ADAIR KLAJD;FA;SD

[lucathia]

Yeaaaaaah, I've just gone completely spaztastic over the new teaser for Legend of Sun Knight. Follow-up from part 1. It's actually in Adair's POV. LUCATHIA IS SUPER HAPPY. Adair reminisces about the time Grisia chose him, and then it's followed by the cliff incident. Adair starts pretty much in the state of mind we see him in during the prologue of volume 2 (super in awe of Grisia). Hahahahaha. XD

ETA: now a very quick translation because ADAIR KLADSJFA;DFA; (no spoilers here for the 39th gen, this is a flashback to Adair and the cliff incident.)

"Ah! It must be the God of Light's benevolence that has brought each and every brother to Grisia's presence, allowing us to become closer and even more inseparable brothers. Let us join hands to bring forth an even more beautiful future for the children of the God of Light."

Adair was so excited that he couldn't hide it. He exchanged a few glances with the holy knights next to him and discovered that they had also inadvertently raised their chests and chins high, proudly accepting that this was the Sun Knight that they were going to serve!

"Grisia." The current Sun Knight Neo smiled as he said, "Go and nurture your camaraderie with your platoon. Your teacher must visit the palace today. You don't have to come with me."

"Yes, Teacher. May sunlight accompany you the entire way."

After Neo left, only the future Sun Knight and the twenty or so future Sun Knight Platoon members remained. Grisia still wore a smile, but the Sun Knight Platoon members were all extremely nervous, afraid that they would leave a bad impression on the future Sun Knight.

Among them, Adair could be said to be the one who was able to maintain his composure the best. He was even able to sneakily observe their future captain, discovering that his bearing was much more unperturbed than everyone else on the scene. This inevitably caused him to feel respectful towards him, but compared to the current Sun Knight Neo, this kind of bearing could be said to be much more gentle.

Finally, Adair relaxed a little.

"May I ask, which among our holy knight brothers is most blessed by the God of Light when wielding a sword?"

Grisia suddenly asked them this, but because no one had been prepared for it, and his speech was quite punctilious, no one understood him right away.

"Excuse me, but could you repeat that, sir?" Adair asked fairly naturally. Everyone else widened their eyes, awed by his courage.

Grisia didn't mind as he repeated his question.

Adair understood now, but just in case, he still asked, "May I ask if you are inquiring which person among us is the strongest, sir?"

Grisia, the future Sun Knight, with his eyes that were practically as blue as the sky, now stared fixedly at Adair. This made Adair, who had already relaxed, to become nervous again.

However, the other person only asked, "Could I ask for this holy knight brother's name?"

"You are too courteous. I am Adair."

Grisia nodded and said, "Holy knight brother Adair, pleased to make your acquaintance. Henceforth, I must trouble you to be my vice-captain. Let us spread the God of Light's radiance and glory together."

"Huh?" Adair was stunned. Even though he was quite confident about his own abilities and had considered fighting for the position of vice-captain, he... he didn't think that he would be able to win the position within three minutes!

The other platoon members were also very astonished, especially those who had been wanting to strive for the position of vice-captain.

"Brothers, please follow me this way. Today, the sunlight is resplendent, the perfect opportunity to bathe in the radiance bestowed by God. If we continue to detain ourselves indoors, we will truly waste the God of Light's generosity."

Seeing Grisia's continual smile, Adair suddenly felt that maybe he had relaxed far too early.

***

"Brothers, please jump off."

Grisia turned around and smiled as he gave his orders to his platoon.

Adair blinked and looked around at his surroundings. This was the top of a cliff. Even though the elevation wasn't all that high, they would definitely get hurt badly enough after jumping off that they wouldn't be able to crawl back up. Yet the command that they had just received was "jump off"?

He thought he had heard wrongly.

With even Adair thinking this way, the other members bore expressions that were even more stupefied. They wondered if they had already gone hard-of-hearing despite being so young. However, when they looked around, everyone else was just as confused. It couldn't be that they had all hallucinated together?

Naturally, everyone looked toward Adair, as he was the only one up until now to have spoken with Grisia.

