Genjitsushugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki

Chapter 3: The Core of CoReform B

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Minasan oideyasu. This is Yukkuri demasu!

Sorry for not posting anything for so long.

If you follow NovelUpdatesForum or thediscord, you may know that I am really busy for this and the next month fromwork, so I don’t really have much free time anymore.

But the good news are that I had finishedtranslating some chapters between them (not much, sorry for that).

I don’t know when I will have my free timeback, but I hope I could take a long year end break… (hopefully).

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Author:

Dozeumaru(どぜう丸)

Translator:

Yukkuri Oniisan

Editor:

So-Chintzy

Enlightenment Arc

Chapter 3: The Core of CoReform B

Between the Capital City, Parnam,and the new coastal city, which was still under construction, lay the Arcs’territory. This was the land that was governed by the Arcs’ House, where LudwinArcs served as its House’s Head (even so, Ludwin practically resided in the RoyalCastle, so he was represented by a magistrate). If compared to the territories ofthis country’s n.o.bles and knights, it was just an average territory.

Since Ludwin had performed meritoriousachievements in the previous war, he would have been transferred to a biggerterritory, but for some reason, Ludwin firmly objected to it. It seems that hehad a reason for his desire to not be separated from his territory. Well, sincethere was no need to transfer him against his will, I decided to grant him thelands surrounding his territory. Then right now, Liscia and I, together withLudwin, were travelling to that territory with the Royal Family’s Flying Dragon’sGondola. It was to ascertain the truth of what we had heard from Ludwin severaldays ago.

By the way, since Ludwin was withus, we didn’t bring any guards. Aisha was quite worried and complained, but sincethe Royal Guards’ Commander was with us, there shouldn’t be any problems.Furthermore…… we also intended to deal with this matter with just this group,so it was good if the number of our escorts was small.

I watched the Arcs’ territoryfrom the sky and it looked deserted. Since it was the time that Autumn changedinto Winter, the trees had shed their leaves, the fully harvested fields were soil-colored,and the pasture lands looked a bit discolored. What a bad season to visit. Sincethere were many fields and pastures, from Spring until the start of Autumn, therewould have been a tranquil scene unfolding before me, and if I waited a bituntil the snow had fallen, then it would be dyed with pure white. ……Well, Ididn’t come for sightseeing, though.

「Thisplace, Your Majesty, please land here.」(Ludwin)

Like what Ludwin had said, we landedthe gondola at the edge of a small forest. Even as we landed, the surroundings lookedlike just any other ordinary forest with common trees growing side by side. Iordered the gondola pilot to wait for us in this place and then I asked Ludwin.

「Is thatperson really inside this forest?」(Souma)

「Yes.Though to be more precise, not “inside” but “under”.」(Ludwin)

「Under?」(Souma)

「Itmight be quicker to see it personally.」(Ludwin)

After Ludwin said so, we began towalk into the forest.

「Then,Your Majesty, Princess, please follow me.」(Ludwin)

Following Ludwin’s guidance, Lisciaand I walked side-by-side inside the forest. Just in case, as a precaution forwild animals, I scattered out my small mouse dolls, that I used in the disasterrelief at the Dark Elf Village, to search the surroundings. However, thereseemed to be no creatures that could be a threat to us. This small forest wasoften entered by people and the leafless trees granted an un.o.bstructed view, sothere shouldn’t be any problems. Well, even if there was one, Ludwin and Lisciawould deal with it somehow.

But if I had to name a problem,then it would be this frigid temperature. I felt that today was even colderthan usual. Perhaps I should have worn thicker clothes. But, Liscia, who walkedbeside me, seems fine.

「Liscia,you don’t feel cold?」(Souma)

「WhenI was still in the Army, I also partic.i.p.ated in marching during the snow. So thismuch is nothing to me.」(Liscia)

Marching during the snow…… Youare, more or less, a Princess, right? As expected, aren’t you too aggressive? Wasn’tGeorg even more considerably at a loss with your actions? While I was thinkingabout this, I was semi-desperately singing 『SnowMarch』[1] (although, there was snow falling right now).

*Poka*[2]

「Ouch.」(Souma)

Liscia lightly hit me with herstill sheathed sword.

「Don’tsing some ominous song like that beside me.」(Liscia)

「Ominous……Well, ominous is it?」(Souma)

The tune was lively, but thelyrics were only about the hardships of a battle in the cold. Furthermore, thefinal lyric was, 「In any case, we won’t return alive.」

「Eitherway, it really cold……」(Souma)

「……si~gh.」(Liscia)

Suddenly, Liscia slid both of herarms around my arm. Then, she tightly held it closely, like she was supportingme from the side and smiled teasingly.

「Youfeel warmer this way, right?」(Liscia)

「…… Iwas strangely sweating」(Souma)

「Why!?」(Liscia)

「Lisciais so cute that it makes my heart pound thumpingly.」(Souma)

「I-Isee…… My heart too is thumping fast.」(Liscia)

While we were flirting like this,Ludwin suddenly stopped.

