335 - - 333. Proceeding with what was left unattended

After restocking the liquor store and the general store, we moved to the island.

As usual, the island is surrounded by swirling clouds to the right and left, with the occasional lightning bolt, but above us is a star-filled sky. The night sky is bright and clear, probably because the wind is blowing the dust in the air into the clouds.

The starry hills are beautiful, but my house is not so bad either. I turn off the night vision and look at the sky for a while. --It's a mystery why we can see shooting stars only on the Starry Hills, come to think of it.

The island is a double caldera. The outer cliff is half collapsed and holds a sandy beach, and inside the inner caldera is a forest where mystics live. This forest has been undergoing a lot of work, and a little work has been done on the vegetation.

I am in front of my house in the forest where the mystiffs live. The house is half buried in the inner cliff. I have arranged the house so that there is only a small door on the cliff from the outside, but I only go in and out of the house from here, where the transfer plate is located, because it is troublesome. This is the back door.

You open the door to enter the house, turn around and immediately open the door to go out to the . The door that appears to open from the inside of the house is different from the one that leads to the outside and the one that leads to the <> on each side.

What's that?

The mountain mausoleum set in the landscape at the edge of the garden is far away.

"Welcome home, Master."

"My Lord, the <> has expanded again."

Liddell and Kuznoha come out of the house. Liddell needs no sleep, and Kuznoha is nocturnal.

"Hal and Porgy and the others are very smart and only go to the first area we set aside."

Liddell gives us a report.

< is when you do something good, like helping the inhabitants. Or for taking part in the Empire or the Imperial War?　

"Oh, thank you. Today we're trying to find a place for Kuznoha and Liddell's house. Where would you like to live?　I can change the terrain to some extent."

I promised Kuzunoha to plant cypress, the material for Noh masks, around the area. He says that the bigger the place is, the more foxes will be sent to him, so he wants a large house. He says that he can ask the foxes to take care of the forest and the fields.

<

Liddell now has a room in the basement of this house, but he wants to add an extra hand by making dolls. He says that he only needs a small house for his dolls and that he doesn't need it if he can add to the house. No, yes, I don't want a house where bisque dolls move when I leave.

"Nushi-sama, to the mountains of cypresses and autumn leaves ......"

"Liddell, near Hal and the others, in a forest surrounded by oaks."

Each of the two tells the other what he or she wants, as one would expect.

"Write down on a piece of paper the number of rooms you want, the production facilities you want, and what you want. Either bullet points or a floor plan will do.

"Yes, Master."

Liddell bobbed back and forth happily.

"It's going to be expensive if I write down everything I want. ......"

Kuzunoha hides the corners of his mouth from view with his sleeves, but he still says that the price will be high.

"You two are always in charge of the , and although it may not be possible to fulfill all of your wishes at once, you must write them down. However, there are some things you may want to do yourself, and you can pay for them from the warehouse.

After I tell them this, they happily return to their rooms to do some writing.

Then I go to a suitable place in the <> to fulfill a promise that I have been so busy that I have almost forgotten. I plant the paulownia seedling I bought at Fuso, and activate my skills [Plant Growth] and [Divine Tree].

The paulownia seedling instantly grows and spreads its branches. As the name suggests, [Plant Growth] is a skill that makes plants grow, but it seems that they usually don't grow like this all at once. It seems that the titles [Dru's Fruit] and [Dru's Fingertip] are working to produce this result.

And now, the preparation of Ruscha.

A large amount of de-aged paulownia wood is piled up in front of me. Stored in the storage room, they are ready to go.

Homura: Peter, the paulownia wood for the chests you asked for is ready. Shall we put them in the storage room of the clan house?

Peter: Mr. Lengard, www.

Homura: What's with you all of a sudden?

Peter: The bulletin board is very important.

Homura: Accident

Peter: Ochazuke is here, too, so if you're not busy, come to the Clan House.

Homura: Yes, yes.

I wondered what it was, and went to the Clan House [transferring].

"Here you are, vortex man number one."

Peter greets me in the living room, laughing.

"The first one?"

"The second person is, reluctantly, me."

"Yeah?"

I settle down on the sofa, tilting my head at the pointless conversation. Peter and I are in the middle of a message board?

"Before I forget."

"Thank you. I'll get you something later."

I submit an application to throw paulownia wood onto Peter's porch, and he accepts.

"Is that a god tree?　It's just a chest of drawers that we make."

The original sapling was procured in Fuso. I've been given myoga and other things, so don't worry about it.

Put the coffee in front of Peter and the tea in front of me. What would you like for tea?

