[He is 100% an oni. And his familiar is an oni just to prove this!]
[As she explains her view on it...]
[Nobunaga just sort of re-lowers his assessment. For a moment he was almost empathetic. He's not really one with empathy, because uh... Demon King. But for all he almost understood her plight... it goes RIGHT OUT the window!]
[He is also without his knowledge of the situation; in that he wanted the missionaries to pepper full of questions. His future is ONLY what he MAKES it. So the more people from 500 years to his future tell him that he completed the dream and Japan is great; it only strengthens his resolve that yes, he has to actually accomplish that, or it won't actually happen; but only its own time! It's moot here! NOT knowing everything here, having it all be new and beyond his wildest imagination is the best part, and what truly makes it an adventure, not just a surreal dream!]
[But he does acknowledge it disturbs her.]
[And he can tell the truth in all of that, which is something he still takes for granted. He has no idea what he'd do if he stopped being able to read people easier than books. But then, that's so much a part of what allowed him to survive, there's a reason one of his best friends (in as much as the Demon King has friends, more like allies) is opaque and mysterious to everyone, even Nobunaga! Because he'd get bored otherwise!]
[While she says it's not really like having his gun and sword being missing--]
[He goes back to that all the same.]
When you first started mapping the stars of your world, were you not filled with a sense of a wonder, and ambition, and purpose? Each time you picked up that map telling you the future, didn't you think, this is what you wanted to be doing?
[Because otherwise he has to think of her in terms of the Buddhist monks, and that won't work well for either of them. Besides, she's not lying. So she's probably more like his religious (blood) brothers and a genuine believer, at minimum. And... magic MIGHT be real in other worlds. And that it is real in other worlds might even be WHY there's fiction about it in his own. MAYBE. It's an idea he's still toying with until he can better accept it anyway!]
[He shakes his head, and puts the Tanegashima gun on the table.]
When I first picked up the gun, I was only a child. Barely a teen. It took more arm strength than even a bow for me, in order to keep it steady and handle the backlash. Right away, I could see its possibilities. How it could outclass the swords, even make them obsolete. Everyone said it was impossible. [Even worse, and called him an idiot and tried to kill him, and his mentor killed himself to get Nobunaga to stop playing around -- but it's ancient history to him now.]
[He tucks the gun back into his belt, shifting again to try to find a way to keep his weapons still at the ready.] I met another man here with a much stronger gun, and all I could think of was the possibilities. For even greater.
You keep seeing what is missing, but you're missing what is here. New charts, new stars, not being well-known, new magic. You called them misfortune, but I wonder. Even running into the vines double; led you to me, did it not? [Yes. He is REALLY that arrogant that he thinks chance meetings with him is good luck. At least if he doesn't kill the person. Well, he killed her double. You know what, forget he brought that up!]
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[As she explains her view on it...]
[Nobunaga just sort of re-lowers his assessment. For a moment he was almost empathetic. He's not really one with empathy, because uh... Demon King. But for all he almost understood her plight... it goes RIGHT OUT the window!]
[He is also without his knowledge of the situation; in that he wanted the missionaries to pepper full of questions. His future is ONLY what he MAKES it. So the more people from 500 years to his future tell him that he completed the dream and Japan is great; it only strengthens his resolve that yes, he has to actually accomplish that, or it won't actually happen; but only its own time! It's moot here! NOT knowing everything here, having it all be new and beyond his wildest imagination is the best part, and what truly makes it an adventure, not just a surreal dream!]
[But he does acknowledge it disturbs her.]
[And he can tell the truth in all of that, which is something he still takes for granted. He has no idea what he'd do if he stopped being able to read people easier than books. But then, that's so much a part of what allowed him to survive, there's a reason one of his best friends (in as much as the Demon King has friends, more like allies) is opaque and mysterious to everyone, even Nobunaga! Because he'd get bored otherwise!]
[While she says it's not really like having his gun and sword being missing--]
[He goes back to that all the same.]
When you first started mapping the stars of your world, were you not filled with a sense of a wonder, and ambition, and purpose? Each time you picked up that map telling you the future, didn't you think, this is what you wanted to be doing?
[Because otherwise he has to think of her in terms of the Buddhist monks, and that won't work well for either of them. Besides, she's not lying. So she's probably more like his religious (blood) brothers and a genuine believer, at minimum. And... magic MIGHT be real in other worlds. And that it is real in other worlds might even be WHY there's fiction about it in his own. MAYBE. It's an idea he's still toying with until he can better accept it anyway!]
[He shakes his head, and puts the Tanegashima gun on the table.]
When I first picked up the gun, I was only a child. Barely a teen. It took more arm strength than even a bow for me, in order to keep it steady and handle the backlash. Right away, I could see its possibilities. How it could outclass the swords, even make them obsolete. Everyone said it was impossible. [Even worse, and called him an idiot and tried to kill him, and his mentor killed himself to get Nobunaga to stop playing around -- but it's ancient history to him now.]
[He tucks the gun back into his belt, shifting again to try to find a way to keep his weapons still at the ready.] I met another man here with a much stronger gun, and all I could think of was the possibilities. For even greater.
You keep seeing what is missing, but you're missing what is here. New charts, new stars, not being well-known, new magic. You called them misfortune, but I wonder. Even running into the vines double; led you to me, did it not? [Yes. He is REALLY that arrogant that he thinks chance meetings with him is good luck. At least if he doesn't kill the person. Well, he killed her double. You know what, forget he brought that up!]
When you picked up astrology, why was it?