Munetsuchi

Mugen's words gave more context to the slightly off summation that Yume gave as an understanding of her own abilities. Apparently, this sort of thing was what happened when forbidden knowledge met with divination. Divination was something they'd discussed briefly and seemed to be something almost natural to her being. She supposed the idea of her being invasive was something she'd once been told by her friends, given her ability to read them in regular situations. "Well, my friends used to tell me I was invasive, so... I suppose it's fine~" she mused. Still her own concentration was quite hard to keep up. Ah, but she and Miwa were experiencing a strange amount of tension and build up. Poor Yume knew what was coming, but it seemed like quite a tenuous build up. Miwa at the same time found the girl's powers interesting, a person capable of sensing truth down to the level of the soul was quite rare indeed. "Um-hm... definitely interesting~" Miwa mentioned. She was so close to relaxing completely and oddly given the words spoken by Mugen she felt that it was almost there.

Moving on, Charles and Sakura were discussing Phoenixes and the lad offered the idea of them seeing ones burning day together. If he was interested in it, she saw no reason to say no. "Hai, Char-kun..." she agreed. So open was Sakura and so genuinely accepting that if she found out about one she'd definitely tell him so they could witness it. Maybe, they could include the other goddess as well. He spoke of her like she didn't see a lot of things either, it could potentially be quite fun for everyone involved.

As for the maps, Charles started spreading them out on the ground. He seemed to be pointing one that appeared to be the main city of Munetsuchi. She looked at and watched him. She turned herself around in the pagoda until she was facing the direction of the tenshukaku and then she turned the map to orient it as well. After doing so she shifted around Charles to being looking over his shoulder at the other maps. "That middle one is indeed where we are. It is a bit rudimentary but as it is now it is aligned with the leylines and the proper cardinal directions. The other maps can be fitted around it," she summarized the situation. From this point there was the great mountains to the south, a forest to the west, the archipelago and some open seas to the east and to the north some open valleys of combined fields and farmlands.

Kaguya didn't need to say she was called invasive by friends, nor did Mugen need to sense the truth within her. It was made obvious enough by her summoning. She had to be like him to some great extent for that situation to play out as it did, and now, she was only proving how similar they actually were. It seemed she was also similar enough in regards to some urges. It was such a demonic trait to prioritize personal enjoyment over other matters, and she appeared to be doing that here and now. Time would tell if she also took things to a new level.

Speaking of time, time was the only real factor in whether Charlemagne and Sakura witnessed the burning of a phoenix. More importantly, it was only a matter of time before they had a functional starting map. Sakura agreed to the idea of locating a phoenix, moving on immediately to the act of repositioning their main working map. Once she had it in proper alignment, Charlemagne looked it over alongside the others. "Hmm. I can't read leylines or anything. Really, I don't even know why that part is important here. Let's see..." He paused while looking at the other maps. An archipelago had only recently been mentioned, and he happened to take note of a map containing one. A quick glance at the sun let him place it to the east in relevance to their current location. "I'm guessing this is the spot you were talking about earlier. What about the others?"

As Yume and Miwa seemed to be spending time getting to know each other under duress, Charles and Sakura were doing a puzzle. To Sakura he seemed to use information well, having placed the archipelago to the east to go along with her earlier mention of it. He claimed along with that, that he couldn't see or use the leylines and she wondered what human senses were really like. "Leylines carry the world's memories. Being able to read them would make it easier to connect the pieces of the map to other pieces and have them be aligned properly, irrespective of the shape or orientation of the paper," she explained her understanding of it. Much like being able to connect rivers and streams as bodies of water, watching the flow of leylines may have made it a bit easier to piece together this puzzle of a map. Unlike Charles though, she did have an understanding in general of where the major features of Munetsuchi were. "To the south is this one..." she said leaning over the lad and picking up a map which held on it a detailed covering of mountain ranges. As per her earlier explanation of the leylines she aligned the pieces of the map only after rotating it completely and shifting it slightly to the left of the main central map. "Like this... " she explained looking at those ranges. The fowl of that area were great in number and varieity but that didn't much matter. After this she pick up the other piece of the maps he'd laid out and place them as well. "This is the forest to the west..." she mentioned turning it practially into a landscape instead of matching the length of the other side of the map. Even so, it seemed to fit rather nicely against that side of Munetsuchi. Over all the general layout of Munetsuchi was finished but there was still other things to consider. "What did you plan to do after understanding this part of the land?" she asked wondering about his thought pattern in this.

