A Mid-level (Middle-aged) Office Worker’s Laid-Back Industrial Revolution in Another World

Reception room at the Howorth Chamber of Commerce.

Takeo and Monica, Monica's husband and Monica's father were in a meeting.

"... is that right?

Monica nods with a dark look.

"What do you say, stepfather?

I don't think it's bad when you look at the future.

"Well, listening to Master Kitamizato, we're going to be able to do furniture that doesn't depend on wood...

The idea that furniture is wood is common, but is this the time?

Dear Kitamizato, if you can do that white slime body fluids business, it is possible that you can do the interior wall business first.

"Yes, it even sounds good to have paper or thin sheets that are painted on their interior walls.

Instead of having a pictorial room, it would be advantageous when building that walls with different colors and patterns can be prepared.

Furthermore, the white slime plate is likely to be heat-resistant because it will put fire in the process of making it, so I think it has the status of a fire-resistant plate.

"Hmm... that's a wall of fire places like hot tubs and kitchens.

... Yeah, it does seem like there's demand.

"And... I've thought of one thing, it seems that having a safe is people who have some income.

"Yeah, it's a place called shops and high-ranking people.

I don't think the average house even has a safe.

It would be in the form of locking furniture openings and drawers, even if there were.

"Really?

For example, what about making a drawer covered with this fire-resistant plate in a piece of furniture?

It's not about the safe, it's just about protecting something important from fire. How about that?

"... with something like a simple safe that's resistant to fire, if you say so?

"Yeah, I make openings at the bottom of the furniture, drawers that are big and deep in them.

What if I had a thin box of iron plates in it and thickly affixed a flame retardant plate around it, and an upper lid could be opened?

If you keep the locks on the opening doors of the table, the boxes inside will only be a fire resistant simple safe covered by fire resistance plates.

Of course, the fire-resistant plate is a plate, so it won't have that strength.

"Hmm... until now the vault has definitely had a strong meaning to protect against fire and robbery, and it has become common and inevitably big and heavy to cover the shelves with iron plates and sand so that they don't burn to be taken away from being broken.

Does a simple safe provide protection in a fire, as Kitamizato said, with a lot of things that just lock the bookshelves and furniture doors?

"Yes, it can't be an eyeball, but I was wondering if it would please you all.

Well, it's going to be hard inside to create a space where the trees up there don't get cracks when there's a fire coming down.

"... you think you can do that?

Monica's father asks Monica's husband.

"... it will depend on how you do it.

Plus nothing. You won't have to turn only a simple safe (...) into a fire-resistant plate.

If the top of the simplified vault and the plates that will collapse are also fire-resistant plates, you might be able to cover the simplified vault in case.

"Hmm... okay.

Does it fit the standard as a wall?

For example, the height should be about 2m.

"No? The Howorth Chamber of Commerce is a supply of materials.

The size is right... you just have to make about 1mx1m to make it supplied.

I told you, didn't I?

"Apply paper to interior walls (...)". In other words, the connecting or stopping screws are invisible on the finishing paper or board.

"Ah... I see.

Then... you can have a room indoors with no connections even in wood.

Hmm?... stick colored paper... Dear Kitamizato!

Monica's father sees Takeo.

"What is it?

"At present, furniture is based on wood.

That is supposedly because it looks good in a room covered with wooden or stone walls.

"Yes, you are.

So what do you think will happen when you look indoors covered in white walls or black walls instead of trees or stones from now on?

"... the wood tone is obsolete... no, you're not.

Using the same form of furniture means you have to color it according to your preferences!

"I guess.

Don't even surprise Takeo. He just snorts.

"It's just that and the furniture store is in trouble.

So we should make something called basic color.

Takeo says with his fingers up.

"Basic colors...?

"Yes, basically, humans would think best of being offered four or five options.

I think the underlying light brown, dark brown, white and black.

The other colors are specially ordered as a response to the Haworth Chamber of Commerce's recommended colors in 5 colors.

Well, all of a sudden you won't be able to make five colors, so you should narrow them down to some basic colors.

"Hmm... I see.

Is there anything else?

"I think it's also right to think that I'm going to make a whole room.

"Entire room..."

"Yes, I also felt the furniture decisions in my office before and in this lab, but it's hard to see each one individually.

That's the right way to sell it, too, but as far as I'm concerned, I wanted to see the whole thing.

So what about a suggestive set of furniture that lets people who come to see it by making suggestions for a whole room of desks and chairs, bookshelves, small tables, and sofas arrange it this way?

"Proposed... what's its intent?

"Instead of letting the interior wall color be determined first, let the furniture you put inside (...) be determined first.

Because I want to place this piece of furniture, the color of the wall should be this.

"I see, until now, we've been thinking about having a room and letting it in... so you're not.

Monica's father roared with the eyes of an artisan.