[ They glance down at it. ]

That's more... hmmm. Okay, the way I sort of explained this to someone else is, imagine all of this ritual and summoning stuff to be like cooking. But the recipe book they're using is really old, and some of the ingredients that were needed are kind of unavailable now or just hard to get by. So you use replacement ingredients that still get the job done, but because it's not exactly right, there are some hiccups that weren't supposed to happen.

Monster affinities, this word thing...