The young mage straightened up a bit at the praise, smiling. "It took me a good few days, whenever I could get the time to work on it. And yeah, it does generally take a lot of studying, but aside from that it also takes natural talent." He'd heard of some artificial means - runes and somesuch, but that was a different matter entirely as far as he was concerned.

The issue involving the moon was an interesting one, though, and he pondered it some more. "Is there anything else you can think of? Anything before that incident?" Japan sure sounded like an interesting place regardless, and Leon idly wondered if he'd ever actually get the chance to visit it. He had a feeling that if Claude took him there in the future it wouldn't quite be the same.