Tiny toddler Kouryuu had been quite the little princeling for a temple brat, with people trying (and succeeding) to garner some of oh-so-holy Koumyou Sanzo's favor by making or acquiring little toys like that. Even his crib as a baby had come from the village down the mountain in a bid for the Sanzo's blessings.
"Well, it's probably made of programs, you know? But so are people, in a way. As for stopping to talk, that's what it's done on those few times. Last time, it had more personality, and when I mentioned that it said..."
Koumyou's eyes go kind of distant as he recalls the exact wording. His memory is always either precise and sharp or nonexistent on any given topic, depending on how much attention he'd paid. For this, he'd paid attention.
"'More programs have come online. More files have been recovered. It takes a lot of power to run this particular program.'" Koumyou quotes, then smiles, "That's when I offered to charge it up with the Seiten if it needed it. Since it's literally limitless power -- is the concept of energy itself, I could probably charge anything up if I didn't just pop it."
Which is a real concern with a sutra involved. Cosmic forces beyond human comprehension don't really do subtle very well, even filtered through the control of one of those very humans.
"But I get the feeling it's more like its reserves are damaged, you know? It can't hold enough at one time, no reservoir. No stamina. As it heals, maybe that will change."
It's a concept he's familiar with, since chi works much the same way. Koumyou's had to explain that whole concept from scratch more than once on the train.
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"Well, it's probably made of programs, you know? But so are people, in a way. As for stopping to talk, that's what it's done on those few times. Last time, it had more personality, and when I mentioned that it said..."
Koumyou's eyes go kind of distant as he recalls the exact wording. His memory is always either precise and sharp or nonexistent on any given topic, depending on how much attention he'd paid. For this, he'd paid attention.
"'More programs have come online. More files have been recovered. It takes a lot of power to run this particular program.'" Koumyou quotes, then smiles, "That's when I offered to charge it up with the Seiten if it needed it. Since it's literally limitless power -- is the concept of energy itself, I could probably charge anything up if I didn't just pop it."
Which is a real concern with a sutra involved. Cosmic forces beyond human comprehension don't really do subtle very well, even filtered through the control of one of those very humans.
"But I get the feeling it's more like its reserves are damaged, you know? It can't hold enough at one time, no reservoir. No stamina. As it heals, maybe that will change."
It's a concept he's familiar with, since chi works much the same way. Koumyou's had to explain that whole concept from scratch more than once on the train.