Since everyone was staring at him, Adair could only ask again, "May I ask-"

However, Grisia waved his hand and repeated himself, "Brother holy knights, please jump off the cliff immediately."

This time, no one could convince themselves that they had hallucinated as a group, but now they were even more confused. They never thought that their first command from their future Sun Knight would be to jump off a cliff!

Preposterous! In response to this kind of command, Adair only had this thought, and it was also accompanied by fury. He squashed his anger, saluted, and then said, "As a holy knight, please forgive me that I cannot accept a suicide mission."

Grisia revealed a slightly puzzled expression. "Are our holy knight brothers so weak in body? I believed that this height would not hinder each brother. Under the protection of the God of Light, at most there will only be slight injuries."

So he knew that no one would die from this? But even if they would only be injured, Adair still could not accept jumping off a cliff and getting injured for no reason. "Jumping off is no problem, but please tell us why!"

At this time, Grisia had already stopped smiling. He said indifferently, "There's no reason."

This answer made everyone even more astonished. His words following that were even more frustrating. "Jump off. This is an order."

At that moment, Grisia only looked at Adair. Clearly, he was singling him out.

Adair had always been exalted among his peers, so he of course would have some pride and arrogance. Under the current circumstances where no one dared to speak out, only he dared to go against Grisia. "This order is too unreasonable. Please forgive me that I cannot-"

Abruptly, Grisia waved his hand, and a humongous icicle appeared in the air, knocking Adair flying. In order to check the height, Adair had been standing very closely to the cliff's edge, so once he was sent flying, he fell directly off the cliff. When he was falling, he thought he saw his captain reveal an impatient expression, and vaguely, he heard this:

"I told you to jump, so jump! Shut up already, you failure of a vice-captain!"

***

Adair leaned against the mountainside, gasping in deep breaths. Even though he had prepared himself to land, and had even rolled to lower his injuries, he had still fallen for a long distance, so he hadn't been able to prevent himself from getting hurt. His right leg was pretty much broken, and his back was killing him, not to mention all the countless small injuries like his scratches that he had received.

Just as he wanted to rest for a bit, and then walk back slowly, he heard another loud noise. Unexpectedly, another holy knight had just fallen, and his strength was obviously not as good as Adair's, so he had received far worse injuries than Adair.

Another loud noise sounded as another holy knight fell. He landed very closely to the previous knight and had almost fallen right on top of him, scaring him so much that he immediately tried to scramble to the side. However, because of his serious injuries, he couldn't crawl very fast at all. At this time, more people fell down.

Seeing this, Adair paid no attention to his leg injury as he rushed forward to drag his comrades to the side of the mountain one-by-one. This worsened his injuries even more.

He was more or less done. Adair watched as the last person fell down. This time, he didn't rush forward to drag him, since no one else would be falling. Also, all these large movements had injured his leg so much that he was shaking from the pain. He dropped to the floor, unable to stand up any longer.

"Ah!"

When he heard the loud scream, Adair raised his head. A large shadow had just fallen on top of that last person. Good thing only the person's legs had been squashed. If the shadow had fallen completely on that person, Adair was afraid that he would spit blood right out of his mouth.

Once he got a clear look, he realized that the "large shadow" was actually Grisia. He also fell off the cliff?

Just as everyone was still stunned and couldn't make sense of the situation, a large amount of holy light flashed before their eyes. Grisia stood up as if he had never been hurt, and the person who had been squashed so severely by him also stood up. His movements were very smooth, not at all like someone who had fallen off a cliff and had also been so severely flattened.

What powerful healing magic! Adair was quite awed.

Grisia walked over, looked around, and tossed a few Moderate Heals at them. Then, he said, "Brothers, please rise and follow me."

No one's injuries were mild. This kind of healing magic was like throwing a cup of water at a fire, but since they were holy knights, who were the most durable, and they were even the best of the best who could make it into the Sun Knight Platoon, they would be able to stand up if they really put their hearts into it.

Everyone slowly stood up one after another, including Adair. Because he hadn't been prepared when he was knocked flying while everyone else jumped out of their own volition, plus he also had to drag everyone afterward, Adair's injuries were the worst out of everyone's.

