Character Information - Who is who?

Because I have created quite a variety of characters, I will now create little cheat sheets before a chapter for the characters who will appear in the chapter, but not for those who haven't. Please open the spoiler if you need some reminders. (Be careful, it can be a spoiler for the chapter!)

Alexander K. Leonandra (Wolf-kin)

* Transmigrated from the Earth and the MC

* The fourth child of the current Leonandra household

* Golden eyes

* Snow-white fur and hair color

Anastasia I. Ramputt (Bunny-kin)

* MC's private teacher

* Specialized in teaching, philosophy, history, and politics

* Blue eyes

* Black fur and hair color

Alexander sat inside one of his rooms, which he unwillingly designated as a classroom. He tried to wake up as he found the night too short for his taste, but before his brain could actually boot up, a jovial bunny-kin hopped inside, "Good morning, my dear student!"

Alexander sat there, almost frowning, "Mornin', can't we switch it next time to my usual office?"

Anastasia laid down her bag and started unpacking her materials, "Not in a hundred years, Alex. Your room always looks like a bomb exploded inside, and after the talk with your lovely servants, I found out that they already clean it up at least two times a day... so, no."

Alexander was affronted, "But the room is clean..." But as he thought more about it, he doubted it, "...I guess?"

Anastasia smirked at him, "I remember yesterday's commotion. I wasn't there, but I heard that someone was beaten up, screaming, growling, and I smelled something burning. If I would go into that room, what would I find?"

Alexander needed to admit that it was a good question since he didn't register anything but could think of a couple of things, 'I guess the blood puddle Maurice left would be something.'

His teacher looked at him as he spaced out, contorting his face into grimaces. She coughed into her fist, "So, let's start. Shall we, or do you have any questions beforehand?"

Alexander came out of his thoughts, thinking that his maids were paid well, so giving them some work was fine. He also remembered yesterday, when he had some problems, "Actually, yes, I want to ask about relationship."

Anastasia chuckled, "You probably meant leadership, right? What about it?"

Alexander nodded, "Yeah, I want to lead my people better, but I don't really know how or where to start or... honestly, I don't have any idea about it at all."

His teacher sat on the desk and crossed her legs, "So before we actually start the complex topic of leadership, which kings and queens probably could debate till they are grey, why do you want to lead?"

Alexander was confused, "Because..."

He wanted to ask how to lead his retainers better, but after a moment of thought, he found a more exciting topic he wanted to discuss. Since his teacher was under a firm mana contract with which she couldn't disclose anything they talked about or what she saw inside the estate, he decided to concentrate on a different question, somewhat in line with the first.

Democracy or liberalization of society. Alexander wanted to show the world how much better and more productive society could be with his system, or rather the ones from Earth but found many problems.

He needed someone to discuss it with. His mother was knowledgeable on this topic but was very reserved in her ideals. She wanted to better the current system and dismissed his ideas outright. Narsiz was the same. His other siblings thought it was either food or some monster one could hunt down.

But before proposing such insane ideas, he wanted to know if different societies had it implemented and how they worked. The problem was visible and obvious: The difference in power was apparent as his mother alone could obliterate a whole army. So, democracy wasn't even needed as the ruler was almost always the strongest in the territory or had someone who served them who was.

It was a might-makes-right world. However, such a world was, in an economic sense, extremely unproductive and led more or less to stagnation. There were cases in history where it flourished, but they were almost always accompanied by wars or subjugations.

A healthy democracy, in whatever form, always crushed, economically, an authoritarian regime as long as the power difference wasn't too vast apart.

Other issues would likely result from wanting to implement it. From what Alexander knew, nobles would rather die than give up their territory and titles. The same went for their retainers, who also stood much higher on the social ladder and, most of the time, hated other commoners climbing it.

Thus, he wanted also to know how to lead others and how he could manifest later on with little steps. Even though his inner Earthling wanted to break out and burn down carriages in protest, he could hold himself together.

Now, Alexander was visibly confused about how to ask without coming across as crazy, 'Honestly, I have no fucking idea where to actually begin with...'

