Munetsuchi

[Apollymi]

According to Charles she wasn't disproving his point. That didn't matter at all... "Urusai!" she yelled in Japanese. One day, she'd have a better reaction, today wasn't it. Tomorrow probably wouldn't be either. The sarcastic sound escaping the Nexus after he was told he was on ice, was exactly the sort of thing that would have made Jeanne's blood boil. But if she remembered the publicity of the previous world properly she had but one thing to say, "Your wife steps on you... I can feel it in my soul," she said knowing that sort of attitude would have provoked the same sort of response from her. Maybe it had.

Whatever, there was the matter of answering the summons of Artoria Pendragon, and the light-hearted words from Charles about his workload and how she could help with it. "If my sister helps you with your workload someone is gonna die. Best you can do is throw a battle manic in her way and pray they are strong enough to distract her," she offered that tiny bit of advice but had nothing else. Artoria wouldn't be ignored if she bothered going to look for someone. It was much better to appease her whenever possible. Besides, Charles was discounting his usefulness by quite a bit if he didn't think he'd be called upon for a real reason. The matter of Gilles seemed to be understood for what it was, though whatever extra Charles had to add on he kept to himself. As long as he understood the gravity, Jeanne didn't care too much.

As for Angelica she looked over Jeanne, but with that nickname and those open arms, yes it was still her friend. She ran to her, giving the other lass a big hug and feeling the differences in her energy but not really caring very much. "I'm really sorry, Jeanne!" she exclaimed seeming to make the lass look confused. "You didn't do anything, no need for that kind of dumb shit," she uttered seeming not to be accepting apologies from Angelica. A gasp escaped Angelica in the moment as she'd never heard such a thing before, "Jeanne, you said a swear?!" she said seemingly shocked. "Yeah, my vocabulary is pretty colorful now~ But as the big sis here though, I am pretty sure you shouldn't be hugging me before your husband, might give him the wrong impression~" she said. Ah, life advice, Jeanne missed being in a position to give it. All the while Sakura looked on with wide eyes. "Sugoi! I want a big sis," she said seeming to like the relationship between Angelica and Jeanne quite a bit. "Oh right!" chimed Angelica but of course, it was going to be awkward, wasn't it? Yes, just a little. She could start with answering questions. "Well... yeah, it's your armor. You left it in my room. When I left for the labyrinth I took it with me," she explained. "And alot, like a lot. Ugh, so much... I don't even know how to explain it all..." she said after an encouraging set of back rubs. "An... he showed up with your face and a weird beard and he tried to marry me yesterday. I said no... I smacked him super hard, so hard... It was really messed up," she said still a bit grossed out. Jeanne couldn't help but snicker, the idea of Angelica slapping An was far too amusing to hold back the laugh. "And I left..." she explained. "Your friends though they're helping me... Ivy, Olivier, Janessa, Turpin and...Merlin too. They gave me someone's pass and told me a floor I could hide on in the labyrinth so I'm doing that," she said without fully explaining everything.

[Bloodedge]

Still, the Dragon Witch fought tooth and nail against being addressed in such a way. With every response, she only further solidified the belief for both Charlemagne and the Nexus. In fact, she even took a jab at the latter, knowing his Gaia identity and expressing the belief that his wife stepped on him. Interestingly enough, the Nexus would comment on that statement as well. "She does it in the most alluring way, too," he said with the oddest amount of confidence.

Jeanne continued to beat the Artoria Pendragon hypothetical over Charlemagne's head as well. He didn't really care about the Holy Grail-holders' meetings, whatever they were. He had a thousand things to do, and none of them involved being an unnecessary sixth man to a group of monsters. Damned be whatever capacity he had now; they had their problems under control without throwing him into the mix. "You're saying a lot for no real reason. I'm done adding things to my agenda before doing what I need to do. I've got no time for the grail club," he concluded.

