With the Public Address to the Dusk handled and the crowd allegedly under control, Queen Archdeath had made her way back to the home she'd claimed from her foster family during her memory lapse. Though it had the Tensei charm to it now, there was still a certain homliness that reminded her of her foster family, as well. The large, floating lavender manor lowered to the ground before her feet in time with her step and thought, as if all were linked together as one. The gothic lolita flying fortress scooped Queen Archdeath through the front door and shut promptly behind her before taking off back over the Fairy Fountain of the Dusk.
"Damn," was the first thing out of her mouth as she threw off her heels, which would fly off in front of her and into random darkness, "That took forever." Her house, though tidy and dainty, was rather grim and macabre inside; something like a sadistic playhouse. The floor was checkered, yet with a black and lavender print instead of the usual black and white. This color scheme flooded the house, the lavender giving it a certain spectral glow, as if great spiritual energy emanated all around. "... I hope there's still some pizza or something... I'm starving." Shuffling cutely toward the kitchen, Shinritha kicked off lightly into the air, hovering gently with her wings lightly encircling her body like a parachute. "... I can get outta this dress..." she carried on, her spiderprint dress that looked to be of very fine and delicate fabric shifting suddenly to some spiderprint leggings that hugged her thighs whilst her top, a loose fitting threadline mini-shirt. "Wewt~!"
When she finally reached the kitchen, she would find that there was a box of pizza that still remained. "Sweet." Flipping the box open, a white glint appeared in her ivory eye at the very sight of the pizza. It was divided up evenly and had been untouched. "Cold, but whatever." She snatched up a piece and took a bite out of it, then floated off into the living room and hurled herself on the couch. "Frankieeeeee," she groaned with affection, "... What's next on the list of crap we gotta do before we can... Do whatever." The fatigue was clear in her voice. Though Shinritha was a very intelligent young lady, she had never done a public address before, and being exposed to something new like that was taxing to even someone of power, such as herself. Just lying on the couch and gazing up at the ceiling was slightly therapeutic, but even though Shinritha wanted to rest, she also wished to keep in mind what her tasks were so that in her leisure, she could prioritize. "Just like, tell me now and I'll get to it... You know... Whenever." She waved her hand at the random darkness that filled the fullness of her non-lit house, as if something were there with her.
"Miss Shini?" a sweet and loving voice, something like a small child, called out softly from the shadows, "You're home?" From the dark shadows upon the ceiling, a silvery sphere suddenly slipped out of the umbra and into the only very dim light of the room, fit with a strange, deep violet glow. It hovered down slowly into her hand, immediately synchronizing with her power and assimilating its thoroughly calculated knowledge with her. "The Next Mission Is To Begin The Restoration Of Mechanica. We Should Station The Castle In The Factorial City To Manage The Mass Production Of The Machines." There was much Data that Franquere had collected in the shadows whilst Queen Archdeath was dealing with her public affairs, already having calculated the personal matters that needed to be attended to for her in her absence. "Also, To Get The Dusk Citizens Familiarized With The Translation Of 'Magic' Into 'Manna' So That The Creative Energy May Be Fully Recognized To Completion By The Mechanica To Utilize, You Will Need To Introduce Them To Technology And Terminology In The Dusk, As Well As Understand How To Use Your Own 'Manna' In The Process." Franquere was handling the industrial work and deeper mechanics of the Factorial City within the darkness like an engineer, preparing everything for when it was time for true production of their operation.
Shinritha continued to gaze up lifelessly at the ceiling, tongue hanging out of her mouth and lids low. It looked like she was really drained. When Franquere was done speaking, she muttered under her breath, "Yeah... yeah... I got it..." Raising the Metal Pumpkinhead up into the air, Shinritha lazily called upon a small bit of her Ultimetia Energia and focused it into the sphere. "Atlas~..." she called out lackadaisically, her 'Ultimate Atlas' technique spreading itself all throughout her house. It was quickly illuminated like a planetarium and she was able to view her most recent target points based on the information given to her by the Metal Pumpkinhead's gathered data. When it had fully filled her house, Shinritha would release the Metal Pumpkinhead from her hand and let it float there sustaining the Ultimate Atlas until Shinritha was ready to get up and deal with it.
