It was a cold winter morning with a rough face.

Fragile sunlight streams into the crystal clear air and illuminates a gigantic building painted white.

Above the roof, supported by giant pillars with smooth muscles, a sculpture of an eight-legged bicone with a twin baby on its back looks down on the road.

I was slowly circling the coffee in my hand, looking up at it with my mind in my heart.

Beautiful.

It's a beautiful building.

The building was so special to me that I didn't get tired of standing around in the cold.

This winter has been a winter of many things that I and my men have done so far.

The clock tower was also completed, the new headquarters building on Schenker Street was also completed, and even the rice from Turkiiba was harvested in the autumn.

Thank goodness, it's a complete rush.

And the most delightful of all was this white building, which was completed some time after the year began.

Looking at the entire building, the white painted walls and columns bounced back the sun...... It glowed for a moment in the winter city, which looked dull everywhere.

Five floors above the ground, it has a large entrance that depicts an elegant arch that allows ten adults to pass side by side, and a window is installed to surround the building.

The sculptures not only on the roof but everywhere were so exquisite that they were ready to move, and the architecture was not boring to see.

Yes, this is it (...).

My grief, my dreams, my fortune.

It's a theater for me that I couldn't stop asking for.

I planned to build a theater, so I built a baseball stadium on the acquired site, so it became smaller than the first plan, but the capacity is perfect because I extended it to that amount.

The narrow parking lot that the dark shiitake mushroom field was transferred to the basement was necked, but it was a theater built by civilians, and there weren't many nobles who traveled by carriage.

To put it mildly, there's no such thing as a pickpocket.

But anyway, now I want to be happy with the completion.

In the castle of my dreams, the staff finally made the final adjustments before the opening of business three days later.

"Fix the lighting and check again! If you fall, it's not just an accident! The cleaning crew will leave a piece of chill on the carpet tomorrow morning! The first day is the most important thing! Your wife is here, too!"

As the voice of the theater manager, Moymo of the Hagi people, flew, the instructed staff ran like unleashed arrows.

I wasn't worried because she used to be a good-minded person, but she seems to be doing a good job as a manager.

"I'm sorry, Master, I'm so bummed out..."

"No, it's okay. I'm just here to see how the demons are doing, so don't worry about it."

"Thank you. Oh, and this is the ticket I was asked for." I'm sorry I'm late. "

No, I'm the one who said it's impossible in a busy place.

Moymo, who gave me the envelope with the ticket, bowed his head deeply and disappeared after the staff who ran away.

Sounds like you're busy.

"That's very busy, we will open tomorrow, right?"

Rafi, my escort of the day and a small dog tribe, follows me around, saying something strange.

Inside the theater, it was like the eve of a cultural festival, and from somewhere you could hear the sound of hammering something with a hammer, and the women who had dirtied their faces with paint ran smiling at each other's faces and pointed their fingers at each other.

Last week, I was supposed to invite all the members of the Magical Schenker Group to a preopening performance... I wonder if they saw a place where they would rework a lot after a pre-workout.

Just after entering the exterior, you go backwards through the large blowout hall, and slowly climb up to the second floor on the magic power automatic staircase (escalator) past the gate where the ticket is planned to stand.

"This is amazing, you don't have to walk to bring it up."

"That's right, that's right."

What happens if I get off?

I'm just tired twice.

With its excitement and glittering eyes, this escalator is an important way to get around the five-story theatre.

Because the magic crystals were so drained, only the climber could install them, but this could be said to be a revolutionary substitute.

In this world, there are many people with overwhelmingly strong legs and hips compared to Japan in the previous life, but on the contrary, there are not many tall buildings.

Besides, there is a wide plain around here, and there is no ramp, so it shouldn't be too strong for everyone to climb.

Everyone must be happy to have this escalator there.

This is hospitality.

This kind of machine with a simple structure is relatively easy to reproduce with magic making, so it was easy to develop.

Well, it seems that an elevator has already been installed at the Grand Theatre in the capital, but our theatre is the first in the world to have an escalator.

In any world, the first thing is great!

"Ah, Master!" Thank you for your hard work! "

Ah, thank you very much.

Going upstairs, the slaves bowed their heads as they moved around the cafe chairs overlooking the ground floor hall.

In short, the cafe is Astrobucks, which we run in the city.

