Munetsuchi

[Apollymi]

According to Mugen, he didn't want Yume too broken. She could take that many ways, but she knew of the cursed tags, perhaps demons were into mind-breaks of a less than life altering variety. Like the kind that happened for the moment instead of the kind that turned into complete and total bad ends. Whatever the case, she seemed just a little bit amused by what was said and found herself smirking regardless. Too bad, the jovial and light-hearted musings of the girl would be lost for a moment. After explaining why she didn't wish to go out naked, it was stated that maybe she'd end up satisfying the lad one day, even if it wasn't her. "Ewww, that is a horrifying thought..." she murmured. It seemed this girl had few fears in life, but didn't like the idea of her image being something this boy could connect with his own happiness anymore.

Whatever the case, Mugen seemed to be fixing up his bedroom and even the little shadow of Miyuki seemed to go away as well. That was quite nice and they would be on their way. But of course there was at least one more thing the girl would have to deal with. When she'd decided this lad's mind needed breaking, it was apparently the case that his body had been left where it was while his mind traveled to her first day of lessons. "That's a bit of a pain isn't it?" she murmured. It was annoying to think the lad didn't actually know how very over they were. Besides that it wouldn't really be a fitting punishment if he didn't have those memories to go out into the world with. Besides he'd get the wrong idea about them potentially reconciling if he didn't get them back. "So, will they break his brain? It'd be sort of pointless to give them back to him and then have to break up with him again..." she hypothesized as she stepped back into the throne room. Hm, everything felt quite different, with her senses properly open.

[Bloodedge]

Yume seemed quite disgusted by the idea of enabling Miyuki's happiness, even indirectly. As Mugen saw it, however, she had nothing to worry about. "Don't think much of it. You see... Karma has its ways. Those who deserve the worst will get the worst. For every positive someone like that receives, the negative will be overall doubled so long as they keep on the same track," he explained. In regards to the sudden plural pronoun usage, Mugen figured Yume would understand fully once she saw Miyuki again.

Once they returned to the throne room, a question was presented. Yume wished to know if receiving those memories would break the human boy's mind, and in truth... Mugen couldn't say for certain. He shrugged initially. There was only one factor that could determine the stability of a person's mind. "That depends on him. Strength of mind is something determined in a moment, based on one's own emotional responses and how they choose to deal with them in regards to the information being processed. One could choose to reflect on memories like those and be perfectly fine after a time. Alternatively, one could take zero responsibility and... well, what doesn't better you, makes you lesser. A bit of a bonus lesson for you," he instructed. Of course, Mugen knew how the boy would most likely react. Even with that being the case, humans had a propensity for surpassing their own limits in numerous ways. It may have been a small chance, but there remained a chance nonetheless that Miyuki would reflect on those memories and be fine eventually.

[Apollymi]

Yume was quite disgusted by the idea of having anything to do with Miyuki's happiness. As far as she was concerned, his happiness and her had nothing to do with each other and she didn't want them entwining at all. Of course, that could have just been the spite talking, or it could have been her continued digust at the type of manipulation she saw him as being capable of. Whichever the case was, it was at least a little comforting, that Karma in this world seemed to be so proactive. "I guess it's good that karma isn't just something people talk about to make themselves feel better," she stated. She knew in the world she'd come from people spoke of karma as a form of justice but knew that more often than not, some wrongs would never see true consequences. At least, she could rest easy knowing that if he remained as he was, he'd pay for it...

Speaking of recompense, there was apparently the matter of the lad's returned memories. For all Yume knew, returning his mind to him with the memories of her own debauchery might break him in some way. And Mugen's words on the matter implied that it was possible that could happen, but this wasn't the sort of thing that could be mediated ahead of time. Mugen's lesson in this form was that if it didn't make you better it would make you lesser. This was considered a bonus to her previous lessons and she supposed if she applied the logic of her earlier situations to this, she could say that attaching herself to Miyuki permanently would have made her incapable of reaching even her current height, making her lesser in the grand scheme of things. "Sou ka, so it one of those free will choices," she said seeming to understand the whole of the situation in theory. So what did she think? Well, a kid's cartoon movie had once mentioned either running from an experience or learning from it, given the profound impact of such a statement, she didn't think it a good thing to do for either of them to stand in the way of the lad learning his lesson. If he collapsed it would be no one's fault but his own, if he learned from it, maybe he could live a happy life without ever darkening her doorstep again. If she was being fair, the latter was in general what she wanted for most people after they'd done their due diligence. "After some consideration, he should definitely get his memories back. I won't stand in the way of someone else's learning opportunity. Even if the lesson is particularly tough," she concluded with a light giggle. "Alright, I guess I am watching someone's mind roll a d20 today~" she stated, wondering if that might have been giving the lad a bit too much credit.

