As everyone knew, the little devils and little Koreans loved stealing China's culture, especially its history. Saburo Arasaka was no exception when naming his supercomputer.
The term Mikoshi was first recorded in writing in Lu Yun's "Ode to Great Virtue" from the Jin Dynasty: "Perhaps the divine carriage may descend to observe, lightly touring the Five Garments; in due course the jade chariot advances, making its rounds through this city."
No need for an appreciation of classical Chinese. Simply put, the Mikoshi mentioned here referred to an emperor's carriage—a chariot pulled by many horses.
The Koreans and devils of that era were probably still living under tribal systems. Where would they have gotten an emperor? They probably couldn't even raise horses properly.
As time passed, chariots were gradually phased out by heavy cavalry and powerful crossbows as metallurgy matured, slowly vanishing from the stage of history. Emperors of successive dynasties naturally stopped riding chariots whenever they went out.
Vehicles thus gradually became "palanquins"—sedan chairs or large carts carried by human labor. They were fine for wandering around near the capital, but how far did anyone expect to go?
And so, the meaning of Mikoshi changed as well.
When an emperor died in ancient times, it wasn't called death. It was called ascending to heaven, meaning he had gone to the heavens and become a god. Therefore, the coffin holding an emperor's body was called a Mikoshi—the vehicle one rode to heaven to become divine.
So in Su Ming's view, Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin made perfect sense. In fact, it should have been that way from the start. As a native-born human emperor of China, he should ride around in a coffin when he went out.
At that thought, he paused his explanation to Ciri and raised a hand to tap