What should never be forgotten is what kind of future we envisioned in the moment when we decided to spend the rest of our lives on the battlefield.

- Rika Fujimaru

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Fujimaru Rika, also known as the "Star of the Long Night", is one of the twenty genetic prototypes created by the human emperor. She grew up on the hellish planet of Nostramo, but through her long-term efforts with almost no one to teach her, she succeeded in transforming this living hell into a civilized planet with a well-ordered society and law-abiding people.

Of all the emperor's transcendent creations, Fujimaru Rika was the only one who was no different from a mortal in size and seemed to have nothing supernatural; It is also the only female protoplasm. So far, no one has been able to understand the Emperor's reasons for doing this, but perhaps it is because of this that she is the most gentle and emotionally stable of the primordial beings.

It is also commendable that since birth, she has been plagued and tormented by her own overly detailed gift for prophecy, but she has succeeded in turning this distress and affliction into a powerful tool through her own efforts. At the end of the Great Expedition, after the rebellion of the war commander Horus, she led some of her legions to surrender to the war commander, and then sent another small force to warn the empire in advance.

During the Landing Field Massacre, Rika Fujimaru was killed in battle by V. Istavan in order to cover the evacuation of the Loyalist Legion.

1. Biography

[Childhood Experience]

It is recorded that the baby pod carrying the young Fujimaru Rika fell from the sky, pierced the eternal night of Nostramo like a meteor, and fell to the surface of the evil star.

Nostramo's crust contains large deposits of pure gold, which has led to the development of a large chain of mining production throughout the planet. But this kind of goods, which are in demand in the galaxy, have not made the people on it prosperous. On the contrary, the vast majority of the population of Nostramo struggled to survive in extreme poverty and hard work, and the wealthy dignitaries who occupied the top of the pyramid rightfully reigned on top of it. There were no real laws other than the purges and harsh governance of the aristocracy, extreme criminality was rampant across the planet, cannibalism and murder were considered normal here, looting and torture were common daily entertainment, and suicide due to depression became the main means of reducing the surplus population. There is no doubt that this is a hell that has been inappropriately left on earth.

Almost as soon as Fujimaru left the nursery, she had already realized what she was going to encounter on this planet through her cursed talent, and in this way, she also recognized the evil nature of this cruel and unrighteous planet. Unlike most other primordials, Rika Fujimaru was not adopted by anyone on the planet. Even in her ignorance, her prophecy told her that the vast majority of people on this planet could not be trusted, so she wisely chose to hide herself, surviving on her own in the shadows of Quintus City, and never stopped observing this terrible world.

[Star of the Night]

Perhaps, Fujimaru Ritsuka had heard the emperor's noble and majestic whispers at the beginning of his life. With no one to teach her, and with the Primordial's supernormal mind and extraordinary abilities, she should have absorbed all the art of deception, crime, and murder in this evil cauldron to become a fallen queen who ruled the dark world of Nostramo, but she didn't.

Rika Fujimaru has long been driven by a natural and simple sense of justice that naturally originates from the bottom of her heart. She spurned the tyrannical and greedy aristocracy, but felt even more sorry for the insensitive, muddy low-level laborers. She spends a lot of her time walking among the laborers, trying to change their lives, helping them get enough to survive, and even making simple musical instruments out of industrial waste, trying to show them that the future can be beautiful and hopeful in music, an art form that requires little knowledge to appreciate – but it doesn't solve the fundamental problem, so it always has little effect.

In the process, she often had to deal with the gangsters of the city's factions, and even the upper nobles who had heard of her peculiarity. After several meetings that eventually turned into unfriendly conflicts, Rika Fujimaru, who seemed too naïve and benevolent in such a cruel world, finally realizes that there is no "gentle" solution to many things.

And so, the violent attack began. First came the overseers of the mines, then the killers and bandits sent by the aristocracy, the evil gangs that controlled the industrial chain. She seized a large amount of weapons and equipment from these places, and then piled them up in front of the door of the mine, and said to all the dazed but numb miners that they could choose to stay where they were, and wait until the nobles who owned the mine realized the accident, and then were executed senselessly; You can also choose to take a weapon and follow her, and die in the fire against your oppressors - but it is not meaningless, there will be others in a similar situation to you who will see your resistance, and your death will make others realize that those who are abused are just like you, flesh and blood, and will feel pain and fear, and will die. And the more people realize this, the closer the Nostramo people are to a "better life".

No one understood what a "better life" meant, and at first, there were very few responders to this call. But as time went on, the scale of the conflict grew, and the control of the aristocracy and gangs weakened on the fringes of the city, and the numb laborers began to realize that there might be real hope for a change in their lives. As more and more people choose to take up arms rather than die in silence, Rika Fujimaru's resistance grows stronger. In this way, the small revolt gradually turned into a large-scale uprising over time, and the flames of war gradually ignited the entire city.

As the leader of the rebel army, Rika Fujimaru spent eight years completely ruling Quintus, the fifth city on Nostramo. During this period, she also realized that once these long-oppressed people were removed from the shackles of numbness and servility in their minds, their desire for revenge erupted from the blowout was correspondingly terrible and cruel, and the cruel environment of Nostramo could only teach everyone: the only law is the blade, and the only right belongs to the powerful who dominates everything. In order to restrain this, she spent a great deal of time making laws and setting up institutions to ensure that it was properly enforced, and it was only after Quintus had become a civilized city that could keep the weak alive under such rule that she turned her attention to other cities on the planet.

In just one year, with a lot of accumulation, Rika Fujimaru easily took over the other four cities on Nostramo. She executed all the nobles and criminals of the common people, and imprisoned their relatives and accomplices. Those who ruled in the city were educated workers under the original aristocracy, who were elected through a proper process and who were required to enforce the appropriate laws fairly and strictly.

On the day when the laborers at the bottom were completely emancipated, cheerful music resounded through all the streets of the city, and people celebrated and thanked Fujimaru Rika for showing them a "better life", and spontaneously began to call her the "Star of the Long Night", meaning that she hung selflessly above the sky in the endless darkness, showing them the way forward.

In Fujimaru's own plan, after making this phased achievement, she intends to set about establishing a normal medical and educational system, laying the foundation for a more reliable and long-lasting political system, and starting to try to clean up Nostramo's atmosphere, which is heavily polluted by the mineral industry. But with her gift for prophecy that was so useful, and so often tormented, she clearly knew what was going to happen next.

Unlike when the bill was written, she did not get too involved in the work on these plans, but broke them up and entrusted them to others she found credible. Amid the doubts, anxieties, and prevarications of these people, Fujimaru looked up at the dark sky of Nostramo and said: she had foreseen that she could not stay on this planet forever.

Miwoo (crawling around)

(End of chapter)