"I don't know if you can say that, but I've been given some Krulkan scales."

"Is it done?"

What's up?

Kulkan's scales were given to Peter and Camilla. They are sharply broken, obsidian-like scales that were found in large quantities in the room where Kulkan had been. They are sharp to the touch, poisonous to the touch. Speaking of poison, Peter is the one who gave it to her, so I gave it to her to see if she could use it for something.

Camilla said she was going to make them into arrowheads, but she must be working on her production level right now because she doesn't have enough. She had taken the production skill to make arrows, but since she mainly focused on magic, she had not improved her bow skill and her production skill. However, he mentioned that he had a craftsman in the empire whom he knew well, so now that the war against the empire is over, he might leave his materials to him and ask him for help.

"Ah, here they come. The post-clearance boss."

"Post-clearance boss ......?"

Ochazuke came out of the production room and said.

"There's a lot of talk on the message board about a last boss, or a boss to look forward to after the game is cleared. Oh, can I have some coffee too?

"Coffee is fine, but why the rasta? Why rasbos...haven't we been told that before?"

Coffee before oatmeal.

Okay, I'll make pancakes. With lots of sweetened cream and green tea ice cream.

"Ah. That sounds good."

Ochazuke then snatches up a pancake.

"Pancakes, is this roasted tea?"

Yes, roasted tea pancakes.

I answered his question and took a bite myself. Mm, it's good.

The ice cream is delicious, too.

PETERO.

"The board, what's so great about it?"

"We beat up the sealed beast almost unilaterally and recovered all the knights.

Ochazuke says.

"Oh, I'll thank you too for helping me with the recovery of Falu."

Peter looks at me and says.

"Was there any danger?　You seemed to be using some big moves."

"Yes, I was hit by the backlash of my own technique. <

"How's the party recovering?"

Peter's party was Shin, the Flame King, Gil, Elias, and the knight. Did Elias heal them with items?

"He's been out of sight. I'm self-healing."

I was thinking, "It's hard without a professional healer," and he gave me a different answer.

"Mr. Lengard's black assassin unveiled!　That's what the board was buzzing about."

Ochazuke says over coffee.

"Mine?　Unveiling?　No, I mean, did they know who you really are?"

I think it will be noisy if they find out that the black assassin is Peter.

"Thanks to you, I was wearing an inhibitor, so I'm safe. He was almost invisible during the battle. I wonder if the rest of the party members except for Shin and the knight are aware of it.

Peter says, thinking for a moment. And there is a synchronicity that we don't notice.

"I never thought that abdominal challenge would work for the better. ......"

Ochazuke shakes his head. What's a sit-up challenge?

"Lengard's," he says, "is the same guy who's been taking part in the big battles by dressing up as a black assassin on call. Well, he was hunting for a guy who was going to do something wrong in a grocery store, so he asked Ochazuke to assassinate him."

Peter says as he cuts up a pancake.

"That was a pretty good haul."

A word from Ochazuke, too.

"Am I bait?

"That's one way of putting it. It's a simple job of making a request. Peter will compensate me with a color on the commission, and it's a good business.

"I can not only get a commission, but I can also take one item from the target and increase my skill level, so it's a good business.

They tell me with a smile. Terrible.

"The knight in the general store was standing while all the other imperial knights were forced to kneel.

I thought they couldn't act collectively, but that was just a bunch of other people being forced to kneel.

"That blue knight and the red knight, they've been gaining so much popularity on the message boards that the blue knight finally has his own thread.

"Yeah, they're flashy and they're both good looking."

It's really a mystery to me why you've been able to fit in at the grocery store.

"Blue Knight-san is also smiling and making assassination requests, it's not so easy ......."

Peter gives a subtle smile. Mr. Cal, what are you doing?

"This time the sphinx was flashy, but it looks like it was originally a sealed beast for producers."

"Because it's a warehouse?"

"Yes. Also, I was wondering if that boss stuffing would come out of the boss that the person with the highest dexterity in the party encounters."

"Heh?　So, not Elias, but Peter's Alice?"

Boss filling, Ishvaan and Alice and Bahamut in Armor and Krulkan. Peter, is he more dexterous than Elias in production?

I'm talking about "is it not? But, depending on how you do it, you might be able to get away with a weak boss.

Ochazuke says.

"I see?"

I'm puzzled as to why it was Krulkan and not Bahamut.

"You also said that it might be a random selection of and that the party members have fought before. I guess at that point, it was supposed to be random among the <>, right?　Someone mixed in <, but that was a little too hard."

So says Peter.

Who is he?