Risou no Himo Seikatsu

Time flies. A month early after General Pujol's engagement with Nilda Ghazir was officially decided. One day, after a month left in the late activity period, I began to feel signs of a rainy season in the sky.

As usual, Queen Aura glanced through reports from her men in the Royal Palace's office, exhaling deeply.

"Chip, don't stay. Even as expected, bad reports still don't make me feel good."

A fine-faced secretary standing behind him pinches his mouth in the stupidity of the queen, who sits in a chair made of wood and twigs and glances at a report in her hand.

"Is that the 'Potosi Silver Mountain' report you just received?

"Oh. In the meantime, I got a mining estimate for this quarter. That's what I expected in a bad way."

To the secretary's words, the queen nodded back small and threw the dragon-skinned paper on her desk with a slightly rambling hand, as it showed its inner frustration.

"Excuse me.... Oh, was it still no good? If we can resume mining the mineral veins around there, we can dramatically improve our mining volume, but it's not going to work."

"Not at all. Our country is blessed with water, on the other hand, even sneaked by water"

That's what Queen Aura said, exhaling once more in deep sigh.

The kingdom of Karpua, a great power located in the Midwest of the southern continent. It is an extremely privileged country for water resources, as developed forests and abundant soils store the abundant water brought about by long rainy seasons firmly on the earth.

However, it is also a characteristic of the resource called water that the word "decoy" applies as it is. It was also true that the Kingdom of Karpua, blessed with a quantity of water that was not indissoluble in water, was a national pattern plagued by water damage.

In the Kingdom of Karpua, when cutting new villages, the item 'Securing water resources' is said to be half ignored among the location conditions.

Totally ignoring is too much to say to boulders, but if you compare it to, for example, the desert country - the two kingdoms of Sharova Gilbert, etc. - it is so low in priority that it is difficult to argue that they are 'ignoring' it.

That depends on why you don't have a body or a lid, even if you don't have an expert to spot the water, you can dig a drinkable well almost anywhere if you have the guts to dig through the ground around there properly.

If a wanderer living in the desert of the two kingdoms hears, the fact is that anger and jealousy are likely to flow out of both eyes with blood tears, but the characteristic of "high probability of water coming out wherever you dig" is that in the case of mines, mistakes do not work positive.

Mines are meant to dig soil and remove ore from it. Digging water for a mine is just a disaster.

Secretary Fabio quickly grasps the contents of the dragon skin paper and tells him to remain unchanged and faceless.

"None of the mine holes that have dug into the water have any prospects for reconstruction, have they? I remember this year we increased the number of workers available for 'water manipulation'."

As Fabio put it, what was written in that report was an unscented report of the biggest silver mountain boasted by the Kingdom of Karpua, the 'Potosi Silver Mountain'.

There are a number of mine holes in Potosi Silver Mountain that have stopped mining along the way, but not all of them have run out of silver veins. He only gave up mining because he dug up an unmanageable amount of groundwater without exception.

It's a natural story to take for granted, but no matter how many mineral resources are sleeping there, it doesn't make a difference that they don't exist without the means to dig them out.

Thus, in "Potosi Silver Mountain", the itinerary was repeated over and over that water gushed out as we proceeded to dig silver, and the silver mine vein was not dead at all, but because we had no choice, we gave up the hole and proceeded to dig from another place.

Having silver there and not being able to dig any more is a terrible thing as a Silver Mountain owner. Queen Aura had hit quite a few hands with increasing the number of magical users of 'water manipulation', but so far there had been no effect such as water on the burning stone, this.

And soon, the land will enter a full-scale 'rainy season'. Daring to challenge water damage in the 'rainy season' is like challenging the ancient dragon's nest naked. The "rainy season" has passed, I have had a "terrible summer season" and I can't hit my next hand until the next "active season".

The queen takes a big, deep breath once so as to exhale her depressing feelings, then tells her right arm and the secretary she asks.

