Mountain, meet Endbringer | Glowfic Constellation

Yeah, alright, that works.

Geology and classical mechanics ahoy!

During the geology discussion she keeps making references to her world's 'technology', and how certain kinds of rocks are used for this or that. It sounds more like magic than technology, but she seems to understand it just as well as an engineer knows thermodynamics. She even complains that she doesn't have her reference material.

Harry is not actually equipped to discuss much of this! He is only a poor linguist.

Well the point was to give him a sense of the technical vocabulary, not to have a grand exchange of knowledge in physics and magic. Is that goal now accomplished?

Yes, much of it is. He's been typing happily away at his computer and comparing things and making comments about the roots of the words she uses and asking some questions about how they're formed and which parts were created or evolved naturally, though he has good guesses about those after a while.

This language really likes the C, L, V, and A sounds.

She's getting bored of this. Another's excitement is only contagious for so long. She asks to switch to a brief explanation of that merfolk language, then wonders aloud whether the Protectorate has organized a list of things she can rebuild on that ruined island yet.

Harry isn't too disappointed that she gets bored of his excitement, he's pretty used to it. He has collected enough material for a first version of the translator to start being made, probably, and informs her and a PRT officer about this, as well as asking about things to rebuild. The PRT officer tells him something, and he tells her that Legend will be here soon.

She waits mostly patiently, looking up more English vocabulary.

Eventually Legend arrives. "Hello, Mountain. I heard you want to help?"

The magical feeling of understandingness Harry has is definitely absent here, even if she knows all the words.

"Yes. I want not fighting, make a road or bridge or fix sinkholes."

"That can be arranged. The biggest problem will be convincing the Sentai Elite."

"So many convincing people. Most annoying part of work."

"You don't have to tell me about it," sighs Legend. "The Sentai Elite are saying they have a claim on you because you slept in a mountain in Japan."

"Claim? Say I owe them?"

"No, say you belong to them, more or less," Legend says distastefully.

"I made that mountain. Complain about changing the land? I saved half. Tch."

"Truth is they probably want you on their team and think we stole you from them to have your powers."

"I can see why they think that. Take me here before I know much about what happening. I want to talk to them, fix island, maybe if they ask instead of yell at me I join. More earthquakes to stop there."

Legend nods. "That's actually a fantastic idea. I'm sure we'll be able to get the translator to work with Japanese as well. And since you're willing to join teams telling them that might just be enough that they won't give us a hard time if we get you there to fix their country."

...it is pretty clear that he doesn't think much of people who bicker over politics when their country has been almost destroyed by a giant monster.

Mountain has much the same opinion about politics.

"So, Japan soon. What now?"

"I'm not sure. I'll contact Japan when we're done here, but we need to know the scope of what you want to help with so we can properly direct you." He seems to have either forgotten she doesn't exactly speak English very well or decided that she'll learn if he just speaks.

She frowns. "Stop earthquakes, yes. Build thing, yes. Get diamond and steel from rock, yes. Stop villain? Okay, villain needs stopping. Patrol just in case? Boring. Make speech and impress people? Boring."

"Hmm. Well, we will definitely tell you about major earthquakes we learn of ahead of time. Getting raw materials isn't actually very hard for us, but if you're feeling bored you can help with that. I'm curious about what things you can build, and how nondestructive you can be when dealing with villains."

"I can fix the... Under part, of your roads. Not the top. I can do building from stone and concrete. Can do... Pipes, but not wire. Can fix weak tunnels, easy. About villains, should I show? Spar?"