Genjitsushugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki

Chapter 4 FDF A

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Minasan oideyasu. This is Yukkuri demasu!

Juna’s chapter!

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Author:

Dozeumaru(どぜう丸)

Translator:

Yukkuri Oniisan

Editor:

So-Chintzy

Enlightenment Arc

Chapter 4 FDF A

――― One day on the middle of the SecondMonth of 1547 CE (Continent Era)

「Oh! YourMajesty, I bid you welcome!」(Moltov)

After pa.s.sing through the doorsof the recording studio, of the Royal Voice Broadcast, that was constructed insidethe castle, I was greeted with an exaggerated gesture from a nice looking middle-agedn.o.bleman. He was the father of Ivan Juniro ――the person behind Friedonia"sfirst tokusatsu hero 『Silvan』――,Moltov Juniro.

「Hi, Moltov.How goes the program production?」(Souma)

「I amproducing it by seeing Your Majesty"s example.」(Moltov)

Actually several days ago, his sonIvan, as Silvan, had become popular, so I took a momentous decision to appoint Moltovas the production director of the broadcast program. I wanted to create asystem where we could still produce the programs even when I was busy with otherwork. I thought that since Moltov himself had the same special effects abilitylike Ivan, wouldn’t he be remarkably cut out for this task? Moltov put hishands on his beard while speaking.

「My, producingthis program is a profound task. What the citizens want to see, what they don’twant to see, what we want to show to the public, what we don’t want to show……balancing these aspects is very difficult.」(Moltov)

He seemed to be seriously thinkingabout this, so I felt relieved.

「……Doyou want to quit?」(Souma)

「Notat all! This is something worth doing!」(Moltov)

Moltov smiled lively as he saidthis. Somehow I felt that he had a better expression than when he was pressing hisdaughter Siena to be my consort. Siena herself had appeared in the tokusatsu program alongside her olderbrother Ivan as Silvan’s support heroine (a position similar to Electro-WaveHuman Tackle in Kamen Rider Stronger, or Diana in Spielban).[1]

『Ithink I had found my life’s calling. The n.o.bles’ path of advancement islimited. It will be either through increasing merits in military or domesticaffairs, or through becoming a relative of the Royal Family. Because there wereno other ways, they ended up trying their utmost best on that path. But His Majestyhas taught a new way to my father. A joy to produce broadcast programs that candelight the citizens. I am truly grateful.』

She said this while smilingsoftly. Geez, what a praiseworthy girl. I couldn’t believe that she shares thesame blood as that noisy pair of father and son. Let’s get back to the topic. Justlike what Siena had said, Moltov was rigorously working on the program’s production.I extended my hand out to Moltov.

「I"mexpecting much from you, Moltov. If you continue to learning diligently at thispace, perhaps one day I might be able to entrust you with one of the orbs.」(Souma)

「It can’tbe! An orb!?」(Moltov)

「Yes.And then, it will not just be public broadcasting, but I"d like for you to openan independent broadcast station.」(Souma)

In other words, I want him to establisha 『commercial broadcasting station』. Ifwe only perform public broadcasting indefinitely, the number of programs that wecould produce would be limited. Well, in order to implement this, we would haveto wait for more technological advancements and legislations related to broadcasting,so it wouldn’t be something that was going to happen soon. However, I expectedit to happen in the next five to ten years, so we should still prepare for it. Moltovsmiled cheerfully.

「So Iwill be entrusted with an independent broadcast station?! My dreams spread out evenmore!」(Moltov)

「Yes,so please do your best.」(Souma)

「Pleaseleave it to me!」(Moltov)

Moltov hit his chest.[2]

「Bythe way, Your Majesty, why are you here today?」(Moltov)

「Oh,yes, that’s right. I thought that Juna-san might be here……」(Souma)

「JunaDohma-dono is it? Right now she is in the middle of the 『EducationalProgram』 broadcast.」(Moltov)

Mortov pointed at the studio.Right now was the time for Juna-san’s 「Educational Program」 live broadcast. The song that Juna-san was currentlysinging and dancing was the 『West Breeze One After Another』[3]. It was my favorite song in the NHK’s Educational TV children’smusic program 「Singing Odoronpa!」[4]. The appearance of Juna-san dancing with flowingscarves attached to her sleeves, fluttering and trailing behind her as she moved,was truly like that of a celestial maiden(Tennyo).[5]I instinctively thought of the poem: 「Thepathways of the clouds, seal up!」[6]

When the broadcast was eventuallyfinished, Juna-san ran towards me while still in her costume.

「What"sthe matter, Your Majesty? You shouldn’t have any appoinments in your schedule tovisit here today, right?」(Juna)

「No,I’m not. Just, there is something that I wanted to ask Juna-san for a bit.」(Souma)

「Me?」(Juna)

Juna-san asked and I nodded.

「For threedays starting from tomorrow, I will depart from the capital to meet with acertain person, so I"d like Juna-san to come with me as my companion.」(Souma)

「Idon’t mind, but…… That means you will be absent from the Capital for three days?」(Juna)

Juna-san slightly tilted her head.