Like many, he had new grand ideas and plans, but were they genuinely new or grand? In his mind, it was impossible that something like this didn't exist.

He looked at his teacher sternly, "I want to know first, are there democracies?"

Anastasia raised an eyebrow, "Democracies? Yes, but there is a lot of variation."

Alexander tried to narrow it down, "The ones where commoners chose their leader, representative, or something of the sort."

She laughed, "Haha, by the circle, no. There are concepts of this, though, especially propagated by Merlin, but nothing was seen on our continent. The most democratic society you can find is in the free cities, to the far east, where councils exist, and powerful people are able to vote..."

She thought briefly and continued, "You could also call our empire a little democratic since the crown has a council too. It was created after we overthrew the previous empress at the Blue Blood Night, and it is made out of eleven high nobles or their representatives and four non-noble representatives like the leader of the mercenary guild, the archmage, and so on."

Alexander raised an eyebrow when he heard a particular name, 'Right, I forgot him. Merlin even propagated the same ideas I want to implement in the future. I really need more information about him...' After a moment, he sighed inwardly, 'Jesus, if he is from Earth, please tell me he didn't choose the cringe name for himself.'

He threw it to the back of his head and concentrated on the topic, "This is not even close to the democracy I think about."

Anastasia shrugged, "Do you really expect commoners, who can barely read and write, to vote for someone competent? They would probably rather take some coppers and vote for whoever they were paid to vote for."

Alexander smiled, "I bed to differ. If you educate them and change their environment, you could change their way of looking at things from short to long-term. This is what you are criticizing, right?"

Anastasia nodded, "Beg, not bed and partly. You are saying that you want to educate everyone to the level of a noble?..." she shook her head, "This is impossible."

Alexander sighed, "Why are you going so far and so fast? It could happen in small increments. First, you educate them in reading and writing. Afterward, add more and more while more teachers would appear naturally."

Anastasia looked at her student with interest, "What a bold idea, but this is a timeframe of many hundreds of years, and even then, this wouldn't work."

Alexander felt frustrated, "Why not?"

Anastasia looked into the void while counting the reasons on her fingers, "First, for a city or town, it might work somehow out, but out of ten people, six to seven in our empire, if not more, live in villages, far away from anyone who could educate anyone. The only one there who has the skills are the village lord or maybe some merchants or retired mercenaries, and them trying to teach some farmers would be a high ask."

She was right, urbanization was a thing, and Alexander forgot that most people live in the boons. He also forgot that someone could not hop into a car or on a train in the morning, teach them, and drive back, 'Shit, am I this spoiled by Earth?'

She put down her second finger, "Then we have the next problem: How? Books and writing material are expensive, and a villager with some cows, pigs, and a small patch of land can maybe sustain his or her dozen children but not buy luxuries..."

She looked at him more sternly, "Alex, books, parchments, and the utensils we use are incredibly expensive and are a privilege of nobles and the rich. A farmer would never be able to buy such things."

'Oh right... damn, it... I always think we are actually technologically progressed because I see this damn system window!'

She continued while counting on her third finger, "Third... never talk about it if you don't want to start a purge, Alex."

Alexander raised an eyebrow, and she saw his confused face and explained further, "You are young and intelligent, but nobles don't take such discussions lightly. Maybe at universities, such things could make for an interesting discourse, but outside, it will lead to more than just ridicule."

Alexander looked at her, "Why are you this calm then? Aren't you a noble too?"

She shrugged, "I studied it, learned all the concepts and forms of such systems, and discussed those. It is quite normal for nobles to debate certain topics for fun, but nobody takes them seriously... and you shouldn't either, Alex."

Alexander thought suddenly about his possible brethren, "What about Merlin? Wasn't he proposing the same?"

Anastasia looked at him with a smirk, "Yes, but first, he had the freedom to propose and advocate for it since he only did it after he became an archmage, and let's say it like this: He wasn't the brightest candle on a cake when it came to politics. His strengths lay in magic."

