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Chapter 115 - Chapter 115 – Ishidzu

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 By 11 a.m., the meeting transitioned to official diplomacy and trade partnership. Maximilian will export some of Falleta's surplus rice (because food security was one of the country's top priorities) to Ruslav, and Basilio and Ruslav will export their surplus school uniforms and household goods. Both sides also had a military alliance just in case threats like Vatrene's expansionist doctrine would march on their country's doors. Some Vamzoms on Ruslav were looking forward to making rice-based dishes like mochi and champorado.

 Some in the Ruslavi group who weren't part of the meeting scattered. Some headed to the Japanese zen gardens of the palace, while some, like Kahraman and Ormoc, headed out to the metropolis of Ishidzu.

 Ishidzu was basically like Tokyo and Seoul merged with Falleta's existing culture. The population as of this month stands at 3.2 million people (Nuevo Tacloban's is at 1,050, Cinjutun is at 2.5 million, and Dacuinia's Akivin capital was at 5,000). In addition to modern and traditional Japanese and Korean homes in mixed-use neighbourhoods, there were Japanese-style schools with the signature Westminster bell as their school bell (Katsuko would be shocked to see and hear that). There were temples and shrines, in various European, Korean, and Japanese architectures, scattered across the city and its outskirts, including one Japanese Shinto-style shrine on Ishidzu's coast on the east. There were Danchi-style apartments, mostly government-owned ones, made of bricks and Roman concrete and had the mandatory flat, nice rooftops on top of them. Falleta, like Pantano, had subsidized housing, and rent is as cheap as half the price of a magic-powered motorcycle or scooter.

 In addition to magic-powered vehicles (the introduction of these can be attributed to Araç, the Otherworlder god of vehicles in this world, but many Otherworlders before Basilio and Katsuko's times also laid the foundation for their usage) and horse-powered carriages and wagons, there were 5 lines of the Ishidzu Metro, one of the Central Continent's biggest metro systems, and Cinjutun's in Pantano, the Cinjutun Metro Railway, was just second in terms of how many lines (The CMR had 2 as of now, and a third one was under construction).

 As for the writing system used by Falleta, they used the Korean alphabet for that. The Korean Otherworlders from early modern and modern Korea were champions. Since many sounds like w and f don't have their own letters in the Korean hangul, Falleta created new ones to accommodate them. This is why it was commonly called the Falleta Alphabet, though many regions outside of Ishidzu were allowed to use their own preexisting writing systems.

 Those who had a trek around the city were in awe. The rest who remained in the royal palace grounds promised to do the same once the meeting was done. Their two-day visit to Ishidzu was just starting.

 

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