「Withall due respect, but wouldn’t the government affairs be stalled in Your Majesty’sabsence?」(Juna)

「Ah, itwouldn’t be a problem, since the thing that I asked Ginya to make had been completed.」(Souma)

I asked Ginya Maxwell, the self-proclaimed『OverScientist』 and the fiancée of the Royal Knights Commander Ludwin,to construct “a certain thing”.

My ability, the 【LivingPoltergeist】, is an ability to split my own consciousness and to transferit into objects to make them float and manipulate them from a bird"s-eye perspective,but the effective range was only about 100 meters. Hence, when I made the pens workin the office, I must stay within the 100 meter radius from the office at alltimes. For that reason, I was so busy with my work that I couldn’t go outsidethe Capital for more than a day excluding emergency situations.

It became obvious afterward thatthe effective range of this ability can be disregarded when the object that my consciousnesswas transferred into was a doll, but unfortunately, I couldn’t write that wellwith dolls. Even though I could write well when manipulating the pen directly,but it was extremely difficult to make the doll hold the pen and write. It was asif you were using a remote control to operate a robotic arm holding a pen. Evenwhen I concentrated intently, I could only write earthworm-like letters.

I mustn’t leave such a messyhandwriting in important doc.u.ments. There were many doc.u.ments where anymisreadings can become serious problem, after all. To conclude, even if using thedoll could disregard the ability’s limited range, it didn’t change the current situationwhere I couldn’t leave the Kingdom for a prolonged period of time. So I thoughtlike this: “I wish I had 『a doll that can write letters』”.That way I can work even if I am in a faraway place, and thus I could leave theCapital completely rea.s.sured.

Then, Ginya appeared on the stage.With the dragon bones as the basis, combined with various metals and biologicalmaterials, she was able to construct the mechanical dragon 『Mechadra』. Then,I discovered that my ability could move it just like a real dragon. So I wonderedif she could make a doll that was able to perform a human-like hand movement. Iasked her to construct it, and she finished it just a few days ago, the 『KoboArm Mark I』[7].

「Thisis…… How should I say it……?」(Juna)

After waiting for Juna-san to havea change of clothes, we went to the government affair office room to show her theobject in question, and Juna-san was at a loss for words. It was unusual forJuna-san to be this dismayed, but this wasn’t that surprising, since 『KoboArm Mark I』 was remarkably “disgusting”. There was a single weirdlylife-like arm attached to the L-shaped base. To put it into simple terms, itwas like an artificial arm manipulator, but…… Ginya… Why did you make it insuch a realistic shape?

I attached the 『KoboArm Mark I』 to the prepared mannequin and tried to actually moveit with 【Living Poltergeist】.Then, the 『Kobo Arm Mark I』, that became the mannequin’s arm, started to movesmoothly, hold the pen, and write letters on the paper. Due to the shape of itsbody, the disgusting feeling was doubled. Perhaps, this is what we called the 『uncannyvalley』?

「The officialswho saw that this working were always paralyzed in an instant. The maids andbutlers who brought tea to this room oftentimes screamed and fainted.」(Souma)

「Whatthey felt……. I understand it really well.」(Juna)

As expected, even Juna-san had acramp on her smiling face. Because this was like a scene out of a ghost story.

「Wellanyway, thanks to this, I am able to leave the Capital. This seems to use valuablematerials and so it might be impossible in short span of time, but perhaps itwon’t even be necessary for me to stay in the castle at all when this isma.s.s-produced.」(Souma)

「Idon’t want to see the scene of a bunch of duplicates of this thing movingtogether……」(Juna)

Juna-san said so, and I stronglyagreed. In a room where no one is there, single-armed dolls kept on writingletters…… Just imagining this could sc.r.a.pe off the SAN stat.[8]Juna-san shook her head as if she had regained her composure again.

「However,Your Majesty, why are you making me a partner this time? Why not Princess,Aisha-dono or Roroa-san?」(Juna)

「Well……It’s because the person I will be meeting is a formidable one. I wish for Juna-santo a.s.sist me. If it’s the others…… I feel…… that they would be facing anopponent that is too tough for them.」(Souma)

「…….And that person you will be meeting is?」(Juna)

「Thecurrent Friedonia Self Defence Force Supreme Commander, Excel Walter.」(Souma)

「…… Isee. So it is Great Mother……」(Juna)

When I mentioned the name of theperson who could be referred to as her grandmother, Juna-san nodded as if shecould understand my reasoning. However, she quickly tilted her head.

「But,Your Majesty. Great Mother has always been Your Majesty’s ally, right? Bysaying ‘a tough opponent’, is there something that needs such a confrontationalstance?」(Juna)

Juna-san made an uneasy face, so Ishook my head.