Regardless of all that, Angelica had appeared before them in a very unexpected way. Charlemagne could make a few assumptions as to why she was wearing his armor, but nothing too concrete. He couldn't keep himself from blurting out a question, even while leaving that long-awaited reunion to play out... in a far better way than his had, of course. 'Chopped liver both times from both ends. So uncool,' he thought. Oh well. Jeanne urged the Holy Princess toward her husband, but first and foremost was the answering of questions. She'd taken his armor to enter the Labyrinth. As for what was going on in Aincrad currently, it was... depressingly everything he'd assumed and heard whilst in Munetsuchi. Ah, no ─ it was even worse. Father An had taken his face, but added the worst thing possible to it. "No. No, anything but the weird beard! That's at the top of my never list!" the lad shouted. Well, at least she'd gotten away. Since she was in the Labyrinth, he could make a few assumptions as to what floor she was hiding on. Moreover, Merlin being on the list of those helping her meant things would be alright in the end. "Alright... good. If Merlin's there, he'll probably be around to give warning if anything needs to change. I'm trying to find my way back. There's a lot I have to explain, but among it is apparently the part where I have some of the Father's power now. I think I can use it to help, but I need you guys to hang in there until we can make it up. Can you do it?"

[Apollymi]

The Nexus had some rather shameless words to share in response to the jabbing question posed by Jeanne d'Arc. She looked at him for a moment after he spoke those words, took in the blissfulness of his visage and shook her head from left to right. Another version of Jeanne might have said something like 'Awww, I love that for you~' but this version wasn't so... openly appreciative of other people's happiness. Instead she had something a bit more caustic but fairly similar to say. "Normal people wouldn't admit that, but whatever you say..." she said a casual shrug to accompany it. She really wasn't doing a good job of discouraging the idea of her being some sort of tsundere.

Speaking of discouraging things, apparently she was saying too much about the potential of the grail holders club. And in particular the amount of target someone like Charles would be for Artoria Pendragon. She'd only been the lass's handler for literal years when they were human and only saw her activities worsen in the magical world. But hey, if he wanted to pretend it wasn't a big deal it'd be his problem alone. "Hai hai~" it was on his own head now. What a vague dismissal. She definitely wouldn't be saving him from that then... or maybe he'd remember what she said and he'd save himself...

Moving on, Jeanne and Angelica had their reunion after a thousand years and it seemed to be a fairly happy one. Sakura watched this and felt that this was more inline with two people meeting each other while being friends. At the same time Angelica was now approaching Charles rather directly having given the proper hug to Jeanne d'Arc. "It's okay, Charlie. It was weird but that is why I was sure it wasn't you. But I'm pretty relieved you're alright. I thought you might not be when I realized how much of him was you..." she mentioned seemingly relieved that he was okay. Her arms wrapped around him and she was quite happy to see him. She didn't actually let him go soon after. In all of this Sakura was curious, would this level of intimacy be maintained, she could only wonder. "Actually when you say I like that I can't imagine you with a beard. I'm pretty sure it'd give you the swarmy vizier look," Jeanne said seemingly way too amused by it as an idea. While she hugged Charles, Angelica said her piece about the rest of things, mentioning even Merlin as being a helping hand. This one made Jeanne's brows draw together, Merlin was her sister's court mage, what was he doing in Aincrad? She'd have to ask at some point but she supposed there were more important things than her curiosity. As for the question of them hanging in until he could get back she looked at him a bit. "Hm, you do feel a bit like him now that I am here, but it's definitely you," she said of Charles. "And... yeah... I'll be fine. Your friends are all fine... they seem to be holding their own places until you return," she said.

[Bloodedge]

The Nexus was quite free with information regarding his relationship, it seemed, and Jeanne claimed normal people wouldn't admit things like he did. To that, he leaned forward with a quizzical expression upon his face. "Am I people? Do I even look like people?" he wondered aloud. When living on Gaia, he was often gazed upon as if he were some sort of anomaly. Such was the case even in the original world, but that made sense given his status at the time.

Though the conversation took precedence by Angelica's machinations, she did continue encroaching upon Charlemagne. Her arms wrapped around him while she commiserated over the weird beard scenario. Before he had anything else to say, Charlemagne slung both arms around the lass as well. She wouldn't release, and neither would he, it seemed. "I'm fine; no worries. The landing banged me up a little bit, but I was right as rain soon after!" he claimed. Charlemagne may have been stretching the truth a bit, but such was his way. There was no need to add extra cause for concern, even in hindsight. No, this was a good moment of togetherness... tainted only by the fact that someone was openly envisioning him with a beard of any sort. Somewhere deep in Charlemagne's soul, there was a certain darkness. It existed far below the surface, and could only rise under a few specific circumstances. A beard on a face like his was so far from 'cool' that it woke the beast within momentarily. "Never picture me with a beard again," he demanded. Only a second later, things were back to normal with the calming resolution of Angelica's current wellness. "Awesome! I'll be there as soon as possible, alright?"

