| abstract | - Kawakami developed this technique over the course of several months of trying and failing to navigate the space-time rifts. When he initially entered the rifts, he noticed the sky was fractured like some kind of kaleidoscope. The inclusions of the fracturing revealed splinters of sky depicting different times and places. In one section, a full moon might show. In another section of the same sky, he might see a cloud-covered crescent moon. This disorder naturally made it impossible for him to navigate home. Lacking recognizable landmarks, and without even the regularity of the constellations to guide him, he was forced to wander aimlessly in pursuit of an exit. His first attempt at using elemental ninjutsu to create a simple campfire, backfired in his face. Rather than burning, the fire seemed to flow out from the point of ignition, seeping into the ground and setting it ablaze. In moments, the entire area was on fire as the earth itself fed the flames. Realizing something was amiss with the world he occupied, he manufactured a set of seals for testing the elemental characteristics of the rift around him. He started with the basics, testing each element individually, and then in combination. Eventually he was able to construct an eight trigrams seal with an unusual order, but nonetheless allowed him to forecast the behavior of elements within that zone. Assuming he'd solved his elemental ninjutsu dilemma, he traveled onward, but after a short distance of walking, he found that his chart had become useless; it no longer accurately predicted the interactions of the elements. Something had changed between his origin and destination. In time, as he was forced to build new charts and start from scratch, he realized that the inclusions of the sky were changing. He developed a theory that, somehow the coordination of the constellations and celestial bodies was having some intrinsic influence on the behavior of the elements. Moreover, he determined that the shifting position of the stars, corresponded to direct changes in the elements. This knowledge allowed him to construct a special scroll- a star chart that shifts to match the positions of the stars overhead. From this item, he could derive trigrams that were "true" to whichever area of the rifts he occupied. Later on, after experimenting with sealing methods related to the sealing of "concepts", he discovered that the elements of a zone can be forced to change their natures if the zone is conceptually cut off from the rest of reality.
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