According to Sakura, the leylines were memories of the world. He could understand that somewhat, at least using spiritual memories as a baseline for information. He'd heard once that mana circuits worked in a similar way to memories. "So they're like mana circuits for the planet? Assuming what I learned about mana circuits is accurate in that they carry the memory of magecraft and magic used throughout someone's life─" he recalled with slight curiosity. He saw no reason for that to be a false lesson, though he couldn't be sure it was the whole story. Actually... Charlemagne couldn't be sure he knew every detail about anything after coming to this place.

Moving on, Sakura took hold of the remaining map segments, assembling them one by one in the proper order and positioning. Charlemagne watched the process, taking note of each mention made by the lass. In fact, there was one thing he came to realize when she pointed out the southern region. "Ah, I should have gotten that one! That place looks like any sort of bird would love to live there," he commented. As for his plan, Charlemagne was already preparing a separate piece of parchment with nothing currently on it. "Thanks for the clarity. This is the plan," he said, taking a pen from some sort of magical sea creature and applying it to the blank parchment. "Having all these different maps won't do us any good at all if we have to reassemble them multiple times. I figured we could start by drawing all of these locations onto one map, but leave enough space to add some other familiar places around the area later. I've got a few more slips of paper to draw those places on before we make a final draft."

After explaining the use of leylines, Charles compared them to his understanding of mana circuits. This was rather interesting for Sakura to hear as it was a fairly accurate analogy and he had a pretty reasonable understanding of the subject. "Hai, that understanding is fairly accurate, though lacking nuance," she said with a nod. Of course, there was a bit more complication to the nature of leylines and mana circuits but she'd give him a bit of leeway in deciding if he wished to understand more. The fact of the matter is, that the leylines and mana circuits didn't have to apply to a single life time, or a single world's time of understanding. The addition of every generation prior made their marks as well... and allowed for expansion and growth. In this case, one would think about them like multipliers and storage instead of just passive carriers.

Moving on from that point, she pieced together the other aspects of the map, and heard Charles's exclamation that he should have figured out about the south based on what she'd said about birds and the ecology. That was interesting. "Sou ka," she murmured. He claimed he didn't like a lot of information but perhaps it was simply the way it was presented which let his mind not accept it with greater ease. Well, he did say he was an adventurer maybe his brain was a bit more practical when deciding what information was useful and he could more readily understand things that he saw as having specific practical applications? That might make things easier. Beyond this thought she was thanked for the clarity she provided and then he began explaining the plan. Being thanked for such a thing seemed surprising to Sakura. As far as she understood it, she'd not actually done much of anything in the moment. In fact, the information she provided was almost too simple to be worth any amount of recognition.

Moving on he pulled out some sort of pen and began drawing what he saw on another piece of parchment. It was interesting to see... she hadn't thought of how he'd be carrying on doing something like this but it was fairly analog and very charming. "Sugoi, I didn't expect you to actually draw it!~" she said seemingly excited by the prospect. She went on to observe quietly from his side wondering how and why one would do it this way. As a person who specialized in the use of magic she could see this done several other ways, but she was also fine with this one.

What Charlemagne learned about mana circuits was not wrong, but was indeed lacking in some nuances. Such was the take of Sakura, whom he expected would have more information than those he initially learned about them from. "I figured as much. There's always more, isn't there? But... is that to say there's more nuances to leylines, or more nuances to both?" he wondered briefly. Ah, but that matter wasn't seeming very important to their current work. As such, he continued with the pen and blank parchment.

Charlemagne was looking to the organized maps periodically, all while pressing pen to parchment and copying every line he could see. Given the size of what he had to work with, he sadly couldn't just trace it. Oh well; he had enough confidence in his ability to copy by eye. Strangely, Sakura seemed surprised by the fact that he was drawing it manually. Hearing that, he paused and looked at the lass curiously. "Eh? Really?" the male asked. Thinking a bit more about the shock value, he supposed there was probably an expectation of magical... something. "Well, yeah. I can't do it with magecraft or anything, so... I'm drawing it," Charlemagne said simply. With that, he was right back to drawing. It seemed he was quite focused on it as well, but he had much reason. It had previously been discussed between Angelica and himself that creating a trading card game in this world was possible. If he was to do that, Charlemagne wanted to make sure his drawing hand wasn't too rusty.

