Munetsuchi

[Apollymi]

Miwa and Yume were both being subjected to the pleasantries of their inmon. Of course, neither of them could technically complain about it, though neither would begin to be able to explain the necessity of it. Even so, both took two very different lines of thought. Yume for her part in this simply went with the why not option. And found herself easily accepting the sensation and as such would be weak in the knees within a second. Miwa on the other hand felt the vibrating sensation within her and found her foot bouncing anxiously as she tried and failed to find a way to sit that wouldn't just end in looking a bit crazy. "Yes..." said Yume who seemed to come to the conclusion that it was easy not to fight but also very random. Miwa thought about the dubious nature of Mugen and his actions, and while it was simple for them to be subjected to such pleasurable sensations, it didn't necessarily make everything much simpler. "That is completely subjective..." Miwa managed to say. Thinking for instance, was markedly harder to do with such sensations playing out through both of their bodies. Oddly neither would be allowed to get used to their own sensations, because Mugen took the time to join their inmon together. The resulting action led both women to experiencing the heightened pleasure as it seemed to be rather easily a two-fold experience. "Aaah♥!~" both cried out in unison, as those weakened knees of Yume's gave out and she found herself sitting on the floor of the throne room. This was way too much but it also felt way too good. At the same time Miwa was both stunned and pleasured. Why did it need to be both? She couldn't think of a reaosn against, it, but also couldn't have given a reason why... and so she was also stuck that bouncing leg of hers coming to a halt as she felt the excess of the moment popping out.

In the meantime, there was Charles and Sakura having an interestingly intellectual conversation. Apparently, Charles understood the kind of thing that Sakura's demon father was getting at, and seemed to resonate with him. He seemed to have something to say, but he was putting together the thought in his head. Sakura found herself watching him, as he put this together and then she heard his words. "Sou ka, that's how you took that. That is a pretty large number of people to consider friends..." she commented wondering if one should consider that sample size large or small. Sakura considered she still might be a bit too young, but her thoughts weren't ones which could change without influence. She was at least open-minded enough to take in the new information and try to process it. It seemed to be the case that people sometimes liked being stupid. Perhaps there was something to lacking mental capacity that changed the way one viewed the world. Though Sakura couldn't rationalize that being a positive thing.

Moving on from this, apparently moments like these allowed Charles to see, not just nature but little things. Sakura heard his list and what it meant to him and remained lightly confused. Well, that was likely because fighting for peace seemed a bit counter-productive if nothing was attacking you. According to Charles, seeing peaceful places like Munetsuchi made him feel like he was doing the right thing and this was the sort of thing they were trying for in Aincrad but it didn't work out but they'd still work at it. "Hm, I suppose the positive attitude is commendable. I can't say I understand all of that..." she expressed pretty clearly. It made sense, she wasn't very old, and didn't have a lot of personal experience with living in such ways. Here she also felt at ease so she commented her understanding of Munetsuchi, "I spend a lot of time watching everything that goes on here... I don't understand fighting in action or anything like that, but I think I understand the nature of peace when it is passive," she explained of the way she saw things. To Sakura, clear minds, found their own peace and didn't negatively impact others, and such clarity had to permeate the whole of a place, not just its people, but its leadership. All of this was slightly unrelated to what they were here for, but a clear mind had to be found and they could create something together.

[Bloodedge]

Interestingly enough, Mugen received two very different opinions to his assertion. Yume fell to deviance immediately, even dropping to her knees in the end. Miwa, however, could be seen trying to keep her composure. He knew that leg movement, though; he'd seen it a few times in the past. The untrained eye may have actually believed her inmon didn't activate properly, but no... it was undoubtedly in full effect. "Da─rin~. Everything is subjective; you know that," he said in regards to the goddess's nitpicking. "Look at how good a time you're both having. Besides, you never told me to stop," he added. This was a moment of study, so it wasn't as if the demon had no reason for these antics. "So, should I take guesses as to how it works? If it needs saying, you're both triggering each other now."

Sakura claimed a dozen was a sizeable number of people to call friends. To Charlemagne, that wasn't true at all. There were many others he'd like to consider friends, but a dozen or so could be called close. "It's really not. I'd say there are more, but... I'm not too sure some of the people I'd like to call friends even like me," he mused, considering a couple of... associates whose approval rating was always in question. It was probably best that he avoid thinking about that too much, lest he recall all the likeliest reasons for said questioning.

