Well then, excuse me!
With the sound of the keyboard still clattering around, Haha! I made up my mind to leave the office on time!!
That said, it's a flex system, so I worked on time.
Many people in my department came to work later than I did, so it's unusual for people to come home at this time.
I've been watching the progress of my work for a while, but by last week, I had finished the Death March, so I don't think there's any problem.
After I finished talking to Aoki during the lunch break, I somehow imagined what Velk was looking for.
Something very important and important to him.
I want to find something at a great price.
- I have the demon king's soul.
Well, I was thinking at first, but the way Velk has been spending the last few days together, it doesn't seem like he wants to take me to the other world...
Could it be knowledge or something?
He wants to know about this world, and he wants to know about me in the first place.
Hmm, let's go home and ask again.
When I thought about Velcro and what Aoki was talking about at noon on the way home, I quickly got home.
Welcome back.
When I opened the door, the front door was already lit.
Welcome back
Velk seems to have greeted us.
I'm a little surprised at the sudden welcome.
I-Is it clear that I'm coming back?
I heard a footstep in the middle of it.
Is it even good to hear that you're a dog who greets you??
The meal is also ready. I'll be ready to take a bath soon, but what can I do?
"Oh, what should I do?" I've been greeted by people for a long time, and I'm a little moved... "
Wow, wow, it's kind of inspiring to meet you.
Would you like to add me to your choices?
"How do you know such a royal thing!?"
I've studied it.
Mr. Velk, who looks a little bit like Doya. I wonder what kind of material I studied...
But, yes. Shall I take a bath first?
"Well, it's winter and I don't think I'm sweating that much, but I wonder if it smells..."
I sniffed my own smell with you.
If Velk tells you that you smell like a tired old man, you might cry a little... even though you're still in your twenties...
No, the smell in the middle is very good, but it smells irritating.
Eh, did the cigarette smell go away?
I'll sniff it again, but it doesn't smell like that.
"...... there is still the smell of the person who lent me clothes yesterday."
Eh? Aoki?? No, I did meet you today, but it's only a few minutes, right?
It was enough that the smell moved so close to Masumoro's personal space... no, nothing.
I don't know. I feel intimidated by the fact that this cat has been to a feline café.
While saying that there is nothing wrong, I was taken to the bathroom with a bath set.
I'll warm up dinner, so please come in slowly.
Um, yeah.
Today's onsen, Suzu, has been transformed into Beppu Onsen.
Are you exhausted!?
It's not too easy to adapt. This alien.
After washing my head and body in the shower, Velcro added the essence of Beppu Onsen, so I relaxed by taking a leisurely soak in the hot tub.
Fuu, thanks for the refreshing, Velk.
Now that dinner is ready, please sit down there.
The small folding table was lined with dishes that could not fit.
"Could it be... a handmade hamburger!?"
Yes, I didn't think you'd like anything different. I made it smaller and increased the number. I also tried chocolate pudding for dessert. Let's eat later.
It's not like I'm exhausted...
Is the 10,000 yen I left in the morning enough?
'Yeah, that's way too much. Besides, yesterday's reward was still there. I went shopping a little in the evening, but I was able to buy a lot of things, including hot spring vegetables. "
That's good. That's good. In other words, even if you use it by yourself, it's really quick to adapt...
For some reason, when you're shopping in a supermarket, the half-price stickers are applied one after the other before my eyes. It was strange that the price dropped just by staring at it. "
... I wonder if it's a good-looking effect.
I'm sure the aunts of the clerk must have put a half-price sticker with their eyes in a heart shape... That's too good-looking...
"Nhhh, it's delicious! This hamburger is overflowing with gravy!!?"
That's good. It said that flesh quality is important, so I tried to use it as a reference because it was written on how to make Good Pat on the post type recipe website. This smaller hamburger is filled with cheese. Please enjoy it. "
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"...... No, I'm honored. Let's engrave that word in your heart."
Apart from the fact that I was too delicious and jerky, Velc was happy to comment that my food was delicious and delicious.
It was too delicious and I replaced it with rice.
The cooked rice was really delicious and I changed the rice!? When I was there, it was cooked in an earthenware pot half a day in the water as a delicious way to cook rice. It was a craftsmanship.