[Apollymi]

The Nexus seemed to think it was abnormal. It went on to question if was people, if it even seemed like normal people. Jeanne in her current state gave it a bit of thought. She was always honest, even while not knowing how her words would be received and as such she'd state what she thought. "Normal people... not so much. If I am being honest, you give of hipster grandad vibes. Like you'd take all the kids to the theme park and ride all the rides," she said giving a firm nod. That image was pretty firm in her head after she saw it, she could almost imagine someone like him on an outing with her and her siblings when she turned 16 and wanted to go amusement park hopping instead of having a party.

While Charles and Angelica hugged and caught up, Angelica heard out what the lad had to say. He claimed that he'd been banged up from his fall but he was alright. That seemed wrong, or maybe incomplete. She looked around the room, could feel the various energies and technically speaking Charles seemed like a mixing pot of the various energies present in this room right now. The girl with bright red eyes though, seemed to be quite connected. An assumption was made about her being the one to help him out. Jeanne felt like him a bit... and was definitely pregnant. Hm, some weird connections had taken place she was sure. "If you say so, Charlie," she murmured. Just the same Sakura's brows drew together as she became visibly confused. Charles had told the truth, but he'd also omitted quite a bit of it. She'd seen humans do this to children when they didn't want to explain the weight of something to them, but this was another goddess she definitely couldn't have gone without noticing the strangeness of this situation.

Just the same, Jeanne was privy to an interesting look crossing Charles's face after she mentioned what she thought he'd look like with a beard. "Hoh? I didn't know you had a look like that... did I hit a nerve?~" she teased gently. "I didn't know you had it in ya', Chuck~" Of course, she wasn't even afraid of such a look given the kind of siblings she had, it was just surprising to see it on the face of someone was mild mannered as Chuck over something as silly as a beard. Of course, her own brother also had a weird sticking point so maybe it wasn't so odd. Beyond that Charles claimed he be by soon. "I mean sure, that's great and all but I have like a thousand questions right now," Angelica mentioned. "Like what was going on in here before I showed up? And who's your friend? And... what is this room? And I don't know a billion other things after that..."

[Bloodedge]

The Nexus never fit in with 'normal' people, as most would call them. Jeanne, with her infinite honesty, compared him to a grandfather hipster in a way he found oddly satisfying. "Hipster granddad? Groovy," he said happily. If that was how he'd been viewed, he'd been doing something right after all.

Charlemagne's explanation of the fall and any connected damage received... only a short response from Angelica. It seemed a bit skeptical, but that was fine. Even if she knew there was much more to it, there was no point in telling her all the more concerning details outright. Moreover, she naturally had many questions to ask. Sakura was a literal unknown, so her identity being questioned was a given. He wasn't sure why she asked what was going on before her arrival, though. Perhaps it was the burns? Of course, there was also their current location. That one probably came with the matter of how she got here, but the room's explanation would likely cover that. "From asking a thousand to getting a thousand, huh? I guess that's life," he mused over his own recent situation. "Well, as for what happened before you got here... I didn't get a hug. I got set on fire. That's about how my life goes," he said first. He pulled away from Angelica just slightly ─ enough to gesture toward Sakura with one hand. "This is Tohsaka Sakura. She's going to be the reason we help you guys get out of Aincrad whenever we make it there. There's a lot more explaining to come about that, but I feel like it'd take all day," he continued. A deep breath followed before Charlemagne addressed the final topic, which involved bringing attention to the middle-aged man in the room. "This room, and this guy, are the Nexus. It's the place people who get Holy Grails talk about going to, where wishes are granted and all that stuff."

With those final words, the Nexus interjected once more. He waved to the lass called Angelica, as one would wave to an old friend or long-unseen relative. "Hey, Ang. I'm granddad," he said in the most casual manner.

[Apollymi]

"Wow, you took that way better than I expected," Jeanne said. She always expected a bit of backlash given the amount of honesty that came with her opinions, but happily enough the Nexus was quite an accommodating individual. Once more, Jeanne would find herself flopping into the throne next to the Nexus seeming to enjoy the time to sit without much of a problem.

