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Year 7444, Month 6, Day 20
Miduchi, No, as a part of the senses of the j.a.panese person Shiina Junko who"s a part of Miduchi she felt it was considerably plain for the royal palace of a single country but from Midu~ritto"s sense it was a considerably extravagant royal palace that she was stepping foot inside. It seems the maids are properly taking care of their service work and the cleaning was done so thoroughly there"s not a single piece of dirt or dust. Just from a glance it seems like about 2 meters from the ground was made from rock that was cut out but from there and above was made of wood and mortar almost as if interest was lost in it. The floor is made of st.u.r.dy wood and a portion of it was made of a stone material like granite that also has been carefully polished. The ceiling is considerably high and it was made extremely s.p.a.cious and there should have been a second floor as well. Come to think of it the roof was tile as well. Even though something like rain will never fall.
Soon after entering there was something like a rail and a entryway step up on to the wooden floor. It resembles the lobby of a mid-scale hot spring ryokan of somewhere. There"s lightning magic tools in four places on the ceiling of the lobby that were lit up. They aren"t white like fluorescent lights but closer to an opal like sunlight that sort of tinted high cla.s.s luxury item. There"s a 10 cm difference in level between the polished granite floor and the wooden floor on the higher step up, going off of Shiina Junko"s feeling she wants to take off her shoes. She somehow manages to hold back the uncomfortable feeling of standing on the polished and sparkling wooden floor with her shoes and opens the double doors on the right side of the lobby that she heard from elder Webundo. If it"s this sort of structure she would have preferred they were sliding doors.
Ahead of that was a hallway that was roughly 3 meters and after advancing for a bit there"s several similar pairs of double doors on the left side of the direction she"s proceeding. On the opposite side there"s windows for light and shoji fitted on to them but since it"s dark outside they probably have no meaning other than just decorations. Just the same as the lobby there"s lightning magic tools along the ceiling of the hallway and they"re giving off light. On Webundo"s instruction they must be left on all through the night up to the descending stairwell that"s supposedly ahead of here.
Miduchi continues while restlessly looking around the first royal palace she"s entered since she was born, after turning left twice a stairwell that almost seemed as if it was descending into the abyss appeared. There"s light from the ceiling going down the stairs. After descending down the long stairwell and the floor changed to the same polished stone that was at the entrance lobby. Since she had heard that even for the service rank maids the bas.e.m.e.nt was prohibited from entering she thought there would be dust but as far as she could tell it was carefully being cleaned.
Now then, if we were to go off of common sense there should be a switch around here for the lightning magic tools. Thinking that she tried fumbling around searching the wall where she a.s.sumed one would be but couldn"t find one. Since it couldn"t be helped she used the spell {Light} on her left fingertip to light up the area. Infrared vision would be fine as well but since it"s a rare chance she wanted to see with proper color. After descending the stairs as far as she could see down the hall that was on the immediate left there was nothing like a switch. The light shining from the {Light} reflect off the polished stone floor and walls and make it visible a considerable distance though the ceiling just seems to continue for quite a while. For the time being there were lightning magic tools along the ceiling.
Around the dead end she can see in the distance there"s one set of double doors and then two sets of double doors that can be seen on the left side. One of these three doors should be the {room of sleep}. Since she has light she won"t trip in the darkness. It seems that the stone used in the bas.e.m.e.nt isn"t granite but marble. The moment she took one step forward, Miduchi twitched as if she had been hit with an electric current. (What? Just now?) and she only thought that for a moment, it soon made sense. Just now was probably a check for intruders. She can"t even guess what kind of principle it works on but the walls on both sides there"s two rows of circular holes lined up and when she looked into one she understood it. It"s probably some kind of anti-intruder sensor. There were spears embedded in the holes.
She can tell there"s something moving a bit ahead in the hallway. It"s not very big. It looks like a transparent jelly about 15 cm high in the shape of a cube. About once every 3 seconds it seems to be rolling. (What is that?) and she thought that but it was something Shiina Junko knew about. That"s most likely {Cubic Jelly}. A splendid monster. Normally they make their nests in underground dungeons like Baldukk and they"re often much larger in size. Right, large enough to bury the entire pa.s.sage. They"re the cleaners of the dungeon who cleanly dispose of the corpses of monsters and adventurers defeated. Did she tame those and use them as cleaners? If they"re large scale ones then you could say they"re considerably troublesome powerful enemies but if it"s that size then there"s no harm at all. When she approached it to get a closer look she could see a small magic stone about the size of a little finger inside of it.
