Locales/Ifurita's Tomb (The Jinnai Ruins)
From EHOL
This location appears in the El-Hazard OVA timeline and the Manga timeline.
Underneath Shinonome Prefectural High School, there lies a set of very Arabian-esque
ruins. They are named after the man who 'discovered' them, that being Katsuhiko
Jinnai. The previous statement is total bull as the ruins were actually found by
a literature club freshman.
The room looks much like a type of tomb or possibly a type of small temple. The
room is octagonal in shape and is littered with various symbols of myth and mysticism
(the 'Star of David', the 'Yin and Yang', and some El-Hazard symbols like the prominent
eye.)
In the center of the room's one wall is an ornate pillar which could appear to someone
as a vertical coffin or some sort of alter. In reality it is a storage chamber in
which Ifurita has slept under the school for some 10,000 years. When Makoto enters
the ruins late at night, he activates the wake up sequence and she in turn sends
him to El-Hazard.
The chamber was built for one reason, to keep Ifurita alive long enough so that
she could complete the cycle that Makoto started. Most likely, when she deactivated
the Eye of God and was blasted across dimensions she eventually found her way to
Makoto's planet (recognizing it from his memories and his knowledge of the planet).
However, she arrives some 10,000 years before Makoto will even be alive. Knowing
that she is weak and must complete the temporal cycle, she constructs a device to
keep her is a state of stasis until the time in which Makoto will stumble upon her.
Most likely she employed the aid of the indigenous peoples of Japan at that time
to help her construct the room, either by benign means or by using the superstitions
of these ancient people to her advantage.
In the Manga and most likely in the OVA's, the tomb is discovered when a series
of earthquakes (not uncommon for Japan) crack the ground and expose the long buried
tomb, something that Ifurita had knowledge of through her connection with Makoto.
Now that Ifurita has been released and has both sent Makoto to El-Hazard and thus
been reunited with Makoto, the tomb serves no other purpose except as an archeological
curiosity (something for the archeology club to study perhaps)?
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