At the same time, Charles and Angelica continued as did their conversation. The questions Angelica had were soon to be answered. Charles claimed that he'd not gotten a hug from Jeanne and instead he'd been burned. There was a gasp from Angelica as she looked towards Jeanne for an explanation. "He felt like my enemy, and I'm not hugging guys..." she said as if it was the most perfect answer to the question. Given Angelica had been along when they interrogated a prisoner concerning the death of Jeanne d'Arc she could actually understand her sentiments a bit. To be honest, Jeanne would have preferred not to have any phyiscal contact with anyone with a penis aside from Siegfried, but she didn't have much of a choice today.

That explanation out of the way, Angelica found herself being introduced to Tohsaka Sakura... right, Charles had explained this sort of thing... her given name was second so Sakura was the one who helped him and likely had the largest part to play in his healing. He claimed it would take a while to explain and that was fine. "Okay, nice to meet you. Can I call you Sakura? And thank you..." she offered the girl who seemed to be quite happy. "Nice to meet you too. And you absolutely can call me Sakura, Ang-chan~ I really wanted to meet you!" Both girls seemed to be looking at each other for a few seconds and Angelica was sure her heart skipped a beat maybe. She liked this girl, of that she was certain. Whatever the case... there was the big question. The room and the man in the throne. The Nexus... and he called himself granddad? "So you're just rolling with grandad? Alright~" mentioned Jeanne who found it funny. Of course, Angelica seemed to be looking at the man, "Granddad? That sounds pretty good..." she seemed to be thinking of asking something but didn't know if she could. "Can I ask you something?" she started, really wanting his opinion on the layout of her floor. It seemed she'd never be getting her dad's opinion on it, she didn't even want to speak with him ever again. Replacements were needed.

[Bloodedge]

After returning to the second throne of this room, Jeanne gave two reasons for Charlemagne's 'warm' reception. It was all a bit depressing, but understandable even for Charlemagne. The Nexus, however, was still radiating a joyous aura. "What?! You mean I'm not getting one either?" he asked in an exaggerated manner.

Angelica and Sakura met just as the latter had been waiting to, and Charlemagne seemed equal parts happy and concerned. There was a great deal to talk about involving those two, he thought, but now wasn't the time to get into all that. If nothing else, the sight of them together was something beyond his wildest dreams. What garbage he was to be envisioning how much better the two could get along in a more intimate way. He even felt compelled to make a few filthy suggestions about how they could get to know each other... sexually? Magically? He wasn't even sure which one it was at this point. That wasn't even the way his brain normally worked; he'd really become something different after all. In the end, Charlemagne could only laugh somewhat nervously. "Ehe... yeah, you two get along," he said, only to be immediately beckoned by the Nexus. "Hey, hey. C'mere," the man said.

Charlemagne looked his way, then briefly toward Angelica and Sakura again. In that moment of being unobserved, the Nexus looked to the two girls as well, his hands gesturing forward to mimic pushing. He thought the two really could get to know each other a bit better, but Charlemagne would only make things unnecessarily complicated at present. As such, he gave the lad his own throne, which faced himself and Jeanne... and faced away from the other two. While the lad approached, the Nexus answered Angelica. He had only a chuckle to offer Jeanne's observation, as the truth would make itself clear soon enough. "Ask away, doll."

[Apollymi]

The jovialness of the Nexus even in the face of some rather normally intense moments was infectious for the most part. Jeanne would be easily found side-eyeing the white haired man sitting beside her and giving at least a little consideration. Her other self would have definitely greeted this man with a hug. Jeanne or rather Hoshimi Emi was just a fairly affectionate girl. She was also among her family a bit of a cry-baby, but that was neither here nor there. As she'd matured she'd stopped crying and after the incidents surrounding the theft of her grail, she'd found herself generally adverse to affection which could come from those of the opposite gender. Perhaps though, the fact that the Nexus was usually a disembodied voice that normally wasn't people at all could work in its favor? "Fuck if I know, ask me before I leave..." yeah, that was about as comital as the currently abrasive form of Jeanne could be.