Alexander sighed. His oh-so-glory revolution needed to wait, and his possible Earthen brethren was a moron regarding politics, 'Well, he also wasn't an engineer or scientist if he was from Earth. Otherwise, we would have a much stronger technological development.'

He suddenly remembered how reserved Narsiz was when they talked about his grand ideas while he was sick and how his older brother only took the pragmatic solutions for problems to heart, which could better the lives of beast-kin through tweaking and clever implementations of the economic and administrative solutions from Earth but not the idealized ideas or concepts Alexander talked about.

He didn't give up and throw away his ideals, though. Still, he noted inwardly that he needed to solve the problems that blocked his plans from implementing with technology.

However, in the end, he needed to think if democracy could exist in such a world or if it was just the thoughts of an idealized moron from another world.

Nonetheless, in the first place, Alexander wanted to do it to better people's lives, which he could also achieve with other things, like technology. He also included magic into the category of technology, which he could make for everyone possible, which he proved could be done.

He nodded, and she asked, "So, is this why you want to know about leadership?"

Alexander decided to stop this discussion since he needed to think much more about it, but she was an excellent teacher to have such an informative discourse. Being proven wrong would feel terrible for most, but it became enlightening for him since he could think of solutions first and then try to push them to achieve his desired goal.

Alexander twirled slightly, "Not really, but I already have retainers, and I wanted to know how to lead them so they become loyal to me."

She became confused, "Aren't they loyal? I remember seeing Ocilia, and she was like a kit (baby bunny), always following you when she could, hehe."

Alexander frowned, "But, shouldn't I somehow lead them? Do something more?"

Anastasia became interested, "You are actually the first one I ever taught who thought about this question... how interesting, and why do you want to do more? I know that even your disciple, maids, and personal guard get paid well, and you even teach them and give a lot of other perks."

Alexander thought briefly and answered, "This is physical, and while I think it is nice and all, I kind of want to lead them... spiritually? Morally? You know what I mean?"

Anastasia was perplexed that her student asked an insanely hard-to-answer question out of nowhere, "Material, not physical. I... I can't answer you right now. I need first to look it up myself... I know that..."

Alexander interrupted her nonchalantly, "Got it, then next lesson, or do you need more time? What is our topic, by the way, now? The system, right?"

Anastasia became more confused. Usually, her students expected her to know everything upfront, like a lexicon, but this was impossible, especially for complex topics, "Aren't you confused why I don't know it?"

Alexander shrugged, "Not really? It's not like you are a walking library, right?"

Anastasia sighed and thought that her student had become weirder by the day. Still, she concentrated on what she wanted to teach today. She decided to research what Alexander asked her more thoroughly over the days, "Let's start then. In today's lesson, we continue the system explanation."

Alexander spoke, "What exactly?"

Anastasia started writing on the blackboard, "Well, today we are learning about attributes. You probably know what they are, right?"

Alexander started listing, "Yes, there are standard attributes which can be increased by experience: [Strength], [Dexterity], [Perception], [Intelligence], [Constitution], and [Spirit]."

Anastasia urged him to continue, "Go on."

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Alexander continued, "Then there are special attributes: [Charisma] and [Luck], which can only be increased by [Free Stat Points] and also conditional ones, which can only be activated if two specific standard attributes reach a sum of 50 and further increase only works with experience if they increase by the sum of 10 of those specific attributes or by the use of [Free Stat Points]."

Anastasia asked, "Anything more?"

Alexander was confused, "Is there forest?"

Anastasia started drawing, "More, not forest, and there is, of course, more. The system is much more complicated than you think."

Alexander scratched his head, but before he could say more, Anastasia reprimanded him, "Stop scratching your head like some commoner and let me ask you why we use our [Free Stat Points] only on special and conditional attributes?"

Alexander stopped scratching and answered, "Because you have the other possibility to increase the standard attributes with experience while it is not possible or only partly with the others."

Anastasia smiled at him, "You did something very interesting. You categorized the attributes by how they could be increased. However, in this case, you forgot something. Do you know what?"

