"Sure, anytime you like." Musashi replies with a wink. "Well...at least when I get my mojo back, that is." And she'll need to find out what the mana supply situation here is like, if she really wants to be able to cut loose. Could she form a contract with someone? Dayu had been a welcome Master, and she'd be hard to beat, but maybe...
She shakes her head. "Nah, nothing like that. I rayshifted." She explains, in a way that doesn't actually explain anything, but fortunately (maybe) she carries on. "See, I had this idea, way back when, that if you applied Buddhist principles to swordsmanship, you could achieve spiritual perfection by way of martial perfection. Enlightenment, see? Escaping the wheel of reincarnation and all that. Buuuuuuut the problem with starting to reach that state of total nothingness is that the world starts not being able to tell if you exist within it or not! So I guess you could say I kinda fell between the cracks, ended up someplace else. And that world couldn't tell if I existed or not, so on and on and on and on it went. No matter where I ended up, it was only a matter of time before that world would lose its grip on me. Sometimes things got delayed a bit, there was a to-do in an Edo Period a decade or so after my counterpart there had already died that managed to ground me a bit more, but that was a temporary thing. Anyway, the sort of thing you learn to take in stride. Besides, it meant I knew I was onto something!" And it had worked, after that whole Olympus business! Musashi was quite certain she'd reached that state of total enlightenment, and the peaceful nonexistence that came with it...shame it hadn't stuck, but no use complaining. Besides, this seemed like a pretty cool place to end up, so she won't argue about it.
Her Saber self might, but that girl needed to learn how to relax a little. There was more to life than just practicing swordplay! Like dancing, for example.
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She shakes her head. "Nah, nothing like that. I rayshifted." She explains, in a way that doesn't actually explain anything, but fortunately (maybe) she carries on. "See, I had this idea, way back when, that if you applied Buddhist principles to swordsmanship, you could achieve spiritual perfection by way of martial perfection. Enlightenment, see? Escaping the wheel of reincarnation and all that. Buuuuuuut the problem with starting to reach that state of total nothingness is that the world starts not being able to tell if you exist within it or not! So I guess you could say I kinda fell between the cracks, ended up someplace else. And that world couldn't tell if I existed or not, so on and on and on and on it went. No matter where I ended up, it was only a matter of time before that world would lose its grip on me. Sometimes things got delayed a bit, there was a to-do in an Edo Period a decade or so after my counterpart there had already died that managed to ground me a bit more, but that was a temporary thing. Anyway, the sort of thing you learn to take in stride. Besides, it meant I knew I was onto something!" And it had worked, after that whole Olympus business! Musashi was quite certain she'd reached that state of total enlightenment, and the peaceful nonexistence that came with it...shame it hadn't stuck, but no use complaining. Besides, this seemed like a pretty cool place to end up, so she won't argue about it.
Her Saber self might, but that girl needed to learn how to relax a little. There was more to life than just practicing swordplay! Like dancing, for example.