「No,it’s not. The reason for me to leave the Capital for three days is to inspectthe state of progress of the project that I have been working on with Excel,but…… apart from that…… actually, it seemed that Hakuya and Marx recently made contactwith Excel.」(Souma)

「ThePrime Minister and the Chamberlain? Just why……. Is there something serious?」(Juna)

「Ah,no, it’s not that a big problem. It’s not a secret either. It seemed that she wassimply consulted by the both of them, but…… the topic of that consultation……」(Souma)

「……Whatis the topic of that consultation?」(Juna)

「Thatis…… it seemed that they were discussing about the “a.s.signed woman” for me……」(Souma)

The moment I mentioned this, therewas a slight twitch in Juna-san’s mouth. An “a.s.signed woman” is a custom of thiscountry"s upper society (the n.o.bles above the Knight t.i.tle), when a boy of thatHouse was recognized as an adult, an “experienced” woman will be a.s.signed tohim. So that in the future, the boy wouldn’t be embarra.s.sed when welcoming hisnew wife, the woman will teach the boy…… “night etiquette”. The teaching methodwill be through a cla.s.sroom lecture similar to a health and physical education cla.s.s,but…… there are also “practice lessons”. I roughly scratched my head.

「I amalso a healthy man and Liscia, Aisha and Juna-san are always on my side. Evenif they leave me alone, they thought that I would lay my hands on one of you,so this matter was never brought up…… But, since I never laid my hands on anyonemo matter how much time had pa.s.sed, it seemed that Marx grew impatient and thensaid that there ought to be some education for this matter. Hakuya also seemedto agree with that opinion.」(Souma)

「Isee…… So it’s like that.」(Juna)

Juna nodded with a cramped expression.I continued my story.

「And then,they consulted with Excel who had lived for 500 years and was experienced in romance.『Doyou happen to know the right woman for this? 』 andthen……」(Souma)

「……Somehow,I have a bad feeling.」(Juna)

「Excelnominated herself.」(Souma)

「WHYTHAT LADY!」(Juna)

Juna-san yelled, which seemedreally out of character. It looked like she couldn’t stay calm when imagining thesituation where her fiancé (even though it was still a secret) and hergrandmother having a ‘relationship’. It felt like there was a mix of impatienceand anger on her face…… This was a bit novel. By the way, when Excel proposedthis,

『Ara, won’t it be better if I am theone, then? I am well experienced in this and since I am from a long-livedtribe, I will not be able to be impregnated, if ‘it’ is just for several times.Ufufu .』

She seemed to have laughed likethis. However, according to Marx and Hakuya who asked for the consultation, incontrast to her beautiful mid-20s appearance, her eyes were shining like a 『serpentwho found the prey』. We-well, as expected from a member of the Sea DragonTribe. Juna-san was greatly troubled by this.

「Thisis what I heard from Axera-oba-sama(aunt) (Excel"s daughter, Carla’s mother).When oba-sama was still a girl, Great Mother seduced the men who were fallingin love with her and then teased her with this.」(Juna)

「Whoa……that’s the worst……」(Souma)

「Well,more or less, the target was only the people that oba-sama wasn’t interested inat all and it was to make them completely give up on their love for her…… Obaa-samasaid with a tired expression, 『I don’t want to see my cla.s.smates who were completelyrejected when courting my own mother.』」(Juna)

That is…… yeah. Certainly, when Ifirst met with Castor, it was mentioned that he had courted Excel. Indeed, shewas charmingly beautiful and if I didn’t develop a resistance thanks to Lisciaand others, I might have been at risk for falling for her too.

「Ww-well,that"s why I"d like Juna-san to accompany me. So?」(Souma)

「…… Iunderstand. I will protect Your Majesty with my body and soul.」(Juna)

Juna-san bowed with a face that asif hiding her resolution. Of course, I wouldn’t ask what it was that she wa.s.s protectingme from. Then Juna-san looked as if she remembered something, and she then turnedaway her face as if she was embarra.s.sed for some reason. Wondering what it was,I waited for Juna-san to ready herself and speak up.

「Ano…… YourMajesty…… The matter this time…… Umm…… Wouldn’t everything…… be resolved if YourMajesty laid your hands? Either on Princess, Aisha-dono, Roroa-san……. or…… me……」(Juna)

She said this while looking downat first before peering up at me with slightly upturned eyes. This sight struckhome to my heart, however, I firmly endured it (although Marx might have saidthat I shouldn’t do that)

「I believethat…… to do …… that thing, it’s better when I have firmly settled down. Since itis an act to usher in a “new family”, before that, I want to build an “unshakablehome”. That’s why, after the wedding ceremony is finished and we become aproper couple, then……」(Souma)

「Isee……」(Juna)

Juna-san looked a bit disappointed,but she soon smiled gently.

「Ithink that it is so Your Majesty-ish. I feel that you really cherish us.」(Juna)

「Ofcourse I do!」(Souma)

「Then,I will look forward to “that time”.」(Juna)

That smile was so superbly lovelythat I drew Juna "s body to me firmly. While embracing her, she felt soft and smellednice.

I have not built an unshakeable homeyet…… but this much is fine.

☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽

Don’t worry Juna. It won’t stay PG-15 forlong. LoL.

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