[ Van Zieks offers a small nod at being accused of being European, so at least Tamamori hit the mark with that comment. Van Zieks has full sympathy for the horrible confusion resulting from those with entirely different continents and countries though - he finds himself secretly relieved whenever he can ascertain another Lost Soul is from Earth as he knows it, even if the time period is all wrong. ]

What a barbarian ritual.

[ And he'd probably have worse words for it, if a faint memory at the back of his mind weren't rising. Ryounkaku... ]

I believe I have heard mention of that tower - it's construction was finished some decade ago, I recall. A Japanese contemporary living abroad said that it rather impressed his wife to watch it grow and grow into the heavens. She wrote of it in some of her letters.

[ What happened to Genshin Asogi's wife anyway...? It occurs to van Zieks that he never even asked. ]