I ate the dessert chocolate pudding together, chewed on fullness and happiness, and then cleaned up after myself together (Velcro didn't ask me to do it alone, but if we cleaned it up quickly together, we could drink tea together for a long time, so they handed me a sushi cloth). This time, I decided to add Japanese tea and clean up after meals.
"Speaking of which, Velk. How did you spend your day today?"
It seems that you went shopping in the evening, but I wonder what happened to the others. I will ask about it on the basis of interest.
That's right, it was a long day and a long autumn that I couldn't be with Masumoro, but I had an interesting time.
Huh, what kind of things were you investigating?
Even if I had the knowledge of Mahiro, I didn't have the ground of original knowledge, so I started by looking into the history and culture of this world. There was an all-you-can-read book package on the tablet lent to Makoto (Mamiro), so I read history, religion, biography, war, farming technology, science and technology, and information fields in that order. If you type the characters directly into the tablet, will it be collective knowledge...? A vast amount of dictionaries of knowledge was also found, but there were some biases and inconsistencies in knowledge, so I used the knowledge of books as the main axis to complement it? "
Velk's information literacy is stronger than I thought, and I'm surprised...
I don't know... Pedia-san on the internet at university is weak as a basis for her thesis, so don't recall the story that we should quote from her thesis and book properly...
Is this tablet you lent me today a book of wise men? I never thought I'd get all kinds of information from this one machine. "
"It's about 100,000 units, and anyone can buy it..."
After that, I went to Japanese classics, modern literature, modern literature, and tried to reach out to world literature...
"Wait, wait, wait!! What!? Did you read that much?? No, maybe it's a series that you can read!!?"
Azure Sky Library... or a site where works placed for a certain period of time after the author's death are listed, in order from row to row...
"Wait, wait, wait!! Isn't it too familiar?"
The story of the bamboo harvest was unknown to the author, but it was seen that the nobility was named after the depth of its creation.
Classic!
It was also very interesting that the short story about the monkey-crab fight was made in a courtroom style.
"Did you even read Mr. Kasukawa's work?!"
Ve, Velk... it's too much... Even though it takes time to look up history alone, even literature...
Hmm???
Nnh???
No, wait. Something's wrong!?
"Velk, wait. I lent you my tablet this morning, didn't I? And in the evening, you can shop and prepare meals! Even if there were more than half a day, how did you read that amount in such a short time?"
His eyes were turned away.
Velk?
A little... a little behind-the-scenes...
Mr. Velk...?
Looking closely, Velcro could no longer stand his gaze, and gently raised his hand to his chest to show his surrender.
Mr. Velk?
'I understand... I will talk to you, so please stop making friends. I don't know what to tell you, but I do. If it matches the words and senses of this world, does it mean that we deliberately created the state of Zone...? ”
"Zone... is a concept I know about... it's a state of increased concentration to the extreme... but... why did you suddenly use sports terminology... ah... speaking of which, there was a full volume of basketball cartoons?"
"Yes, it was fresh that the protagonist was the one who supported the attacker." Well, do you want to apply mental training in sports science? The concept of how to improve concentration that you described was very interesting, so... I arranged it a little bit. "
"Oh, I see. Is it a concept that's not in the other world...?"
It was shocking that there was a stopper in the brain as well as in the cerebro-medicine, but I turned the magic power inward and exploded into a zone to build a magic that would release the limiter of my thinking ability.
"Eh, can you create such a magic pom pom??"
Originally, the family of Verclusis was so good at using magic that it was also called the Fountain of Magic. I usually use the magic power around me to produce visible forms of magic... In this world, there is not much magic power around, so I used my magic power to enhance my physical abilities and exercise my magic in a direction that exceeds the limits of my abilities. ”
Even if I say it lightly, isn't that a terrible thing??
"Um... how many minutes did you read each book...?"
I was taking a way to transcribe the screen and burn it to my brain... perhaps I could split it into thousands of books at the same speed that I would say in this world...
"Burn it to your brain!?"
Very rarely, but I wonder if anyone in this world has acquired instantaneous memory ability. It's just a magical reproduction. Besides, it was very helpful to learn dictionaries to understand multilingualism... "
"Multilingual... it's too much..."
