompted me to write this. The spoiler was from the user aa786 on https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1755524. If you would like to check out the original place where I found this spoiler please click on that link. So to summarize, after the scene of the princess asking Ikta to join her in bring more influences culturally from Kioka republic, Ikta agrees to help the empire lose the war just to the point where the empire could learn from Kioka cultures yet not be completely taken over. After a few insignificant battle and skirmishes, the King and Prime Minster goes missing. There were two factions that came out from these events. The the Igsem faction and Remion/Remeon faction. The Igsem faction has Yatori, while the others sided with the Remion faction and the princess. Which created tension and fighting to the point of nearly killing Torway and Matthew. Ikta tries to stay neutral but eventually joins the Remion faction as they secure the missing King and Prime Minister. It was found out that it was all planned by the King and the Prime Minister Trisnai who was the real master mind, in order to get rid of both Yatori and Ikta. Yatori was given orders by her father to kill Ikta. Of course, as said from the anime, she decides to kill the Yatorishino within her and is left only with the Igsem. War breaks out between Yatori and Ikta, while the Prime Minister hires snipes to kill both of them. As the final battle ensues, the sniper was ready to kill both Yatori and Ikta, but Yatori takes the bullets for Ikta. Yatori dies within the story from there on, although it was said that a spirit freezes her body at the moment of death. She was never able to relay her feeling to Ikta even at the point of her death. Ikta falls into depression after the event, while trying his best to revive Yatori, which he was unable to. Two year passes and the princess becomes a tyrant while Ikta was not seen for two years by anyone beside the princess. During this time it was also said that Haro was a double agent called the Phantom Corp sent by the Kioka republic. Ikta gets over his depression, after realizing he can't just spend his entire life mourning. While the princess once again asks for his help after the instability created from the tyrannical rule of the princess. Supposedly Ikta and the princess also gets into a relationship. Ikta fights Jean (the radiant sleepless commander) and starts wining for the empire. In the final battle Ikta tries to lose in the way they had planned, where the empire would still be able to retain its culture while incorporating Kioka's. He ultimately succeeds in wining against Jean, but yet the empire loses the war. The empire starts to change with Kioka's influences. Ikta and the princess was put on trial, even with the military pushing for their release, they were ultimately sent to be executed. They apparently spend the night together before the execution, as the story end with the execution. The light novel was dropped in translating for a while was because of this. A lot of fans also dropped the novel. With no second season of the anime in sight.

I will also use this space to take notes from the original novel, feel free to add anything that I might be missing in the comments. I also have a document that contains things such as plot synopsis, states of the nations, and other non character related events that might be important to me writing this rewrite. If you want to add things to any of these, as aforementioned before, please comment about it. I will keep on updating this page through out the writing of the story.

Anarai Kahn - Known as the Blasphemer of God. The person who creates science, the study for people who lament God's guidance. Creates the four artificial spirits, forced to escape to the Kioka Republic by the Church of Alderamin/Alderah/Aldera in the year of 904. Refers to the Church as a cult.

Bajin - Anarai's assistant/student/apprentice, escapes with Anarai to the Kioka Republic. Owns the fire spirit Raga.

Yorga - Anarai's assistant/student/apprentice, absurdly strong in arithmetic.

Milvakiah - Anarai's assistant/student/apprentice, a lover of extreme logic.

Nazuna - Anarai's assistant/student/apprentice, one who could simplify and explain difficult arguments and just wanted to be at hand as an assistant.

Ikta Solork - No interest in following the method of science that Anarai advocated, implemented sublimation by a peculiar philosophy. Son of Bada Solork. Student of science. Apprentice of Anarai. Particular taste for alcohol. Owns the light spirit Kusu.

Yatorishino Igsem - Also known as Yatori, elder daughter of the Igsem family. "Her pride higher than a mountain, her heart larger than the ocean." Has a lot of her inner thoughts out loud in the story. Owns the fire spirit Shia.