"The Great Silver Mountain at the corner is also like rotting more than half the delicious in this. We should do something to make the holes available that we're abandoning with our water."

"I agree with that opinion, what kind of hand do you strike? It should be difficult to send any more water or soil manipulation personnel into the mines."

To the secretary who asks so to prompt ahead, the queen utters her thoughts in a slurred manner.

"One thing is, with the help of His Royal Highness Francesco and His Highness Bona. With the demonic props of 'water manipulation' and 'earth manipulation', the situation would improve dramatically"

It was an extremely orthodox means of resolution. If you don't have enough magic users, you can have magic props that have the same effect as that magic.

Normally, it's not easy to seek magic props in countries other than the Double Kingdom, but fortunately there are two granting magic users in the Karpua Kingdom today: Prince Francesco and Princess Bona.

If you give them the right reward and the beads that will serve as a medium, they will probably be able to make magic props without any problems.

The problem is to say that even magic props to the extent of 'water manipulation' will take money that will never be foolish, and that there is a limited number of beeballs that will serve as a medium.

At present, in the Craftsman's Box Garden, efforts are being made to establish manufacturing techniques for glass, but they have not progressed to the point where beads can be produced in mass.

"It does take too much initial investment, and it will be true that we owe more to both kingdoms, but if the mining situation in Potosi Silver Mountain improves, that initial investment can be recovered without taking that long.

Do, Sire Aura. More than purposefully saying 'one is', at least the other can be seen as having an abdominal proposal?

To the secretary on the fine side urging him to do so, the queen agrees with a small laugh in her mouth.

"Mm-hmm. Actually, there's a" pump "in my son-in-law's knowledge. If it can be reproduced, it may be possible to drain more efficiently now, without the help of magic."

"Hmm..."

To the queen's words, the secretary of the belly jumps a pin and a single eyebrow, slightly breaking the everyday faceless expression.

It was actually quite early on that Yoshijiro came to this world that Aura learned of the existence of the 'pump'.

The first thing I saw was a shampoo bin brought in by Zenzilow. Aura was interested in that tool that the liquid inside drained out of her mouth just by pressing on top, but at that point the shampoo bottle was sometimes small and I didn't intend to apply it to anything.

Aura paid genuine attention to "Pump" when she watched a certain TV show that Yoshijiro was recording by way of example.

On that show, I watched the well install a hand pump instead of the tweezer that I had been using until then, and I focused on its effectiveness.

The principle of hand pumping is surprisingly simple. The piston inside is raised and lowered in conjunction with the handle being raised and lowered. When the piston is raised, the valve at the top of the piston is spelled out and the valve fixed to the bottom of the pump is opened. Conversely, when the piston is lowered, the valve at the top of the piston opens and the valve fixed at the bottom of the pump closes.

In this way, the piston in the pump pulls the water up and down by repeatedly moving up and down.

Trying to explain exactly why that happens makes it somewhat difficult to talk about how the vacuum is or how the water pressure is, but if the extreme story, all the material, activates a transparent pump in front of you, even in people without special studies, "Oh I see. This is how you creep up the water," the pump works as easily as you can sensibly understand.

In fact, just the footage of the show and the awkward illustrated description of Yoshijiro allowed Queen Aura to roughly understand how it works.

The queen tells the secretary.

"The mechanism is simple, but the problem is the accuracy and strength of the parts. Are the craftsmen of our country able to create things that can withstand pragmatism? Also, if you can create it, you need to think carefully about whether it beats the cost of adding magic tools and magic users."

From what Aura saw, the pump seemed to be made mainly of iron. Unfortunately, the iron making technology in the Kingdom of Karpua is not very expensive.

Because of the many parts of the world that rely on the skill and experience of craftsmen, they are not good at producing more than one uniform product.

In terms of weapons and protective equipment, competing materials, such as dragon fangs, bones and skins, which are generally better than metal, may also have an impact on the level of blacksmithing.

