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5 Stories: Live Plaster Statue * 4
Laocles is an excellent model. If you ask me not to move, don't move at all. He will stay still, okay, for about 30 minutes, and for an hour if I ask him to, he stayed still all the time. I don't blink at boulders, but that's all.... What an excellent living plaster statue!
There's just one thing I regret. Because I'm not used to drawing people yet, it means that Raocles is the only one who can draw them up in the time he can stand still.
But well, many plaster statues are just from the neck to the top. So let's start here, I guess.
... I'd like to draw my whole body when I can draw faster.
However, I figured it would be very tiring to stay motionless, so I decided to draw up to three laocles a day. No, I did, not Faye.
"Think of Laocles' body, too. He didn't disobey your orders, he didn't even move with Pickle. Look at this. It's hard."
Well, I'm glad to see it, but I can't help it. I want Laocles to be fine, so I decided to stop painting a lot of Laocles at once.
If I could, I'd be drawing laocles for about 12 hours in total while I pinched a break. I don't know how much... well, I can't help it. He's like a plaster statue, but he's alive.
I took care of the Redgards that day, but the next day I went back to the woods. On my way home, Faye lent me the fire sperm, and me and Laocles are going home on it. When we reached the woods, the two fire sperms returned again. Clever.
"... what the hell is this place"
"A little wooded with a lot of horses"
Laocles, on the other hand, was a little surprised by what was going on in the woods. Well, it's just horses, right here.
Scratching the horse, we move on. Horses seem intrigued by Laocles. I briefly explained to the horse, "It's who I draw." I wonder if the horse was convinced by that. The unicorn beast will never get close to Laocles, but the Heavenly Horse one is getting closer and smelling it. Laocles is having trouble being sniffed. Well get used to it.
I scratched my horse and proceeded, finally coming to the front of the house.
"This is my house. Use it properly. I have a guest room, so I was wondering if you'd like to stay there."
Go ahead, and I'll invite Laocles inside.
He is tall. It's a little small in this house because it's higher than Faye's than mine.
Maybe the bed is small. Then I have to draw a new one and get it out.
... and if you think.
"I'll be there."
Laocles shows himself outside through an open front door.
There are... the remains of the rain-sheltered roof I built for the horses.
For once, the poachers broke the roof, but for once, they're building a new guy. Because it seemed easier to get a new one out than fix the broken one. The horses are going to the new ones.
... and Laocles says that, sleeping on the roof of the broken, it seems.
"Uh... you like it out there?
"Are you stupid?"
I asked him to try, and he said, "Are you stupid?" Yeah.
"Don't try to sleep under the same roof as slaves who have killed people before"
With that said, Laocles is somehow... looking complicated.
I'm telling you to be vigilant, but... hmm, should I really be vigilant about that? I don't care what you think, I don't feel like a bad person who calls for vigilance from me. Can't you think this way?
"Uh... I have a collar, so it's okay"
When I asked him that, Raocles shut up. Shut up and stare at me.
... um, he's not willing to leave, apparently.
Faye also said, 'It's okay because I have a collar,' but he's worried himself, so, well, can't you help it?
"I'm not particularly alert to you. But if you care, fine. Let's leave the house alone."
I broke. In the meantime, I felt like Laocles looked a little relieved. No, my face is mostly all the time faceless. Yeah, him, he's really like a plaster statue.
"Wait. Your house right away, 'cause I'll get it out."
So I'm going to leave a new house for him.
"... what are you talking about?
"Oh, if I pass out, keep me on the hammock outside. Maybe the horse will carry it..."
"... hey"
Laocles looks around at the horse, then he sees me taking out the painting, and he looks like he's on his way.
Yeah, I knew you weren't anxious to have a house. I think so. We'll build his house soon.
I'm sure my respite to fainting is a little longer. I started drawing a lot more than I did when I left my house, and I put out the Red Dragon. Experience so far... mainly when I cured the horse, but I apparently, the more I draw, the slower I faint... I feel.
So it's a little challenging. Let's get one house out of here in a day.
He's restless looking at the horse, so let's build a house a little further away from my house and spring. A little further away, then, within the effect of a slave collar. I mean, not that far from me, around.
I'll walk right in and find land in good shape. All right, it's settled here.
I'll get the groundwork out there quickly....... yeah. I knew my senses were different than before. Much easier than before. I can still go.
"... what happened?
"I laid the foundations"
Laocles was surprised that the painting materialized, but I just drew the next one.
... No. Instead of drawing columns and beams and then walls, let the whole house out from the start. Even if you faint, maybe a day or two.
In my head Faye said, 'Be really careful!' I've said it, but let me ignore it. I'm sorry if I collapsed out of magic again.
... That's how the cream-colored lacquered walls and dark gray roof houses were completed.
A little smaller than my house, I guess. But well, I took the ceiling high, so let me ask you to forgive me.
And I may have grown. [M] Now, even if I leave home like this, I haven't passed out yet.
"Uh... let the other furniture be tomorrow. I'm just gonna get out of bed, and then I'm gonna go to bed."
Then I decided to put a room in the house in the bedroom and let myself out of bed there. It's such a big bed that his big body fits in spare time. They were able to describe the cloth and fluffy texture well inside. The bed that came out was fuzzy. All right.
"... I don't know why"
And there's one Laocles, I'll leave him... well, just fine.
"This is who I am. Did you introduce yourself?"
When I said that, he... nodded to get lost.
"... apparently I was bought by a hell of a guy"
Laocles said so, slightly attracting his expression.
Yeah. It's more than anything you can understand.
In the end, I didn't faint that day.
But I got so tired that I decided to sleep in the hammock outside while the horse pulled me off again.
Will Laocles sleep properly? Do you use the bed I gave you? [M]
...... let's hear that right tomorrow too. Yeah. Good night.
Good morning.
When I woke up and went outside, a giant bird came to the fountain to take a bath. It's been a while.
When you say hello to the birds and horses, take a brief bath and then head over to Laocles' house.
... I knocked on the door and there was no answer at all, so gently, I was given a peek through the window from the back of the house.
Still, windows that don't even have curtains...... they give a light look at Laocles sleeping in that room on the bed.
Yeah. Laocles, he was asleep.
... Looks like he's sleeping well. Yeah, well. I wonder if I was tired. I wouldn't have been too lenient in a room like that one.
Oh, and I may have drawn too much yesterday.
...... yeah.
Sleep tight for a while now. Good night.