Apparently Charles thought there was always more to things. This was the truth as far as Sakura's young mind understood it, but this was something she found herself looking forward to for various reasons. His question as it was presented would be answered by the girl as she currently understood it. "About both, technically speaking... the functionality is about what you think it is, but the depth of it is a bit more expansive than it would have been explained to you..." she expressed. She was willing to explain it but there was a lot that could potentially be explained. "The carrying of memory though leylines and mana circuits is compounded for all the existences put into them. Thus it isn't simply a single thing contributing to their understanding, but everything they've had contact with... whether they know it or not. It also isn't just magic or magecraft they remember, many different sorts of things can be carried by mana, and thus mana circuits and leylines can be influenced by all of those as well," she said seeming to have the depth of understanding implanted by her parents. Her own mana circuits were quite unique for similar reasons, but that wasn't anything that needed explaining currently.

Moving on, she watched as the lad began to draw his map by hand and found it an interesting thing to see. To do it analog was rather strange to witness but he claimed he wouldn't have been able to do so magically. "Hm, I don't think that's true, I think you'd be perfectly capable of doing it magically," she expressed seeming to have some understanding about magic. "That being said I find this interesting too... Otou-chan would say not to abandon things that make you unique so... don't worry about doing it magically if this is your preference," she mentioned. Perhaps this was another of those strange differences. Maybe the analog way of doing things made happy. Or maybe he didn't realize that he had a much more flexible use of magic post his gaining of Order to go along with whatever magecraft he used originally? She supposed it was worth thinking about while she watched him draw.

Both. Of course it was both. So many times, the answer to a question was both. Why was that the case? Such a curious thing it was, but he couldn't do much to question circumstance. Regardless, Sakura went on to explain the finer details of leylines and mana circuits. Adding to what he knew already, Charlemagne could see how this was simply a more complete method of functioning, and indeed one he could get behind overall. "Huh. That makes it all sound more like an entire computer," he mused absently.

As he continued to draw, Sakura pointed out how he could probably create a magical map instead. Charlemagne had to stop and think for a moment, all to remember that he'd become some sort of god on the previous day. It was going to take some time for the lad to get used to that. "Oh, right. I guess I could, but... I think this is easier for me," he said. Interestingly enough, Sakura's follow-up statement seemed to be in agreement to his preference. "I'm fine with doing things this way... though I'm not sure I'd call it unique. I do come with a world that doesn't have magic, after all. Also... is this looking alright?" he asked.

There were many things said by Charles that left Sakura with questions. In the moment she finished explaining how mana circuits and leylines worked with their nuances, and then Charles was comparing them to a 'computer'. "What's a computer?" she asked wondering how such a thing could work. It was a strange thing to note, but it was quite odd. That word didn't connect directly to anything in her mind. She assumed this was some sort of non-magical world item and if it was, she was curious about its purpose.

Moving on from that, her explanation to the lad that he could do what he wished as far as magic seemed to sink in for him. Still, he claimed that he thought his current line of work was better for him. She could agree. His lines matched at the very least and he wasn't doing anything she could consider a bad job. It was only strange to her that he didn't think to do use magic in the first place. "You come from a world that doesn't have magic, and are still using a skill that people with magic wouldn't use... so it is unique," she explained. "Also I think it looks nice... it is accurate to what is being seen there, but also different in a way I can't really explain," she said. Artistic endeavors were always interesting, though she knew he wasn't doing this just to do so, but that made it more interesting to watch.

Charlemagne had to start being more careful about things he mentioned. In this magical world, things he still thought of after a thousand years were completely foreign to most others. How was he even going to explain computers? "Uh... well, they're devices. Most people in my world have them. They let you do all kinds of things, including access the internet... which is like all the world's information accessible in one spot, basically. Well... that and a bunch of other stuff that isn't really good for everyone. It's also a communication device, I guess," he explained, badly in his own opinion.

In regards to the current map, Sakura found it unique regardless of his counter-argument. Well, it seemed that was something they just wouldn't agree on. "I'm sure there are a lot of people in my position who still lean on the method they've gotten used to in another life," he claimed. Since Sakura insisted that his rendition of a map was fine, Charlemagne continued drawing. Her comment about a difference was noted, and perhaps deserving of its own response. "Well, there's no way to perfectly copy something like this... at least not without some sort of magic, I guess. Anyway, this is almost done. I'm just not sure yet how to factor in the places I already know about."