Laboratory 5 : Department of Arcane Research and Development

[Magni Prime]

finishing his work, Charles leans back exhausted for the moment. For the first time in a long while, he closes his eyes on purpose and rests. Immediately upon closing them, the memory of a pair of striking green eyes look back at him. Not in menace or anger, but in compassion. While in squad 4's hospital ensuring that William would be taken care of, a girl had come to tend to them both. Charles had nodded off for a moment, but woke to see a darker-skinned girl with striking green eyes before him. She did as her squad is deigned to: made him feel better, and politely asked him to move on so others could be tended to. Her appearance, her mood, and everything about her was so different than anything Charles was accustomed to! She haunts him on the edges of his mind, and a part of him wants to seek her out, to learn of her. The majority of him however, knows better. Realizing he will get no voluntary rest, Charles forces himself back to the moment.

When his eyes open, they rest upon his experiment from long ago. The ability to diffuse reiatsu and with enough time see a form take for each type of spiritual wavelength . . . he saw himself as he is now, a captain, a plus with a mask, and even some dark twisted version of himself. The only two that were unclear was the center mirror, in which his sword spirit first appeared . . . and the one adjacent to it. Charles hypothesizes that was the form he would take as a hollow, but it never stood still. All he knows is that it was big . . . and had claws. In order to try and refine energy to something usable in a military aspect, Charles was to find the resonance of reiatsu. So far, Charles has only used his aparatus on himself, and created crystals from energy.

Another thought comes to him to help find the resonance. Four basic types of application exist for reiatsu: personal increases of power, hado, bakudo, and the healing arts used by squad four. Perhaps a part of him is desparate to see that girl again, but Charles realizes that he can do both forms of kido, and can easily get samples of energy signatures there as well. Only squad four can do the healing arts . . . He rises and stares at his system, wondering if this attempt at finding the common denominator will work.  

[Magni Prime]

For a long time, he stands still. Staring at his system for reiatsu diffusion, he wonders if this is scientific curiosity, or emotionally refuse. Somewhere deep in his heart, a whisper of a thought comes to him. Why can't it be both? Somehow, that thought grows, and in the end Charles will never know if he convinced himself, or if the thought is sensical. Before he can move on this though, he needs tools. With fervor and all his skill, Charles begins to create a measurement system.

Basing the interface on his visor, he creates a single-eye readout scanner. The monocle view will allow him to see both in data and visually what is going on. Adding in some technology from his reiatsu release mechanism employed in his iaijutsu booster, he adds in scanning equipment and some measurement systems. Though it takes some time, Charles ends up with a visual scanner purpose-built to record wavelengths of energy. Perhaps . . . this was not folly. The idea strikes Charles that regardless of his desire to see that green-eyed woman again, this device can be used to find the wavelength of hollows for a contradictory system.

Gathering his new system, he also equips memory storage and a battery pack into his bandoleer. This will greatly extend the usage time and the amount of data he can acquire before returning to the lab for a dump. Putting on the simple system, He picks a small chair not too far away, and gathers his strength."Bakudo #4: Hainawa (這縄, Crawling Rope)." From his fingertips now extended flies a golden rope of energy. In a flash, the rope quickly entangles itself all over the chair. Binding the item well and fast. Almost a pity that nobody was sitting in it at the time . . . On his left eye, a quick readout shows points of spiking energy and ultimately a wavelength readout. Just as quickly as the information was added, it disappears from his display- save for a small comment on the lower left corner reading 'scan complete.'

Looking at that chair yet again, Charles enacts something a little different. "Hado #1: Shō (衝, Thrust)." Again, the unfortunate chair was the target, and this time the bound chair goes flying off to the far side of the room. Acting as though hit by a good solid kick, the furniture sails through the air and lands hard against a wall. Again, a quick readout happens, followed by the small note of 'scan complete.' Charles smiles at his own genius, and takes a deep breath to steady himself. Still unsure of weather this is personal or intellectual . . . but definite of his destination, he walks out of his labs.