The Eastern Kingdom characters for "Guest Come Inn" hung to the right of the entrance to this four-story building. Though he was in a foreign land, hearing the familiar, "Hello, how many? Please come in," made Lu PingAn feel as if he had returned home.
"This? Actually, the revived ancestors of our race tried to teach them the written language, but later discovered..."
When the Old Ancestor leaped out of his coffin, he found that his descendants had not only lost their culture, but even their writing system. Naturally, he had been furious, but after his anger subsided, he tried to make up for it.
After all, writing was the inheritance of culture and civilization. Once a civilization lost its written language, trying to forcibly pass it down was simply unrealistic.
"...Those languages were useless. Those ancient scripts were indeed easy to learn, but no one wanted to learn them because they were completely useless. Only some old fogeys set up schools and paid people to study them, but once they left school and had nowhere to use them, they forgot everything."
The passage of time carried a frustrating sort of magic. When ancient people and modern people stood together and spoke, even if they used the same writing system, changes in accents and vocabulary meant there was a high chance they would not understand each other at all.
Was the most popular language the easiest to learn and the most convenient for communication? No. It had always been the language that brought the greatest benefits once learned that spread widely. Or, from another angle, countless "weaker people" would take the initiative to learn the language of the strong.
"I see. Is that why you speak such fluent Eastern Kingdom Language?"
"...More or less. Actually, I'm not very good at