Another gasp from Angelica would follow. She really wasn't used to hearing Jeanne swear, it was a surreal experience. It felt almost wrong for the girl who was normally yelling language at people and keeping the conversations within normal bounds to spew vulgarities so very casually. In this moment, Angelica realized that her father had actually broken the nicest person in the world. Jeanne was still herself, but she was so markedly different from the version that Angelica was used to she didn't know what to do. Moving on from that, both Sakura and Angelica seemed to be very interested in getting to know each other, and after the embrace between Charles and Angelica ended, the Nexus seemed keen to enable it as well. Though Charles himself was rather weird about it, this wasn't terribly abnormal, he was just a guy after all, strangely both those girls didn't seem to think it too odd.

Charles went to join Jeanne and the Nexus but facing away and in the same moment Jeanne looked to see a rather wicked smile cross the face of Sakura. 'That's a Rie-nee face if I've ever seen one~' she thought. Angelica had a question though, "You're like an all seeing guy right? Did you see my floor?" she asked of the Nexus as she and Sakura were gestured together. Sakura reached out a hand for the other girl, who felt strangely compelled to take it. 'It's a trap!~' these were the thoughts of Jeanne d'Arc but her face was completely unreadable. The two girls were evenly matched in height and their structures and colors complimented each other, mana was exchanged between the pair first by that contact between hands, but in so being, they eventually came to hug. Moment by moment they got closer and closer, and strangely, it would be Angelica who aimed to kiss the rather passive, but strangely manipulative Sakura. Yes, that was about what would happen in a situation like this...

[Bloodedge]

"Will do~" the Nexus answered. He knew the original Jeanne would have probably opened their meeting with a hug, just as she likely would have embraced Charlemagne after so long apart. This new version was fairly interesting for the contrast, if nothing else. Oh well; everything would be fine soon enough. He couldn't see every aspect of Jeanne's existence currently, but he could see Charlemagne. That alone was enough for him to know.

Upon reaching the Nexus and Jeanne, Charlemagne took a seat. It was such a strange way to be placed, but he assumed the Nexus wished to discuss something with him directly. As such, he sat while the Holy Grail was refilled. The Nexus took a moment to fill Jeanne's phantom grail as well, figuring a few minutes of distraction would serve the group well. Ah, but he also had something worth whispering to Charlemagne. "You know it's only going to be more weird for you if you blow a hole in your pants right now, right?" he asked, much to the lad's embarrassment. "That's not the conversation I thought I was walking into!"

The Nexus laughed. He knew what was happening behind Charlemagne, and he knew it was better if the boy was uninvolved presently. There remained a discussion to have with Angelica, though. Had he seen her... floor? Floor? Ah, that! "It's pretty hard to see in there because of your guardian's meddling," he said with a sigh. He wouldn't be acknowledging Anu as the girl's father, but of course there were several undisclosed reasons for that. Regardless, a snap of his fingers warped the blank space around them. Since Angelica was here, her soul's memories could be probed easily. They would all find themselves sitting in the garden she more recently developed, able to see the whole of her floor. One could even feel the atmosphere just as it was intended during her original creation. "This place, right? You want me to tell you how awesome it is? I'll be honest; I know a lot of words in every language ever. I probably still don't have enough to appreciate this sort of thing properly. It sort of reminds me of... Shangri-La, that place we never got around to finishing on Terra."

[Apollymi]

The rightness of Jeanne in the future was something she didn't think about. Of course, she had no reason to concern herself with it, she knew other people were worried but she had only one thing to do before she righted herself. All would be okay eventually. In the meantime, Jeanne got a phantasmal grail full of something delicious and while she drank she could only be amused. What she was seeing behind Charles wasn't even completely out of the ordinary for normal girls who got along as such she wasn't bothered at all, though Charles had it pointed out that he was close to a problematic issue. A chortle came from Jeanne as he claimed this wasn't the conversation he thought he was walking into. "Easy, Chuck. Girl Time is sacred, enjoy your drink~" she claimed, choosing not to comment on what girl time entailed and choosing not to poke further fun at him for having a more natural reaction though she well could have.

