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Here is the story following the life of the young Yosho the first prince of Jurai. The story appeals his days in the Galaxy Academy, which he entered before he went after the Devil of Destruction, Ryoko. The life there refreshed him from the tight days in Jurai palace and especially the meeting with a girl named 'Airi' changed his life.

Since Masaki Yosho Jurai has been born, he was standing in a difficult position. His mother entered the Jurai Family as from a different frontier planet but still was the first mate of the Jurai King. Also having a father as the Jurai King made the situation more complicated. Once it seemed that the matter was to be settled when Funaho got the second generation Royal Tree, 'Mizuho 瑞穂(Mizu-Ho)' and for Misaki 'Karin* 霞鱗(Ka-Rin)'. However, though half of the members of the Jurai palace were benevolent to her still others took the position of neutral or critical to her. Of course the percentage of 50 is quite a good number and actually among those of the Queens in the past, it was set in higher level. The problem was that those who were critical to her were relatively in a high rank of Jurai. This was especially shown in the attitude of each Royal family toward Funaho. Among the four families, Amaki family, where Shuzan is in, stood in a critical position and Tatsunoki family was in a neutral stand. Under such circumstances, born as the first price, it was natural that Yosho was concerned with how to help his mother and make her situation better.
Yosho was always apprehensive of Funaho since he was young and if he found any chance, he tried to stay with her as much as he could. He believed that it was the only way to help and protect Funaho in his father's place, who was also busy for his official works. This was one of the reasons why he named his Royal Tree after her.
He was 8 years old when he trialed the ceremony of selecting his tree and actually where he found 'Funaho' was the exact place where his father, Azusa made an agreement with his tree 'Kirito' several decades ago. 'Funaho' was quite young comparing with the other first generations, though, same size as the second generations it might have been, the power it possessed inside itself was unimaginable and outstripped the other first generations. Having a first generation means that the person owns an absolute power and as a Jurai people no one is possible to adverse this one. However, for the past several thousand years, few times have the Imperial ships fought in battle and the cognizance of the Jurai people to the absolute difference of power between the generation ranks has faded. On the other hand, political power took the place of it and Shuzan was the representation of this.
Yosho lived in such world.

One day, Seto came to Yosho's room bringing some Kaki** and asking for a cup of tea. There, she suggested Yosho to enter the Galaxy Academy. It was a sudden and unusual suggestion, however, there was of course a reason for this which was related to the relation between Yosho and Misaki (->Yosho and Misaki1, 2). Noticing this, Yosho accepted her advice and decided to enter the Galaxy Academy.
During the stay in the academy, he met a girl whose name was 'Airi'. The life there changed him so much. Living in the palace and trying to protect his mother made him sharp but on the other hand he seldom showed his emotions. But here, by the effort of Airi and others, he bit and bit expressed his feelings outwards.(->Yosho and Airi1,2,3)

One day, several spies attacked Airi. They had advised her not to meet with Yosho before then by mail but she ignored it and now they made an action. Her guardian and theirs started to battle. Unfortunately before she was able to set the level of the strength of her guardian to maximum one of the spies reached her and was just to threaten her when a voice came from no-where and an unknown guardian defeated the spies. This guardian was far outranging them. Actually this voice was of Funaho, the imperial ship of Yosho talking through the ring once given to Airi from Yosho (He made it by himself and gave it to her as a present, guessing such situations). And the guardian also was of Funaho and no wonder for it's power considering it as a first generation Royal tree. But Airi didn't know this and rushed up to Yosho's room and told all about what had happened. She did suspect that the ring Yosho gave her was related to all of this and she cross-examined him. Yosho gave up and decided to tell here about Funaho and asked her to meet him at the space harbor that night. (-> Airi and Funaho, 1, 2)

Several months have passed since Airi met Funaho and it was already half a year before when Yosho entered the academy. At that time, Yosho turned to be more mild then before, not so obviously but at least his keen eyes which was sharp enough to foresee everything and made everyone awe him had been softened. The days living with Airi made him know the life of a normal boy.
One day, there was a message from Seto to Yosho. She told him to return to Jurai at once and stay for a half a year there. After that, he may come back to the academy. Airi and Yosho were surprised for this, as they could not understand why she made such orders to him. Seto had guessed that the days in the academy would be a good experience for him but on the other hand it would also make him soft. As a Prince of Jurai such situation is not preferable. For this reason, she suggested that Yosho should stay half an year each in Jurai and in the academy.

Short story -> Airi and Yosho - puppies -.

Short story -> Utsumi and Seto

And several years have passed..

* Karin : They call the scale type clouds in this way in Jurai.
** Kaki : A common Japanese fruit. Azusa brought it from Earth when they left.