Luckily, there was plenty of reason to discard all worries for a little while. Sakura didn't understand everything from the positive outlook he shared, but that was alright. "It's fine not to understand. You haven't been alive very long, and you've spent all your time here. I wouldn't really expect anyone to get it unless they knew how bad things could be. Fighting isn't good... until you find something to fight for. A scene like this is so uncommon in this world, it's worth fighting for the chance to create this kind of peace. I can't imagine Munetsuchi has seen very much strife in its time, huh?"

[Apollymi]

Yume for her part in this, seemed almost incapable of denying the pleasurable sensation being given to her body. In return, it seemed to echo across the body of Miwa as well. How interesting. Miwa hadn't thought about what it would mean for others to gain marks from Mugen, but as the Goddess of Arcane Magic she could see and feel the connection. As time went on she even began to understand it. Such was one of the things that would have been made simpler by not being part of it at the time. Miwa wanted to scoff at Mugen's reply to her, but instead it was just a moan. It truly was a difficult thing to deal with. That bouncing leg of hers could only mediate her outward reactions for so long. "Well, it would be very unfair for me to do that... maybe for a couple of reasons," Miwa mentioned. It wasn't as if they had something else to do. Nor would she be the reason the poor new apprentice didn't find relief from her current form of torture. "We're doing that now?~" well, Yume gave it some thought and it definitely felt like she was experiencing more than before... how strange Miwa barely seemed affected. Or maybe she just wasn't being obvious about it? "Well, I realized that when I felt the first echo... Go ahead though... I assume you want to know how it works~" Miwa mentioned. She'd never told him not to test such things out on her, and being subjected to new and pleasurable sensations was far from a negative in her own experience. "I would ask why this is an experiment, but uh... important parts here~" mentioned the dark haired girl on the floor who could definitely feel her insides pulsing with too much pleasantry. She really couldn't survive this for very long, she wasn't used to such feelings very well, and she knew now how good it felt so she wouldn't deny it to herself. What a strange predicament she'd ended up in.

Meanwhile Charles had several people he would have called friends that he wasn't sure liked him. She wondered about that... what she'd studied of humans and human children said that there were many unknown factors to making friends, including and not limited to pre-existing friends and family ties. "What I have observed of people says that many view friendships with various degrees of intensity... perhaps they do like you but some qualifying factor is missing," she said. This was often the case, human children needed proof of friendship. She'd seen this as snacks, actions, and game participation. She could see such things playing a role in unknown but potential friendships.

Moving on from this point, there was what she didn't understand about his outlook, which he did a reasonable job of explaining. He made the claim that she was quite young and limited in understanding what Munetsuchi was like. In not understanding how bad it could be, she wouldn't understand the need to fight. But... that was also fine, because he doubted the depth of Munetsuchi's negatives. "Strife? Not from what I understand of that word. Munetsuchi has been ruled by Kaa-sama for most of her life and has been relatively peaceful because of it. The surrounding areas, might have seen it, before the Great Fissure. But after that, it was likely limited to the last burning day of Chichiue and maybe the event that fractured off that archipelago to the east..." she said thinking of the history of this place. The Great Fissure, being the fall of islands from above which broke the continents apart, the Burning Day as a specific reference to the life cycle of one of her parents, and the island to the east, that was... technically the same thing.

[Bloodedge]

Miwa was right; it would be unfair of her to request that he stop. It wouldn't be unfair to Yume, however, as she would still be under the inmon's effect. "Only to you," Mugen confirmed as such. Based on his own desires, the power applied by Miwa's inmon would have only been added to Yume's if the former abdicated. As an experiment, he found the different reactions rather interesting. Though... perhaps Miwa's composure was a net loss overall? Mugen would take a few moments to think about that, while Yume apparently lost more of her ability to persist. "It's an experiment because it's an opportunity. Pushing boundaries is the only way to evolve, Yu-pyon~♥" he said in response to Yume's question. "I do wonder... what if I gave it more than five percent to both of you?" he asked, his gaze shifting toward Miwa.

Sakura at least gathered the various angles from which people viewed friendship. Charlemagne understood that as well, but there were some caveats to the situation he spoke of. "Well you're right... but there's at least one person that's still questionable. That'll especially be the case when I make it back up," Charlemagne mused while rubbing the back of his neck, somewhat nervously even. Deciding it was best to move on from that train of thought, he dropped his arm and took another deep breath. "Anyway, it's not something to be too bothered about right now."

