Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140111153519/@comment-6192846-20140718233900

Alright so the first scene of Chapter 2, Scene 1, which is also our first scene with Yukina in the light novel. They are enroute to the Freesis Mansion while passing through the royal city Bariti. Let's go:


 * It's not raining but there's a cloudy sky and no sun; they are riding the narrow, rugged cobblestone streets in black carriages.


 * The roads of Marlon had half-hearted/incomplete maintenance compared to the continent's roads, so their horse-drawn carriages were frequently shaking.


 * They took the carriages immediately after getting off their voyage; Yukina was doing alright, but she was concerned about one person.


 * Yukina: (I wonder if Ms. Germaine is alright?)


 * Sticking her head out the window, Yukina sees the state of the next carriage. Sure enough, she sees swordswoman with face blue enough to be dying. (Like brother, like sister) Gumillia is seemingly unaffected.


 * Yukina didn't realize how bad the roads were there before her journey; it's one of the many new insights she's gotten from her one and a half year travels.


 * Shaw (sitting next to her): "Hey? It's been a long time in Bariti." (wat.......) Yukina apparently doesn't have an answer to what that was.


 * The streets, red bricked homes, black bars, shops, were a bit dirty; there's a large clock tower of the Church visible in the northern sky too. Nothing's changed since she left.


 * Shaw's apparently not interested in her answer either; his gaze is locked past her, onto Gumillia's horse-drawn carriage visible through the window.


 * Narration: That clever brat! I had been muttering in my mind "How curious/eager/charming/admirable~" as the appropriate response.


 * The three carriages are heading for the Freesis Mansion; Bariti is divided at it's center by the Meshisu (Methis? Messis?) River into its north and south. The mansion is in the more well-off north.


 * Besides them, there were to black-suited/clothed attendents riding with them in the back seat; Germaine and Gumillia's is the same way, running parrallel to them on the left.


 * Kyle's carriage is riding with them until they reach the city, where they would part ways along the path to head to Marlon Castle in the west.


 * The sailors at this time were in the middle of a banquet/party at the port town (I assume Jamet).


 * They gradually approached the clock tower in the distance. The church there is dedicated to the Levia sect, while Yukina's family is familiar with the Held sect.


 * Not even that long ago, Marlon engaged in active trade with Divine Levianta in recent years, so as with other countries, the Levia sect is becoming mainstream in Marlon.


 * The church dedicated to the Held sect is no longer in Bariti, and the tradition itself to go and pray in the church is not in the Freesis Family.

(I may have screwed up; there is something about this tradition but I'm not sure if it's the Freesis Family doesn't do it, that it went away with the Held church, or that only Freesis' lost the ability to do it with the church gone).


 * Among the family (families), only Mother of the most pious, far off town (or "pious mother of a far-off town"? idk) who sometimes travels to the neighboring countries  seems to worship the Held faith (I'm going to stop because this is likely an extremely butchered sentence).


 * Yukina: (Oh my.... What's that?)


 * There's a line in front  of the church, various people. Shaw: "They're getting medicine." Shaw explained before Yukina even asked. He had quickly noticed she took interest.


 * Narration: Truly siblings connect like that.


 * Shaw: "Their patients with the Gula disease. The Church seems to be giving away free medicine."


 * Recently, the Gula disease has become widespread/endemic in Marlon. (I want to say it's been about a year since it started spreading across the country but I can't confirm for sure).


 * Yukina recalls her experience in Beelzenia, particularly the dead soldiers.


 * Yukina: "Some of the people have died, right?" (I think?) She asks Shaw this fearfully.


 * He explains that in Bariti, because the church has been giving it to the poor for convenience right away, almost no one's died of the Gula disease. "But....."


 * Yukina: "But?"


 * Shaw: Well in the rest of the country, I hear it's been pretty bad in some places. Especially in the area around Castle Hedgehog in the northwest."


 * Yukina doesn't want to go through that (the dead soldiers) again if possible, but the possibility of Ney, the owner of the Glass of Conchita, being in Marlon can't be denied.


 * In the line, the people were thin and had lost their virality. As they passed by the front of the church, Yukina prayed for their complete recovery.