Chapter 224: Drawing Up a Plan to Build Temporary Housing
Having succeeded in nipple development, I decided to carry out the original plan and began surveying the Glans-Neck Mountain Range.
On the Margolant side of the Glans-Neck, trees grew sparsely, but on the glans side almost none seemed to be growing. Bare mountain ranges continued. The slope was rather steep, so movement looked difficult.
The scenery on the northern and southern sides was completely different. It makes sense that French has separate words—ubac for the northern side of a mountain range and adret for the southern side. Did people of the past think of the northern and southern sides of a mountain as completely different things?
On the sunny southern side trees grow, while the northern side, which gets poor sunlight and is hit by sea winds, is bare ground? Climbing on foot looks tough.
I see. Because of this slope, only a small number of orcs could invade Margolant.
It’s said that hundreds of years ago the Demon King’s army fought human forces, but the orcs created by the Demon King’s skill may have been left behind here and lived for hundreds of years.
It’s a situation that makes one want to sympathize, but the moment they attack girls they become an existence that cannot be forgiven. I have no regrets about destroying them.
"Nn. It’s the beginning of survival life, so for now I’ll dig a hole in the mountain and make a room, use that as a base to stockpile supplies, and eventually build a tofu house nearby."
I wanted to dig a cave into a sheer vertical cliff and make a base, but vertical cliffs are hard to find.
"Masaharu-san. What is a tofu house?"
"Um. It’s a term from a game I used to play. You stack blocks to build a house, but the simple house beginners first build ends up as a rectangular parallelepiped like tofu."
"I see. Uzu uzu."
"Uzu uzu? Are you itchy somewhere? Your nipples? Shall I scratch them for you?"
"No, it’s nothing. More importantly, please continue the survey."
"Yes."
Hmm. As expected, cliffs are hard to find. Of course. In that survival game mountains are rectangular, but ordinary real mountains are triangular.
In the first place, if I dig a hole in the mountain and it collapses it would be bad.
I’ll just build a house normally on the surface.
In that case, building a house out of wood is the standard approach. Once we cross the Glans-Neck Mountain Range there are large quantities of trees I cut down, so we won’t lack lumber.
Hmm. But I don’t know how to build a house. If I just line up trees somehow, maybe I can at least make a simple one-story house.
"Hey, Dura-san."
"Yes. Uzu uzu."
"There isn’t knowledge of how to build wooden houses in a space battleship’s knowledge, right? It hasn’t remained as historical materials in a corner of the database?"
"It has remained."
"Eh?"
"However, since a ’skill of knowing the construction methods of a different civilization’ is impossible, that knowledge cannot be used on this planet."
"I see. Dura-san’s abilities are restricted to the range that can be explained by the skills of this planet..."
"Yes."
"Of course that’s true... Hmm. For now I’ll make a tofu house. I was hoping I could have Dura-san build a house for me..."
"Have you forgotten? Uzu uzu."
"What are you uzu uzu-ing so much about. Are you sexually frustrated?"
"No. It’s nothing."
"For now, this place looks like a clean flat surface that was cut, and it has about the size of a school and sports ground, so I’ll make a tofu house out of wood..."
"With this terrain the downslope winds are strong, so over there is better. There is a place of about the same size where the wind is hard to blow."
"Understood."
I moved according to Dura-san’s instructions.
"Around here?"
"Yes."
"Then for now, as a temporary base before building a proper house, I’ll build a tofu house here that about thirty people can sleep in."
"A hut on the scale of thirty people has high difficulty, so it’s better to divide it into multiple ones. If you use ten-meter lumber, please keep the maximum length of roof boards and floor boards within ten meters."
"Ah. Right. Then for now, shall I make five huts—for dog girls, capybara girls, cat girls, fairies, and the others. No, a fairy hut isn’t needed."
Fairies can apparently sleep inside trees.
When the giant capybara arrived at Margolant the fairies weren’t visible, so I wondered what was going on, but they were inside the log. It isn’t that the inside of the log is hollow; somehow the fairies’ bodies become gas-like and permeate it.