The blacksmiths in the courtyard of the royal palace - commonly known as the "Craftsman's Box Garden" - are the top blacksmiths in the Karpua kingdom, and by contract they do what the king commands them to do. At present, there are no urgent and absolutely necessary tasks, so you may officially request the creation of a 'hand pump'.

The queen who makes the decision declares that she exhales one.

"The only blacksmiths in the" Box Garden "are producing weapons, protective equipment, royal palace building materials, iron products, restoration and consumables, right? It's a little high, but I'll buy the consumables from Wangdu's Forge Guild for next fiscal year. In that spare time, let the artisans in the Box Garden work on the prototype of" Hand Pump. "

"Are you sure you don't want to borrow the hands of the artisans who make you do glass manufacturing? They're also former blacksmiths up there, so if you turn them that way, they'll probably be a force of war?

To the secretary who takes that confirmation, the queen immediately shakes her head beside her.

"No. The latter is more overwhelmingly important if it is a 'hand pressed pump' and a 'bead ball'"

"I understand. Speaking of which, how's the glass progressing? Have you made any progress since then?

To the secretary, who asks him as he recalls, the queen exhales in a small sigh and agrees with one thing.

"There has been no dramatic progress. However, thanks to the magic props of" Heat Resistance Enhancement "received from His Highness Bona, the pace of the prototype is much higher, and the furnace temperature is now much higher than before, so the improvement seems to be progressing at a considerable rate. In the opinion of the artisans, we can expect dramatic progress by changing the sand that is the main ingredient."

Craftsmen report that even glass made using the same procedure makes quite a difference depending on which sand is used.

So there's sand somewhere in the world that's more suitable for the raw materials of glass? Thinking about it would be a very common pattern of thought.

To the queen's words the secretary, hands on his chin, thinks.

"Hmm. Fortunately, my Karpua kingdom is vast. There are as many candidate sites as there are for sand collection, but you should set your priorities. Sire, if it is' easy to carry 'or' conserve interests', which would you prefer?

What Secretary Fabio is saying is simple. As a candidate for gathering sand, they ask whether to give precedence to territories other than the King's realm, which is close to the King's capital, or to the King's realm of the enclave.

Whatever the level of experimentation we're doing now, when we get on the mass production system in the future, transporting a lot of sand is quite a burden. The mining site for raw materials has never been close to the manufacturing site.

To such a secretary's point, the queen responds instantly without showing a moment of hesitation.

"First we hit all the kingdoms. Other collars follow. Beeball does not remain just a financial interest. It can be the power of the royal family. I want to be as royal and exclusive as possible."

"Yes, sir."

To the queen's words, the secretary in detail returned a mechanically unbraced grace.

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When Queen Aura was in the Executive Office with Secretary Fabio on paperwork to determine the future of the Kingdom of Karpua, Yoshijiro had invited guests to a longer luncheon in another room of the same royal palace.

Host is Yoshijiro. Guests are Lucinda Ghazir and Primo Gijen. And they are four: Prince Francesco and Princess Bona.

Seen from Yoshijiro, Lucinda and Primo on the right side of the table, Prince Francesco and Princess Bona sitting on the left, continue their lunch with bickering.

"Thus, I've been called to dinner parties hosted by Master Zenzilow quite a few times already, but no matter how many times I've been called, I can't stop looking forward to it. Master Zenzilow's hometown cuisine is very interesting."

Yes, Primo Gijen is the one who said it out loud that doesn't make you feel any evil at all or the intention behind it for being out of age.

As Primo put it, this luncheon serves dishes proposed by Yoshijiro. Specifically, fried meat, made with raw bread flour.

As for Sanjiro, it is a menu that feels a little heavy for lunch, but it is the result of losing the enthusiasm of the Daoist nobleman Primo Gijen, who has no eyes not only on art but also on gastronomy.

Originally in the Kingdom of Karpua, bread food was rooted around the likes of Nan, but neither western-style bread flour nor Japanese-style raw bread flour existed.