[Bloodedge]

Yume's response implied a belief that Karma couldn't always apply. From the sound of things, her world didn't have such direct uses of the phenomenon... though Mugen knew better. "Karma always has its place, and will always have its way. Rack up enough, and even another lifetime won't save you from the consequences of your own actions," he asserted firmly. Across many lives, one picked up many things. Among those things was an understanding of how connected they all were in the end.

Moving on, Yume had a decision to make regarding her former... pet? At this point, Mugen wasn't sure what to call the creature in human form, but he couldn't personally consider it much of a human. Humans were magnificent creatures with limits beyond the stars themselves. This one was instead content to lower his own ceiling continuously. Among the things Mugen could not abide, that was perhaps the most grievous. Yume's decision was to grant the lad his memories, thus granting an opportunity for self-improvement. Though Mugen didn't believe improvement would come in any reasonable time, he could respect the decision. "Then there's only one thing to do. You should know how to transfer memories without... frankly debasing yourself by now," he said, standing by while that vegetable of a boy sat in wait for his own awakening. Miyuki didn't even have a clue what was happening. In having his consciousness returned, he could have believed no time had passed since it was ripped out. In this case however, it seemed he would be receiving all that missing time instead. How would things play out from there?

[Apollymi]

Apparently, life times worth of Karma could be built up in such a way that even dying wouldn't save you from your past mistakes. Yume for a moment tried to imagine a person insane enough to get themselves into that much trouble. She couldn't rightfully imagine it. How could someone actually be crazy enough to keep doing things that didn't work? She supposed the worlds had all sorts of people in them, it should be likely to encounter any kind of person, that being said, it seemed a bit unreasonable for someone to actually amass a bunch of negative karma enough to bleed through their semi-infinite lives. "Be mindful of sticking points. And don't act like a spoilt entitled crazy person, got it~" she said seeming to have come to a few conclusions about the sorts of people who had to live with more than a little bit of karma in the negatives from one life to another.

But their happy lessons would once again find themselves detouring around Miyuki. As the lad sat on the floor, Yume found herself staring at his rather annoying looking visage. She couldn't exactly place why, but now that her eyes were actually on him, she just felt annoyed all over again. Luckily enough, (likely for both of them), Mugen was still around to distract her a bit. He seemed to understand her decision to afford the lad his memories but would leave it to her to undertake it. She supposed that was only fair, as the boy's consciousness moving was indeed her own doing. She wouldn't exactly be putting the work of righting things on anyone else. She wasn't irresponsible. Besides, Mugen was quite right, she did have the necessary knowledge, between what he'd given her directly and what she'd taken from her gifted hat, to put together a way to restore the lad without having to touch him in an intimate way. Alright! She could do this... she raised her right hand to her mouth and blew into it gently. There was a mix of mana and magic there, that looked like a tiny seedling of blue fire. It would be about all that was required to magically restore the lad's memories based on her understanding of such things as an onmyoji. Still there was the method of delivery which she spent a bit of time thinking about with that little seedling pulsing in her hand. "Delivery method wasn't something I thought of initially," she mused, seeming to find a light-hearted sentiment in herself for just a second. But... it wouldn't last. No she drew back her right hand and immediately slapped it into the lad's left cheek. And then, just to make sure his brain properly restarted, she followed up with an immediate left to the other side of his face. She didn't know why, but somehow she felt better. An amused expression settled on her face, immediately after. That was oddly satisfying. Well, it did make sense, she'd started her day in this world by slapping the lad in her human form, a couple of slaps from her current form was the most ironic ending to this day.

[Bloodedge]

Another lesson given, another lesson learned. Mugen didn't find it necessary to deliver all lessons in the form of mana, as moments like these benefited greatly from verbal teachings. Other things, however... were best learned by feeling. Yume had the necessary information to share Miyuki's own memories with him, and she produced those memories by breathing them as flame into her hand. Just then, Mugen felt that all spite hadn't left her just yet. One would wonder how she thought to deliver that hint of mana. Ah... but she didn't leave him waiting very long.