Alexander frowned and thought hard but couldn't think of anything, "No idea."

Anastasia smiled cheekily, "Don't you also have attributes even without any increase?"

Alexander suddenly understood, "Do you mean the natural ones? But they fall into those categories, right?"

Anastasia nodded, "Yes, they are actually called natural attributes. Now, why do I mention all this? How attributes are increased also follows certain laws...see here..."

She started to write on the blackboard, "Our attributes have a so-called priority. Let's take some normal attribute like [Strength] and divide it like this..."

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She continued, "As you can see, we have 10 natural, 10 through [Free Stat Points], and 10 through [Experience]. Now, what will happen if I want to increase our [Strength] by 5 more points with our [Free Stat Points]?"

"Doesn't this just stack on top?"

Anastasia shook her head, "No, look..."

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She continued, "This priority I mentioned before comes into play. This means first come the natural attributes, then the [Free Stat Points], and then the increase by [Experience], so what will happen here if we insert our five free stat points?"

Alexander tried to make it out and found it on her first drawing when she wrote down the [Experience], "The [Experience] will big, right?"

Anastasia smiled widely without turning around, "Absolutely! And increase, not big. Now look..."

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Anastasia continued, "This is why we recommend in general to never increase the standard attributes with [Free Stat Points], since they will also cost [Experience] from the difference of the increase in the attribute. Thus, you lose practically important [Experience] and a free status point that could be used elsewhere."

Alexander nodded, "Ok, that is... interesting?"

Anastasia turned around and looked at him with a smile, "So, why is that so? What do you think?"

Alexander thought for a moment, and it was clear that the question was partly philosophical, partly scientific as it was probably not explored fully, "I would make a wild guess and say that because the natural attributes are at first priority is because it is more ingrained in us, as it is part of us that will always come first."

Anastasia followed up, "And why do the others come next?"

Alexander guessed, "I would say that they follow up as the closeness to ourselves increases. [Free Stat Points] come through leveling up, and it seems that leveling is closer to us than gaining Experience through skills or kills."

Anastasia smirked, "Not bad. Your hypothesis is actually not so far off from the general scholastic ideas. While the natural attributes make sense, in a common sense way, where lies the difference between [Free Stat Points] and [Experience] increase? Any idea?"

Alexander thought again. It was a tricky question, but after a moment, he came to a conclusion, "I would say the [Experience] we receive comes from our ingrained skills or kills, and as such indirectly and a level removed already while [Free Stat Points] come from a level up... no wait... that makes no sense."

Anastasia laughed, "Haha, don't worry, there are no right answers. This question is a nasty one. While we can't resolve it, we can discuss it..."

She sat down on the desk again, crossing her legs, "Honestly, there is a multitude of theories floating around about our soul, mana, and so on which tried to explain it, but there was never explicit proof from a scientific point of view."

Alexander frowned, "It's not like I can manipulate my system window."

Anastasia looked confused at her student, "Yes, you can, at least surface-wise."

Alexander looked back, "Pardon?!"

Anastasia suddenly understood, "Oh right, sorry. I talked to Green, and I totally forgot that you are a little alchemist genius and have only recently started with magic. There are spells which can manipulate your window superficially."

Alexander's eyes became wide-eyed, "No way?!"

Anastasia chuckled, "Hehe, yes, way. Magicians can use such spells. However, they work superficially and can be detected by other good magicians."

Alexander had a thought, "This means our system window is made out of mana, right?"

Anastasia shook her head, "Nope. It is not. The spell is only an overlay made out of mana, but this you should ask Green..." she murmured, "...I guess she can't even use it."

It was such a shame in Anastasia's mind that there was no good magician to teach her student since he broke all her records and would get wings metaphorically if someone semi-competent would take him on. Still, she also understood magicians/scholars too well.

She could write whole books to them about how talented and intelligent Alexander was, but they would never believe it. They would accept it only if they saw her student and his talent with their own eyes. They had too big of an ego to think that a puppy was better than them in magic or alchemy.

