At that moment, Varsas Gungnir is reading a book about agriculture techniques while reminiscing.
He was always fascinated about thing like this. The small thing in life that people takes for granted, but fascinate him so. Reading a book near a fire, reading about fascinating things like fertilizing and crops growth by season. It is silly and are only trivia for people who seek trivia but it is great fun for Varsas.
His best friend never appreciated the small thing in life, Vaine just wanted to become stronger. Strong enough to protect his nation from all incoming hostile.
Which he eventually did, the man was always extremely gifted. Everything he did, he progressed at the speed of a genius. Even when it seems impossible, Vaine always caught up to Varsas in the end. It just a pity that even with all that talents he never learned to enjoy life, it is as if he is always rushing ahead.
Though to be fair, in the end Varsas didn't enjoy life either.
Ah, but sweet memories they were, his friend, his best friend that has been with him through everything. What Varsas did, Vaine always managed to achieve the same result somehow. Even Varsas doesn't understand how the man does it.
At that moment, the door was slammed open.
An extremely angry Lufa walks into the room. Her dress is in tatter, though Varsas can tell she was not seriously hurt.
"Are you okay?" He glances at her direction.
"What are you doing, Varsas Gungnir?" She asks him.
"I'm reading a book on the newest agriculture techniques. Though it is an old book to me, it is good to brush up on it sometime. I'm going to inherit a fiefdom in the future you know? The people in my fiefdom are all going to need me."
Lufa remains silent. She just took a seat and tend to her wound in Varsas's room, not even minding him. The small cuts and bruises slowly mend back to what it was before. They were not serious wounds.
"What happened?" He asks. The people in this world capable of hurting a Lan Spherian can be counted on one hand.
"The people who I was supposed to protect attacked me after everything is done and over with. It turns out they didn't even need me in the first place."
...
The lanky scientist walks slowly toward the prime minister of the Lanton Empire. He maintains an invincible facade, however...
On his third steps he starts coughing violently, blood splatters his mouth and nose. Even then he just kept walking.
"I have one condition." He says in a shaky voice. It took a while for the prime minister to realize the scientist was talking about the condition for curing his daughter, but with strength like that, what could the man possibly need?
"Anything, anything." The prime minister hurriedly says.
"I am a citizen of Lanton, not by force but by choice." The man keeps saying in that deep southern Mahaima accent of his.
"People chooses to be here. They are smart. They are my kind of people. I like it here." The man's voice grew weaker
"However I can only watch on as the war effort deteriorated. It seems things are only going to get worse."
'Is he going to ask the prime minister to end the war?' is the thought on everyone's mind. It also caused some suspicion amidst the Lanton's force.
"However I believe that we were not wrong. It's not wrong to pursue knowledge. I don't care about the war, as a citizen I can only ask that when the time come, you will choose what is best for the citizens of the empire." The prime minister was surprised.
'A nationalist?' Lufa thought.
The other man speaks with the most dignity he could mutter in front of such a powerful man.
"I promise."
The two man exchanges glances. Finally they nod.
"But who are you?" The soldiers and the two men stared at Lufa's direction.
...
"I ended up fighting my way out. We were not even allies in the first place."
Varsas stays quiet to hear the story from start to finish.
"Do you know anything about those powerful men who was present there?" She turns to ask him.
"Pftt-" An uncharacteristic laughter escapes Varsas's lip.
"It just happens, daughter of time. There are something neither you and I can control, just like the fact that I'm here."
We can't control it. The good thing, the bad thing, it just happens.
...
Late at night, Varsas was alone in his room. He continues to hold a book without reading it.
Those events definitely did not happens in the previous timeline. Those two people did not exist. That book "If I were to raise the dead" did not exist either. None of that ever happened in the previous timeline.
And more importantly-
"Vaine and Viola have disappeared."
Things really move beyond people's control.
Only a fool tries to control the movement of the heaven.