Tsuchimikado was at a certain corner of District 7.
It was where Kamijou and Fukiyose had first met Oriana.
It was an ordinary road. There were several large department stores around, as the gas cylinder-sized robotic guards passed by the wind-powered windmill generators, moving around on the road. The students wearing PE attire were passing through as usual, but the tourists, who were in plainclothes, would especially stop by to see these robots. It was a place that could be easily spotted, but at the same time, a place that one could easily get lost.
Tsuchimikado had already switched out of his damaged PE clothes for new ones, and it was almost impossible for one to see the bandages wrapped underneath from the outside. Even so, it was hard to conceal that pale face of his. There was no wind blowing, but his body continued to sway, and his breathing was abnormally light and rushed. The Level 0 ability, Auto-Rebirth could only repair broken blood vessels. Even so, without this ability, he might have fallen a long time ago, right?
Even in this condition, Tsuchimikado Motoharu continued to stand under a corner of the large sun.
The reason was simple: he had something to do.
(To practically use my own feet to confirm things…)
Tsuchimikado looked up at the flying ships and balloons in the blue sky.
(…I know about quite a few things. That Oriana took the risk to come out and walk about on the streets, so the reason is this?)
He was a skilled user of a major Eastern magic type—the Onmyoji Arts.
Though it was Onmyoji, he had to practice quite a lot of spells, like fengshui, divination, alchemy, mantra, prayer and clepsydra, etc, with all sorts of targets and directions, including the calculation of time and the survival of a country; managing all these was the real ability of Onmyoji.
Tsuchimikado's specialty was in fengshui, but this was all that he had learned.
One could understand it by looking at the sky.
The sky was blocked by the dark green leaves of the trees, but this was unrelated.
By confirming today's date and coordinates, he could tell what kind of stars were arranged in the blue sky. Even if he didn't use a celestial globe or an astrology site, he could accurately assimilate all the knowledge of the constellations and their positions in his head.
(If it's of Index level, even if the person doesn't look up at the sky to confirm it, it's likely that the person could guess the answer by hearing this nya…)
Tsuchimikado bitterly thought.
It was already a problem to think of even using pure knowledge to go up against that girl.
No matter what, he still managed to come up with a conclusion.
(I see…nya. By using the constellations…such a view, this seems to be correct. This seems…to be based on an autumn's constellation nya…no matter from which point…seems like one can use the same magical meaning behind it, completely…analyzing this constellation…this should be what the enemy did…it hurts.)
Tsuchimikado scowled as he pressed on his flank, arranging his thoughts.
Following the path that Oriana had taken, he understood something.
No matter where he looked at the constellation, it was all the same.
At first glance, it was an obvious conclusion, but if mixed in with a magician meaning, the situation was different.
A so-called constellation was really something temporary seen from Earth. The stars looked like they were arranged, but that was just a misconception seen from both near and far-off distances. In radical terms, if one saw the constellations seen on Earth from the side, they would look completely different.
In even stricter terms, if one was to observe the constellation from a slightly different point, the constellation would be 'slightly' off shape. That was also something that could not be sensed by the human eye. Thus, several new magicians who interpreted it wrongly would lose control of their own spells. For Greek and Egyptian magicians who had wanted to use the power of the constellation, the reason why they had wanted to build giant temples was to establish a more intricate and sophisticated observatory.
The starry sky itself wasn't strange, as it was a resource that anyone could use, but it took time to prepare a spell to accept the power of a constellation: this was the characteristic of a spell that required the use of a constellation. Though Tsuchimikado mentioned before that 'a constellation could be used on numerous types of spells,' there had to be different observatories set up for different types of spells. An example would be the multi-religions Greeks, who established their 'Ares Temple' and 'Helios Temple'.
Even so, Tsuchimikado had already passed through 3 to 4 observatories, and yet the displayed meanings were completely the same.
(This isn't a coincidence nya. In other words—I can confirm that Oriana and Lidvia are planning to use an autumn constellation to activate the Croce di Pietro…)
Tsuchimikado looked up at the wide sky.
He narrowed his eyes as he looked through the sunglasses.
(…If so, what's with this contradiction?)