Uniforms are much more chic than in other stores to match the atmosphere of the theater, but service is the same.

The cafe will also serve food and beverages to the VIP seats where the nobility will be watching.

It's going to open tomorrow, but I don't think there's a problem.

I'm fine!

All right, all right, that's fine.

The cafe space on the second floor passageway is bright with plenty of light from the windows.

I'm sure that after the opening, visitors to the theatre will fill this seat lively.

If it doesn't go out of fashion, you can change the location of your ticket and bring in regular customers. It's upstairs, so the view isn't great, but there is demand for Astrobucks itself.

After going around the second floor, check the entrance to the passenger seat.

Inside, the passenger seating, which sloped gently from the back to the stage, was illuminated by dim lighting.

On the stage, the actors seem to be rehearsing, and the lines of actors echoing with the music of the orchestra are heard.

Looking good, I'm looking forward to the opening day.

I checked that the foot lights in the passage were on and the air conditioning was working, closed the thick door, and boarded the escalator to the third floor.

It's interesting that the handrail moves with it ~

Rafi, who stood up to ride on the handrail while having fun with his small tail, looked like a small child.

Her head bumped into the vertical wall of caution, making a dull sound.

Ahhhh!

"It was close. If I pinched it, I lost my head."

”Eek!”

Well, it's a wall we built to keep it from going that way... but we can't be too careful when it comes to safety.

I'll contact Momo later to put a cushion on the wall.

Even so, we designed it with safety in mind.

For example, there is an opening at the entrance and exit that can be reached. When a foreign object enters the opening, the magician who sensed the contact telescopes and removes the gear of the power section, and emergency stops.

I also wrote that I would take care to lift the hem of clothes that rub the ground, but I have not seen many people wearing such clothes in Turkiiba in the first place, so I am not worried about that.

Well, in the meantime, I've got a post called Escalator Girl that doesn't belong to Elevator Girl, so if something goes wrong, I'll let you handle it.

This moving ground is good after all, I want it in the dormitory as well.

This is quite a magic crystal to eat.

I didn't have all-you-can-use magic crystals anymore.

When I got off the escalator, which was moving with a low driving noise, the wall on the third floor was decorated with many soulful oil paintings prepared by our painter corps.

"Why are there so many paintings on this floor?"

I plan to use the third and fourth floors for events, but for now, I'm decorating a lot because it's a stormy scenery.

"Oh, it's Mr. Laws' painting."

At the tip of Rafi's finger, somehow, the most prominent spot was decorated with a painting of our adventurer group's mermaid clan, the red Tosaka loin, dressed in pure white and divine costumes.

Why is this painting of a story about myself decorating the best place...?

I think it's a good picture.

Rafi and I walked around the floor looking at the decorated paintings, checked the theater like we did upstairs, and then took the escalator to the fourth floor.

However, for some reason, the subject matter of the painting was biased against the women of our adventurer group...... but was there even an enthusiastic fan in the painting?

Well, it's just a decorative painting, so it doesn't matter.

Wow, this is the floor where the baseball stuff is decorated.

"It's close to the baseball stadium."

On the fourth floor, there is a display of my baseball team, Scorpions uniforms and blousons, and some of them are for sale.

There are unwelcomely large posters on the walls, and it seems that the structure and rules of sports called baseball are explained using almost all of the walls on the fourth floor.

But I made something like this.

Important figures involved in the establishment of the noble league, such as me and Laura, were described in pictorial paintings, and the content was quite interesting as an exhibit as well as a reading material.

People who come to see plays may not be interested in such exhibitions, but if fans see them, they can definitely enjoy them.

I checked the seats on the fourth floor the same way as on the lower floor, and entered the secret staircase through a party entrance designed to conceal them in a discreet place on the wall.

This is a normal staircase, isn't it?

"There are no customers coming from here."

Yes, this is the most important secret place, the crystal of my dreams, the entire first floor private area.

If it is a regular theater, it will be able to accommodate guests on the fifth or sixth floor, but this theater has a different design philosophy than other theaters.

This is my preferred theater, not mine, built for me from scratch... until about four times.

That's why the 5th floor, which has a great view, is entirely dedicated to me, my family, and the people of Schenker.

hehehehe.....

This is the luxury of the nobility.

It would have been nice to make the first floor a whole private area, but if that was the case, the theater maintenance costs would become suspicious.