But when he received the command, he didn't say a word. He got up and followed Grisia; however, he didn't think they would return to the top of the cliff.

"Please jump." The same command, but this time, the only recipient was Adair.

Adair was momentarily stunned. He didn't know why he was being targeted. At this time, the other people by his side whispered, "All of us jumped by ourselves just now. You should hurry up and jump too. Jump, and everything's solved!"

Hearing this, Adair turned his head to look at everyone and discovered that they all wore the same accepting expression. It was evident that everyone had jumped off the cliff by themselves.

This discovery swayed Adair a bit, making him feel like he was the odd one out... He clenched his teeth and replied, "No!"

After receiving this refusal, Grisia's expression didn't change. He calmly said, "My holy knight brothers, as you are members of the Sun Knight Platoon, you have already sworn to the God of Light that you would be loyal to me."

Adair angrily said, "I will be loyal to you, but I cannot accept as absurd a command as jumping off a cliff!"

Grisia knitted his eyebrows together. After he waved his hand, another icicle appeared. This time however, Adair wasn't completely unprepared. His ability wasn't low, so of course he could dodge one icicle... but dodging an entire sky of icicles was another story altogether.

Adair looked at the numerous icicles, heart pounding. He knew he had no more room to dodge, but he still didn't want to jump off. He dodged a few more icicles, but in the end, he was still knocked off the cliff.

The spin-off will be tentatively released around August 21. I can't wait! Especially to find out what other stories will be included.

ajsd;a I didn't know volume 12 of the 1/2 Prince manhua is already out. *buys it* I should get it around the 10th. Here's the new cover! THAT looks like a very uncomfortable position for Prince, ouch! (the other drafts for the cover)

I've turned in my Parallelsfic assignment, but goodness does it still need more editing... I'll still be editing the heck out of that fic before reveals. -__-;; Also on today's menu, colors_tcg decks. I'm so behind on all of my mod duties...

There are three assignments from parallelsfic that need pinch hitters! They may or may not have been claimed yet, but if you feel up to some writing, take a look? :D

I've been watching the Olympics every single day during any free time I have. Yup, not going to get much done like this.

Comments

*joins in on keyboard smashing*

[(Anonymous)]

SDHSDJKGSDgh I wish I could read it ;;
Could I ask how the teaser is related? Is it part of the 39th gen series?

Re: *joins in on keyboard smashing*

[lucathia]

Yup, it's part of the 39th gen series (the spin-off). There should be 2 volumes consisting of miscellaneous extras. Yu Wo said that it will consist of short stories and one longer story. It seems that the time frame will likely be set during the 39th gen, with flashbacks about the previous generations.

just passing by and...

[(Anonymous)]

wooooooow (*v*)!!! aw wish i could read it :-( i'm also an adair fan (go adair go!! XD) but i'm - saddly - only a level 0.001 (and suspecting i'm actually -1) in chinese XS i could figure only a few words and google translate just seems a bit....not helping. could i ask if you could please translate it? (i mean only a brief resume, it doesn't need to be much) pretty please? ^w^.... of course you don't have to, but i just couldn't keep that inside (i tend to write everything that's on my mind)

btw i'm also watching the olympics in my free time XD and it's so much fun (and it also brings out all my competitive spirit, some times i'm practically screaming to the tv XD)


ps. sorry for bad english, not my mother language. Oh, and i'm like a fan of yours i like your fics very much! :-D

Re: just passing by and...

[lucathia]

Well, I like Adair so much, I did a very quick translation just now. I've edited it into this post, so you can read it now. :) It's not the most eloquent translation, but I hope it'll be enough for you to squeal some more over Adair with me. XD;;

I really adore how Adair was so happy about serving Grisia and then how stubborn he was about not following a command that didn't make sense to him. Everyone else caved so quickly.

The Olympics are exciting! Now, I'm off to watch them again, haha. It's tape-delayed here, which sucks, but I find out scores online and then watch the events. It's like watching a replay, haha.

Nah, your English is very good. I wouldn't be so coherent in languages that aren't my native tongue.