Regarding any strife Munetsuchi knew in its time, there was apparently none to speak of. He couldn't be surprised by that. He could, however, be surprised by some specific events that occurred in the past. Rather, he was taken aback by the way they were referenced. "Alright, guessing I know what the Great Fissure is. When the continent was split, right? I've heard it called a few things," he commented. "But what exactly is burning day, and what happened with an archipelago in the east?"

[Apollymi]

Apparently it would only be unfair to Miwa if she asked him to stop. That was interesting to note, still she wouldn't really do that sort of thing. "Sou ka, that's interesting..." she mentioned, still that leg of her bounced away. It was hard to think with such sensations rolling through the core of her being. She didn't at all blame the squirming girl on the ground for her current posture. Still she seemed attentive enough, hearing out Mugen's philosophies on evolution as a person and the need to push boundaries to achieve such things. Yet at the end of that sentence the mention of the girl's pet name seemed to make her throb internally, adding an extra pulse that Miwa could also feel causing the woman's eyes to widen. "Ah, you really like that name don't you?~" she questioned the girl in an almost teasing manner. "Hai!~ It's a really nice one," Yume managed. "It is," Miwa agreed as for the potential percentage increase of what they were currently feeling, Miwa lost a bit of her composure. "Uh, are you telling me it's only five percent... hm, that could be an interesting study, though I'd doubt you could get a direct answer out of either of us immediately after doing so..." she answered honestly. "Sou, sou... you are actually just holding it together... I thought it was just me," Yume said seeming to understand that Miwa could balance out the nature of this interaction a bit. Though the same could be extrapolated in reverse. If both were made to feel it to an extreme they would feel pleasure in a doubled fashion, if neither could resist, said resistance would vanish. yes, that seemed to be about the right answer. A bit closer to a collective response. As Miwa was already seated that bouncing leg of hers was keeping her intact mentally. Keeping her mind from wandering away from potentially being useful. Mugen didn't have much restraint to begin with so she assumed any more would come with a decent loss of self on her part, more so than even Yume was currently suffering from.

Meanwhile, Sakura's understanding of friendship was deemed right by someone who actually had friends. She could count this as a positive given that it meant her theoretical understanding wasn't at all wrong. Still, he seemed to think he might have trouble with one or two of his friends when he made it back to the upper levels of the world. It was implied some sort of misunderstanding might be to blame, but he claimed it was nothing to worry about. "Hai, if you don't need to worry about it now, that is okay. But if you worry about it later, we can talk then too..." she offered, as her assistance was something she'd offer freely to the lad, even if it didn't make a lot of sense to the girl outside of her theory.

Moving on from this, it seemed there was some interest in Munetsuchi's history. Sakura could provide the information but it was much easier to do knowing he held some interest in the subject. Regardless, he understood the Great Fissure and she smiled at him in return. Giving a nod so that he knew he'd guessed properly the event she was mentioning. He didn't know what Burning Day was, however, and was also at a loss about what happened to the archipelago. "Sou ka, those two events are area specific. Chichiue is a black phoenix. Burning Day is the day he goes up into flames at the end of his life cycle to rebirth himself. He is an emperor and more over a dictator. When this happened last time, there was civil unrest because the humans didn't know what to do with him gone. His area suffered a bit while he was gone, Kaa-sama ended up bringing it under her own control to alleviate the pressure. She and Chichiue, ended up married after his full revival," she explained of that gentle historical event. It made a reasonable amount of sense in her own mind. Missing leadership ended in problems when there was nothing left to fill the hole. "As for the archipelago, sometime a thousand years ago, some kind of catastrophe happened. That land was part of this mainland, but it ended up separated and its lands disconnected from Kaa-sama's influence. As a result the land no longer gains from her influence, and the humans on it have experienced a decrease in their life spans. Their culture rapidly changed along with it, and as such they cannot currently be brought back into the fold without negative complications," she said not wanting to overload the lad with too much information.

[Bloodedge]

As Mugen's fun progressed, it seemed Miwa and Yume were becoming properly acquainted with one another. This may not have been how such a thing was expected, but it would suffice, Mugen thought. A proper exchange between the two occurred verbally over Yume's... very 'literal' pet name. Of course, there was also the very spiritual bond shared between them at the time. All Myouou apprentices would be linked to Miwa in such a way, albeit none so literally and directly as this one. Even their feelings were the same currently, as both were understanding more and more by the moment. "Maybe I don't need a direct answer. After all, why should I care? You're both at your best when you can't even think straight," he insisted of the pair. "Well, Yu-pyon? The goddess isn't so off-putting now that you're connected by the womb, right?"