Unfortunately, we need a compromise on everything.

"Wow, here's the chair, it's the sofa!"

"That's my seat." This is how you lie down and watch the play. "

While saying that, Rafi leaned over with a strange face as I lay down on the leather sofa.

I think it's easier to see if you sit properly.

"I was dreaming of seeing it this way."

Well then, let's have a good dream.

The sofa is high up and there are no other seats in front of it, so even if you lie down, you can still see the stage properly.

By the way, the other seats on the fifth floor are the same as those on the other floors.

These seats are to be opened up as part of Schenker's benefits to humans.

I'm just going to give the tickets on the first day of release to the person I've decided.

So the next day at noon, I was standing in front of the headquarters building of the Magical Schenker Group with my wife, Laura.

"I think I should have my employer come and get it or send it by mail even if it's a ticket for a play..."

Laura, who had long blonde hair on the back of the bright red blouson of the Scorpions, spit out a cigarette smoke in dismay.

I shake the bundle of tickets to argue that I don't understand.

"Because the theatre (this) is my dream." Would you like me to share the same dream with you? I'm in a position to go and ask for help. I have to go directly to this place. "

"I don't know, is that what it is?"

"That's what it is."

"I feel like I'm being rude..."

We go through the open headquarters entrance to the employee entrance behind the counter, talking like that.

"Ah, master, ma'am!" Good morning! If you're a chicken, you're in the back! "

Good morning!

Oh, my God!

I haven't seen her many times, so I don't want to be disturbed by Laura's presence at the counter.

I used to be an aristocratic princess, so everyone was really scared.

I think some of them were a little too casual, but it was fine.

Going through the entrance, which is like a swing door, you go down a hallway the size of a different person.

But isn't it annoying to suddenly invite you in on a day like this?

"Oh, no, I've been told the schedule before, and I've been asked to open it."

"Then I should have given you the ticket at that time..."

"Originally, I only had a special seat on the fifth floor, so I had no plan to have a ticket, but I thought it might not taste good, so I made it for you."

You're really sophisticated, aren't you?

Laura drew a magic circle with her left hand, smiling bitterly, and threw a cigarette butt into the magic of the small object container instead of an ashtray.

"Hey, we're here." It's a big building from the outside, but it's small inside. ”

"If it's just the size of the property, my house might be bigger."

When I knocked on the door, I heard "Please" from the inside.

When I opened the door and went inside, the chicken with a large bear under my eyes and the sheep-trois with their hair dimpled in the shape of a desk greeted me.

"Welcome, ma'am, ma'am"

"Good day."

I'm sorry to bother you.

There are colorful cloths and threads scattered on the desk, and it seems that they were meeting about the clothing store run by the chickens.

Isn't the clothing store doing well?

"No, I don't know about customers, but the sale of coats is so bad..."

Aren't there people who buy more coats in the middle of winter?

Well, do you want to prepare for next year?

Almost all night long.

I will cast regeneration magic on both of them.

Ah, thank you so much for that.

It's helpful.

Well, I came to give this to you today.

When I said that and gave him the ticket, the chicken seriously looked at it and then laughed at Nikoli.

Did you deliver it from hand to hand?

Well, the chicken broke a lot of bones.

"There's nothing like that." But thank you. "

She said that and thanked her in small measure.

So I'd like to give it to the others, but do you know where it is?

"Shirley and Hunt are in the cafeteria, and the adventurers are supposed to be in the labyrinth, but the others are a bit..."

"I see, thank you. Will you give me the chicken when I get back for the mentee?"

Got it.

We gave her another ticket, and we left the room and headed for the nearby cafeteria.

There were few people in the cafeteria after noon, and Hunt and Cook Shirley seemed to be chatting.

Shirley, Hunt, are you ready now?

"Ah, ma'am... ma'am, thank you for your hard work!"

Thank you for your hard work!

The pink-haired Sheeni, who now wants to keep Schenker's cooking name, is still single, but the green-haired Hunt is getting pregnant and getting a little bigger.

"Good work, I've come to give you this today."

When I handed them the tickets, they looked a little relieved.

Well, when the employer came all of a sudden without an appointment, he said, "What are you doing here? I think so."

"Ah, is that a ticket?" Thank you! "

I look forward to the day after tomorrow.