In the meantime, she sipped casually from her cup and witnessed an evolution. The meeting of lips easily became a tongue wrestling match between the two opposing girl, with Sakura being the one to evolve it. Just the same both girls had oddly moving hands squeezing at their best assets. According to Angelica she'd changed her floor and Jeanne hadn't seen it either. Here and now the white space would be transformed. It didn't go past Jeanne's notice that the Nexus didn't call Anu, Angelica's father, which was pleasing regardless of his reason for doing so, she chuckled again. Angelica was finding Sakura's body to be quite soft and squishy. The other girl's mouth tasted of something powerful enough to burn but also with a mild sweetness behind it. She couldn't have described it if she tried, but she liked it. At the same time... Sakura was tasting something rather sweet in the mouth of Angelica. More like pure vanilla something sweet that could be added to anything. How nice. Both girls were soon red faced, but Angelica had multiple reasons to be, a gentle lip smacking would be heard as she parted and looked upon her work while taking in the view of her floor. "Really?!" she exclaimed seemingly excited about it. Sakura for a moment looked around as well, this was a great thing too. Another squeeze of Angelica's chest would occur but she'd also comment while still looking a bit more devilish than normal. "I really like this place too... Otou-chan would think it was nice as well. It's really pretty~" she claimed, though she sounded a little breathless? "Otou-chan?" Angelica questioned. Sakura now understood her references weren't easily understood. "I have five fathers, Otou-chan is an elf and a druid," she commented. "I met an elf the other day. That's so interesting..." she claimed seeming to wonder more about Sakura's parents. "I'll show you~" Sakura chimed and suddenly they were right back at it, while Sakura fed Angelica information and visuals on her parents.

"You redecorated," Jeanne said her eyes glancing over the place. Even this version of Jeanne had nothing negative to say. In fact she had the words everyone else was missing. "I know what to say, this place is bitchin'~" she claimed in pure happy fashion. "Way better than it was, a fucking masterpiece~" she added lifting her cup to the lass. Angelica still wasn't very used to Jeanne swearing, but given her current circumstances there was something really heartwarming about it. The mention of an Elf Druid as one of five fathers of Sakura was rather interesting to Jeanne. "That's a lot of dads~" she commented, but left it alone. "You guys got an elf? I mean you were always prone to making odd friends I suppose~" she said of Charles.

[Bloodedge]

According to Jeanne, 'girl time' was sacred. He didn't know what that had to do with what was most recently said; he and the Nexus were discussing the dangers of an erection he almost thought his way into. Oh well. Whatever she was getting at, he probably didn't need to know anyway. Being suddenly placed within Angelica's garden was comfortable, and he did have something to drink while time passed. If there was something else odd meant to come from the Nexus's mouth, however, he'd hope for a better start than that last attempt.

More importantly, the sounds of Angelica's and Sakura's reactions were... strange. It all sounded like... no, there was no way. His perverted mind was obviously taking things way too far, filling in unknowns with his own sick desires. Even so, the sounds he imagined seemed very real. Maybe it was an effect of being in the Nexus? Whatever the case, multiple perspectives on Angelica's garden were given, with Jeanne ending it all by questioning Charlemagne. He didn't think he was very prone to making odd friends, though their personalities were admittedly all over the place. "Huh?" he said initially. It took a moment for him to fully register her words. Ah, but he was able to respond just after that utterance. "There is Fierabras, yeah. He was a Saracen knight while we were still out hunting relics, but he was brought over to our side in the middle of it all. Another one pushing me into a role I didn't want," he griped, sipping from the grail thereafter. "They're not odd though. I mean, they're not all human I guess, but I can't see the difference. Go figure, the one who helped set me up in the end was Ganelon."

[Apollymi]

Jeanne had mentioned the sacredness of girl time, and maybe it wasn't clear why she said it. She said it because Charles was still a man, and thus was easily distracted by his second brain, even if it was no fault of his own. Perving on 'girl time' could change the image of a nice guy pretty easily and Charles was a nice guy. But... maybe he'd figure that whole thing out on his own. Or... given the fact that the other two young women were making out without any shame whatsoever maybe it wouldn't be a big deal later. But Charles did come from the same world as Jeanne and she knew how those minds worked if nothing else.

Just the same the make-out session between Sakura and Angelica seemed to be progressing rather consistently. Angelica was receiving a great deal of information about Sakura and her immediate family and Sakura was behaving in a way more conducive to the way her powers and abilities wished to work. All the while they were making sounds which were likely contributing to Charles not being able to concentrate. Oh well... Jeanne seemed to be reasonable enough at getting this lad's attention and what did he have to say. "Saracen? I can't say I've seen one of those in ages... " she said seeming to find that interesting. Beyond that though there was the matter of the jobs Charles was forced into, "Volunteer as tribute you wouldn't have to worry about being made to do anything~" she said with a chuckle. According to Charles beyond these points it was Ganelon that was a problem for him in the more recent times, who'd backed Anu and tried forcing him out. "Ganelon? Old guy from the French Court? Well... that isn't really surprising. When most of our current problems are magical beings, gods and dragons... it's easy to forget that weak-hearted humans are the shittiest people," she said honestly. Humanity was its own biggest problem and in the world they'd originally come from, she knew for a fact that humans were the biggest problem.