Because of the rich culture of oil, the method of cooking fried in oil existed from the beginning, but the presence of bread flour was brought in by Yoshijiro.

Sanjiro's request for the reproduction of the dishes in his knowledge is mainly limited to the rear palace, where he showed them in the royal palace only to dishes that were well received by the majority of the local humans, such as Queen Aura and the rear palace samurai.

Like distilled liquor, it has no impact on boulders enough to be expected to be a new financial resource for the royal family, but since it can thus attract the interest of new things lovers and gastronomers like Primo Gijen, it is definitely a handbill that can be used as a good jiro.

Where one meal is done and the rest is just dessert fruits and drinks, the luncheon takes on the real deal in a way.

"By the way, aren't you going to be late for your wedding? Forgetting to report is the most awkward thing. Don't be shy."

After Gohon and a deliberate cough, Yoshijiro so abruptly cuts out on the subject.

As you can see from the faces of those present, the main purpose of this luncheon was to proceed with the discussion of the wedding of General Pujol and Nilda Ghazir.

More precisely, the truth is that we settled in the form of a 'luncheon' at the suggestion of Primo Gijen where we were initially just going to have a discussion.

Either way, I have to check on the wedding progress here and include a report in Queen Aura later.

At the word of Sanjiro, the first person to open his mouth was Primo Gijen, who should be called an indication.

"Now give me the most important report. As a result of the discussions, we have decided on a request for His Highness Francesco. We asked for four decorative oil lamps."

Decorative oil lamp. The application is an oil dish for lighting, but by imposing a magnificent decoration, it also serves as the interior of the room itself and is a combination of objects.

Although many are made of metal and stone, and many are honestly not user-friendly because they give too much priority to artistic value (especially they seem to have a hard time taking care of such things as soot payments), decorations that colour the wedding venues of the grand aristocracy would be worthy.

To a conclusion that is no more difficult than I thought, Yoshijiro leaks his breath of inner relief.

"I see, a decorative oil lamp? Well, that would be a good venue decoration."

As he confirms, Yoshijiro turns his gaze to the blonde prince who received the request.

A blonde prince under the gaze of Yoshijiro - Prince Francesco happily narrowed his green eyes,

"Yes, I will definitely finish and show you what you expect."

That being said, I keep my shoulders up and down again and again just because I can't stay jizzy.

In addition, Prince Francesco turns to Sanjiro to continue talking about decorative oil lights he plans to make for fun, even though he hasn't even been asked.

"Decorative oil lights are thinking of a set of objects in four. It will be used on the table, so it will be precisely about two arms in size. If you get a good stone, you just want to make it out of stone sculpture, but if that seems difficult, you're also looking at metalworking. Either way, the design is going to mimic Spirit Maiden."

"" Spirit Maiden "?

For the first time, Yoshijiro tilts his neck at the unique noun he hears.

It was the chestnut-haired girl sitting next to him - Princess Bona - not Prince Francesco who gave such an explanation to Sanjiro.

"There's no point in not knowing, Your Majesty. Because" Spirit Maiden "is a legend passed down to the middle of the southern continent"

In this world, there is no human being who doubts the existence of the Spirit because there is evidence of magic by magic words. In this regard, it also acknowledges the 'church' forces in the North Continent that fan dragons as supreme beings.

However, naturally speaking, in the perception of the existence of the "Spirit", which is invisible, something called national and regional characteristics appears.

In the western part of the southern continent, where the Kingdom of Karpua is located, spirits are only vague images such as the great will to preside over nature, the bearer of the invisible world.

On the other hand, in the same southern continent, in a central part with two kingdoms, the idea prevails that there are individual differences in the Spirit, there are ups and downs in ability, and there are individualities.

They call the desert wanderers, indigenous to the two kingdoms, 'spiritual flirting' for firing from places where there is no source of fire or for breezes at times of too bad luck.