Alexander asked, "Excuse me?"

Anastasia waved her hand, "Nevermind..." She looked at her pocket watch, "...we have little time left, so let's end this topic with conditional attributes. What do you know about them?"

Alexander forgot her mumbling and tried to answer what he knew from the books, which seemed to only give rather superficially information, "[Aura] seems to be an aggressive energy, [Defense] seems to be a defensive energy, and [Essence] is basically a mystic skill in energy form."

Anastasia frowned, "Do you have the info from the Leonandra library?"

Alexander joined her in the frown, "So bad?"

Anastasia sighed and waved her hand in dismissal, "It's fine for commoners and a knightage, so don't worry..." Standing up, She punched her chest, "...however, I want you to know much more about the topic, and since I am here, so don't worry!"

Alexander looked at her and cringed inwardly, "Suuuuure."

Anastasia coughed in her fist, "You are no fun..." she sat down again, "...like I said, what you know about the conditional attributes is ok to know if you want to be a knight."

Alexander asked, "Why so? Isn't information king?"

Anastasia smiled, "I don't know if you misspoke, but I like this saying... hm, you are right, but knights and their armies are not the ones who command the overall battles. These are the tasks of higher nobles who need to know more about the overall situation and their troops... of course, I am talking about conflicts between countries."

Alexander sighed, "This means we are pretty much better soldiers? I thought we were much more important?"

Anastasia nodded, "You are and very essential too. High nobles will think twice before they throw their investment to the wolves... hehe."

"Good one..."

Alexander didn't really need to think about it too much as he understood why his first thought was wrong. Knights were loyal to whoever gave them the title and also financed them heavily like it was done with his household. It would be disastrous to take them now and throw them as meatshields somewhere on a battlefield without any plan.

The one who gave them the title would lose face, an established administrator for the fief, and all the resources they put in. Furthermore, the fief would become chaotic if a new ruler suddenly came, resulting in lower taxes.

Likewise, Commoners aren't stupid, especially those about to receive such titles. They would think twice if the last one ended without a head because the noble/crown made a giant mistake.

Then, there was the problem with the noble's diplomatic relationships. The empire wasn't as tight-knit as Alexander first thought and was more akin to a giant block of multiple territories ruled by nobles. The connections weren't as interconnected since different customs could exist in a region like Moorgrel. Thus, other aristocrats would see the title giver as a moron who couldn't be trusted with leading battles and would refrain from dealing with him/her in any regard.

There were some novels of evil and jealous aristocrats who gave impossible tasks to honorable knights who fought through adversity in honor and pride. It was obviously bullshit of the highest caliber. Usually, having capable retainers meant that the noble/crown was also regarded as highly competent. Furthermore, mana contracts ensured that the retainers were bound to be loyal.

Anastasia nodded with a smile, "Thanks. However, back to the topic. All the energy's intrinsic properties, except mana, depend on the person's [Divinity Line]..."

Alexander interrupted her, "How does it make sense? How would you ever know then what the specific energy does, and for our household, it was also very consistent, though?"

Anastasia nodded, "Think about who always wrote about it. Weren't they always the lords and ladies who had your household's demonic legacy? This would explain the consistency."

Alexander tried to remember, and she was right. Everyone who wrote about energies was only the lord or lady, thus making them more or less giving out information only about their specific legacy, which was almost the same.

Then Anastasia saw how Alexander frowned, and she chuckled. It was nothing unusual for scholastic minds to get trapped by simple mistakes. Sometimes they would only receive biased information which showed only certain viewpoints. Even though they worked through them as rigorously as possible, the thesis, in the end, was narrow because the data they received was.

"So, let me explain what we know about the energies and that they have intrinsic properties like you mentioned before, but they do not work exactly as you said."

Alexander hated this lesson, "So, I was somewhat right?"

Anastasia shook her index finger, "If you told me that π equals three, I would say you are wrong. However, if I told you that it equals 3.14, I would also be wrong, but less. What I will tell you is wrong, but less since energies have an enormous variety and are hard to define."