But what wasn't a problem was the now breaking kisses between Sakura and Angelica. The pair seemed to have come to some sort of agreement and Angelica now completely understood the other girl and in typical fashion seemed to be quite fond of her already. They seemed to have approached their natural breaking point but were still rather happily holding hands. "It really is great," she said of the place they were currently in. "I don't know... your home seems like it would be pretty interesting too.... and your parents seem really nice," Angelica mentioned seeming to have no problem with the girl's rather diverse parentage.

[Bloodedge]

While something Charlemagne would have died by witnessing occurred, he was discussing matters of the Saracens and the traitor among his group. "You probably won't see them again. Not with that name, anyway," he said in passing, regarding the Saracens. The king of that particular group was long gone. If there remained any stragglers, they couldn't come forth with the same identity. Regarding Ganelon, he couldn't be too surprised either, knowing now how Anais viewed the older male. "That one, yeah. He became Roland's stepfather, and he was a solid guiding figure for a long time. Seems like he's been on Father An's side for a while now, though ─ the more I think about it."

Angelica and Sakura continued exchanging information somehow. Charlemagne thought of this in the way he'd learned about in Munetsuchi, but that had to just be his mind doing its own thing again. The sounds persisted as well. The poor lad was eventually crossing his legs within the throne, sipping as nonchalantly as possible. In his mind, however, he had a front-row seat of those two, each with their tongue down the other's throat. Naturally, that visual in his head was the reason for the current posture. "So uh... how long are we gonna sit here? I thought there was something to discuss," he said to the Nexus, who had the gall to look dumbfounded. "How long? Until everything's done, obviously. Listen, kid, sometimes there are a lot of intangibles to deal with. You just need to sit down and let certain things play out, even when you don't know what's going on. Right, Jeanne?"

[Apollymi]

"Hoh?" that was an interesting sentence. Charles kept saying he wasn't interested in outings with Jeanne's sister, but she could see them getting along based solely upon how they chose to handle their problems. Oh well... people like them didn't listen to her until they were already in the middle of the experiences anyways. She'd point it out later over drinks and desserts or something like that. Moving on from that point there was the matter of Ganelon who apparently had been a guiding force for them but might have been on the side of the 'Holy Father' for quite a while. "Roland's stepfather?" she questioned. She remembered that man's mother and didn't figure she'd ever take another husband after her first... strange how the world worked. "Don't beat yourself up over it, an older voice of reason is usually a pretty good thing. I have one among the knights right now, her name is Terrawyn. It's more or less a toss up if older people are going to be problematic," she said knowing full well that the 'in my day' type of people who went looking for their former glory were more likely to be terrible than the more flexible of their ilk. "She'd be pretty helpful to you by the way... if you run into her at the HQ. She has a weird 'blind' nun thing going on but she's great!~" she mentioned ever helpful knowing he was likely walking into a clustered problem upstairs.

All the while Charles tired to keep himself together. Sakura and Angelica were having a whispered and giggled conversation. Of course, it would switch around a bit and there would be hushed conversations happening about Charles now and that was also to be expected. To answer Charles's question about how long they were going to sit here, there were apparently things to discuss. "Hai, sometimes what you don't know is happening is more important than the things you know about..." Jeanne said, she could at least say that with a good amount of understanding of the situation. Besides all that she was content to enjoy a few drinks and just catch up. The next thing heard said by Sakura was a question concerning Charles's friends. "Do you know the girl with the deer horns? Otou-chan is her mentor... I haven't gotten to speak with her much yet..." trailing off again. They were holding hands and still chatting from really close together. "Ah, you should talk to Jeanne she's great for that sort of thing..." Angelica mentioned seeming to grab the attention of the lass as she drained another cup of its contents and once again held it out. She didn't know when she'd get another and it was a life rule to have a good time.