Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 22: Einerseits Obst 4 of 4 (Part 01)

In a magnificent room with Victorian accent decorations, Odo sat on a chair facing the blonde woman who was also facing him. Now the black-haired boy was inside the Witch's castle. Slightly glanced towards the large window in the dining room, outside the dark sky and a few sprinkles of white light were visible in the black sheet. Odo knew immediately that it was night, and the darkness of the forest seen through the window reflected this child's heart.

Slightly glancing to the left, Odo saw six blond-haired children sitting lined up on the other side of the long table. The six of them showed blank faces, with blank eyes, and did not speak at all despite what Odo had done to one of them.

Taking a light breath, Odo felt it inappropriate to give the six children a name, he understood that the name was not something that could be given by just anyone or in the usual way. Trying not to think about it again, Odo looked ahead and won quickly.

“We continue the conversation,” said the black-haired boy as he stared at Witch in front of him.

“What talk? Hasn't everything been discussed?” asked the blonde woman while looking at the confused Odo.

“Ah? What are you talking about? Of course there are many .... First, you haven't told me what the details of your plan are to get me to work together. I can't trust you completely. Second, what is my advantage when working with you?”

Hearing such words from Odo, the blonde-haired woman stared in surprise. Smiling faintly, the woman brought her face closer and asked, “You are so unlike humans huh? Although you are very sensitive to the feelings that mortal beings have, why do you always say something different like that?”

“Various yes .... Guilty you call it how, I just do what I need to do.”

Odo looked at the blonde woman. Getting such a thing, the woman put away her face and slightly smiled thinly. When he saw Odo upset, a sense of pleasure filled the woman's mind without himself noticing.

“Alright, I'll explain. But ..., where did you want to hear from?”

“Hmm, first, why don't you tell me what the advantages are when working with you. Try to give me a reason to cooperate with you?”

Witch slightly turned her face when she heard that, looking for something to keep Odo fully interested and working together. When looking at her six children, the blonde-haired woman's expression seemed to have found an answer.

“How about you marry my son?”

Odo looked up slightly and took a very heavy breath, his countenance turned dark quickly and his gaze was full of annoyance. At first glance the magic pressure increased as the emotions that existed rose to the limit of anger.

“Why did I kick your face? Huh!? If the answer is serious,” said the child in a dark tone.

“E-Eeeh? Why even angry? Is that as bad as they are?”

Odo looked up straight and saw the vaulted ceiling, briefly observing the natural paintings of the flower garden landscape above. In the mind of the black-haired child, psychologically tired felt and made a sense of spirit could not appear. Looking back at the woman before him, this time Odo was actually staring with a look of flat eyes and did not look like a human eye. Odo completely put aside the feelings in his thinking.

“I declined the offer, give another.”

“Which else? What do you want?”

“How ... if the magic you used to repair this chair?”

Odo lightly kicked the leg of the chair he was sitting in. The chair on which the black-haired child was sitting had been broken and the leg of the chair was broken, but it was fixed by the Witch with its unique magic that even Odo did not know of its structure despite having been directly observed.

“I don't mind .... But, that magic can only be used inside this castle, are you okay?”

“What does it mean?”

“This building is connected to the magic structure that is inside my Magic Core. Whatever object is in this building, I can repair or control it at will. If outside ..., it does not work at all.”

Odo thought quickly and calculations from Auto Senses were used to decide on a choice. Flashing once, the boy said, “Then, tell me how to make a magic structure so that it can connect with the building. Just know I form a magic structure and how it works.”

“Ya ..., I have no problem with that.”

The woman began to look afraid of Odo who showed no expression at all and looked very empty. The woman extended her right hand forward, then touched Odo's forehead with the palm of her hand. The black-haired child did not comment at all about it, he quickly put away the woman's hand by keeping a flat expression.

“The last one ..., tell your plan. If it's satisfying and can interest me, I'll be happy to help.”

“Why even pout?” ask Odo.

“It feels like talking to a Golem. You are rich with beautiful feelings, but why are you like that? Out there are many creatures who want to feel various emotions but can not, loh.”

Odo was speechless hearing that, his mind moving quickly and trying to understand him. Summing up that there was a Witch-like creature out there, the black-haired boy glanced towards the six blond-haired children who were still sitting without making a sound. In Odo's mind, indeed feelings or emotions for creatures like them are very valuable to be able to feel something that can make them more alive. Looking back at the Witch, Odo saw a real example of this.

“Sorry, I understand ...”

The black-haired boy closed his eyes and tried to stop putting on a flat face. When it returned blinded, the blue eyes no longer look dark and began to look like the look of a human face. The blond woman before him was surprised to see Odo could change his countenance that quickly.

“This is what you want, isn't it? Then tell me. What's your plan? And make me believe to help you.”

Witch did feel it was better to see Odo not show a flat expression that looked dark, but hearing what the boy said, he felt dissatisfied. Although the woman did not understand such things, but she knew what appeared on Odo's face was an artificial expression and contained no sense of writing in it.

“Haaah, okay. Although I still do not feel good to see you like that, but I have to explain my plan, yes .... Before that, I will tell you a few things about information that you may not have known.”

“Ya, please just ...”

Witch began to explain some information that Odo could say did not know about it. In the earliest explanation, the blond woman told him about the technology, magic, government and political situation of the four countries. In the explanation, many things surprised Odo and some in the knowledge of the boy began to be reshuffled.

