Headscratchers / Musical Touken Ranbu Michi No Oku Hitotsu Wa Chisu

• Everyone keeps asking how the Saniwa summoned Mikazuki Munechika and Tsurumaru Kuninaga back to back, both extremely rare swords, when he first started his citadel. The citadel is assumed to follow at least some of the original game's logic, as there is a starter sword and an unnamed tutorial sword that is either a tantou or a wakizashi. The Saniwa could have just been lucky, but they would have had to have summoned some lower rarity swords first before getting both of these swords. Did the Saniwa get lucky during forging using Ofuda? Or, unlike in the stage play, did the writers disregard the standard rules of manifestation order for the sake of storytelling?
  • How did Mikazuki manifest just before Tsurumaru despite having a longer forging timer (4:00:00 vs 3:20:00)? Did the Saniwa use a help token for Mikazuki just before Tsurumaru's timer was finished?
• How did the Saniwa manage to break the starter sword, or any sword for that matter, when he should be in the possession of amulets which should prevented this? Did he send the Touken Danshi out on their first mission without giving them an amulet to protect them from breaking? Or did he give the Touken Danshi an amulet, but it didn't resurrect him until after his group returned home, which could lend to the theory that the starter didn't break at all and is just missing?
• How is Mikazuki getting away with looping with different time periods and subtly altering history? If it's become as big of a problem as it is to get the Kebiishi involved, why hasn't the Government of Time intervened and sent someone to stop him? And aside from Tsurumaru Kuninaga and the Saniwa, why is everyone okay with him doing this, even though he's endangering himself? Why won't the Saniwa send a team to bring him home if he's "sad" about Mikazuki's time travel antics? His behavior almost makes him no different from a Historical Revisionist, especially when it comes to saving people who historically were supposed to die, makes him no different from a Historical Revisionist, so you'd think that the Government of Time would send someone in to tell him to knock it off or else, like in the stage play.
• When exactly did Kashuu Kiyomitsu and Hachisuka Koutetsu appear? In Shinken Ranbusai 2016, Kashuu claimed that he and Hachisuka had been protecting the citadel since the beginning, implying that they were among the first forged swords; however, this play revealed that they were not even among the first six and were manifested later. There must have been a significant gap between the mission where the starter sword broke and their appearance in the citadel for them to have no idea what happened during the early citadel, implying that they are either second or third generation Touken Danshi, "old" enough to be considered veterans themselves, but "young" enough to be unaware of what the old citadel was like and the old traditions started by the original group. However, Kashuu's veteran status does not explain why he is so immature and focused on Shinsengumi leadership in Atsukashiyama Ibun.
  • Why does Kashuu act as if he doesn't know Mikazuki very well in the early plays, despite the fact that they have spent so much time together in the citadel as fellow veterans? Was there a sense of distance between him and Mikazuki until their mission in Atsukashiyama Ibun? If so, how did he manage to become the disciple of Tsurumaru Kuninaga, who was inseparable from Mikazuki during the early days?
• Why does Mikazuki believe the starter sword is still alive, despite the fact that Tsurumaru, Yamanbagiri, and the Saniwa seem convinced that he's gone? Tsurumaru and Yamanbagiri were both on the mission and most likely witnessed what happened. Is Mikazuki simply in denial? And if that's the case, why don't the others force him to give up on his hopeless mission and return to the citadel? Tsurumaru tried, but seemed to accept what Mikazuki chose to do. Are they secretly hoping Mikazuki can find him? What is the point of allowing him to endanger himself if not?
• What happened to the other two swords that were on the doomed mission? The veteran trios grief seems solely focused on the starter sword and never mention the other two, meaning it’s likely that they’re still alive, but they're never alluded to anywhere outside of Mikazuki's memories. They should be as important as the veteran trio and likely suffered from the same trauma of losing a friend, but no one ever talks about them, to the point if they showed up now and were started to be veteran swords, it would almost seem out of the blue. Are they Kiwame training?
  • Speaking of swords, Mikazuki's memories never mentioned the other sword or when he manifested, despite memories of Tsurumaru and Yamanbagiri manifesting after him, as well as memories of the starter sword and first forged sword existing. He couldn't have manifested between Yamanbagiri and Tsurumaru, as Mikazuki would have made note of it. Unless, the memory of his manifestation was left out because they didn't want to give away which Touken Danshi it was through his introductory line? But at the same time, why is it kept a secret in the first place?
• If Mikazuki hadn't been in the citadel in a while, when would Tsurumaru have had the chance to plant a crane feather tracking device on him? Did he do it while Mikazuki was still in the citadel? Is Mikazuki just not changing his clothes or removing his clothes at any point during his days long loops? And if it had been there for a while, why did Mikazuki only notice it during this play?
  • The technology of the crane feather Tsurumaru planted on Mikazuki is never explained. How does it act like a tracking device? Or is it fueled by magic of some kind?
• If Mikazuki hasn't been to the citadel in a while, where are his wounds being treated? Normal bandages do not work on Touken Danshi, nor do their wounds heal on their own; they have to be sent to the repair room to be fixed, so the people he befriends during the time periods he visits are unlikely to be able to help him if he is seriously injured. On that note, is fatigue not present in the Toumyu universe? Where is he resting? When does he eat?
• While the symbolism of Tsurumaru's melancholy singing "Hana no Utena" at the end of the play is understood, as he wishes to share the flower pedestal with Mikazuki but no longer believes he can, how did Tsurumaru learn the song's lyrics in the first place? Tsurumaru has never had the opportunity to hear Mikazuki sing it in the story as far as the audience is shown because Mikazuki always sings it solo. Is this a song Mikazuki taught Tsurumaru In-Universe, or one that they learned together after they discovered the concept of sharing the flower pedestal? Or is this a writer oversight? Unless the crane feather tracking device also doubles as a listening device?
• Toward the end of the play, Tsurumaru uses Suishinshi as bait to lure Mikazuki into a confrontation by beating him up, knowing that Suishinshi has been recruited by Mikazuki to aid him in his mission, which he even sadly mentions before attacking him. However, it's unclear why Mikazuki intervened, given that Tsurumaru was unlikely go through with his threat to break Suishinshi due to his previous trauma over losing a comrade. Did he really think Tsurumaru would break Suishinshi if he didn't intervene? Was he feeling protective of the sword, which could be called his disciple? Or did he realize Tsurumaru was just playing him and decided to give him what he wanted? Notably, Mikazuki doesn't acknowledge Suishinshi during or after the confrontation, focusing his attention solely on Tsurumaru, making it seem like the latter, but it begs the question f why Tsurumaru felt like he needed to use Suishinshi in the first place. Why wouldn't Mikazuki just come out and talk to him?