City Series:Volume6d Preface
Title Page[edit]
Right:
City Series
Panzerpolis Berlin 4 1943
Left: Welcome to the path to the past – to the festival of beginnings.
Bottom: By Kawakami Minoru
Characters[edit]
Name: Heiliger
Heiliger’s bottom text:
Tragedy
Tragedy is a qualification for strength.
Name: Lehrer
Lehrer’s bottom text:
The past leads to the future.
Central text:
Nordrich Himmer (North Sea Sky) – The Golden Morning Breeze
The North Sea’s morning breeze creates foggy clouds for a short period and those clouds are dyed a warm gold by the morning sun.
For less than half a minute, the sky looks like a heavenly field, but the real question is whether you view that sky as a battlefield or as a view of heaven.
Maschine[edit]
Bottom right text:
Knight
A Knight is a bearer of strength.
Top left text:
Explanation
1. Neue Kaiser – Probably the world’s most immature Heavy Barrel.
2. Neue Blau – Carries a rifle. Kind of skinny.
3. Neue Zinnobar – Carries a shield. A bit plump.
Landkarte[edit]
Box:
Explanation
Brown: Residential Area. Includes ordinary roads and empty lots.
Green: Green Area. European cities have a lot of forest parks and Germania has areas of green and water both inside and on the outskirts.
Blue: Water Area. Some of the surrounding rivers have been dammed to provide water for Germania.
Dark Gray: Main Roads. Most notably the autobahn.
Black: Empty Area. Holes drilled into Germania’s surface layer. Used for ventilation and for transport routes in and out.
White: Ventilation and Defense Trenches. Largescale trenches used to circulate air between underground and aboveground. Creates updrafts.
Light Gray: Airport. Mostly government controlled at this point. Either that or half-government and half-civilian controlled.
Red: Vaterland. Used to provide Germania with Phlogiston fuel.
Purple: Tristan: The Geheimnis Agency’s HQ and used to boost the Vaterlands around the world. Generates the dome.
Newspaper[edit]
Top right article:
Globally Serialized Novel
My Bitter Smile
AIF Literary Team
Part 7
After he looked up her skirt, Hazel poured her embarrassed fury into a nearby rock and threw it against Berger’s face.
“You naughty dog!”
Once.
Twice.
Thrice.
By the fourth rock, Berger actually dodged it.
“Y-you stupid girl! You’re really trying to kill me this time, aren’t you!?”
The fifth one hit.
He teetered back with a line of blood running down his forehead.
Hazel ignored that and had her say.
“You’re always looking at my crotch! You sexually harassing pervy fetishist!”
“Fetishist? You have it all wrong!”
“Th-then what is it if not a fetish?”
“I just happen to like it!”
The sixth one hit him right between the eyes. For some reason, he had a look of bliss as he collapsed to his knees.
Then the wind blew in.
It was a white Heavy Barrel – the Kaiser.
But Hazel threw a seventh rock at Berger for good measure.
He collapsed into a bloody heap.
“Can you too stop flirting for two seconds!?” complained the Kaiser. “You can’t keep getting away with this!”
Hazel chose to hit him where it hurt.
“Shut up, you pedo knight!”
Top left article:
Today’s Birthday #1718: Oscar Mirildorf
Oscar turns 57 this year. He is best known in the AIF as Miss Hazel’s father and negotiations are underway to have him join the AIF as one of the new 16 Battle Commanders who will act as on-site commanders after the latest reorganization.
Lately, he has been worried about Miss Hazel going on so many missions. She is on a mission to Europe on his birthday today. There are some bad men out there, so he is very worried for her. Her response to him was “it’s none of your business” and we have to agree with her there.
Bottom Article Title:
Shogeki Game Bunko
June Releases
Bottom Article Book List:
Cruising Divine Spell Girl
Rodrigues
Volume 3: Success! The Bombing of Hamburg
By: AIF PR Team
If you’re feeling tired of all this fighting, the AIF PR Team has a heartfelt novel for you all about familial love on the battlefield! Get ready to cry! So popular a second printing has already been greenlit!
Volume 1: I Was Reduced to Scorched Earth!
Volume 2: Go, Papa! Launch the Homing Round!
A Father’s Punch
By: M. Schrier
After his daughter was taken from him, a father punches the culprit over and over and over again! He doesn’t stop even after knocking out the man’s back tooth! (Nonfiction)
Today’s Killer Book: Diary of a Toxic Reader
By: AIF Forced Education Committee.
A killer book every day. A life that might just count as hell on earth.
Professor Dog’s Fearsome Insults
By: An Anonymous Girl
A story of a man who always starts with the insults but is cut short by a powerful confession! I’m not forgetting what you did!
Two New Entries in the Popular “Now You Get It!” Series
Now You Get It! Your First Front Line
Now You Get It! Your First Fascism
By: AIF First Times Club
You’ll Never be the Same After Meeting Them
By: AIF 6 Men Dice
Those 6 are up to some weird stuff! This could be good!
Unreif Germane[edit]
1
“This is a story of when this country was still in chaos and full of anxiety.”
In the deep darkness of the Black Forest
Born from the abyss
The wheel emerges
- It whips up the wind and speaks with the dragon
- It reads the wind and weeps
- It carries power in its hand and hesitates
2
“One day, a young man visited a woman who was friends with a dragon. The young man referred to the woman as the Messiah and said that her power was needed.”
The one-armed youth holds the Messiah
The moonlit pair returns to the earth
The dragons gather and dance tonight
Every last thing returns home
3
“The Messiah gathered the country’s knights and worked to bring order to the people’s chaos and the dragons’ chaos. She worked to bring peace to the anxious land, sea, and sky.”
The wind blows / The night blows / The dragon awakes / The people move / The dragon roars
- The wind arrives from the north / A path arrives from the north
- The knight descends as a knight / The dragon soars high as a dragon
- All is a path to the north star / All is a story of an insurmountable wall
4
“A long battle followed. But after traveling north and defeating a large black dragon, the clouds cleared away.”
Follow the path to a familiar face
- While walking side by side
Your hand and voice might reach them
- But the moon sees it not
The gatherers begin their party
- A wall separates the pair
- As they follow the same path with the same words
5
“Below the full moon in the sky, the Messiah smiled for the first time. The knights rejoiced, the people danced, and the dragon roared.”
The party begins and the village dances / The dragon roars and the knights gather
The bride weeps uncrowned / Her words go unsaid and he never arrives
Thus she is alone / She weeps and sleeps in this land
6
“The one-armed young man left a letter telling her to fight no longer and departed the morning after everyone threw a party to celebrate their newfound peace.”
7
“The Messiah wept.”
“She was inconsolable despite the knights’ and the king’s best efforts. Not even the country’s top jester could manage it. Nor could the wolves and dragons of the forest, the mountains, the rivers, or the wind.”
8
“But one morning, the Messiah stopped weeping and gathered everyone. Then she promised them that their peace would last for a thousand years thanks to their efforts.”
9
“Do not forget who you are. Never forget that and this hill will turn gold every year. And you will never build walls between any people of any background.”
10
Urge him on and wait / If you wish for something new
- All hesitation will come to an end up ahead
Complete the circle or break it / If you desire something new
- Throw out all hesitation and look back
The wind is with you, he is with you / Seek out something new
- All hesitation exists to tear through that wall
“The Messiah said she would sleep for a thousand years at Alfheim and awaken once chaos returned to the world. Once she was asleep in her shrine, the one-armed young man returned. He spent the rest of his days guarding the shrine…until one evening he breathed his final breath.”
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