"Teleportation?"
Tim pondered the word in his mind, it wasn't new or anything to him he had run into a lot of Tama-Artist who could do teleportation in his lifetime.
However, that only raised more questions, and the young man narrowed his eyes, giving Rennyo the right to speak.
"I know what you are thinking; the world is flat?"
Tim nodded, that was indeed what was going on in his mind. He had made many images of the world, but none of them seemed to make sense; they were more confusing than the other.
Noticing the confusion in his eyes, the Shojo of the Maba Village sighed, and explained, "The world is more of a curved rectangle on the surface. Below it is land; at the end of that land five markings fit properly into the five pal fingers of a majestic being."
Rennyo took a puff of smoke from his pipe, building the tension, before continuing, "Some shaman Tama-Artist say that there is indeed a hand holding this world, and if that hand is removed we fall into..."
"Hell," Tim interrupted in a horrified whisper, sweat beads forming on his forehead. The idea of the whole world suddenly perishing overnight was just insane.
All this time he thought it was the mysterious force called gravity that binds things to the ground that kept the world afloat; since no Tama had the power of gravity.
Seeing the distress etched on Timael's face, Rennyo felt an overwhelming sense of joy, but he knew better than to celebrate prematurely, or he would face the young man's wrath.
Taking another pond of smoke, he said, "According to what I found out before there was a phenomenon where people ascended over to heaven."
Tim immediately yelled in question, "Why didn't those people fall when the Roman Calvary made heaven collapse?!"
Rennyo chuckled, he expected this kind of question, to say the least, and it made him feel a little proud of himself. He said, "Heaven is more profound than what you think. The one who rules heaven is in charge of the world laws; when one defies any of the world law, they are struck with lightning, and perish from existence."
Slap!
Tim knew this, and patted Rennyo on the cheek for him to get to the thing he was asking, "Answer the question."
"What the so-called first human collapsed was the first heaven which brought Tama to the world. There were already Tama in the world before him, and these Tama are the ones with the odd names. You understand what I'm saying to you?"
Although the question seemed to portray him as an idiot, Tim nodded: he had always been curious about the origins of the Wish Tama, Faith Tama, and other Tama with English names which wasn't even recorded in the kanji alphabet.
Rennyo continued, "Research says that when this happened the world was filled with Rei, but humans didn't know how to use that energy until the First Tama-Artist figured it-"
Slap!
Rennyo's words were cut short by a vicious hit on the cheek from the black and red-haired man sitting across from him who said, "Get to what I asked you."
Now it was the time for Rennyo to nod his head, "What the Roman Calvary brought down is the second heaven together with its veil of stars. These stars are mostly the imprisoned Yōkai, hence why we call the location where these stars landed Yōkai no Mon. However, those who guarded these Yōkai, the Tenshi also came too, but their number is relatively low compared to their usual."
Tim nodded, and the Shojo of the Maba Village brought a piece of distressing news; "The world aristocrats are on the hunt for these Yōkai and Tenshi. They want to make them the source to levitate this world in case the hand holding us suddenly lets us go."
Tim smirked in reply, "What if the hand suddenly thinks of squashing us into nothing."
Rennyo looked over to his sides, checking the position of both the sun and moon, worry printed on his face. He said, "That's why they have launched project Shinshi."
"Project Shinshi?" Tim repeated in question, the name was new and bizarre.
Rennyo clarified with a confident look, "You might not know this but there are other planets there in this universe, and Shinshi is the one we have been teaching you about all these years. It's shaped like a globe, and can host both life and Tama. Amazing, right?!"
Slap!
Tim gave a little baptism to the old man's cheek, dissatisfied by his confident look. Organizing the doubts in his mind, he asked, "If this world is what you say it is; how does it rotate around the sun? Also, how does the moon rotate around us?"
Rennyo took his time to rub his sore cheek, before putting the smoking pipe in his mouth, "This world doesn't rotate around the sun, rather it rotates on a single position in a clockwise direction, creating day and night: according to our findings the invisible hand holding us isn't gripping us, but we are rotating in its palms. This also solves the mysteries of the coldest and hottest contents."
Tim nodded, understanding that the coldest continent was just the ends of the curved rectangle and the position with the least amount of sunlight hitting it. On the other hand, the hottest continent just receives too much sunlight.
Rennyo added, "The moon rotates around the world, hence why we have a lunar eclipse every year."
"Oh," Tim raised his mouth in awe. Just like anybody he had never considered the lunar eclipse to be anything special, but rather a boring day people celebrate for nothing.
However, all this didn't amaze him as it should have. After all, the Shojo of the Maba Village had used this conversation to drive away from his true question.
Grabbing the old man's black hair, and banging him on the wooden table a couple of times, Tim asks, "What kind of being was the person we call the first human?"
Rennyo raised his head, his injuries healing, as he met Tim's cold gaze with a smile, "I assume you want to know about your sister's body and your niece's special ability?"
Tim's eyes shrank to pin size, yelling, "My younger brother really has a daughter?!"