KuwaNeko

[(Anonymous)]

oh goooood, Grisia... oh god... he really didn't wait to put things in clear... head-desk... and just like that, choosing Adair...

nice cover, I wish I could paint like that... (here fighting with my photoshop...) so jealous...

interesting drafts, the 6th one looks interesting too

I haven't been checking on the olympics as much, but still followed more than a few. had two channels (and still non playing the archery) but one just got banned for latin-america *sigh*

I'll be waking up about 4 am to see how the Costa Rica'n goes on the 400m athletics (I'm actually glad the next ones are in Rio... we'll actually get to see them, and sleep)

Re: KuwaNeko

[lucathia]

I translated this snippet if you want to read it again. :3 (It's edited into this post)

It sounds to me like Grisia chose Adair just because Adair could understand his speech!! XD

It's very fascinating seeing the process that goes behind the cover art. Such pretty coloring. *___* I kind of like some of the other drafts better though. Prince getting choked here looks so uncomfortable! I like the ones where Prince and the Dictator of Life are side-by-side better.

I tuned in to a Chinese channel today for some live events, but otherwise I've been watching tape-delayed Olympics. -___-;; The channel showed archery! Finally got to see a little of archery.

Ooooh, nice. Hope you get to see something nice at that time! :)

Re: KuwaNeko

[(Anonymous)]

oh god... Grisia really didn't hold back...

I wasn't expecting Grisia to jump after everyone...

mmm... I think Grisia would have had to push me down too, the first time... but after seeing Grisia push Adair like that second time... I believe I'd jump on my own

I wonder when Grisia started to use boulders, haha and seeing as he has no qualms on using magic in front of his platoon, the boulders could very well be ice boulders (and I can tell, from experience, that those can be just as... ah, effective... as rock ones)

Re: KuwaNeko

[lucathia]

I was surprised by Grisia jumping after them. Haha, what a sight it must have been.

Jumping off a cliff is just crazy. I wouldn't do it... but seeing Grisia push Adair off might be scary enough that I would prefer the option of jumping myself. But then I don't have the healing capabilities of those holy knights, so that's not really a good choice either!

Pffft, ice boulders! True, where would the boulders come from... Ouch, from experience?

Re: KuwaNeko

[(Anonymous)]

haha, Grisia must have scared the others enough with just the first display; no neither would I normally, no, not even crazy... but then again, to deal with Grisia one must leave ones logic behind; and hopefully he wouldn't ask non knights to jump... hopefully...

yeah, one of my only sledding experiences I had, a bunch of kids were playing with one sled, a card box and a bag, they were playing at holding hands while going downhill; I was just behind them and they suddenly fell apart rolling...
I had to stir in order not to slam against them, and found myself out of the track... there were this huuge compacted snow boulders in the sides of the track... that's where i ended up. I don't really remember the crash in itself, I do remember the disorientation, and that it hurt. Then in rage I punched the boulder... of that I'm sure it was like punching a wall... not that I make practice of punching walls... but I didn't even dent it, hardly even managed to loosen up some of the superficial snow, and it also hurt...

Re: KuwaNeko

[lucathia]

Ouch, ouch, that experience sounds like very, very painful. Owwww, and then you punched the boulder?! I think my knuckles would bruise or bleed from that.

[sencha-kt.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the translation! Adair seems like an awesome character :) And hope your Parallelsfic assignment turns out perfect~♥

Did you see Federer vs Del Potro last night? That was intense *o* Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history! I still laugh at Atobe and Tezuka. I meant, even Isner and Mahut couldn't beat that :P

[lucathia]

I can't get enough of Adair. XD;;; Thank you, I hope to get my fic in better shape by the 7th! :3

Nooo, I didn't! I've only been reading news articles about the tennis matches about who won. But wait, wait, it turned out to be the longest match in Wimbledon history? :O Wow! I hope to watch the finals for both women and men's tennis. Women's finals tomorrow! (or today, depending on time zones) \o/

Hahahaha, no one can beat Atobe and Tezuka's crazy match. What did the tiebreaker go up to? XD; But then, they only played, what, one set?