Previously when we stayed at the travel rest cabin the fairies’ figures also disappeared, and even though I didn’t know it, that seems to be how it is. Fairies can lose their physical form and sleep inside natural objects.
According to Fullru, nearly one hundred fairies are inside the log. Right now it is placed in the forest near Margolant Castle.
Therefore a fairy hut isn’t needed.
"Can I even make four..."
"Masaharu-san. There is no need for you to do everything alone. You should rely on your comrades. Uzu uzu."
"...! Could it be that uzu uzu..."
"You’ve finally noticed."
"Was the future prediction Dura-san was doing about this?"
"Yes. That’s right."
"Eh? Then is it okay to leave the supervision of construction-related matters to you? Is it okay to ask you to teach me how to build a house?"
"Of course."
"’Supervisor’ doesn’t mean the famous wrestler who’s good at hip attacks—it means supervising the building of a house."
"Yes. Of course."
"But you can’t use cosmic knowledge, right."
"That’s why I made preparations. I knew that eventually Masaharu-san would ask me how to build a house. But I cannot teach cosmic construction technology. Therefore, while carrying Mirai I walked around Monvan as a stroll and observed the work scenes of various craftsmen. And I grasped the civilization level and construction technology of this country."
"In other words, within the range that doesn’t become a cheat, we can build houses!"
"Yes. Of course materials will be necessary so we can only make wooden houses, and everyone’s assistance will also be needed, but a temporary hut is easily within reach of Yormungand before sunset."
"I don’t understand the meaning of the words but that’s amazing confidence."
Having decided the policy I returned to Margolant Castle.
I had Lucia become a giant capybara and, together with everyone, crossed the Glans-Neck. Iria also accompanied us under the pretext of inspection, but she probably just wanted to ride the giant capybara. In exchange for the fare I’ll use her as labor.
When we descended at the planned site I told everyone to make temporary housing by sunset.
The operation is as follows.
Me: In charge of Margolant’s forest. Throw trees toward the glans.
Fullru: In charge of the sky above the glans. When trees come flying, catch them and drop them straight down.
Esty-san: In charge of the wasteland. Catch the trees that fall from above.
Iria, Kaka, Pipi: Process the trees into construction lumber.
Lucia: Capybara play. Have her play however she likes. If someone seems about to get injured during construction, have her help.
For assembling the houses, in order to get everyone motivated I made it a team competition game. The winning team gets the right to receive the meal first.
Dog-girl team (5 members): The overwhelming favorite for victory. Everyone has high physical ability and work motivation, and their solidarity as a pack is outstanding. If things go normally they will complete the house first. The only concern is that boss Letree-san is losing confidence from the anal urine fountain.
Capybara-girl team (11 members): Looking only at numbers they are the largest force in the Glans Kingdom. But in reality they are a disorderly crowd. The only future I can see is them starting to play as they like. However, once wood processing is finished Kaka and Pipi will join here, so labor power will rise dramatically. I told them not to, but there is a possibility Lucia will join in, so they can be called a dark horse.
Cat-girl team (3 members): Only the three—Mī, Mū, and Shiro. There was also a proposal to make a team together with the horse girls or humans, but Mī confidently said "It’s fine nya" and showed mysterious confidence. Their ability is unknown, but from the way they ran up and jumped down from the giant capybara, their physical ability is probably extremely high. Are their claws sharp enough to process lumber? Maybe they will build a splendid cat house.
Other team (6 people): Me, Fullru, Esty-san, Iferaski, Ranjou, Rafilia-san. At a glance there are many who can use abilities and it looks advantageous, but in the early stage I, Fullru, and Esty-san are in charge of lumber transport, so the only power members are the two horse girls. Ranjou’s ability is unknown, but I can’t imagine Iferaski can properly build a house.
Dura-san acts as an observer and gives advice when each team seeks opinions. She also watches over whether there is any fear of injury or accidents.
Well then, will it go well?