Not at all for the first time today, the sound of skin colliding with skin resonated throughout the throne room. It happened once, it happened twice, though neither time was for the same reason as the similar sounds of earlier. Yume had two hands ─ both were for Miyuki's face. Mugen laughed, knowing the second collision didn't even carry memories with it. Just the same, it would have purpose. Miyuki received the first slap and experienced the rush of traumatizing memories that accompanied it. In that moment, he became conscious again. Also in that moment, he was perfectly aware of the second slap meant only to hurt. The boy reeled from a combination of pain and a massive influx of information to the mind. How would he take he information itself, though? He saw every moment of Kaguya's downfall at once. Everything flowed through his mind like an accelerated video, with Kaguya's goodbye repeating throughout it all. As for how he took it all... the sign was somewhere between Mugen's sudden laughter, and the sudden wet bulge in Miyuki's breeches. "Kuhuhuhu! I should have warned about that one. The apparition would have done that earlier, but it couldn't. Looks like it all welled-up just to come out now~"

[Apollymi]

Dual slaps were delivered to the blonde haired boy's face and there was satisfaction in Yume after she did so. She assumed by the shocked looking expression on Miyuki's face that he'd both gotten back his memories and understood that the secondary slap was done not out of necessity but instead out of spite. All of this would have been glorious, even Mugen's new laughter if the reason for it had been different.

It would seem that there were quite a few things left unsaid by Miyuki. And maybe he didn't know about them before their time in this world, but at the very least his body was quite honest about enjoying the show. Yume might have just assumed it was a knee-jerk reaction but somehow given the words Mugen spoke about the situation and forgetting to warn her of it, she could assume that this was just peak sexual deviance. Even with her own sexual deviance being something known, she found this particular lack of restraint a special kind of disgusting. "Eww, I touched him..." she squealed taking a step back. Blue flames appeared in both her hands as if she intended to burn any residual traces of their physical contact away.

Just the same it had been hours since Mugen had disappeared. And in that time, Miwa had finished her studies and managed to do quite a few things concerning her new nigh absolute control over arcane wisdom. She'd studied sources and done a great deal of thought based exercises regarding them. Of course, she had an intention of seeing a particular one of her husbands this day, but that didn't matter at all. No, the woman sat as regally as she normally did, long legs stretched over the end of her throne, little black strips of cloth covering her important parts while leaving her a lot of skin showing. Her eyes were a perfect shade of blue and her hair was ornately done up just a bit. Her countanence was stunning and Yume's attention would be brought to it as somewhat amused words slipped from between her lips. "Ara? I assume he deserved those slaps. I was wondering why someone left a vegetable in the middle of the throne room..." she stated as if it was a perfectly normal thing to have happen. "Oh, but it looks like something much more important has happened today~" she seemed rather excited to be told of more pressing developments.

[Bloodedge]

Miyuki sat on his knees, abandoned and assaulted... and dribbled ejaculate into his pants. As the latter occurred, Yume expressed disgust over making physical contact with the lad just moments before. Did she not like that he had a positive sexual response to everything he could see? That seemed to be the case as she aimed to literally burn off the filth of his touch. Surely it should be seen as a compliment to her attractiveness! "Shinomiya, I─" The boy tried to speak, but a pointed glare from the likes of Mugen froze him in place. It wasn't even the demon's intention to silence him; he was merely disgusted by a peculiar smell of... raw meat.

Luckily for Mugen, there was a distraction from that awful scent. At some point during Yume's first... 'lecture' of sorts, Miwa returned to the throne room. It seemed she'd left the little human sitting there while wondering why he was in such a state. "Ara? And what sort of time do you call this? I was bored out of my mind waiting for you earlier," he said, turning in the goddess's direction with an open hand gesturing toward Yume. Miwa knew there was something interesting afoot, but she didn't know the half of it. "So, I decided to make a long-term investment to fill the spaces between. I summoned an apprentice of my own, and she's already got a few impossible feats under her belt. Ne, Yu-pyon~?"

