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"Oh, um, ......, is this the kind of picture you want?　Master Barka wasn't flying through the air in the flesh and fighting the sky dragon, was he?"

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"That's right. I don't have any magic to fly. I was just fighting back from the inside of a magic airship.

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"Yes, of course. But in the picture book, Barka-sama flew to the west in the sky. ....... Is this correct?"

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"It doesn't matter. Picture books are meant to inspire children with dreams. It doesn't have to be true, and it doesn't look good if it's true. It's not realistic to think that I'm alone wielding a sword in a magic airship where I can't see my opponent properly."

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"That's true, but it's true, isn't it?　Well, that's it, isn't it? This picture book is not a book of knowledge, but a book of pictures of stories told by a bard?

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"That's what I mean. If it's exciting, that's all that matters. It doesn't have to be about me. If you want to get children's sympathy, the main character could be a young boy.

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"I see. I don't think a child can fight a dragon at all, but Barka-sama might be able to. But in that case, would it be better to simplify the pictures to fit the story better? I don't think that a painting that is too precise or my usual work would not fit the story.

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"Yes. But you can give priority to what the author wants to draw. As long as you know that the intended audience is children, that's all that matters.

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　The artist and I discuss our opinions about the picture book.

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　At first, the artist tried to write down exactly everything I told him about my expedition to the East and my search for the West.

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　But I told him not to do so.

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　I thought that if I were a reader of a picture book, I would prefer to read a book that is easy to understand and interesting rather than one that is full of explanatory descriptions.

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　Therefore, I decided to make the story spectacularly progressing, while keeping the content of the picture book brief and abbreviated.

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　The songs sung by minstrels served as a reference.

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　In this world, too, there are minstrels who wander around and sing songs like traveling entertainers.

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　And I had connections with such people.

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　When I have done something somewhere, I tell the stories to the bards.

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　Then each one would sing a song based on it and parade it around.

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　But, as strange as it may seem, the popularity of the finished work varies, even if they are based on the same story.

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　After a while, the popular songs spread, and other bards learned them and sang them.

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　Thus, I found a popular bard's song that was composed after the expedition to the East and the search for the West, and decided to use it as the basis for a picture book.

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　Of course, I did not plagiarize it without telling you.

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　There is not much talk about piracy in this world, but I told the author of the original song that I was going to use it as the basis of a picture book and gave him a gift of money.

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　This was also because I wanted to make sure that the content of the picture book would be well received by the public from the bard's point of view when I made the book.

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　In this way, several picture books of adventure stories were created.

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　And while I was working on these picture books, I had a thought.

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　It was the description of the field of history in the Book of Knowledge.

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　History is made by the victors.

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　No matter how many correct historical facts are laid out, if the remaining victors do not recognize the historical knowledge, there will be a friction.

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　In particular, the relationship between God and the Church has been a source of concern.

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　Even though thousands of years have already passed, God still exists today.

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　While there are such living witnesses, the existence of God clashes with the claims of the Church, which has maintained its presence in various places for many years.

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　I have been wondering whether or not to write about this in the history book.

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　My experience in making picture books may be useful in this matter.

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　In short, we should write the facts, but not the frictions.

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　There is no doubt that I moved through the sky in search of the western sea as I depicted in the picture book, but how I did it is irrelevant to the flow of the story.

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　In other words, I decided to treat the relationship between God and the church with such ambiguity.

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　Let's write the facts in the history books.

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　The first king of the House of Dorren was sealed as the King of the Immortals.

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　His wife and sister were raised to the throne of God by the Church.

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　The Church has continued to watch over the divine world and God until today.

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　These are the facts.

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　However, the feelings of the people involved are not necessary in a history book.

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　It is not necessary to write how Aisha felt about being made into an incapacitated statue of a god.

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　It is also not necessary to write that the first king was sealed but communicated his thoughts with the gods in the divine world.

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　It is enough to write that the cult and the nobles of the time used all the secret arts they had to make the god appear in the world.

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　The rest is up to the reader's interpretation.

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　The church will not consider it as a problem as long as there are few discrepancies with the original story.

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"So, that's how I'm going to write the history book, so please help me out with the groundwork, Pope Paul.

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"Hmm. When I heard that you were going to make some kind of book, I wondered what would happen, but I guess that's all right. However, it will be difficult to get the other archbishops involved without a reasonable donation.

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"Didn't I give you a big chunk of money before ......?　And it was a loan."

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"That's not the same thing, Ars. There are new things that are needed to make everything work."

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I see. Well, in that case, I'll be glad to give it up. But is it strange for me, a shield of God, to give to the church?　Please note that the donation should come from Alford, the head of the Barka family."

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"Yes, I understand. God will be pleased to know that the new head of Barca is a devout believer.

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　I'm not sure if this is the right thing to do, but it's okay.

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　Now I'll explain the situation to Aisha, the god, as I hand her the new dependent.

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　Apparently, Aisha is in a good mood now that her beloved husband is with her after being separated from her for so long, so she will probably forgive me.

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　It will be another 100 years at the earliest before the first king is restored, and one wonders if such a feeling will last from now on.

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　At any rate, I think it is safe to say that our biggest concern about the history issue has been resolved.

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　The work on the Book of Knowledge went on, even as the story of my son Alford, who at only four years of age had given away enough money to receive a commendation from the church, continued to evolve.

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