The first thing that information is given is about technology, a technical technological development that existed during the Great War more precisely. In Odo's daily life, he thought that the technology in the Michigan continent was only limited to medieval civilization that is still in the level of blacksmiths, glass craftsmen, wood, wood, and a simple building that blends with the magic element that characterizes the world. However, it was only a misunderstanding of her because she just continued to read magic books and the general knowledge she had was only limited to the Kingdom of Felixia. In fact, the limits of technology in each country have a very significant difference.

In the kingdom of Felixia does only have a simple technological development because the development of the country is more inclined to magic. But in other countries, there are many technologies that have advanced very rapidly. As an example of what Witch said, the technological development of the Kingdom of Moloia had reached the level of firearms in the middle of the Great War and in recent developments it was heard to have been able to create a radioactive bomb in a large amount. The country has technological developments that have reached the modern level in the knowledge that Odo has.

Not only that, which made Odo surprised by the true level of technology of the Michigan continent. According to Witch, several other countries have also begun to imitate the technological development of the Kingdom of Moloia and assimilate it with the characteristics of their respective magic and create something very new in the development of civilization.

In the development of magic, the most developed country is the Urzia Empire which basically has the richest magic diversity when compared to other countries. Followed by the Empire, the Kingdom of Felixia was at the number two position and the lowest level of magic advancement was held by the Monoia Kingdom. Even so, the most advanced magic array is controlled by the City of Miquator which is the center of all magic.

Of all these explanations, which also surprised Odo was the situation of government and politics of the four countries. According to what the Witch said, the stable political conditions resulting from the conference held by the rulers of the four lands in the City of Miquator had begun to fade. This happened because of the process of changing the leadership of each country which caused the difficulty of maintaining the agreements made by the leaders of each country's predecessors.

According to information obtained from a figure who cooperates with Witch in the City of Miquator, the four countries are really included in sensitive conditions in the field of leadership and politics. In existing estimates, it is certain that early spring next year there are some of the four countries that will experience leadership changes and agreements made by the four countries will weaken.

In the Ungea Kingdom, the Emperor in the desert country is said to be sickly and his age is not long. However, because the Maharaja had many empresses and concubines, descendants and candidates for the crown prince of the Ungea Kingdom became very numerous and difficult to choose the next successor.

For the kingdom of Moloia, the country was not much different from Ungea. Descendants of many royal family lines make it difficult to determine the next King. In this case, the kingdom does not have to bother looking for a successor to the King because it turned into a competition because of the influence of USGM, which is not a, a senate system of aggregated consciousness stored in the State Department of Technology.

Almost similar to the two countries, unexpected news Odo heard about the Kingdom of Felixia where he lived. In a country that is famous for having descendants of Gods in the composition of the Royal Family, the arrangement of the royal family is included in the critical period of pure lines. The kingdom of Felixia has the most power-holding system adapting its lineage compared to other countries. In the present, the supreme power holder of the Kingdom of Felixa is not the King, but the Queen, because indeed the Queen’ who come from the pure line of the Kingdom of Felixia.

King Felixai had two wives, the Queen of pure line and the Concubine obtained from a political marriage with the Kingdom of Ungea as a sign of peace between the two countries. In the relationship, one boy was born from the womb of the Consort and one daughter from the womb of the Queen. According to the system implemented by the Kingdom of Felixai, the right to occupy the next throne is the Princess who is the Queen's child.

No one protested or questioned about it. However, the problem is that only the Princess is the only person who can be a successor, and because she cannot match with her brother, there must be a search for the Princess' fiancee candidate. It is that the nobles of the Kingdom of Felixia craze to get the Princess by competing with each other.

The most shocking news of the Felixai Kingdom is that the Queen died a few days ago. The news was that Witch got from one of her connections to the Kingdom of Felixa who lived in the Royal Palace. Because of the Queen's death, it is certain that the rivalry of the nobles will increase at the beginning of the year and potentially civil war in each region as it happened in the Empire.

Unlike all countries, the Urzian Empire was at a level where its leaders had an inviolable and absolute decree. But because of this, most of the Empire began to rebel and demand the Revolution because the Emperor had been in power for too long, and tended to have a passive nature to the development of his people. The condition of the Urzian Empire was the most severe because there had been several civil wars in various regions.

After getting an explanation of these things, Odo was only told about the plan that Witch wanted to do. The plan was based on the city that had the most powerful connection to it, the City of Miquator. Much like stopping the Great War, the Witch wanted to attract new and old leaders of every country to re-conference and renew treaties. To do this, it needs to be a condition where each country is at equal strength in order to be invited to discuss.

In the process, there is a high possibility of a second Great War that could be more severe than the previous Great War given the development of weapons and science. For this reason, Witch asked Odo to make contact with several important figures in each country and establish relationships with them to be able to get connections between countries in order to reduce the potential for continental war. The deadline for a peace treaty can still be valid only about six years from the present time, and it is very limited to account for the complexity of each country's system and government conditions.

Odo accepted the request because he expected it could not be separated from the problem, because he himself entered the ranks of the nobility. But for the plan to be used in detail, they still have not specified it because it is basically very difficult to establish relations between countries that are entering a politically sensitive period. Because of this, Witch gave some magic knowledge for protection supplies and some other things to Odo.