Alexander sighed, "I get it, and while I don't want to butcher your analogy, are energies irrational?"

Anastasia chuckled, "Hehe, yes and no. You see, energies will take different properties, which we put into neat little categories. Energies open up at the same time as you receive your legacy, meaning: They will take all different properties, depending on your [Divinity Line], but as a usual rule of thumb, [Aura] is aggressive and used for... can you guess?"

Alexander answered, "Fighting? Especially for archers or those wanting to do the most damage possible?"

Anastasia frowned, "Alex, only around 1-5%, if at all, receive a [Divinity Line] with fighting abilities. What about the others?"

Alexander suddenly realized that he only thought about video game terms and what was the strongest, but it didn't mean it made sense for everyone else, 'I really need to overthink my approach somehow.'

He immediately tried that different approach and answered confidently, "A woodworker for better cutting, a mine worker for better picking, a skinner for better... well skinning, and so on. If [Aura] expands the damage done, this means that everyone who needs to destroy anything would need it."

Anastasia asked him, "Very well, so what does it mean for [Defense] then?"

Alexander elaborated, "Same but different. A surgeon to defend tissues while cutting what he needs, a smith to regulate the heat while protecting the metal specifically, and so on. So to say everyone who needs to protect anything."

Anastasia was perplexed as she heard something she didn't expect. The surgeon occupation was new and came from the high-demon territory from the last years, 'Is it also used here? Do they practice medicine in such a way too? How weird...'

She ignored it for now and tried to explain the last energy, "Very well, now for [Essence], since it is a very tricky energy, in the truest sense..." She chuckled at her joke, "...hehe, this energy has a definitive effect, which you will know after receiving your [Divinity Line], like strengthening oneself or others, being able to heal, and so on..."

She thought momentarily about her [Essence], which she considered trash, as it only increased her [Luck] attribute to a massive degree if she used her energy on herself and decreased it on others. In her mind, it was an acceptable property for gamblers and similar professions. Still, it was nothing great for her, a noble from an already wealthy household, and her [Mystic Skills] also followed another path. At least, this was what she thought.

She sighed inwardly and continued, "However, every energy type is, to a degree, more destructive or protective. However, only [Essence] uses this intrinsic effect to a high degree, while the previously mentioned properties are strongly reduced. What it will be, you will know by instinct after your legacy."

After a moment, she repeated herself but tried to be a little more specific with an example, "Imagine this: You are a blacksmith with all the relevant [Divinity Line] and [Mystic Skills]. Your [Essence], for example, has the ability to control fire wholly. In this case, [Aura] would have an effect, while using it and being more destructive, to increase and decrease the heat to a lower degree than [Essence] of whatever it touches. [Defense], on the other hand, would be protecting you, especially against heat."

Alexander was slightly confused, "Wouldn't it be better to get all three separately?"

Anastasia nodded with a smile, "Right you are! It is a death sentence, usually, to use them simultaneously, but you can use them separately. However, it is not advised since we have only so much [Experience] and [Free Stat Points]. Concentrating on one energy, at most two, is much better."

Alexander needed to revisit all his old ideas, and while he did it, he mumbled, "It is much more individualistic than I thought."

He thought more deeply about it aloud, "If the energies followed after the [Divinity Line] and it followed after the skills, and they followed the individual. Attributes affect the skills in turn, while the skills give out [Experience] and with it, energies can be strengthened while... this is a feedback loop."

Anastasia clapped, "Very well! It is indeed a loop which strengthens itself with every iteration."

Alexander shook his head, "Not really, right? The skill tests are the stopgap which stops the experience gain."

Anastasia nodded, "That is right, and about skill tests, we will discuss them another time..." She looked at her pocket watch, "...right now, it is time for your magic lesson with Green."

Alexander stood up, but before he left, Anastasia stopped him, "Oh right, in a couple of days, the mating season starts, so please keep it in mind."

Alexander turned slowly around and looked at her weirdly, "Ehm... I am six, almost seven... I don't know if I can... you know..."

