"Wow, you're still dirty. Hey, Kiri, are you there?
"Mm-hmm. Come on. I'm busy right now."
"No, you, you always say that. Just show your face. I don't know where he is."
"Oh, my God. That's, uh, Ars, isn't it? Long time no see. What's the matter with you? Kyle, aren't you here today?
"Kyle's not here. More than that, I need to talk to you for a second. Come out of that pile of paperwork, Kiri."
After coming back to Vulcania and talking to Gran, I quickly headed somewhere.
It was a place called the Observatory of one of the buildings in the southeastern area of the city called Vulcania.
In addition to churches and orphanages, there are schools and vocational training centers in the southeast area.
And there's also a library there, and they live around that library like all sorts of researchers.
I used to gather people with a piece of art from all over the place using Kyle's Reid surname as bait.
It was when the painter or the doctor's meme came.
In the meantime, some Kiri came to see me now.
Kiri said he was doing astrology, or stargazing research.
Originally, it was a clan that was employed by some nobleman to make a living with the job of looking at the stars and divining them.
Even so, this astrology is not magic.
It was only a divination while looking at the stars, not something that would have a magical effect.
For once, there was a way of looking at the stars and divinating themselves, but it was also a skill that was necessary to answer them so as not to offend them if they were to deal with nobles.
Kiri was born into such a clan of astrologers, but he went through as a stranger in that clan.
Because Kiri was a woman.
Apparently it is the job of the men and brothers to learn astrology and deal with aristocracy, and Kiri could not succeed to it.
but it didn't seem to matter to Kiri in itself.
Kiri was simply an astronomical idiot that it was fun to chase the movement of the stars.
When there was such a kiri, I heard talent gathering in even more emerging Knights of Barca within the Fontana territory of the northern territories at its end.
After all, it was an unlikely condition that We would recruit someone with the skill to give us magic if it was suitable for the Barca knight's glasses.
Listening to this story, Kiri decided to take this opportunity to bet.
Apparently, Kiri's knowledge of celestial objects was much better than anyone else in Kiri's clan.
Some of them seemed too good to hold up within the clan.
My parents and brothers heard about Kiri wanting to go to Barca and said they thought Kiri, a woman, couldn't possibly be given a name no matter how many low-grade names there was no offensive magic.
Then I thought about sending him off once and getting him to taste the frustration and come home.
That would have made me think that it would be time for my grandmother's face to settle down and go to her daughter-in-law.
But that family thought that I had a direct interview with Kiri, who came to Barca on the back, and I immediately decided to hire her and prepare a dedicated laboratory.
Because I felt that Kiri's knowledge of celestial bodies was very profound, even if we just talked about it for a moment.
By contrast, Kiri was also very pleased to have come to Barca.
Because there were binoculars in Barca that could be seen far away.
Knowing that, Kiri, who was tense when she showed me her binoculars from me, then connected her face with a lens maker in Vulcania and also began studying astral telescopes.
As a result, I also advised that a large astronomical telescope prototype of one caliber, not binoculars, has also been completed.
"... so I want to know a solid calendar at last because I'm going to make a high-precision clock. Can you give me the dossier?
"Um, can you really make a watch that high precision? Besides, amateur Ars, you may not know, but there are many different types of calendars. Which calendar do you use?
"No, you don't really know which one is right as a calendar, actually. Which is the most accurate?
"That's right. It's a calendar based on the moon that's generally easy to understand and intended for the masses, but this is quite off the mark. It is easy to understand to separate a new moon day without the light of the moon from that of the next moon, but it needs to be increased by one month in the course of the year every few years because the number of days shifts about as much as a few days if you go through the year. In that sense, it's easy to use, but it's not accurate."
"Then why not a calendar based on the sun, not the moon? It's not like even an unschooled peasant can tell, like the full moon, but can you do something a little more accurate?
"Oh, you know exactly what I mean, Mr. Ars. Right, a calendar based on the sun is more accurate than the moon. But still, there's an error, this is it. You need to adjust the number of days a year once a few years."
"... isn't that acceptable?
"What are you talking about? Aren't you the one who said he wanted an accurate calendar? [M] So give up and do what? Ask him if he has a more accurate calendar than the moon or the sun."
"Oh, I'd like to ask Kiri, a genius astronomer. Could you give me a more accurate calendar?"
"Hehe, that's a good Nori, Mr. Ars. All right, let's make an announcement then. Actually, I came to Barca and I have a calendar that I can use because the astral telescope is complete."
"Yeah? I have an astral telescope, so I can use it. Calendar?
"So-so. Actually, there are a few stars that are invisible to the naked eye. A calendar based on that is more accurate than the moon or the sun. It was used a long time ago. Yes, but it's an ancient calendar that's not used now."
"Did you use it a long time ago and it went obsolete? Well, then there was something wrong?
"Yeah, I'm not. Actually, even this used to make my house a nobleman. Even so, the magic is already lost. So, there used to be a calendar that used our magic to observe and benchmark that unseen star. But our magic is gone, and that's why the calendar is no longer in use."
"What, was Kiri's house originally a nobleman? But if the calendar itself is correct, I should have used it as it is."
"Haha, that's right. But some calendars will no longer be used for the convenience of those in power. It didn't survive because even nobility disappeared after one interruption. I was trying my best to revive it, but it was hard to get it back again by recognizing something based on a star that just didn't even look like it."
"I see. So you were so happy to see binoculars? So, is that celestial telescope going to prove the accuracy of Kiri's calendar?
"Pfft. Actually, I was about to take this story to you, Ars. Yikes. Look, look at this. It's a record of eclipses and lunar eclipses that have happened in the last few years, but there's been some discrepancy in the dates of the eclipses that are expected on the moon or the Sun calendar. But it's an ancient calendar and it's not out of line."
"Hmm, I see. Are you saying that the more accurate the eclipse and other predictions that are supposed to happen next, the more accurate the calendar is? Hmm, sounds a little off when the moon or the sun is the standard, actually."
"Right. So, there's going to be another eclipse in a little while. And now the sun is completely hidden. Everyone eats it all day. I don't know, Mr. Ars. What do you mean, if it happens the way I expected it to happen, we'll use our calendars in Barca?
Seriously, will everyone have an eclipse soon?
There are records of eclipses and lunar eclipses that are slightly off for each calendar as Kiri reads the material he shows me, and apparently the ancient calendar is more correct.
Or I would have liked to know sooner if I had this kind of information.
Because if I was bad, I might have missed it.
While I was surprised by the information that Kiri had brought me, I felt that perhaps this was the right thing to do.
Kiri told me that if there was a proper eclipse, she would revive the calendar, and then rushed back to the office of the city of Fontana.