Sakura continued to leave herself available. Every time a potential hiccup was presented, she offered herself as a crutch. Charlemagne only expected as much from his closest comrades, yet Sakura was proving herself to be among their ranks in helpfulness already. Sure, she was far from the easiest to connect with in a way Charlemagne deemed sensible, but that sort of quirkiness had its own appeal. "Right. I'll keep that in mind," he said.

As for his most recent questions, Sakura had clear answers yet again. One of her fathers was a phoenix of the black variety. With that information, he hardly needed the rest. Charlemagne hadn't seen a phoenix directly in this world, but fantasy media prepared him to understand the life cycle of them. "So they really do just burst into flames and rise from the ashes? That's pretty cool," he asserted. In addition to phoenix-related lore, he was given some of the history as to how Munetsuchi became an empire, and how Miwa gained at least one of her five husbands. Ah, and there was more. One negative occurrence happened to these lands a millennium before, causing part of the country to split away and enter a state that it could not easily return from. Sakura didn't seem to have the finer details of that one. As such, Charlemagne wondered if it had anything to do with that old battle against the gods. Well... that probably couldn't be the case. "I'm guessing that had nothing to do with the Age of Gods' ending? I mean, I figure you'd know more about it if that were the case─"

[Apollymi]

Miwa and Yume were indeed getting acquainted on quite an intimate level with Mugen's interference running the way it was. He claimed to not know why he needed to care, that they were both at their best when they couldn't think straight. It was now Miwa's turn to be the cause of one of those little thumps within the womb of someone else, Miwa might have taken offense to that, thinking was one of her core life functions after all. "I feel like I should take offense, but somehow it still sounds like a compliment..." Miwa murmured. "Hmph, you definitely took it as a compliment..." were the words shared by Yume as she'd felt that reaction as well. Of course that would be about all she said. This bit of linking was far from the most conventional but she supposed it worked given the circumstances. Regardless, Yume was addressed directly about her being off-put by the goddess initially. "Ah♥!~ It wasn't like that... " she mused. Still, she supposed this sort of connection was indeed the type of thing which was good for getting over mental hang-ups of her previous life, and her apparently shifting sexuality. Well, that wasn't something she'd be dealing with right just now. Finding out that the girl was a bit off-put by her was interesting to Miwa. She thought of herself as fairly approachable in general. It was at least a learning experience.

At the same time, Sakura was maintaining her open relationship with Charles. He seemed content to rely on her for certain things, and she'd make herself available for such because she felt it was the right thing to do. Her oddities aside she was still kind... When they moved on from that there was quite a bit of what seemed to be excitement about the way Phoenixes worked as a species. "Yes, they do. The time it takes them to respawn apparently varies by color and type, but it is part of their life cycles. I haven't seen Chichiue on Burning Day yet, so I have no idea what the length of time on it is. Kaa-sama made it into a festival type of day, though it doesn't happen a lot," she explained. Phoenixes were interesting creatures at least, a couple of her father's were such animals and she was quite surprised she'd not ended up with a few more animal like features. When she was younger... she'd wanted a tail.

Moving on from such a random thought though still with a smile on her face, Charles was content to wonder if the Age of the Gods ending had anything to do with it. "Hm, I am not sure... it could but it likely wouldn't be anything direct," she said giving it a bit of thought. "I would assume if it had anything to do with it, it would have been more like ripples. As opposed to the waves that would have been caused closer to things directly connected to the Gods. Down here Gods had less pull, but I've been told strange things happen sometimes when higher order beings are born, die or unify. So it could be the case that such an event happened and it is a contributing factor as to why Kaa-sama lost her influence there..." she commented. That was all she could think of. It definitely seemed like the sort of thing that would need cross referencing. Perhaps some little or lesser known goddess washed up there and separated it as an act of defiance? Or maybe some holy or unholy wedding took place there and it broke off under the pressure? She supposed it was also possible that it was severed by someone on purpose... but that would require some direct questioning. Whatever the case, thinking about such abstract events put her into a pleasant mood and a good mind space. Being around Charles seemed to add to this effect.

[Bloodedge]

What a wholesome little gathering this was turning out to be. A goddess and a newborn demon were experiencing bliss simultaneously, each one fueling the other as if they were physically involved. All the while, Mugen was just soaking it all in. While both were dealing with building sensations in their own way, a bit of clarity on one was given by the other. Yume was coming into her own, it seemed. "Ara? Was that your senses giving you the answer, or the fact that you felt it too?" Mugen wondered aloud. His own senses told him the truth of Miwa's state. Yume's knowledge, however, had an additional nuance that was worth questioning.

