Gavial, You're So Gentle

(Actually, judging from the AUS storyline, the rainforest trip took place a year after Heart of Surging Flame. I moved it earlier.)

"This is way too absurd... Rainforest Punk 2077?" Bai Ye blinked at the fantastical scene before him.

"Miss Victorique knows about AUS too?" Gavial and the Doctor gave Bai Ye surprised looks. "There are quite a few fans of this band on Rhodes Island too..."

Bai Ye waved his fist.

"Hey, hey! Don't treat me like some antique... Most nobles may not care for this sort of thing, but... young people still listen to it."

"As for me, although I usually study the piano, I still listen to this kind of rock music when I have free time."

"I see..." Gavial nodded.

Mimi, on the other hand, did not quite understand what Bai Ye meant. She merely explained:

"Not long ago, a group of strange outsiders calling themselves AUS came here.

"They first held a concert at Inam's tribe. After that concert, many Teyakau began treating them as emissaries of the 'Maviso.'"

"They were then asked to stay and perform here for quite a long time, mostly at the temple. I heard them once too. Their music really was amazing and beautiful... and you could feel their incredible Originium Arts technique."

That was right. On Terra, singing could also be a means of casting Arts, and music could carry Arts effects as well. Exusiai, Penguin Logistics' idol, had mastered similar techniques.

In Leithania, the casters there had elevated such techniques into an art form and passed them down through the ages.

Mimi continued explaining:

"Then one day, they suddenly disappeared again. Everyone said they had returned to the embrace of their ancestors. But I knew they had merely left, just like you did, Gavial."

"The music being played