She arrived just in front of the first door. When she checked the plate on it and it says {room of meditation}. The plate on the next door was "Bath". Why is just this one in j.a.panese? In that case the {room of sleep} or whatever should be the one at the end of the hall. She went to the end of the hall and checked the plate and just as she guessed, it was the {room of sleep}. Miduchi took a deep breath and then put her hands on the door door to try and push it open, she was about to push it but the moment her hands touched it, it was slow but automatically opened.
She nervously entered inside. Some lighting magic tools automatically lit up. The room seems to stretch out to the left. There seems to be a length of about 15 m. There"s shelves all over in the room and all sorts of things she can"t tell what they are placed all over the place. Among that stuff, the things that caught her eye was large bed enshrined further in the back, the desk in the corner, and a large hole opened in the middle of the floor. Could it be someone dug a hole in order to sneak into her majesty the Queens bedroom!? and, shortly after she thought that a voice echoed out from somewhere. Not in her ears, it felt like it echoed directly into her head.
"If it"s Shiina-san then sing the j.a.panese national anthem, if it"s not then leave now. You have 10 seconds. 10.."
In a panic she took out the anku and put her to her forehead while singing the j.a.panese national anthem. She thought, there"s no to sing it all in 10 seconds but the counter stopped after she got through singing the first phrase. After she finished singing and a 3D image of Lilus appeared above the hole in the center of the room. The image differs from the one she saw during the day and it"s transparent enough to see through to the other side a bit. Also, around the knees of both her legs they"re fused together and around the point where they"ve fused the skin seems to change into that of a plant as it gets even thicker. Beyond that is almost like the roots of a plant entering the hole in the ground. With long hair that"s white than snow and slightly diluted blue purple color skin. Her red-violet eyes are a bit slanted in the shape of almonds. On her back is 8 spider legs that almost seem to have broken through the skin and seem to be vaguely moving. She"s not wearing any type of clothing.
"Confirmed as Shiina-san. This a spell that I a.s.sembled on Year 7444, Month 5, Day 30. It"s possible for it to reply to some extent but it can"t reply to questions that are far too apart from the details that I had a.s.sumed. Also, I can"t reply to any questions regarding the principles of this world. Since time is limited if there"s anything that is insufficient I"m sorry. First, a confirmation. Is this your first time coming to this place?"
"Yes, it"s the first time."
Miduchi knelt down in a hurry before replying and then the image stopped for about half a second before starting to move again and opening it"s mouth.
"I understand. I"ll interact in first time use mode. First off, I"ll start from telling you the warning points. This spell consumes a considerable amount of mana but it"s possible for it to automatically replenish that. For meeting here once and talking for 5 minutes of time it takes around six months to replenish the mana. Currently the status is at..roughly 31 minutes..of mana filled.
This will end up being used even if you leave the room partway through. It"s one of the limitations to the spell that can"t be helped. I"m very sorry but I recommend you make effective use of the time. Furthermore, since this time is the first use, for the last few minutes you"ll be forced to listen to my conversation. I"m sorry. Well then, the next confirmation. Is the reason you came to this place for my instruction? Or is it because you had something that you wanted to confirm?"
"Instruction."
The image stopped for another 1 second or so and then started moving again.
"I understand. It"s fine for you to speak freely after this. Also, I don"t think it will stop anymore."
First off there"s the things that need to be taken care of. This is the start right.
"In order to increase the edible mushroom production and the required tunnel expansions for that, one of the elders was planning to secure manual labor through moving members of the warrior cla.s.s. It"s the current warrior inspector general, elder Yoretto. I think that the objective itself is acceptable but there"s also the opinion that it"s too impatient as well and I agree with that. How should we persuade them to calmly settle things?"
"With just that it"s a bit difficult to understand. What"s the date right now?"
"Year 7444, Month 6, Day 20."
"..I"m sorry. The details that I instructed the elders on Month 5, Day 28 might have been misunderstood...Let"s do it like this.."
While listening to Lilus"s words, Miduchi(thank goodness, it wasn"t her throwing it all on to me) let out a sigh of relief.
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Just like that after she received all of the necessary instructions, the image of Lilus asked Miduchi.
"Is the anku currently in your possession?"
Obviously she has it. Since she just stuck it to her forehead as she sung the j.a.panese national anthem after all..Come to think of it, different from the time at noon the anku didn"t give off any light. Is it fine even if there"s no anku in this room?
