In a World Filled with Deserts, an Old Man with Electronic Money

"Mr. Gori"

"Dear Mu, what is it?

This guy, I kept calling him Osan, but Mu said to follow him...

Looks pretty feminine.

"It's the ship we came on, but I can't bear to leave it behind."

"Then we'll just need to get to the port adjacent to the dock in this mobile city. Lift it with a crane and put it in the hangar."

It's a moving city to the harbor.

We'll have the ship accommodated later.

"Shall we check the mansion we live in?

"That's good Gori. Gori is busy preparing to sail."

Gorimacho seems busy preparing to reopen the mobile city, so we decided to go and see the mansion we're going to live in.

The mansion was located in the center of the moving city, at its highest position, and was built like a small castle.

"Looks like you've become the lord of the castle."

"On the contrary, Lord Tallow will be the head of this mobile city. Gori-san Town... his name is... well..."

"The naming is subtle, right?"

It's subtle, but I think it would be better to compromise about the name because changing the name would damage Gorimacho's mood.

"Maybe Gori has deep feelings for that name."

How about that, Fleur?

Gorimacho is like a machine or an AI.

It's just that you're not supposed to be able to rename your town.

Ancient people have a subtle sense of naming.

Move first.

That's right.

I went into the Mansion at once, but there was no dust as if it had been cleaned.

I wonder if it's a nanomachine job.

Lord Tallow, you have plenty of rooms.

I think there are probably more than 20 rooms.

If this is the case, don't let everybody walk through the private room.

"Mr. Tallow, shall we carry the ship's baggage?

"That's right. I had to have my boat fished up with a crane."

We hurry back to the ship that was docking the city and head to the port where it is already operational.

When I stopped there, a crane installed in the harbor lifted the ship and put it in a covered hangar.

"Lord Tallow, if we were to live in this mobile city, we might not need any more ships."

"It can be used for a little trip, so I don't think it's a problem."

"We can't get close to Oasis in that mobile city."

I wonder if that's true.

From the housed vessel, I took the supplies I had previously acquired and used and brought them into the rooms assigned to each.

"Computer... that? This isn't an outlet, is it? Can you use electrical appliances?

Speaking of which, this mobile city should be energized by full ambient fusion.

If so, is power generation also being carried out by the energy generated in large quantities?

It is amazing that there is an outlet and its shape is exactly the same as in Japan.

"But the size of the outlet may be subtly different, and if you don't check the voltage before that, your computer will die."

Later, when I was going to ask Gorimacho, Fleur jumped into my room.

"Mr. Tallow, Mr. Gori has business to attend to."

"Business?"

Gorimacho was floating on a large table as he left his room and went to the living room of the mansion.

As a manager, you can appear freely in a mobile city.

"What's wrong?

"I want you to destroy the Skullworm."

"Skullworm?"

"It's a kind of sandbag. It's a big bug."

Instead of Gorimacho, Mu explained the Scalworm to me.

He's with the Beast, but I've never seen him before.

"It's not a desert, it's a sand beast that comes out of a place with dirt. Sometimes you ruin the fields, so you treat them like vermin."

I see.

If you think that worms are good bugs because they make soil, are worms in this world bad beasts?

On the contrary, I'm sure they'll take nutrients.

It's a sandbag, so maybe it's too big.

"Are you in this mobile city?

Then we need to get rid of it quickly.

"That's Gori in the ruined mobile city next door."

What?

Then you don't have to exterminate it.

If we leave here, we won't be able to break into this mobile city.

"Is Skullworm targeting this mobile city?

"That's not Gori."

"Then why?

"Gori to merge with ruined mobile cities"

"Is that necessary?

Can we merge mobile cities in the first place?

Is that a coupling device?

"Gori wants to do that, Gori."

"You?

Gorimacho, an electronic fairy, seeks to connect cities without consulting the mayor, and asks for extermination because there are sandbeards there?

No matter how many administrators I am, I am troubled if I do such a thing on my own.

If we succeed, our lives will be at stake.

"It's selfish! It's a breach of contract!

You didn't think I'd get mad at you for doing that?

No matter how many administrators they are, if they are attacked by a herd of sandbags while sleeping in some mistake, they will not be able to see the merger with the abandoned mobile city.