A weird silence hung in the air, only disturbed by a sudden hysterical laughter from his teacher, "Hahaha! By the circle!"

She held her stomach, and Alexander's face flushed and waited for her to stop.

After a full minute, she got herself together and wiped a tear away, "Alex, you are... hehe cute but... oh by the circle, I didn't know I would need to teach you this... hihi you have no pheromones to speak off. I only said that so you know that while the mating season is ongoing, you should be more flexible... though, my colleagues will love this story, hehe."

Alexander tilted his head in confusion, "I have pheromones?"

This was new to him, but... no, this was absolutely new to him.

Anastasia looked at him like he was crazy but remembered that he couldn't possibly study the whole library and was already knowledgeable in history, politics, alchemy, etc. So, she thought he ignored these common-sense topics or had no time to read about them.

She coughed in her fist, "You see, if beast-kin go through their first active mating season, their pheromones develop heavily... your family is, in this case, a rather odd case though, but it..."

Alexander interrupted her, "What do you mean we are odd cases?"

Anastasia tipped at her chin with the index finger while she tried to explain it as sensitively as possible, "You are... very much aggressive... to an extreme degree."

Alexander was even more confused, "Aggressive, how so?"

Anastasia explained, "Look at your sisters and even your brother. You are all very... domineering. Yep, that is a good description."

Alexander tried to defend his siblings, "We aren't aggressive, and also, isn't it normal? Wait... is it?"

Anastasia sighed, "Well, Green can wait..." she continued, "...the Leonandra, as a household, living on the border of insane wild demons with their specific energy invading the lands while also having your ancestors hunt them down for generations. You being normal would be the only unnatural thing."

"So, what does it exactly mean? Are we crazy?"

Anastasia shook her head, "Noooo, you are through your ancestry only.... emotional, actually..." she looked out of the window, "...looking at Wolfsteeth, everyone is much more emotional if I think about it."

Alexander tried to think about everyone in his family and needed to admit that only his mother was somehow level-headed, which made sense as she had suffered through a long and grueling training her whole life. At the same time, she gained skills to help her cope with the situation but looking at everyone else, he needed to admit that everyone had a much more distinctive personality. He liked the description he gave his loved ones.

But he remembered his brother, who was in his mind very level-headed, "Why is then Narsiz very normal?"

She looked back at him, confused, "He isn't, though?"

"Huh? What do you mean? He is not even close to any of us."

She shook her head, "You only look at his demeanor, but his ideas and ambitions are conveying something different... well, I get why you can't see it, but he, like your mother, has very unconventional ways or ideas of managing the territory."

She was right. Narsiz's emotional outbursts showed in his ideas. While he was not on the level of Alexander, he was much further than his mother and much more open to new ideas like what Alexander proposed.

Alexander went back to the topic at hand, "I get it. However, are you trying to tell me that we need be a bit more flexible because you got a lover?"

She shrugged, "Pretty much. You don't want to see me cranky and..." she smirked at him, "... don't go near Lorient's room. I can smell her energy getting crazy even from here."

"Yeah, right, there was something. Lorient is doing this celibate thing, right? Aren't other nobles doing the same thing to get a skill?"

She laughed, "Haha, oh no. First, only the guard households and their subjects can hope to get the skill. It works only because you tend to be this much more emotional. Every other noble enjoys their first active mating season... hehe, seeing you ripping apart the estate will be fun."

Alexander sighed and turned around, "I will go to my magic lesson. Tell my maids if you come late because of your fling."

"Will do and have fun!"

This was weird. This open sexuality was nothing for Alexander as he came from a world where it wasn't unusual to have casual sex, but here it was seen as something usual to get someone while they go through the mating season, 'Damn it. I already dislike it.'

The thought of going through an extreme version of puberty was nothing he liked to look forward to. On Earth, it was a wonder that his hand didn't fall off, and he had his fiance, so it was fine, but here, he needed to actually resist to get a skill. At least he could barricade himself inside his room and wait it out. Maybe his other skills could help him.

'Thoughts for later. I am too young to think about it.'