「Thisplace, Your Majesty, Princess.」(Ludwin)

We quickly separated when Ludwinturned around. We hadn’t realized until now, but there was some kind of reallybig conspicuous thing. Which is……

「Agarage?」(Souma)

It was something that I couldn’tdescribe with any other word. It was covered in moss, but it was a small rectangularbuilding that was made from something similar to concrete. The entrance wasclosed with something similar to a shutter. From its size, it was hard to judgewhether or not a common car could enter it, but its outward appearance was totallylike a garage. Although this world had outstanding technologies, overall, thisworld’s cultural level was preindustrial, so its design was unusual. In thefirst place, wasn’t the concrete itself something that I had introduced for thefirst time not that long ago? Seeing that I was puzzled, Ludwin shook his head.

「It’snot a garage. A carriage can’t enter if the place was only this tall.」(Ludwin)

It seemed that in this world, ‘Garage= For Horse Carriage’. A station wagon might not fit, but perhaps there wasenough s.p.a.ce for a common sedan car, but even if I said this, they wouldn’tunderstand…… Or rather, if what he said was true, then I don’t understand thereason for this building design in the first place.

「Then,what is this building?」(Souma)

When I inquired him, Ludwinanswered with a serious expression.

「It’sthe entrance to a dungeon, Your Majesty.」(Ludwin)

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Dungeon.

A maze-like place where a mysterious,peculiar, and unique ecosystem had taken root. For this world, this was a placewhere monsters existed before the appearance of the Demon Lord’s Realm. When Iwas playing adventurer with Musashi Boy-kun and was invited into a party withDiss, Yuno and the others, we entered a dungeon and it was similar to the usualimage of dungeons as caves. So I never imagined that the entrance of a dungeon couldbe similar to such a clearly man-made structure like this……

When I asked about this, it seemsthat there were all sorts of dungeons that exist in this world

「Thereare many kinds of dungeons. The locations range from gra.s.slands to forests ormountains, on top of that, there even dungeons under the sea. The interiorshape, too, could be a cave system or an underground castle covered with stones,or a mysterious room coated in metal.」(Liscia)

Liscia taught me about thedungeons. That reminds me, I heard that even the Royal Voice Broadcast Orb was discoveredinside a dungeon. Since an overtechnology futuristic items like that could bediscovered inside the dungeon, it wouldn’t be strange for the dungeon itself tobe made from an overtechnology futuristic materials…… something like this?

「Orrather, how do you discover a dungeon under the sea?」(Souma)

「Thereare races that could breath underwater and if there was air inside theunderwater dungeon, it will be similar to diving inside a large bell.」(Liscia)

Ah, a diving bell. A bell-likevehicle that could be submerged underwater while maintaining an air supply. Ionly ever know this from manga…… so I sort of want to ride inside of one.

「Then,are there are any monsters inside this dungeon?」(Souma)

When I asked about this, Ludwin immediatelyshook his head.

「Notat all! This place could be called as a “defunct dungeon”. The monsters and thecreatures inside had been exterminated a long time ago.」(Ludwin)

「So youmean, this dungeon had been cleared?」(Souma)

「Yes.Currently, the ownership of this defunct dungeon had been transferred to aneccentric branch of a n.o.ble house that has turned it into a research facility……the Maxwell House. And right now, someone from that House is living in thisplace.」(Ludwin)

Then Ludwin went to the side ofthe dungeon’s entrance and called out in front of a metal tube.

「Ginya![3]It’s me! Ludwin Arcs! Since you rarely go outside, I think you’re there. Answerme if you are indeed inside!」(Ludwin)

The metal pipe that he yelledinto was perhaps a speaking tube. It didn’t get used, but I believed that itwas also installed in the Battleship Albert. Or rather, the seldom outdoors personthat Ludwin was calling, seemed to be named Ginya (from their name, perhaps theyare a woman?), perhaps she was a hikikomori(shut-in)? Then, from the speaking tube, therewas a sound of something falling and then, there was a voice of a young woman.

『Owi-wi-wie……Hi, Lu-nii. Wazzup?』[4](Ginya)

「Wazzupback to you…… There are rather loud sounds back there. Are you alright?」(Ludwin)

『Ahaha……Since Lu-nii suddenly called me, I was surprised and dropped something. Goodthing that it’s not a dangerous chemical, yup yup~.』(Ginya)

「Thatis not a good thing at all……」(Ludwin)

Ludwin dropped his shoulders despondently.It think I understand their relationship. A girl who was wrapped around the man"sfinger and the man who had his fingers wrapped around by the girl. Ludwincalmed himself and shook his head.

「Atany rate, right now I have brought important people. Let me in.」(Ludwin)

「Hm~mm…….Understood.I’m opening it now.」(Ginya)

Then the closed shutterautomatically opened. Perhaps it was controlled by a switch. In the firstplace, this was something that was out of place for this world after all. Whatappeared when the shutter was opened was a flight of stairs that continuedunderground. So this garage was really only an entrance. Without knowing my astonishment,the girl called Ginya welcomed us with a cheery tone.