Description of Yatorishino Igsem - "Her red hair extending past her shoulders with its intermingling tips curling in and out, the pupils of her large eyes seeming to symbolize intelligence and sincerity, her stylishly worn uniform unwrinkled by the heat. That was a figure as if dignity were painted in a picture"

Haroma Bekkel - Also known as Haro. 11th Term graduate of the Imperial Min Mihaela Nursing Academy. Owns the water spirit Miru. (In the original story, she ends as a double agent for the Kioka Republic, It seems a little bit forced, to add betrayal into the story with Haro as the spy. As Haro is a back line medical troop, which means it would be hard to climb the ranks without Ikta's help, also means that she would not be privy to certain information that the Kioka Republic would want from a 20 year+ spy. So if Kioka theoretically wanted to put a spy, it should not be her. Feel free to put what you want her to be or what you think she should be in the comments. Such as making her a regular character without the spy backstory or a way to make the spy backstory more believable. She also supposedly failed the high officer test 3 times, what kind of spy fails it 3 times? Even all that, the plot doesn't make sense, since they were stranded in Kioka's territory with the princess with them, for sure it would have been better to expose her spy status there and kidnap the princess no?)

Matthew Tetdrich - a member of the Tetdrich family who was up and coming, also one of the development forgotten by the author. Owns the wind spirit Tsuu. The embodiment of growth of a character is witness within him. Theoretically should become an important character who should influence the story or even the ending. Yet he just ends up being one of the only ones to survive.

Torway Remeon. a member of the Remeon/Remion family. A great shot, owns the rifle invented by Anarai. Self proclaimed sniper. Owns the wind spirit Safi.

Chamille Kitra Katvarnmaninik (I am never going to type that name out again, I will from here on out refer to her as the princess) - Third princess of the imperial family. She joins Ikta's group after he rescues her from drowning. She understands how intelligent Ikta is and how he hides it with his laziness. She holds him in high regard, not just for his intelligence but for his outspoken personality as well, something many lack. She hates how the country is in the latter part of its decline and she wants to destroy it, so it can start over again.

Spirits - Said to be from god by the church. However stated otherwise in the other religions that exists. It was also mentioned that Ikta's spirit Kusu came from the orphanage while it was dying in a vacant basement so they don't come with the user, yet no one in the story has ever had more than one spirit at once with them. They have spirit stones that could revive them/reincarnate. In the volume 7 or so of the original story, it was said that Yatori was frozen in time by a spirit, perhaps there should be a spirit king and a whole spirit world who accepted Yatori as one of its members.

Symbol Keys

- meaning or explanation of what came before it

() Small explanation or thought that can be left out of the story and explanation

/ different words that would be the same depending on what translation site/anime you use.

Author's habits

` Writing without explicitly stating who had said the sentence and leaving the readers to understand themselves.

` The battles can never work out because the Author wanted it to, instead it was because of the hard work and talent of Ikta, this point should never be lost, as it is the point that attracted me to war stories in the first place.

` Long chapters, each chapter with about 15k words, while prologues and epilogues has about 10k words each.

Interesting facts about the story

The anime has a small re-imagination of the story, its quite interesting comparing the difference between the two. Such as the characters have slightly different personas than in the novel. Leaving out some details that would be considered to be flair, yet including some that adds to the story. Such as the novel placed the exposing of Ikta's bravery of saving the princess at the beginning of the conversation, while the anime places it at where Ikta talks back in agitation to the princess.

Rhetorical questions - that you guys could answer for me

Katjvarna Empire is an empire that is destined to fall, should Ikta be able to change it? Kioka is a progressive republic whom boasts talents and sights beyond the old Katjvarna. Should it win in the end?

Ikta, through out the story, has several times shown his predictions of the empire falling, so should he be able to stop the worst from happening or should he follow the flow of history?

Chamille Kitra Katvarnmaninik, the princess, had way to much of a change in attitude in the novel through out the story, everyone grows up, but surrounded by people like Ikta, this change was unwarranted, how should this be changed?