Chapter 351 Learning the Truth

Name:Interstellar Age Author:Zentmeister
Chapter 351 Learning the Truth

Erich agreed to marry Erika, and the new lit the grid aflame. The most famous popstar of this generation would be marrying the successor of the Supreme Leader. While there were many young women who were envious of Erika's betrothal, the young men were extremely hateful towards Erich. Especially those who had yet to reach the age of majority and be assigned a wife.

But what was perhaps the bigger news was the fact that the Germanic Star-Empire would be resurrecting the ancient ceremony of marriage. Not only for Erich's wedding to Erika, but also as a general tradition among the public.

After all, Tia's analytics had reported that since wedding ceremonies were abolished, the general public had become less happy overall. After all, there were certain occasions that needed to be celebrated to take people's minds off of cruelty of daily life in a heavily oppressive dictatorship, and national holidays which were already few and far in between were not enough to really lift the spirits of the working class.

Thus, Tia and Erich had worked hard to convince the Supreme Leader of the necessity for such celebrations. The first of which would be Erich's wedding to Erika. As for the other women who Erich had already made some impression on, that being Yumi, Lunaria, S'aleth, and Mirage, they had different reactions to this information.

S'aleth almost immediately demanded an explanation for Erich's wedding. The two of them had grown rather close over the years, and Erich's relationship with Yumi had been the breaking point for the Dvrakian beauty, she demanded the same kind of relationship with the man that Yumi had, knowing that she would never be able to publically be with Erich.

Thus, as Erich sat in his penthouse at the bar section, he prepared a drink for S'aleth, who was in a rather pitiful mood after learning that Erich would be getting married. There were so many questions on her mind, and so many desires that had gone unfulfilled.This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.

Yet she was afraid to give voice to these thoughts, and it wasn't until Erich had served the woman her cocktail, while drinking straight from a bottle of liquor himself, that the silver-haired man finally broke this awkward silence.

"I can tell you're upset about the wedding... Do you wish to talk about it?"

S'aleth sighed heavily, as she drank the entire cocktail in one go. Perhaps to give her the courage she needed to speak with Erich about her feelings on the matter. Which if that were the case, then it worked like a charm, because the young woman was quick to do exactly this.

"Erich... I need to know... Does this change things between us? I've been here in Germania for years now as my people's ambassador to your Empire... And my father's rivals are already trying to recall me now that the Naraku menace is taken care of.

"My Lady, I have no idea what you're talking about... Is this about my successor's betrothal? What exactly could you possibly be upset about?"

Hans obviously knew what Yumi's goal was ever since she first reached out to him all those years ago to improve relations between their two nations. But a marriage between Erich and Ayumi would cause more problems than it would solve. The Germanic Star-Empire was a highly xenophobic society, one that considered interspecies relations to be a sin worthy of the death penalty.

And though Hans had suspicions that Erich was regularly breaking this taboo with the Dvrakian Ambassador, he also knew that Erich was the best chance of the Empire's, not the Galaxy's, survival. Thus, he was willing to overlook his successor's taboo relationship with the Dvrakian Ambassador so long as it never became public knowledge.

But that was the problem with Yumi's scheme. A marriage between her niece and Erich would be a public affair, one that would easily cause civil strife within both the Germanic Star-

Empire, and the Great Oni Empire. Something which could be quelled with time...

Unfortunately, the galaxy didn't have time, and if the Germanic Star-Empire were to play a leading role in the defense of the Milky Way from an extra galactic invasion, then they could not waste time with such frivolities such as rebellion.

Yumi, was unaware of the threat the Naraku posed the galaxy, and was thus thinking far more long term, after all, if such civil strife was put down, and the xenophobic tendencies of both of their species were mended, then the long-term benefits to their two Empires would be quite great. And because of this, she was quick to announce her plan aloud, even though Hans pretended like he didn't know what she was thinking.

"Hans, don't play dumb with me! You and I both know that a marriage between Erich and Ayumi would be extremely beneficial to both of our empires. So why? Why would you waste such a valuable opportunity to expand our power and influence within the Galaxy for mere propaganda points?"

Considering Yumi was not going to give up on this matter, Hans sighed heavily and poured himself a drink from his nearby cabinet, where he kept a bottle of Rylonian Ale, a breed of heavy alcohol that was now near extinction. He obviously wanted to loosen the tension in the air by joining Yumi in intoxication before making the big reveal.

And once he had downed an entire glass of the substance, Hans began a conversation that would completely blow Yumi's mind.

"Yumi... It is time you learned the truth...."