Yeah, nice to meet you.

Laura's fingers clung to my back as I tried to leave.

Oh, I see.

I need to ask you about places where adventurers might be.

And I turned to Hunt and I said, "Do you know where there might be other executives besides the chicken?” he asked.

"Huh? Um......"

"Who knows where the executives might be?!"

From the cafeteria where Hunt had been quiet for a while in response to that question, a thin goat tribe came to us.

"Yashimo, it's been a long time."

"Thank you, master, ma'am." It's Mr. Laws, but the girl in the same room said she'd take him out for a drink today, so I think he's drinking at the shop on Schenker Street. "

"You mean you're in this street?"

"Ms. Lawth drinks from noon on holidays, and lately, she seems to be drinking on Shenker Street, which works well when taking people to drink with her."

"Is he drinking on his own?"

I'm supposed to be paying my salary there.....

Well, let's look for it for now.

As a thank you to Yasimo, Laura and I left the MSG [Magical Schenker Group] headquarters.

Red-haired, drunk loin had been holding a bottle at the fourth bar since she began her search.

It was a shop that used one of the apartments, and although it was a little dim, the inside of the shop was full of good smells of stewed food.

"Huh? Isn't that you and your wife?" Unusual, did you two come for a drink? "

"That's not true."

You guys, come out and say hello

As Lois, who was sitting at the counter, turned to the back of the store, two drunken women came out of a dim place.

"Sister Lois, is Master here...?" You're exhausted... eh? Ma'am!? "

"Eh! Why are you in such a painful shop!" Please come and sit down! "

"What's so painful in my shop!?"

Looking at Laura standing behind me, she hit her drunk, drunken face with a rag flying from the shopkeeper's hand.

That's a magnificent shop.

"And more than that, you're drinking with your tongue?"

"Hehehe, in Schenker's shop, you can take all the money to the chicken and take it off the payroll, so it's easier to take it off."

"What a horrible thing to do..."

"So, do you want something to eat?" The sake here is just like diluted with water, but the stew is delicious. "

"I didn't dilute it!" This is stupid! "

A cup of wood flew across the counter with those words and hit me on the head of the loin.

Correction, it's a rough shop.

"I'm fine with the drinks, I'm just here to give them to you."

Huh? What is this?

It's a ticket to the theater the day after tomorrow.

Ahh, I'm sorry you bothered to bring it again

While saying that, Lois firmly put the ticket in her coat's inner pocket.

"You're not allowed to drink that day."

I know.

The conversation was over, and when I returned my heel and tried to leave the store, Laura picked the hem of my jacket.

"Ahh!"

I guess you're forgetful, too.

I see, I see.

We need to find out where Pickles or Bongo is.

"Do you know where the loin, the pickles or the bongos are?"

"We're both off today, so I think we're somewhere." Bongo seems to be self-catering on his holidays, so maybe he's at home. "

What dormitory is Bongo?

Three blue spear dormitories to the north.

"A blue spear... thank you, I'll go"

You interrupted me.

"Take care ~"

"Be careful!"

"Take care!"

Please come again!

We left the tavern behind when Lucy and her friends saw us off, waving along with the bottle.

The entrance to the dormitory where Bongo lived was in a tree-lined alley.

It's kind of strange to have two-story, shallow dormitories in the middle of streets that are densely populated with old, small buildings.

"Why did you deliberately build a dormitory in such a small place?"

Even in this place, it's in a good location near the headquarters.

When I looked up at the dormitory while talking, people just came out of it.

Do you want to go shopping? The cat girl with the handbag stopped for a few seconds when she saw me and Laura, and bowed her head.

"...... Ah, Master, Ma'am, hello!"

Yes, hello.

Yeah.

Are you in Bongo?

"There you are! Bongo ~! Master and wife!!"

The girl went back to the dormitory screaming loudly.

Don't bother me ~.

"...... I......"

Yes, hello.

"You know what I'm saying."

Somehow, though.

The bongo in the apron that came out of the dorm is tilting his neck to our interaction.

It was a little harder to understand in the past, but in the seven years since we met, Bongo's expression has become very rich.

"What were you doing today?"

"...... Ri......"

"Oh, cooking."

"...... I see......"

Don't you see? What is it?

Well, when you don't know, you don't.

I took a ticket from my pocket and offered it to Bongo.

