Magi Craft Meister

Maorix, the manager of the distributor, has emerged as a suspect.

The old man first decides to look up the store in the town of Urau with a "peek-a-boo telescope (Peepers)".

I figured I'd find something to prove or to help.

But.

I can't find anything...

I was wondering if I could at least find some pieces of resin.

I don't think the store is going to take care of the control core.

The old man switches his thoughts.

This time, an intelligence officer from the [World Guard] is investigating... but it's probably useless.

If Maorix is the culprit, it is because he has deliberately taught that "this is a trap", and there is no way to get caught.

I'd like to analyze the resin... would you still leave it to Makina?



That's why on the same day, "Avalon".

There were researchers who were carefully examining one of the two remaining, apart from the one that Eira accidentally heat-treated.

One is Arnold, the other is Chemistry Lab, commonly known as Caralis Phyas. And it was Makina.

"Well, if you look it up in Analyze, it looks like it's quite a complicated structure."

Arnold tilted his head.

If Director Arnold can't analyze it, it's probably not a known substance.

Caralis Phyas said. She has been involved in the analysis among the chemical research institutes (shanken).

"I think so, too."

Makina also agreed.

However, Makina also understood in "Analysis" that this resin closely resembles polystyrene.

Polystyrene is a plastic resin made by polymerizing styrene monomers using crude oil and naphtha as raw materials.

It is transparent and moldable. It is used for containers related to food because it is tasteless and odorless. Coloring is also easy.

It is widely used in transparent containers such as food packs and CD cases, as well as in food trays and insulation by foaming.

It is easy to produce black smoke when burned, but it does not produce toxic gases.

It is a plastic resin that is easy to recycle.

But.

(There shouldn't be any petrochemical technology in this world......)

Although it is the "Nin Family" that is the most advanced technology in the Ars world, the leader Nin is relatively marginalized in the chemical system, and the production technology of the chemical system that does not use engineering magic was delayed.

(However, if there is someone in Ichi who can synthesize this much material, I'll have to tilt my neck......)

There are not many possibilities to be drawn from it.

The most likely is the "origin" relationship.

The "Origin", who could be said to be an Ars native, emigrated from Planet Hale, but naturally had a high level of civilization and technology.

They remained as "ruins" in the modern era, and a small number of them were operational or repairable.

In addition to that, there are other possibilities such as "Nin-like transferors" and "self-development", but if you are a transferor, it is likely that you are not just stuck in plastic, but that you are spreading a variety of technologies. The same applies to self-development.

(In other words, we need to follow this line, but how should we follow it?)

It took Makina 0.5 seconds to go through those thoughts.

and 0.2 seconds to come up with an analysis of the non-resin components.

"I don't know any more about the resin... but... I see."

"Did you find anything out?"

"Hmm. It's about the dye that's colored in this resin."

"Oh, I see! The dye is a known substance!"

Caralis Phyas of Chemistry Research said that he didn't have that idea.

"You should try it."

"Yes.... [Analyze]... this is it!"

"Do you understand?"

“Yes, it's a very distinctive dye.”

"Yes, it is."

……

Makina explains because Arnold is tilting his neck.

"Arnold may not know, but synthetic dyes are produced in limited locations."

Is that so?

"Yeah. Magic dyes are made here and there, and so are natural dyes." But the synthetic dyes..... "

Where is it?

Mitsuho.



Mitsuho is a country located further west of the "Harihari Desert" that stretches west of the Shoro Empire.

Most of its inhabitants can't use magic.

In the past, Adriana Barbola Tsetsi, the first magic engineer [Magic Craft Jazz], visited and built a factory to make necessary daily necessities, thus developing her own civilization.

In addition, one of its ancestral beings is Shuuki Tsetsi, the adopted father of Adriana Barbola Tsetsi.

Called "Magus", he was a medical student during the reconstruction period after the Showa and the war, and was familiar with medicine and chemistry.

Machina said that his knowledge of chemical synthesis could be applied to make synthetic dyes.

In medicine, there is a test method that colors fungi and bacteria with dyes and sees them with a microscope, so it is presumed that Shuuki Tsetsui also knew how to make them.

As expected, it wasn't enough to make synthetic resin.



It's true that Mitsuho synthesizes dyes.

On Penglai, the old man was immediately on the move.

We looked at the route through which Mitsuho dyes are distributed.

As a result, it was found that about 80% of the goods were purchased by the neighboring Shoro Empire and then sold to a small group of countries.

Five percent of the remaining twenty percent is consumed in mitsuho.

And the last fifteen percent.

This is close to untraceable.

This is because most purchases are made by individuals.

Individually, most of the owners of the workshop and those involved in spinning and textiles are used for yarn and clothing dyeing.

On the contrary, the use of 'other' is remarkable.

If you look at the books, you might know where to send them.

The old man began the detailed and distracting task of checking the books with a "peek telescope (peeper)".