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All righty then. Now that I'm over my mild depression slump with losing all the Chapter 1 info, I've gone back to confirm a few details I had forgotten.


 * Hanne meets with Julia Abelard, the eigth mayor of Calgaround.


 * I know the phrase literally says 八人目 but from what my searches come up as, it's a way of saying "eighth" and not "eight people's gaze".


 * Julia welcomes Hanne after coming all that distance and offers her a cup of tea; she asks her the impression of the city and Julia asks about the peculiar red buildings everywhere.


 * Julia explains Calgaround bright red buildings is representative of the town's loyalty to their Virgin/Lady. She then directs her to the portraits on the right wall of a woman wearing bright red clothes like the buildings.


 * "Our Lady" was another translation of the term 聖母  (which can simply mean "Virgin" (ie, the Virgin Mary). I think the latter would be the best translation, as Meta's name could roughly be considered the "Virgin Meta" but "Our Lady" works too, particularly where sentences sound awkward with trying to insert "the Virgin".


 * Hanne questions if it's a portrait of the mayor but Julia states they're similar but that's not it and Hanne then asks if it's Germaine Avadonia. but she shakes her head too.


 * Julia explains that their Virgin/Lady is Meta Salmhofer, the one that gave birth to the twin gods.


 * It was theorizd that Meta had given birth to the twin gods to save the Magic Kingdom Levianta from foretold destruction in what became the first year in the Evillious calendar; however, the people of Levianta gradually no longer abided the teachings of the twin gods, and so Levianta was ended in destruction after all.


 * The above became a doctrine that is a common belief for believers in Meta Salmhofer.


 * Levin, the largest religion in Evillious, publicly rejects this theory, stating Meta was a "witch" and member of Apocalypse, and was not the Lady/Virgin (the Ma as Levin calls it). Those who disagreed with Levin's doctrines were severely opressed (which partially caused the New Four Horsemen Incident).


 * Hanne doesn't want to get involved in a religious debate, even if Calgaround is technically professing heresy, so she just moves along and asks her to explain the history of Calgaround.


 * Julia goes on a tangent and she doesn't say much about Merrigod that Hanne didn't already read up on in advance. So, she just pretends to listen and writes notes with her pen in a "somewhat exaggerated" manner while going "I see, I see...."


 * And then Julia starts talking about Mikulia and Earl Calgaround and Hanne asks (for confirmation) that she's the "Flower of the Plateau", which prompts Julia to talk about the anecdotes of her long being handed down in the town and that Yukina Freesis once wrote a story based on them.


 * Hanne points out that many of their newspaper's subscribers were very interested in Yukina Freesis and her tales and so she wanted to hear more about the Flower of the Plateau tales.


 * Julia made a "cloudy" face (I assume somewhat distressed), though Hanne couldn't determine if it was because the reporter wasn't more interested in the city's history or if it was because she realized she only came for the Flower of the Plateau story.


 * Julia then agrees to talk about it and Hanne seems she seems bothered before she explains hwo the story brings tales of murder to their town and Julia drinks a sip of her brew. She then asks if Hanne only came here for the tales and how much she knew.


 * Hanne pulls out a copy of Yukina's memoirs from her breast pocket and starts reading them to explain that was all she knew.


 * Yukina was going on a journey soon. It seems it was a bad day to be at home in the "storeroom" (?) and she's now been in Aceid for a little too long.


 * She had thought of visiting eastern Levianta, since the last time she went, it was the location of the New Four Horsemen Incident.


 * She decided to head up to Merrigod and learn about the stories of Mikulia Calgaround since it was on her way to Eastern Levianta.

(Hanne flips a page)


 * Once she told the story of her planned journey to Kyle, he decided to go with her, he told her that he wanted to draw a landscape of Merrigod Plateau. As a result, they traveled together until they reached Calgaround's Merrigod Plateau.


 * After that, they did their different businesses and then Yukina called for a carriage and preapred to leave.

(Hanne skips a few pages ahead)


 * During her time in Calgaround, she and Kyle were a bit "dramatically" shocked by the event, not by the events themselves but what they were associated with.


 * At first, the story of hundreds of years ago might've just been a coincidence, but for someone like her that traveled all over, she's encountered "councidences" many times, which only deepended her curiosity.


 * As Kyle originally planned, he did make the painting of the land. However, Yukina felt something had changed since before their journey.


 * Yukina: "...... He still seemed to be pursuing the phantom of that person. But I have neither the reason nor the right to intervene."


 * When Yukina returns to the "storeroom" (物置) after a long time, she resolved to start writing "tonight", Flower of the Plateau first. Whether she actually published it or not (since it wouldn't make much of a fairy tale to her), she felt she needed to write the story.


 * As the years have rolled on, she has seen many strange coincidences, no, "rules/laws" in the world, and realizes it may not be the end of them.


 * She was certain that "that person" would want to know the truth. The Mage of Time, Elluka Clockworker. She's sure when/if they meet again, she'd want to hear the story. However, she still hasn't returned from the East. "Come to think of it, Kyle also doesn't seem to be back yet."

From what I gathered so far, this is roughly between the period when Elluka and Gumillia left in EC 548 to when they came back in EC 558 (and I assume Yukina died by then if she never got the chance to meet with Elluka afterward).


 * So they went from their home in the Lucifenian Republic > Aceid > Calgaround > Eastern Levianta > Back to Lucifenia.