"This is the ticket for the day after tomorrow."

"...... ah...... Ri"

Bongo stared at the back of the ticket and stuck it in the apron's large pocket.

"Do you know where Pickles is?"

…………

Bongo pulled the bow and arrow with both hands in silence.

Practice bowing?

…………

When I heard that, Bongo nodded.

Bongo was probably silent in the first place before he was good at talking.

I thanked her and stroked my head before leaving the dorm.

When it comes to the training ground, I used to train at the site where the theatre was planned to be built, but now the theatre is being built, so I'm moving around.

The theatre was in a superb location in Nakamachi, the central part of the city, but it was moved to the walls on the outskirts of the city.

I haven't heard of any complaints from the scene, but it's very uncomfortable when I go to see it once in a while.

As expected, even at the edge of the city, there's no way I can inspect it all at once.

In the former training ground, which had become a little difficult to access, there were white baseball balls flying instead of spears and hoarseness.

Why are you playing baseball at the training ground?

Laura murmured strangely as she breathed out the white smoke.

"Actually, when I moved here, the name changed from the training ground to the sports field (...)"

Athletic field?

"MSG is not full of adventurers anymore." Of course, adventurers are a priority, but when I'm not using it, I decided that I can exercise freely here. "

"Hmm, that's why you're playing baseball." However, the idea of using the training ground to play is an idea that will never come out of the army. "

"Civilians can't easily go out of town, so having a place like this is surprisingly valuable." Now, where's the pickle...? "

Looking around the playing field, which is about the size of an elementary school with a ground, I saw Centaur's pickleball pulling a bow toward the back of the crowd playing catch.

He's jumping through and he's tall, so he can't wait to be wherever he is.

Walking along the edge of the stadium with dead grass, I approached a pickle that was working so hard to raise white steam from the horse's body.

"Hey! Pickle Sue!"

"Ah! Master!" My Lady! Thank you for your hard work! "

"Good day."

Yeah.

I wonder if she was pulling back for practice, but as she lowered her normal-sized wooden bow, she turned to her side, making a rattling sound.

"This is because I got a ticket for the day after tomorrow."

"Huh! Did you bring it to me!? I'm sorry!"

She wiped the sweat off her hands and then greeted her with a ticket.

"I've told you before, but I'm sorry, but I'm going to ask you to come in before the opening and come out after the closing."

"I know, I know, I know."

Centaurs are huge, and they could get into and out of trouble with regular customers.

Because I'm so tall, I can only sit behind the back seat, and I can't sit in the seat in the first place.

Pickles had never been in a building like the theatre before, and he seemed pretty excited about the preopening performance.

It's finally the day after tomorrow, I'm looking forward to it.

"Oh, look forward to it..."

"I'm looking forward to it... heh? What's wrong?"

…………

Suddenly, her tail was blown by the wind, and she noticed that it was very long and sharp.

It used to be thinner, thinner, and smaller.

The body that looks up remains the same, but unlike her when she was ten years old, she will be looked up by anyone in the city.

This Centaur pickle was truly the first step of my dream.

The people who work for me now, the buildings on Schenker Street, the theatre, the stadium, the business I started with her.

I slapped her horse with my hand and spoke up, looking up at her face.

"Hey, Pickles... you saw that theater. We did it, didn't we?"

That's not what we are, Master Sawadi is here to help.

"No, we're (...)." It started with me and you. "

From the back of that day's glasses, which seemed a little distorted with fewer scratches and scratches... my eyes were staring at me with strength completely different from that of that day.

I'm... Sawadee-sama's sword.

I see.

That's why you want to say it's all my fault for using the sword.

That's right.

It's what I started.

Whether I go up to the sky or fall to the dove, it's me who bears it all.

But that's why.

I couldn't help thanking her for working as my first sword when I was ten.

"The sword, in other words, the famous sword of the world." You take care of yourself, don't you? "

Absolutely.

Ms. Laura, who said with some joy, inhaled a chip of cigarette to the bottom.

The dry wind rolled up the dust, mixed with white smoke and disappeared.

"By the way... does the name" Gemini "in that theater have any origin?"

That's what Pickles heard in the sound of the wind as he looked at the ticket he gave him.

"Gemini"

When she heard my answer, she laughed with a good smile, like when she ate her first bowl of wheat congee.