「Then,Lu-nii, and the guests too, come in~ ♪」(Ginya)

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As we walked down the stairs, wecould see a large and wide underground s.p.a.ce. From Ludwin’s explanation, thisdungeon wasn’t that wide, at the most, it would only be the size of afive-story school building buried undergrounds. However, the dungeon’s owners,the people from the Maxwell House, had demolished the floors and the walls toobtain a large and wide s.p.a.ce, so currently the whole dungeon was a single humongousroom.

The stairs that crawled at oneside of the huge room’s walls were like a sheer cliff, so it was quite scary, tothe point that I wished it to have a handrail. In addition, the walls were madefrom some kind of metal. Liscia had mentioned a dungeon like this as 「amysterious room coated with metal」, but if I had to describe it myself, then it would bethat it was similar to the interior of a futuristic s.p.a.ceship. The metal wallswere strangely shining, so even though this place was underground, it was ratherbright. These walls, too, seemed to be something of the future.

This display of an futuristic overtechnologylike this sent my mind into a great confusion, but Liscia and Ludwin didn’t seemthat interested in it. I heard from them later that they thought that it wassome kind of magic. In other words, Liscia and Ludwin didn’t think of this as aproduct of scientific technology. Well, there was a possibility that this wasindeed magic, but no matter how I thought about it, I believe that these walls weremade from scientific technology. Since they thoughtlessly thought that magiccould do anything, the people of this world might have a thin sense of curiosity.

While descending the stairs, we heardabout the matters of the Maxwell House from Ludwin.

「Perhapsthis is hereditary, but there were many outstanding researchers that appearedfrom the Maxwell House and it could be said that they had greatly raised thiscountry’s level of civilization. They were particularly acknowledged in the studiesof the technologies discovered inside the dungeon. The usage method of thequasi-receiver of the Royal Voice Broadcast Orb was also discovered by the MaxwellHouse.」(Ludwin)

I see, so the one who discoveredhow to use that quasi-receiver was the Maxwell House.

「Waita minute. Doesn’t the Empire also normally use this receiver?」(Souma)

「Thisis a story from a very long time ago. One of the kings in the past had soldthis knowledge to the other countries.」(Ludwin)

「Hmm……Well, it’s hard to say if his action was a mistake.」(Souma)

To spread such an advanced technologywas a scary idea, but if its dissemination won’t have many effects, and if itwas a knowledge that could be discovered by someone else, then it would bebetter to have sold it when it could still be sold. It could also be exchangedfor another technology. Ludwin continued his story.

「Becauseof that great achievement, they received this defunct dungeon and the territoryaround it. However, the Maxwell House that was focused on their research,didn’t have any interest in managing the territory. For this reason, the Royal Familygave an order to my House, the Arcs House, to govern the territory as the MaxwellHouse’s proxy and to receive half of the territory’s profits. The other half wouldbe given to the Maxwell House as their livelihood and research fund. And thus, thissystem took shape.」(Ludwin)

「That’sadmirable. It should be a loss for the Arcs House, right?」(Souma)

「Sinceit was a meritorious deed, they tolerated it. Furthermore, if the Maxwell Houseobtained a new knowledge from that research fund, then it will be a boon to thecountry…… Well, as time pa.s.sed, the Maxwell House’s territory was incorporatedinto the Arcs’ territory and the Arcs House took up a position as the patronfor the Maxwell House.」(Ludwin)

In other words, the Maxwell Househad lasted until now, but what could be called as their territory, had beenreduced to only this dungeon, and the Arcs House provided research funds forthem.

「……Huh?But the current Head of the Arcs House is Ludwin, right?」(Souma)

「Yes,that’s true.」(Ludwin)

「Guessingfrom the previous conversation, it doesn’t seem that there were other peopleliving in this place besides Ginya ……」(Souma)

「Yes.Ginya Maxwell. The current sole member of the Maxwell House.」(Ludwin)

「So thatmeans, Ludwin is currently supporting Ginya?」(Souma)

「……」(Ludwin)

When I asked him about this, Ludwinmade a very sullen face. I remembered the rumor about Ludwin that his actualfamily’s finances were not in a good state.

Ludwin eating cheap bread

「Perhapsthe reason why Ludwin only ate the cheapest bread in the dining hall was……」(Souma)

「…… Ginyais five years younger than me and we had been raised together like siblings.」(Ludwin)

Ludwin began to narrate with afaraway look on his face.

「The amountof the support money for the Maxwell House had been decided, but……. Aboutthis…… Since Ginya’s parents and my parents had pa.s.sed away…… We only have eachother. Someone who is similar to a blood-related family…… That…… I am weak againstthat imouto-like person when she says ‘please’. So my stipends were……」(Ludwin)

「……」(Souma)

I placed my hand gently on Ludwin’sshoulder.

☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽

I feel you Ludwin, together with millions ofonii-chan that weak against their imoutos.

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