"I have it."
"That dark elf anku is the high grade spell medium for this spell. While you"re inside of my bedroom like right now the level of freedom in conversation is higher but if you use that anku as a medium and sing the j.a.panese national anthem then this magical version of myself that I"ve prepared can be called out anywhere within Erurehei. As a matter of fact as long as they have the anku then anyone can do it so whenever you sing the j.a.panese national anthem please sing in a whisper within your mouth.
This is made use of on a separate mana than this spell. If you haven"t used it then my image should last for roughly one hours worth and while it"s limited conversation is possible. Since you"ve most likely already used it I"m sure please calculate the remaining time. Even if you use it the mana can"t be replenished but by customizing it you can make it so it says whatever you please. That"s why please don"t have me say anything too absurd. The method for customizing is..
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The ability to customize it and make it speak whatever she wants was something extremely appreciated to Miduchi.
If just as Lilus said she doesn"t use it in any way that"s too absurd then it should become a large power to her from here on out. By the way, I wonder if there"s still time remaining? If there is time remaining then there"s some things she"d definitely like to ask, no, she"d like to request.
"Umm..Is there a spell that can cure diseases?"
"It"s not very well known but there is."
Hearing that Miduchi was so happy that she clapped her hands and jumped up.
"Can you use that spell in this condition?"
"I"m sorry. This is just a simple image so it can"t use spells."
She was a bit disappointed but even then it was good. She was able to gain the information that there"s definitely a spell to "cure diseases". It"s huge just that she was able to identify that no matter how much time it takes from here on out it"s possible she could use it. Tears started to well up in Miduchi"s eyes.
"The spell {Cure Disease} requires all elemental magic skills at level 8 and void magic at level 9. However, even if you meet the level requirements it can only be said that acquiring it is extremely difficult. The first time you use it, it requires mental concentration for an extraordinarily long time. Of course there"s some individual differences but I think that it would be in the denomination of several tens of hours."
This time she was considerably disappointed but..if it"s that man then he should meet the requirements. There"s no doubt he"ll be able to do something about it.
"Thank goodness.."
She thought that she was able to resolve her second problem.
"Shiina-san, it"s about time. I"m very sorry but I"m forcefully switching over to first time use mode...First of there"s something I want to hand to you. Please take the bottle on that shelf. On the label it should have "Medicine(Disease use)" written in j.a.panese. It should be about half full with a powder."
Miduchi took the specified bottle from the specified shelf. Her chest was filled with expectations. Simultaneously she also felt a bit discontent. If something like this existed then why didn"t she give it to me even sooner?
"On top of the desk there should be a pen and paper. If it"s necessary then please take a memo of this. First off, just as is labeled that medicine can certainly show effect on any disease but the effects of it aren"t very high. However, if you add some specific ingredients and mana to it then it"s possible to increase the effectiveness of it considerably. It should be effective on your older brother"s disease as well. I"ll list off the ingredients now."
Hearing that while still holding the bottle she jumped at the desk. Unlike the shelves the desk was neatly organized and there were several pieces of thin high quality paper on top of each other and on the side was a pen and jar of ink as well. Obviously the pen was standing there. She pulled out the pen and dipped the end in the ink jar. From here on out she won"t miss hearing even a single word.
"The charred tail of a black gecko, around 1 cm of the tip. {Shurika} fruit, about 5g of the center portion. A dried powder made of the liver of a {Scavenger Crawler}, about 3g. One eyeball stored in gla.s.s from a Human Vampire Lord.."
Just as Lilus says it Miduchi focused on writing down the details as if she was a machine.
"Eggs of the {Kuntokigaeru}, two of them. A powder made from the end of the tail of a {Wyvern}, about 0.1g. The yolk from the egg of a {Rock Viper}, one of them."
Miduchi"s eyes were giving off a fiery sparkle. She"s overflowing with motivation. No matter what she has to do she"ll hunt them down.
"The baked hair of a human of the opposite s.e.x of the patient, around 3 hairs of a length around 10 cm. A powder made from the nails of a gnome that"s of the opposite s.e.x of the patient, around 1g."
She flinched a bit at first but was relieved right away. She should be able to obtain it easily.
"The raw liver of a human of the same gender as the patient, about 10g."
What was that!?
"The living brain stem..of a baby born within one week of the same gender and race as the patient. About 2g."