[Apollymi]

Should Yume have seen the expulsion from the lad as a compliment to her attractiveness? Maybe. A few hours ago she'd taken him ogling her a bit as a good sign, she wasn't simply being obtuse in being disgusted by him. Ah, it was a sensory thing, she realized this when Mugen shot the boy a rather paralyzing and disgusted look. It wasn't just her who felt strangely about the expulsion at all. It had such a strange feeling involved and her senses were heightened enough by her current level of perception that she understood what it was. If Mugen, tasted and smelled spicy to her. Then, this lad smelled like a pack of ground meat. But that wasn't just it either, it was like a pack of mixed meat that one picked up on clearance day at the super market and left in the fridge a couple extra days. It was pretty close to rotting and it just wasn't appealing. Thus her rather disgusted reaction. It was at least something to consider... as she put out the fires on her hands. This wasn't even done for normal reasons either, she wanted to burn off any residual mana, purge herself of any potential influence, she even took an extra few steps back as she turned her attention to Miwa.

Oddly, Miwa found the whole of this rather interesting to watch, but Mugen's words questioning her appearance here and now was rather pointed. She scoffed seemingly offended by the question itself. "I call it pretty fast time considering all that I was looking into. It's not every day one has their base order in the world change. I had to figure out the limits. And... I was studying the Source... A single day's time is far from excessive in this case," she stated. Well, it didn't seem to matter much as Mugen had indeed done the thing she'd thought. And he'd gotten and given an introductory lesson to an apprentice. He called her a long term investment and the goddess could see that. He claimed she'd done some impossible things already, but there were several things in those few words which made the woman's brow quirk. In the meantime, Yume felt the nagging urge to introduce herself rather formally. Maybe because of who this woman reminded her of? "Asakura Yume desu, yoroshiku onegaishimasu!~" she said bowing to the goddess she'd learned a bit about from both Qin and Mugen.

"Oh? Another polite child. I'm Miwa, Goddess of Arcane Wisdom, though I am sure that part is obvious," she said knowing her husbands wouldn't choose complete idiots as their apprentices. The girl would find herself under rather intense scrutiny as those magical eyes of the goddess seemed to peer through her to a great extent. "What is she wearing? And did you say you summoned her? From where? How? And... this still doesn't explain the vegetable in the middle of the throne room and you seem to have gone a bit overboard as well. Her inmon is even more pronounced than mine!" Miwa exclaimed. Of course these weren't complaints. This was bound to be a secondary lively day for her. She'd await answers while staring at Yume and taking in her physical features and the markings on her body, as well as the strange clothing that seemed to fall outside of normal understanding.

[Bloodedge]

In Miwa's opinion, it was a very small amount of time she spent away from the throne room, given all the things she had to experiment with. Mugen sighed, believing she undertook her studies in a less optimal way than an alternative he had in mind. "You're not wrong; half a day is nothing compared to a human lifetime. Though you could have reduced it even more with a little... inspiration backing you. Maybe I even have some insight to offer? Who knows?" he asked rhetorically and somewhat cryptically. Ah, but none of that was important now. Miwa's absence and Anais's business kept him just bored enough to make an epic discovery, who would now be found introducing herself to the goddess.

Many questions begged answers, as one would expect in a situation like this. For some reason, Miwa was even still curious about that half-rotten brat on the floor, though Mugen supposed he could answer that while addressing a matter of actual importance. "I did say I summoned her. I used an old trick ─ one I wasn't sure would work. Using the Little Doe as a catalyst was enough of a boost to make it function exceptionally, pulling someone she knows from Gaia," the demon explained. Not once did he mention exactly what sort of spell was used, but he also viewed it as something of little consequence. "The inmon's strength has nothing to do with me. She decided it was a good idea to become my little plaything~♥" he added. "As for what she's wearing... that is both of the two feats I mentioned. She's wearing a Great Old One of Fomalhaut: The Living Flame Cthugha."

[Apollymi]

Mugen was exceedingly helpful in his own way. Even so, he seemingly criticized the amount of time that Miwa took to complete her own studies. He offered himself as a possible source of both inspiration and insight. A playful scoff escaped the lips of the goddess. She had a bit of snark left to share, though not nearly as much as she could have shared. "Oh? And we actually plan to share insight? And not just leave me with a burning brain after half a day of mercilessly giving inspiration without direction?" she asked rhetorically for the most part. Mugen wasn't exactly known to be a restrained individual. He likely wouldn't have stopped just because she had what she thought she needed. It was fun and great, but it wasn't as conducive to her actually completing activities in timely manners as he would claim. Besides that she knew her husband to be a bit evasive, and though she didn't mind being allowed to think, to claim he gave insight in high enough amounts to freely work with would be a stretch. Even now his words were cryptic at best.