Once the Ultimate Atlas was sprawled out over the entire house, the Metal Pumpkinhead would begin to isolate coordinates that needed to be handled immediately by both Shinritha and itself. From there, Shinritha would be alerted to each of this points and their positions would be maintained as Red Dots on the Ultimate Atlas.
Shinritha rested for a while in a hypnotic trance-like meditative catatonic state, something like a slowly dying person that had come to peace with their life and imminent death, gazing up at the ceiling and processing all the information she was getting. It was all tiresome, but it was actually exciting her to acquire this sort of wisdom and power. "Manor To Factorial City," she commanded, the input registering and the entire floating house beginning to rise into the air. Once it was clear over the trees, it would be on its way toward Mechanica's Factorial City.
When she finally felt like she didn't want to be lazy anymore, she got herself up off the couch and scratched her head, which now had rather messy and unkempt hair that she didn't seem to care about fixing in the slightest. "Kaaaay Frankieeee... I'm up... I'm up." Standing to her feet and stretching a bit, with a tired yawn, Shinritha would look around the room with a nonchalant gaze, leisurely pointing out all of the marked targets. Once she did, then she would not take her eyes off of them. "URGRAAAH!!!" she groaned deeply and loudly like an animal, in what sounded to be both pain and anger, before all along her head, from front to back, extra eyes sprouted open with the gruesome sound of flesh tearing forcefully, glowing bright red and focused on each of the targets. These were her spider queen eyes, of which she could focus on multiple targets all at once with. "Now I'm ready... So whenever you wanna get this show on the road, Frank, start testing me on the Manna." Before she got started, she would be sure to send Manor Malfortuna on its course to the Factorial City, so that she could simply be training all during the flight.
"Right Away, Miss Shini," he said kindly, smiling at his mistress lovingly. "By the way, 'The Siren' has gone off in Valparaiso, if you'd care to awaken your Spirit and prepare the Cemetery." Because of the events occurring currently, Franquere made humble suggestions on accurate calculations on all situations at all times, and therefore would speak on them politely in as much of a humane manner as possible in order to communicate them as they were maneuvering.
'Raja Tahdoa'
Shinritha would have to translate and manifest this Creative Energy in the form of her specified Manna, wherein she would not only replicate, but also learn the technique at the same time. This was only if she were to replicate properly. If not, then the energy would take on its own form independent of her and become sentient energy that would do as it willed independent of Shinritha's will.
"Oh really? You're getting everything ready for me?" He was such a great helper. "Thanks for reminding me, Frankie~! Heh heh heh..." Shinritha could see into the Metal Pumpkinhead about all of the things that were going on in the shadows, of which her spider eyes were affixed to. After dealing with whatever scoundrel was slithering around in the darkness, the dark power source of Valparaiso was active again, and that could be used as a great power source. She could already feel its power surging within her just from its activation. "Mmm..." Embracing that darkness, Shinritha stepped dreamily off into the cosmically lit interior of her home, hovering gently through the spacious expanse and into a different corridor of her manor lackadaisically, calculating the scenario.
"Level 4... Mechanical Wall." That was the translation of the Creative Energy into Common Language, and the energy that was within it would be transliterated into a state of energetic replication by Shinritha just from her being able to translate it directly. Lifting one of her Materia Wings into the air, the black energy would take on the form of a large, thick metal wall filled with replicated cybernetic technology. It would place itself in the doorway between Shinritha and the Metal Pumpkinhead, acting like a door. "Heh. This is fun already." She wondered what else she could do. Franquere would be teaching her how to use her Manna properly, so she hoped that she could get the gist of it before they landed in the Factorial City. She wanted to get started with it right away.
