naruto hero of monster girl encyclopedia ( Shelved)

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Can I ask you something?" Rae asked the blond accompanying her as the fierce blizzard outside rattled the old windows that lined this section of the castle.

"Sure" the boy told her without skipping a step. They had been wandering for what seemed like an eternity to the young boy but still he continued on without a second thought. Even if Aria had been a jerk there was no way he could just let her wander around on her own.

"It's something I've had on my mind for a while," the holy mage began with a slight nod, "but you said you met her in the Demon Lord's palace, correct? Could you tell me how that happened?"

"Oh, that?" Naruto asked with a big grin as he looked over his shoulder and back at the teen following him. "Old man Hokage was showing me a bunch of old scrolls that weren't suppose to do anything but had to leave when one of the mask wearing guys showed up. He said he'd be back real quick and so he let me look through the rest of the scrolls on my own when I found one that was REALLY old!" the boy exclaimed as he turned around to throw his arms out, starting to walk backwards as he faced the mage. "I opened it up and like all of the other ones it was filled with scribbles and lines that made no sense but as I looked at it I got this weird feeling in my stomach. I didn't know what it was but the next thing I knew was that the ink on the scroll started to glow and then POOF! I was in this big fancy castle with Aria standing on the balcony!" Naruto summarized the events that transpired hat day, making grand gestures with his arms as he did.

'So he was transported to the Demon Lord's palace? Where did he originate from? He said was looking through scrolls so that could narrow it down, but he also mentioned there was some age to them. So scrolls might not be a big form of logging information in his homeland and he was just skimming through old relics. And about this 'Hokage'. The word itself isn't familiar to me. Could it be a part of the local language?' the thoughts started running through Rae's mind like water down a river. She could ponder that small bit of information for hours and not come to any definitive conclusions. Fortunately it seems like Naruto has no issue answering anything she'd ask of him.

"So you just appeared in front of your friend? That must be some powerful magic, and to be held in a single scroll no less" Rae commented with a gentle smile. Folding his arms behind his head Naruto's gaze tilted up as a thoughtful expression came over his face. 'Did I say something strange?' Rae wondered as she watched the blond's reactions.

"...Is chakra magic?" Naruto finally voiced his thought after a moment to think it over.

"...Chakra...?" Rae repeated with arched brows. If she recalled correctly there were a handful of philosophies that used that word in their teachings. She had encountered such information during her studies but brushed it aside in favor of more pressing matters. Perhaps that was a mistake. Regardless, she felt it was safe to assume that the energy they referred to as chakra was simply the spiritual energy that flowed through every living beings, aside from the corruption they call monsters. 'Another clue' the teen thought before opening her mouth to reply. "I believe they're the same, or at the very least they have overlapping princables" the girl told him. Without a clear grasp of what chakra was she couldn't say anything with certainty but if she went with the premise that it was just spiritual energy then she could confidently say that it was used for magic. Then again t would be false to say that spiritual energy was magic since it only served as a source of power for magic and was not actually magic itself, but perhaps she shouldn't go into the details and specifics. If she did that then they'd be there for hours without her learning anything else.