[sencha-kt.livejournal.com]

Haha did you end up watching the Wimbledon finals? I'm a little devastated about the men's, but I guess it couldn't be helped :( Have you seen the doubles matches? The US were amazing ♥ Family all the way!! ^o^ And yup, it lasted four hours, I think :/ 19-17 in the third @.@ I figured I could stay up and watch, but at about 15-all in the third I was regretting that choice XD By the time it finished I was dead on my feet T.T

Ahh you do have a point. They went to like, 135 points, Atobe and Tezuka, or something, but yeah I'd it was only one set and they were counting points that's actually not too bad :P This was back when TeniPuri was still on the verge of normality XD Isner-Mahut was eight hours, 6-4 3-6 6-7 (7-9) 7-6 (7-3)...70-68. Now that I think about it, TeniPuri's actually been outclassed. They played 183 games. Pfft the Atobe-Tezuka tie-break, Isner and Mahut owned that record @.@

[lucathia]

No sadly, I didn't. I got the time wrong for the women's final, and then I couldn't wake up in time for the men's final! *sigh* Time zones... I was rooting for Federer, aw, and am surprised by the result. In the end, I didn't get to see any of the tennis matches! /mopes Wish I could have seen some of the doubles, but I think only the singles were shown here (but I didn't manage to catch any of them. XD;;;; Oops)

One set is so short. XD I wonder if middle schoolers really do only play one set in school tournaments in Japan, or if it was just easier to draw one set? XD;; At my high school, we played two out of three!

An eight hour match... @____@ That just sounds exhausting. XD

[sencha-kt.livejournal.com]

Aww, at least there's more Olympics to watch? :P Federer wasn't playing too well, I guess, and Murray was on fire, which is understandable, seeing as it's GB etc :/ Still, I wasn't expecting that kind of score *sigh*

Actually, as far as I remember it's two of three in Australia, too :P But I guess I wouldn't be surprised if Konomi was just too blah to draw more than one set. It would certainly have made things more interesting if there had been three, though! :)

Granted, it was spread over three days, but even the fact that they had to use three days...@.@ Massive respect. I hope Mahut manages to climb up the rankings a little soon :)

[lucathia]

Wicked's sword!!! ;_____; The Dictator is looking very, very awesome. *stares at his hair and wings*

[gingkotree.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for sharing. Poor Adair..

[lucathia]

Poor Adair indeed. Being singled out by Grisia isn't a good sign!

[cathdeary.livejournal.com]

Like! That was soooo amzing. Im sure grisia's gonna use boulder soon enough, so exited for that. Wahaha. Never thought adair was once such a stubborn person before. Hmm.

[lucathia]

I've always thought Adair was a stubborn person. XD;

[cathdeary.livejournal.com]

Whew! As in, really? Well, ive always thought that he's mostly quick witted, smart, adoptable, flowery-mouth, obedient and a good liar. But never stubborn. Well, yeah, maybe bec you read the whole series already so you must have already witnessed how stubborn he could get. Sorry about the wrong spelling and grammar from time to time, english is my third language, so please bear with me. :)
id patiently wait until the next release so please continue on translating for us, your work is very much appreciated.

Honestly, I liked your version better O.o

[lexis larrinaga (from livejournal.com)]

Personally I have to say that after reading this, i can quite honestly say that I liked your version of events (ie - grisia knocking adair continuously off the cliff until he obeyed) MUCH better. Your piece was more moving, and I could definitely get a better sense of Adair's indignation and anger there than in this one.
Although I have to say, Adair dragging people to safety with a broken leg is pretty bad*ss.

Re: Honestly, I liked your version better O.o

[lucathia]

Haha, really? Well, this is actually a snippet! There's some more to the scene after this, and Grisia does indeed knock Adair down over, and over, and over again. And Grisia jumps over and over and over again too. Adair comes to a realization later (though not the same as the one I had him come to in my fic), so there's more to the story.

(But I did like flinging around the word "insubordination" in my fic, hahaha. Thanks for liking my version!)

I agree. Adair dragging people to safety with a broken leg was pretty cool.