In the heritage of such desert wanderers, there exists a legend that the spirits, especially powerful and curious, are temporarily subjected to flesh and live in the world of man.

"Particularly famous among them is the" Spirit Maiden ", a groundwater fire-style song sung with the ancestors of the Four Dukes family of the four tribes of the desert - now the Double Kingdom".

"" Spirit Maiden ". Is something like that really real?

He was Sanjiro, who rides himself out of curiosity a little and asks, but Princess Bona smiles like trouble and says.

"Uh, that's, uh..."

Take that, it's Prince Francesco who opens his mouth.

"At least, I've never seen it. You've never even heard of a credible sighting."

If you say that and look at Prince Francesco shrugging his shoulders with a bitter smile, you can tell by Yoshijiro on the boulder.

"I see, is it just a fairy tale"

Because dragon species walk wide, invisible spirits exist, and there is the mysterious power of magic that works on their spirits, it is felt by Yoshijiro in what seems good even if "Spirit Maiden", a flesh-received spirit, exists.

But it seems to be a unique way to feel about Yoshijiro, a person from another world, where there is a difference between something familiar on a daily basis and the mere existence of absurd stories.

If you show the three planes, the internet and giant robots to Edo-era humans, you'll only see them as' none of the impossible amazing things', but modern people would say 'giant robots' is all that's odd.

Human beings and good jiro in this world had confirmed, everywhere, that much common sense, that much discrepancy in perception.

"Then even if the 'Spirit Maiden' ornament is used for our country's wedding, is there no problem?

Lucinda Ghazir, a brunette sitting next to her, opens her mouth in advance of Primo, who tried to open her joyful mouth to Sanjiro, who takes confirmation.

"Yes, even if it belongs to another country, because there are no borders when it comes to principle culture, art"

If this were the culture of the Kingdom of Catalana and the Kingdom of Tucar, which was hostile in the earlier wars, some consideration would also be required, but if it were the culture of the two kingdoms, there would be no problem.

"I see. Now we will look forward to completing it, Your Highness Francesco"

In the words of Yoshijiro, the blonde prince smiles with joy.

"Yes, I'll take care of it, Your Majesty. However, whether it's sculpture or metal, only the eyes of the 'Spirit Maiden' want to use gems. Each spiritual precious color matches a gem."

Fire is red. The wind is blue. Water is green. The ground is yellow.

Will the corresponding gems be red jade stone (ruby), pale jade stone (sapphire), green cylinder stone (emerald), amber (amber), etc.

"Gem, is it"

Yoshijiro makes his face snap. The size of decorative oil lamps seems to be about two arms of a person, so the gems used for those eyes won't need anything that big, but it's not just the size of anything that determines the value of the gems. If the beauty, transparency, etc. of the colors are soggy, even small grains can be terribly expensive.

When you point Chirali and your gaze at Primo Gijen, should it be an indication? Primo Gijen brags his chest without sexual punishment.

"I'll take care of it, Your Highness Francesco. Red and Ethereal stones have something worthy of my collection. Bare stone but dark in color, this delicacy has no bubbles or scratches. Both are one grain at a time, but they are quite large, so if you break them and re-polish them, let's use them for both eyes"

"Oh, I appreciate that"

I don't know how many delicacies, but if you put them out of Primo Gigen's personal collection, it won't affect a lot of people.

With Yoshijiro's sigh of inner relief on his ass, the craftsman and client and sponsor continue a conversation in a swallowing tone that will not be overheard.

"It is still the Kingdom of Tucar that is famous as an amber region. Fortunately, my personal handout…"

"Oh, that's great! Then why don't you make a big purchase as a spare? Just for the record, there's something I want to build personally…"

"Gohon! Gohon!

In order to pretend not to hear the words of his own nobility and the royal family of another country, who still dignified discussions about smuggling from the country where official national traffic remained cut off, Sanjiro had a series of coughs until he had a sore throat.