Yeah, really... every book is so much more concentrated in a book than I've ever known.
Velk talks about books as if he was truly impressed.
"I was stunned to learn that even though there are so many books with such a high density of knowledge in just one country, Japan, a tremendous amount of books have been collected on a global scale for hundreds and thousands of years."
“Oh, I see. Velk came to a world like medieval Europe, so books may have been valuable.”
Until Gutenberg's typographical printing was brought in, the book had to be handwritten to make a manuscript, which was very valuable. He said some books were chained up so they wouldn't be stolen because they were too expensive.
Aoki read the magazine on the way back from the event, and the knowledge was dripping with excitement...
That's true... but I think it's the first time I've learned the value of books because only humans write down their knowledge in the first place.
Huh!? Is it okay to say that the book is a human... that only the human side of the world of Velk left a sentence?
The vampire clan is only used by demons who are integrated into the human society. Until the demon king appeared, the demon race had been reduced to a very small number, so there were people who dealt with human letters so as not to be suspected by humans, but there were few people who wrote down the family's knowledge as a book. "
"Eh, is that so...?"
"There are many people who can use it because it will be disadvantageous in negotiations, etc..." But yes, it was the first time I knew why the Demon King was so focused on building the library. ”
"Oh, I was building a library for the Devil King."
Yes, I was just as focused on the hot springs program and the operation of the cafeteria.
Don't do it, Demon King.
As for the bath, maybe the Demon King Castle is a good place to work.
When the Demon King said he was going to build a library, there were almost only human books in existence, so I thought that at first it was collected as a record of the humans destroying the distant future, but when he said he wanted to collect the books written by the demons, everyone was confused...
"It's so confusing...?"
'Yes, because it hasn't been produced much in the first place. The demon king also came to see how few books were gathered, but I see. If you thought that there were so many books with so many different words and letters, you would certainly be discouraged because you could only collect a small amount of them..... "
Doesn't the Demon Clan use so much letters?
If it was a magic clan that used magic or something, it would be like writing down a magic book or something.
"No, it's not like that... but what should I explain..." Is that the most important difference in the way knowledge is transmitted? '
"How to transfer knowledge...?"
In the first place, the Demon Clan... is also the family of my Verclusis, but the family's knowledge, history, traditions, and magic are handed down by the family. I don't write it down in books, etc., because it is mainly handed down verbally or by hand. "
Eh!?
Velk was a complete master of reading, so I was surprised.
So, the demons don't have a literary culture?
It's not like I don't have it... for example, Kobolt, a dog-shaped demon race, sometimes combines grass and stone to write down the meaning to the opponent. The Veerwolf family sometimes tells each other where to find their prey with claw marks on trees. Dragons carve their legends (relics) into old scales, and Dark Elves spawn Elf letters to keep other species from knowing the ultimate magic. Originally, our family of Verclusis also used a character unique to our species that resembled hieroglyphics. "
"It's about the special integration of each race." Is there no common character of the demons? "
No. Even those used in the Demon King Castle had no choice but to substitute human characters for common characters. ”
"I-It's really demonic, isn't it?"
There are many demons who are caste-minded and do not want to be annexed by other castes. That's why we sometimes fight together due to the presence of the Demon King, but other than that, we rarely follow a race that is stronger than our own, or even care because it is weak. ”
"I-It feels so dry..."
Yes, that's what the Devil Clan is all about.
Somehow, Velk spilled stories about other demons from time to time, so I thought that the demons of various races lived together...
So, for example, if a parent or someone in a role of inheritance dies along the way, the knowledge, history, and experience of that race will be lost?
That's what happens.
"Huh!! So, for example, if the last surviving person dies, the history and legend of that race will be broken...?"
Velk closed his eyes for a moment and thought for a moment.
"I'm worried about how to convey it correctly... I see." Perhaps this is the part that differs from the concepts of Makkasan and this world. Traditions and legacies disappear as the family dies. Does that make sense to the world...? What should I explain...? Makoro, what do you think is the correct history? '
"Huh? Correct history... Honest history... The accumulation of facts...?"
Learning in history textbooks in schools and other places nowadays is because they describe what was happening at that time, or they have been passed down in tradition.