"What an interesting couple..." Yume mentioned seeming to find the words shared between the goddess and her mentor to be a strange kind of banter. It looked almost like it could have evolved into a domestic incident, and yet, both seemed to be playfully discussing things. Such a healthy relationship was far from something the girl once known as Kaguya was normally. Perhaps it was her understanding of life that was messed up? Mugen expressed having summoned the girl, using the group's first apprentice as a catalyst. "Case in point, that explanation deliberately leaves out the potentially important part. I am always slightly disturbed that you know magic that I don't know, even if I understand it principally by explanation," Miwa stated. Meanwhile, the apprentice known as Yume caught a part of that which was implied as well. "Oh? That means the other apprentice is someone I know? I hope its someone good!~" she said seemingly excited by the prospect. She was wondering how deep a connection would have had to be to call her. On Gaia as it was apparently called, it was possible to know many people without truly knowing them, Miyuki was a pretty obvious version of something like that. Yume caught on pretty quickly, "You're quite clever, and not so skittish. I would be surprised, but if she facilitated your summoning I can't really expect anything negative," she said seeming to have taken on a fairly high opinion of both of these girls almost immediately. "Though she and Ai-chan haven't come down yet today so I have to assume your boredom led you past a boundary or four," she mused in a knowning manner.

Ah, but the lack of boundary respect by Mugen was least of today's issues. According to Mugen the strength of the inmon on the young girl was her own desire manifesting it as such. She'd taken to making herself his plaything or his pet. Miwa took one look at the girl and then back at the thing that had been on the floor when she'd arrived back in the throne room and understood how such a decision had been reached. "Definitely less skittish. I've made similar decisions, welcome to the circle, little one~" she said in an oddly welcoming fashion. Yume looked to the woman and smiled as well. It was nice to meet adults who admitted to their questionable life choices. Especially when said adults were apparently goddesses. Ah, but there was about to be a shocked silence in the room, as apparently two of this girl's feats were revealed. She'd managed to summon a great old one. Those things were older than this world, and maybe older than the last. And she was wearing it as clothes. "Hehe...hahaha....hahahahahaha! Subarashii ne!~" she broke into laughter seeming to be more than a bit amused. "Really? A great old one? Like those things I was told about as a literal child, that no one has even seen on the planet and you summoned one your first day? And you're wearing it... as clothes?! How?!" she wanted to know. This was some kind of scientific, magical and imaginative breakthrough. These children were all beyond strange and with each one she met, she was becoming more and more sure the next generation should be left to their own devices. Yume was literally wearing an ancient god and had the grace to look embarrassed a little. It was odd to get praised and questioned about something she saw as pretty simple.

[Bloodedge]

"Share? No, I guess that isn't the right word," Mugen replied. The glint in his eye belied a certain deviousness, which would be further expressed by a few additional words. "The insight will be completely for you. Do with that what you will," he finished. The demon went so far as to wink, as if to give the true answer to Miwa's question as such. If Miwa wanted inspiration from him, he could only offer it in spades.

Apparently, yet another of his explanations went without addressing the major point. He did know magic that evaded even her knowledge, but that had always been the case. If Miwa found that disturbing, there was always a frankly boring way to change things. "If you want to know so badly, you could ask. When I don't tell you something, it's because you have so much fun making discoveries of your own. Besides, have you seen the look on your face when you're lost in thought? Good luck making me lose the opportunity to see that," Mugen declared. There was no way he'd make that sort of sacrifice ─ especially considering what the end result of him seeing that expression tended to be.

Miwa came to understand why Miyuki was left in such a state. There was one more thing worth explaining as to why he was here in the first place, so Mugen took a moment to clarify. "That thing is probably only here because he was with her when she was pulled over. Though I hate to admit it under the circumstances, he may have been aligned to my aspect," he said. With that, he let Miwa come to an understanding of how utterly ridiculous this new apprentice was already. Summoning an Eldritch God was one impossible thing, but managing to subjugate one and turn it into a living Artifact was another impossibility far beyond the first. She approached it so casually, he could hardly address it all with the respect it deserved. "One of those, yes. As for how... I only gave the incantation; everything else is a product of her mind. I haven't even mentioned the more... entertaining things she's managed to do."