Charlemagne suddenly had another interesting thing on his bucket list. According to Sakura, different phoenixes had different respawn times when their lives reset. He wondered what it would look like, and thus wondered if he could ever witness the death and rebirth of such a majestic creature. Sakura hadn't seen her father on the apparently noteworthy 'burning day' yet, so perhaps she'd never seen a phoenix cycle through life at all? "So have you ever seen any phoenix go through it? I'm suddenly really interested in seeing that sort of thing ─ especially if it's been made into a whole event," he said excitedly.

As for the broken archipelago, Sakura wasn't actually sure if it had anything to do with the Age of Gods ending. She surmised that it was possible the two were connected, even if indirectly. He supposed that made a great deal of sense, though Charlemagne himself didn't have the same amount of interest in finding the truth. "Hmm. I couldn't guess one way or another, not knowing what sort of effect the split even had. There's too much to consider, you know? Well... probably not for you people, but definitely for me," he harped. "Anyway, about these maps. I guess the first step should be to organize what we have and put each one in its right place."

[Apollymi]

Yume continued to squirm but apparently this was an experiment and lesson so she was also doing her best to keep herself properly open to questions. Ah, and she received one, about why she knew the truth of Miwa's words. She gave herself a few pleasant moments of thought. "I said that before I felt the pulse so... senses. Is that how that works. Am I an emotional lie-detector?" she questioned not being able to come up with a better way of describing her understanding. "Oh? A natural genius, aren't those fun?~" Miwa teased sending another pulse the girl's way. Of course, this was simply because she enjoyed clever and brainy people and this became something obvious to Yume in the moment. 'The goddess of arcane wisdom is sapiosexual... that makes way more sense than I am comfortable with,' Yume thought absently. Was this life now?

Meanwhile, Charles and Sakura were discussing burning day. He asked her if she'd ever seen any other phoenix death and resurrection. "I haven't seen one yet myself. Phoenixes are more likely to appear in the southern part of the country, and I've not gone that far yet," she explained of the situation. "I am fairly interested in it as well... the festival here is something people look forward to, and it makes Chichiue happy," she said seeming to find the good of it, despite the potential of death. But the people in Munetsuchi didn't fear death to start with, so they had fairly level headed understandings of it.

Moving on from that point, Charles thought that the event surrounding the archipelago may have been too much to consider. Too many variables without enough details for him to work with. She'd found he wasn't interested in that many details and he claimed it wasn't his type of thought exercise. "We'd probably consider it something worth discussing in hypotheticals. It would be fun for us, but I can understand now you wouldn't enjoy it as much as we would," she seemed content with that. And they easily moved on from that as well. It seemed their map was finally a thing to discuss. "Yes, in this case one could think of those maps like pieces to a world puzzle," she mentioned seeming to think it was the easiest way to consider it over all. "The only thing we have to do, is make sure we orient all the pieces to the way they should be from the perspective we are considering it," she explained of the logical aspects.

[Bloodedge]

An emotional lie detector. Yume had the most interesting way of considering things, but she did have the gist of it. "More accurately a magical sensor capable of reading people through their soul's response. It's what happens when Forbidden Knowledge is applied to divination; it reaches a level of... what have you all been calling it? Invasiveness?" he chattered. Mugen wouldn't have too much to say, however, as it seemed both Yume and Miwa were a bit preoccupied. He couldn't imagine why, of course... but the facts remained. "You may find yourself capable of using that, even to turn the head of a goddess. You know... if there happened to be a goddess around~♥"

Charlemagne hadn't seen a phoenix combust, and neither had Sakura. Strangely, he found himself enjoying the idea of observing one together. Why? He shouldn't have been thinking along those lines, so maybe it had to do with their weird spiritual connection. He'd be content to blame that just to avoid wondering too much about himself. "If there's ever time, we should find one. It'd be awesome to see it in person," he suggested.

The two agreed that they should combine what maps they had currently, if only to create a proper replica of Munetsuchi's territory before moving on. It would still take some work to complete the larger map they intended, but there had to be a starting point. With that in mind, Charlemagne lowered himself to the floor and began spreading maps about across it. He took the one most easily recognizable as including Munetsuchi's major city, placing it at the center of the group. "So we're here, right? I haven't been around very much, so... I've got basically nothing to go by."

[Apollymi]

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.

[Bloodedge]

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?"

[Apollymi]

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.

[Bloodedge]

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."

[Apollymi]

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.