Terminology

A page explaining the various terms in Ichiokunen Button o Rendashita Ore wa, Kidzuitara Saikyou ni Natteita.

## Organizations

#### Noble Houses

**Barton House:** A noble household holding the Baron ranking, which Dodriel Barton belongs to.

**Valencia House:** A household blessed with longevity for generation, their ancestor, Rocks Valencia had lived for 2,000 years, who also made a pact with a "living sakura", turning him into his Spirit Core, thus creating the "vow of succession". Because of this, all of his descendants are born with a sakura pattern somewhere on their body; and legitimate successor of the secret sword, Sakura One-Sword Style inherits all his memories of it, recreating it using his memories instead of learning it.

**Rodol House:** An unknown, but powerful household, which earned attention from demons, being renown for manipulating "Holy Darkness". The sole known member of this household is Allen Rodol.

**Dorahain House:** A noble household, where Rize and Ferris Dorahain belong to.

**Arcstria House:** A noble household, described as being a *distinguished family among distinguished families* producing top executives for the Ringard Imperial Kingdom. It is the house that Rodis and Sie Arcstria belongs to.

#### Swordsmanship Academy

In the Ringard Imperial Kingdom, there are Swordsmanship Academies divided into three individual parts ranging from Elementary School, the Middle School (for ages 13 to 15), and High School (for ages 16 to 18). Schools like Gran Swordsmanship Academy (Middle Schools) existing in the countryside have geniuses like Dodriel, but none for their graduated students have entered one of the Five Academies. On the other hand, there are more schools from outside the countryside who produces students who're able to enroll into them.

#### Five Academies

There are five prodigious academies in the capital, which focuses on training swordsmen, being primarily for the purpose of training swordsmen, becoming either Holy Knights or Magic Swordsmen. However, enrolling into this school takes rigorous effort and training to be recognized, meaning those from Swordsmanship Academies from the countryside are often not accepted. But, under unique circumstances, there are situations where the Director can choose students themselves, enrolling under their recommendation without needing to take an examination.

**Thousand Sword Academy** (千刃学院(せんじん がくいん), *Senjin Gakuin*)

**Ice King Academy** (氷王学院(ひょうおう がくいん), *Kōriō Gakuin*)

**White Lily Academy** (白百合学院(ゆるしろ がくいん), *Shirayuri Gakuin*)

**Holy Knights:**

**Black organization:** It is a large-scale criminal organzation, which has been well-known in recent years. Their crimes includes manufacturing and/or smuggling drugs, trafficking, assassination of important peopl, as well as being involved in various other crimainal activities.

### Vesteria Kingdom

A neighboring kingdom near the Ringard Imperial Kingdom, where Ria Vesteria is the Princess, and her father, Gris Vesteria is the King.

## Abilities

**Spirit Core** (霊核(れいかく), *Reikaku*, lit. "Spirit Nucleus"): These are masses of power, which resides inside all human's souls, their classes ranges from spirits, phantom beasts, ancestral spirits, etc. There are also some spirits cores with strong egos like Zeon, which can possess their host; and others like the Primordial Dragon King, Fafnir, and the "Living Sakura", which can be sealed into humans, becoming their Spirit Core.

**Soul Dress** (魂装(こんそう), *Konsō*, lit. "Soul Costume"): These are special weapons, which can be manifested by people with innate talent, and undergoing relentless training. Soul Dresses are also a representation of their inner Spirit Cores to some degree, wielding unique abilities, but most are unable to achieve a full manifestation of them.

* **True Soul Dress** (真・魂装(しん こんそう), *Shin Konsō*, lit. "True Soul Costume"): This is a point of Soul Dress, which one who have innate talent in it can reach "Beyond the Soul Dress". And those who reached True Soul Dress are considered genuine monsters, who the Clown noted not even Allen can defeat in his immature state, which was proven as even Zeon considered Bacchus who reached it, a *troublesome thing*.

**Spiritual Power** (霊力(れいりょく), *Reiryoku*, lit. "Spirit Power"): In order words, the mental energy that someone is born with, instead of something attained from training one's Soul Dress. There's no theoretical limit to the spiritual power a person can gain, as the more someone trains, the more it increases. However, as humans aren't able to continue on training for a time that goes against their lifespan, there is a biological limit to it. But, this can be overcome by training using the 100 Million Years Button, making them stronger, while forgetting about their time spent there. It can be measured from lowest to highest in colors: purple, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red.