[Apollymi]

Devious looks passed between husband and wife, and Yume in watching them was able to get a feel for their relationship. They seemed like a flirty couple, the type who had their kids young and were still having fun even after they migrated out of the house. Instead of empty nest syndrome they probably became like permanent vacationers or swingers. Actually given this was a known harem, they were already a bit swinger adjacent. And Miwa herself seemed very friendly and accepting. "Aren't you just feeling extra flirty today?~" she said as if that wasn't the case literally anytime she spoke to the man.

Moving on, Mugen claimed that Miwa could ask things she wanted to know, and Miwa could only scoff. He went on to claim that she seemed to have fun with her discoveries so he avoided telling her things she could find out on her own. He also mentioned the look on her face when she was deep in thought which made Miwa turn her head, playfully but even for her, the skin on her face changed just a little. "As if I have any idea what my face looks like while I am thinking..." she claimed as if it was the only thing to take into consideration. Yume for her part in this managed to giggle behind her hand. "You might be shameless, Mugen-sama!~" she almost whispered. How interesting it was that he seemed capable of making a goddess blush. That had to be no small feat. Yume never stood a chance. She was mentally completely absolving herself of getting, 'lost in the sauce' as she would have said to her friends.

Moving on it seemed that Miyuki was only here because he was nearby Kaguya when she was reached for across space and time. In clarifying this matter, Mugen also mentioned that though he didn't want to say so, the lad as likely aligned to his aspect. "Sou ka, well... I do see that. Actually, looking at him his pretty hard on the eyes, like he doesn't make sense, and not in the good way," she mentioned taking this lad's current state into account. She had nothing much else to say about the broken boy... perhaps that was a problem for later. For now, she was told in the most relaxed way possible that this girl was beyond normal understanding. Someone naturally so magically inclined with inbuilt innovation that she managed to summon and tame an Eldritch God with nothing but its incantation. "I heard that part about you knowing the incantation and I have questions. Ai-chan also said similar things about the entertainment potentially offered by his apprentice as well. Though she's a bit less direct about it. How interesting, go on, explain," she said to Yume who seemed to think about how to explain it. "I had a lot of energy and I didn't know what to do with it. I understood summoning as a magic type and I reached out for something. It answered probably because of the amount of energy I gave," she stated. As for its form she could only say a bit more. "I kind of have always been really into magical girl transformation, clothing seemed like the best option for general use, these ideas are pretty normal to me," she added. Miwa could only look a bit stunned. "Imaginative people from Gaia are so interesting... I'm going to have to ask Metis if she's responsible for this sort of thing... when I next see her. Also it is definitely far outside of normal to just be able to turn something living and powerful into... clothing. Especially when you just sent out a summoning spell looking for a pet. It's all very outlandish," she murmured. What else could she even say. "Still, there are no arguments to even be presented. Her mana is nice, it is large, amorphous and able to fill space while not being too rigid. She'll definitely be a great addition. Congratulations, Muu-chan!~" she said seemingly pleased for her husband's discovery.

[Bloodedge]

In response to his initial declaration, Miwa pointed out how flirty he was being... today, as she put it. Never before had Mugen scoffed so quickly. "Today? Ara~. So, you admit that I was off my rhythm yesterday, ne?" he responded. Whatever the case, he now had a firm mental image of Miwa's 'thinking face' floating about in his head. She huffily pointed out how she wouldn't know what that face looked like, and from that, Mugen had an idea. "Think in front of a mirror next time. Then I'll see it twice, and I'll show you another face of yours I like too~" he said. According to Yume, he was a bit shameless. Well... she wasn't wrong. "What point is there in shame? You shouldn't have any either," he said as a matter of opinion, albeit one he very firmly believed in.