'In our world, there is no history of righteousness. History made by the strong remains a historical fact. The history of the weak will not be inherited at the stage of defeat. Exactly, in a world where monsters and demons are dying, the history of the human race is becoming a true history. "
"Eh... the history of the strong will be the correct history...?"
"Yes, there is no legend about the weak." So... I was surprised when I saw in the form of a book the legacy of a culture that had almost disappeared once in this world. It was spelled with the efforts of those who tried to keep the tradition and the language from being forgotten. "
Sure... there's a movement to leave behind the Ainu culture of Hokkaido...
When I read a book in a bookstore that only collected words that seemed to disappear from the world, I was surprised to see a few people who could speak Ainu in existence...
"I was also surprised that the powerful in this world... those who won the war will not destroy the culture of those who lost." If you break it, if you make time, only the history of the winners will remain. "
"I think it used to be a burning book... but right now, I'm trying to keep it..."
”When the Demon King found out about it, his mouth was turned into a letter. I decided to write a new book about the demons so as to leave behind only the knowledge and legacy that is left.”
"Did you make a new book?"
Yes, the demons were confused at first about writing the family legend as a book, but the race without the letters was given the alphabet of the letters used by humans as a common letter, and those with the letters specific to the family were written in the letters, and all materials were magically translated, so that the legend would not disappear even if the race disappeared in future generations.
"Well, as I said before, the demons are individualistic or clan-based, right?" Were you able to resist being seen by other races as if it was the magic of your own clan...? "
Not completely, but in the first place, under the rule of the hugging demon king, we found a demon race that was on the verge of extinction, and gradually increased and protected and nurtured it. Due to the characteristics, is it coexisting with other species?... We had a policy of protecting and nurturing children of other races with multiple adult demon races, so there was relatively less resistance. Some of the children I grew up with began to be interested in the heritage of various races and began to study them. ”
Wow, new research has been born, too.
"In the first place... the demon tribe, which had shown difficulty in spelling it as a book at the time when the demon king" asked "for it, began telling me the secret magic of the family, the hidden hedgehog of the elder, and other necessary information to the rumors of the unwanted neighborhood uncle with great momentum......"
Eh, I'm scared... the demon's response to the demon king... I wonder if it's brainwashed...
The mainly humid dragon in the library was attracted by the smell of the trees and ancient books, but the demon king ordered me to write a script, and I was struggling to listen to it because of the Comu barrier...
Komu-kun... you've put it into action... that dragon... you're being mean to me...
”If the demon lord would be pleased with me, I would like to do anything for him, but when I thought I'd spend a second taking care of the demon lord, it was painful to keep shorthanding the story of the demon tribe that I was not interested in forever... and I felt like I had no choice but to give up.”
Eh, Velk is also a demon king... I'm scared...
"Well, then... the new library is starting to have more demon books... or the history of each demon race..."
"Yes, it's a small number, but it was steadily increasing."... because many demons have longevity, it is like a day that passes in an instant, such as a short history of 100 or 200 years. It feels like a short time to tell your offspring directly rather than in writing. But... the world will continue to change in such a short period of time on this planet... I learned that this book of wise men did not exist only a few decades ago. Only a few decades. Perhaps... it was enough to change the structure of the world. The current book becomes the basic knowledge of the next book, and leaves the new knowledge in the form of a book. When I was on my way to the world, I could now learn that books that only seemed to please the demon king were one way to leave the demon race in the future. ”
"I see..."
I learned a lot by getting to know this world. Knowing history, knowing philosophy, knowing literature, knowing people... knowing fights and wars... that's why I was once again in doubt. ”
Velk stares at me with a strong gaze.
"Until I come to this world... this world is a world without controversy." I thought it was the Ideal Home (Eden). A world where people do not fight, they choose to coexist... However, even after several thousand years of history, and looking at modern history, no dispute has ever disappeared from this world. Everywhere... even now... there is only one kind of human world, and there is no end to the struggle. Then...... why did the souls of those brought from this world... refuse to fight, just want to coexist, and be able to share all their love... not only with the demons, but also with humans? ”
Velk's... eyes with strong emotions left me speechless for a moment.
[110. At the Night of Knowledge]