It"s hopeless. The pen stopped.
"Otherwise, the heart muscle of a dragon species. About 2g. If you mix all of those ingredients along with that medicine and a quant.i.ty of water equal to the empty bottle the medicine was inside, then once every 5 minutes knead an {Aid} type spell in well. It"s completed once you can no longer target it with the spell {Light}. It should take about 20-30 minutes. After that, make 144 pills from it and please use magic to dry them. One per week, if you have the patient swallow them, roughly one month after they"ve swallowed the last one their disease should be completely cured."
She reprimands her trembling hand inside of her heart while somehow managing to finish writing it down but Miduchi felt all of the strength in her body was exhausted. Something like this, regardless of the circ.u.mstances there"s no way she would receive it. Even if she has a large debt, let alone the completed product it doesn"t even match up to the ingredients. When it comes to the raw liver since the {Cure} type spells exist, it"s still possible to do something about it but something like sacrificing a dark elf baby just for the sake of curing her older brother"s disease...Even more so something like a dragon is absurd.
The tears started overflowing ceaselessly.
"Shiina-san, No, Chizumagurol-san. I don"t know what you"re thinking right now. However, please don"t abandon your hope. This will be the last but there"s just one more thing I have to give you. On the side of this room there"s a room called the {room of medication}. In the corner of that room there"s a single sword that I used use when I was traveling. I offer that to you. Please treat it well as a partner. Now then, I think the next time we will be able to meet is after the mana has replenished over a fixed amount. It should take at least one year from now.
Chizumagurol-san, I"ve caused quite a bit of trouble for you. I don"t think that just this much would be able to make up for that but please forgive me. It might be unreasonable of me to say but..If possible, that person..Please become the happiness of that person."
After saying that the image stopped moving and rapidly started to fade before finally disappearing.
Miduchi was left behind alone as she put the paper with the memo she took into her pocket and started sobbing.
After she cried for a while she remembered there"s things she needs to do. First off she needs to make the custom details of what to make the image of Lilus speak by tomorrow at noon. She adds her own thinking to the details she heard from Lilus and started the customizing that would benefit not only Lail Kingdom but also herself.
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Year 7444, Month 6, Day 21
The next morning, after waking up in the bed that was in Lilus"s bedroom Miduchi was struck with awe that she did something as overwhelming as sleeping in the same bed as her majesty the Queen. She finished the customizing that ended up taking until close to dawn and she couldn"t but let her guard down. Not only that but she ended up rolling over onto the bed without taking her shoes off. She turned pale white (I"ve made it dirty) along with her awakening consciousness but strangely there wasn"t any dirt on the bed at all. Not only that but Miduchi"s shoes didn"t even have any dirt.
Even then she wiped down the surface of the futon and when she confirmed the time on the clock magic tool on the desk it was already long past 11 am and close to noon. She recognized the fact that it was so comfortable she couldn"t help but sleep for a long period and ran out of the room in a hurry. After she ran out (Come to think of it she offered my a sword in the {room of meditation}) remembered that and opened the door for the {room of meditation}. It was just as a {Cubic Jelly} was changing the shape of it"s cube body making it thin so it can fit through the gaps and enter the door.
When she opened the door the body of the {Cubic Jelly} changed back to a cube and started rolling again as it entered the room. The {room of meditation} was close to 7 m in every direction, a considerably wide room. There"s no furniture, baggage, or anything else, it"s close to a completely empty room and in the far corner there"s just a single sword leaning against the wall. That sword huh? Just from a glance it looks like a completely normal scimitar. However, it"s something her majesty granted to me. There"s no way it"s something bad.
She picked it up including the scabbard carrying it in her left and left the bas.e.m.e.nt of the royal palace.
She pa.s.sed through the lobby and opened the doors leading to the front.
It wasn"t just the elders that were already waiting but all of the head warriors and the head of the acquisition ranking Beindoru were included, she could see a total of 14 of them gathered directly outside of the royal palace grounds. Behind them was close to 100 onlookers gathered wondering what is going on. When Miduchi approached the gate of the plaster wall that surrounds the royal palace, she stood in the center of the gate before turning around to face the royal palace, then after placing the scimitar in her left hand on the ground she knelt in place. Seeing that Miduchi they all starting kneeling as well.
She took out her anku in both hands and placed it to her forehead before taking a respectful pose of prayer towards the royal palace and singing the "j.a.panese national anthem" just inside of her mouth.