"Correct," Franquere would recite, hovering through the wall and around the mechanical wall now serving as a doorway, "... You seem to know how to manipulate your Creative Energy, but do you know what your Manna is, Miss Shini?" Even if one was able to use the power of Manna, there was the capability to have a specified manna that would deal with how each individual utilized their Creative Energy personally rather than generally. "It should have its own personal quality and effect that is an attribute of your mind and how it Creates Energy." If she did not know what it was nor how to discover it, she would now. As she did, Franquere would systematically recite the next set of Manna for Shinritha to translate, until she had gotten the hang of it for herself. He would teach her everything she needed to know along the way to have her ready for leading the people in terms of how to use Manna and Technology together.
'Digashiru Luxudo'
"I'll deal with the technical stuff later," she'd say nonchalantly, hovering through her house and searching information casually about what the next Spell would be. "Besides... I think I could use a refresher, anyways." She waved her hand about leisurely, as if brushing off the work, kicking a leg up over the other as she drifted along in thoughtful calculation.
'Digashiru Luxudo'
"Growing Shield of Strengthening Light?" That one seemed to be a little more of a difficult translation due to the placement of the words, but seemed to make some sort of sense. Her eyes flashed bright red for a moment and a large red barrier would burst around her body, pulsating outward as an expanding force field. "Woah!!" Shinritha cried, falling out of the sky. "Holy crap, some of these things are loaded!" Once she translated one of the Spells and released its energy, it would begin to take an immediate effect through any means of her own Creative Energy from her body. If she didn't know what it was going to do nor what the effects were when activating one of the Spells, it would not only drain her, but also have an effect she wasn't prepared for. After catching her breath from the surprise, Shinritha stood up and took a deep breath. "... And it's mine now! HEEHEEHEE!!!" Overjoyed, she would turn to Franquere in her excitement and extend her hand out to the Metal Pumpkinhead, palming it with a hand like a vampirical claw, "FRANQUERE!!! Kick it up a notch! Stop going easy on me!" Even if she had to translate these techniques, she wanted to have a little more fun about doing so. "What else ya got?"
"Since you have become familiar with how to translate the Manna, it's time to learn how to Direct your Manna." Immediately, Franquere would begin drawing up the data for both he and Shinritha to mentally share and review like data on a computer screen throughout the area around them. "Directing your Manna is guiding where you wish for the effects to take place after you have decided what you want the effects of your Manna to be. You can direct them by giving directions through your Command Input. From here on, I will be showing you how to use the Command Input system. First, we will start off with the 'Basic Command Template.'" At that moment, the data for the Basic Command instructions that were recorded in the Tensei files would come up for Shinritha to view directly.
"The Basic Command Template is for giving Direct Orders to Specified Objects or Subjects. It is more advanced than the Simplified Command Template because it is less general and gives more definition and form to the direction of the energy, rather than it flowing about freely and uncontrollably when released. This helps to restrain the effects of the Creative Energy upon release to ensure that they come out in a controlled environment and do not end up being released wildly, as you had just recently done."
'Eyes :: Chajutema'
From there, Shinritha would have to translate exactly what the Spell was as well as direct it to her Eyes so that its energy would emerge from her eyes specifically and not anywhere else on her body.
Shinritha listened halfheartedly to Franquere, gathering the data for herself as he spoke, but still payed attention to what he was saying to make sure she didn't miss the next Spell.
'Chajutema'
"Mechanical Charge..." Shinritha recited from her translations, a certain digital sheen glimmering in each of her eight eyes, "From the Eyes!" At that moment, all of the electronic devices within eyesight would suddenly become active with energy, even if they were not plugged in or turned on. They would be as if they were sentient and charged with their own source of electrical power, which was coming from Shinritha, herself, who was powering them with her eyesight alone. "Frankie, this is awesome," she said flat out, walking over to the nearest one and having it levitate with just a surge of her thoughts. "Dude, is there more? Please tell me there's more." She seemed to be having a good time. Nice relief to a stressful day doing something she really didn't particularly feel like doing. It was just so stiff out in the public eye, and she couldn't really stand it. She'd much rather keep to herself and chill out and relax in her manor. Hopefully, the Dusk Citizens could manage. Chroma was there, so Shinritha wasn't worried.
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