Miwa claimed the brat in the room was quite hard on the eyes. Mugen agreed, and with all three important people in the room sharing an opinion, he decided to do something about it. With a simple snap of his fingers, Miyuki disappeared just as Qin did previously. Where he went was a mystery even to Mugen, as he deemed the distance and direction of teleportation anything but worthwhile. "Eyesore gone. I was waiting for an excuse," he claimed. Though Miwa had questions regarding his knowledge of Eldritch summoning chants, she was quick to instead address Yume's developments. Indeed, everything done was outlandish by any reasonable standards. Rare though it was in any case beyond his own daughter, Mugen could consider himself proud ─ even when he had little to do with the occurrences. What he said aloud, however, was a direct response to how Miwa addressed him. "Muu-chan? I don't have a clue who that is, but I'll take congratulations anyway~"

In the meantime, Charlemagne was walking the streets of Munetsuchi with a large map in hand. Despite its size, it hardly covered anything beyond the main city. He'd received a few others that featured neighboring territories, all counting as part of the empire, though nothing gave him a real idea of his overall location. "Ugh, it's so weird! I mean... not the place; this kingdom is actually incredible. But, it's weird that I have no idea where we are in relation to the rest of the world. That may not sound like much, but I've been a lot of places. . ."

[Apollymi]

It seemed that some offense was taken to Miwa's observation about his flirty behavior and words. He thought that he was off his game the previous day and that she was confirming it by her words. She scoffed once more waving a hand in a playfully dismissive manner. "You weren't off your game yesterday... less flirty and more aggressive in general... yes, but you weren't rusty. I'm starting to believe you are saying that for emotional responses~" she teased gently. Moving on from this, Mugen offered her the idea of thinking in front of a mirror. Claiming that this would allow her to know what her face looked like while she was thinking and offering to make sure she saw one of his other favorite looks after that. "Ara ara~ Maybe you really were off your game yesterday~" she teased in return after putting together the pieces of his statement. When Yume mentioned his shamelessness this man didn't deny it. He asked instead the point of shame and claimed she shouldn't have any either. "Shame enforces socially normative behavior," she said just to clarify. That was a societal ideology but one which made school systems, jail systems and even governments work. "Granted I likely have way less shame than most, I'm still Japanese enough to realize when I should, whether I feel it or not~" she said. "For instance, a normal person who felt normal shame might be a bit embarrassed watching you two flirt with each other. I on the other hand, know I should be embarrassed by the logic I was raised with but... I'll still watch anyway~" Ah, those words might incidentally give insight into the life of the other student and her skittishness. Japan was a both forward thinking and a shame enforcing place.

Soon after that little bit of conversation, Mugen would be seen getting rid of the lad known as Miyuki. He did so the same way he'd tossed Qin earlier in the day, causing a giggle from Yume and a chuckle from Miwa. "I admire your restraint. Probably shouldn't have hurtled him off as a true human with no real conceptual understanding of the world, but... he seems like he might be too wrong to accept the truth presently," she mused. Beyond this Mugen apparently took issue with his form of address, but other than that everything seemed to be in order. Yume for her part in this seemed to take a deep breath of utmost comfort. "Phew, somehow that felt a bit like a really tough entrance exam... or one of those character interviews," the girl found herself speaking about the intensity of the moment. Afterwards, Miwa would have nothing but an exasperated sigh to share with Mugen, he really was going to have this be a strange sticking point. "A-na-ta, do you really plan to continue being so contrary all the time?" she asked almost rhetorically. "You seem to be a bit of an enabler, Miwa-sama~" the girl mentioned with a cheeky smile on her face. Yeah, she'd fit in nicely around here.

As the throne rooms discussions came to a gentle lull, Charles and Sakura were taking a walk while he tried to figure out where he was in relation to the rest of the world. The lad expressed some complaints about the place, but not about the country itself. He claimed it was weird that he had no idea where he was in relationship to everything else, that it was odd because he'd been so many places. That being said and given all the information they'd been given yesterday about his previous circumstances this made sense to Sakura in a logical way. "I'm glad you don't dislike it here..." she started seeming to give it a bit more thought. "If I am honest, it makes sense that you wouldn't have known this place before nor would you have any idea where it is..." she mentioned. "The old god leading that cult wouldn't have sent you towards someone who could have identified his influence. Nor would he have shown you the place where one of his first born children was living and ruling in the way of the original order. It would have contradicted his plans." she made the assumption that even if Anu knew about Munetsuchi, he likely wouldn't have sent any of his people towards it. Lest he risk their conversion or having them question his teaching.