No matter how well equipped the mobile city is, you won't be able to live with peace of mind.

"Labels, mules, flaws. Let's get out of here."

"Are you coming out? Dear Taro,"

"The administrators are on their own! If he spills poison gas while he's asleep, we're dead."

It's like living on landmines in a mobile city managed by a trusted administrator.

Then it would be better if you lived on a ship.

"Oh, my God."

"I heard that this mobile city will take a week to move. It should take time for this mobile city to reopen itself. None of us have ever heard of moving the ruins and mobility cities next door. You lied to me, so I can't stay here anymore."

"Convenient in this mobile city"

"It's better for us to live by ourselves than it is for convenience or inconvenience to be managed by incredible people."

I did the resupply.

You can move without us, so you can find another mayor and administrator.

"Is the label against my idea?

"No, they tried to absorb the nearby ruined city on their own, and they told us to defeat it because there was a sandbag. I don't trust you."

"That's right. Unless I had been consulted beforehand. If we were to see something on our own from now on, and we could lose our lives."

"That's what it is. I'm out of time."

We decided to withdraw from this mobile city.

"Waiting Gori"

Find someone else.

It would be inconvenient for us if the King of the Kingdom of Bart knew of its existence.

No further risk is required.

"Let the desert elves pick it up."

"Gori, I don't want to mess with you!

"You're in trouble, but we're not."

"Such rubbish....."

No matter how depressed you are, you won't stand up to regret it.

You can absorb ruins and move cities on your own.

Um, Gori.

"Gori what? Frau"

"Why did you try to absorb a ruined mobile city? It's not moving right now, is it?"

A mobile city that certainly doesn't move anymore is a good place to say bad things about ruins and ancient ruins.

I don't think it's worth that much.

"... even if there is a difference between the old and the new, the mobile cities are friends who move with the same electronic fairy. There used to be an electronic fairy like Gori in that ruined mobile city. Now the Gori has vanished... To clear up the carelessness of our compatriots, it is impossible to revive the electronic fairy, but the mobile cities can be taken together. So....."

It will have already vanished.

Do you mean to understand the carelessness of the electronic fairy of the ruined mobile city, and at least the mobile city?

An artificially made electronic fairy?

"I apologize for what I did. Please, I want you to eradicate the scalworm that nests in that ruined, mobile city."

That said, Gorimacho sat down on us.

"Taro, I feel sorry for you."

"Are you emotional even though you're an electronic fairy?

"I don't know if it's emotion, Gori. However, electronic fairies share the same idea regardless of when they were made, model number, or performance. It is the shame of the electronic fairy to fail to manage the mobile city and turn it into ruins."

I don't know if the idea of an electronic fairy is influenced by programming, but is it a factor in trying to merge without at least reporting it to us in advance?

"I will never allow myself to act again."

"Got it, Gori. Gori. Gori. Gori."

"No... is it okay to huge a mobile city like that?

It's mainly about the electronic fairy's capability as a manager.

The fact that a single mobile city has an integrated electronic fairy feels like proof that managing multiple mobile cities alone is difficult.

"It's okay, Gori. Gori is the last made electronic fairy, the most high-performance type Gori. An electronic fairy created in the near future when the collapse of ancient civilization was inevitable, so it can be managed by itself in hundreds of mobile cities."

I mean, can I see we pulled the trigger?

It looks like a gorilla...

"Well, should I check around later? Let's get rid of the Skull Worm in a ruined and mobile city."

"I see, Lord Tallow. This is your chance to expand your territory."

Territorial expansion...

In that case, the label seems royal...

Let me tell you, is it an expansion of the survival zone?

"A scullworm... it's a beast that grows easily, so it's the head of the haters. You can get the Divine Goods, but the corpse is only fertilizer."

Does it not make good soil, just deprive it of nutrients, and there is no use but to fertilize carcasses?

What a mess.

Master Tallow, we'll have to leave the ship again.

I see.

If we succeed in connecting mobile cities to each other, the Skullworms may move on here.

We have no choice but to land in a ruined mobile city with a ship.

Well then, let's hurry up. How long will it take?

We unloaded the ship once it was in the hangar and headed to a moving city that was stopping right next door.