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After the buildings in the Special Healing Zone burned down, they were left untouched for a while.

Everyone knew it had burned down, and there were a lot of beastmen who were hoping for the creation of the Special Healing Zone.

I was told that the activity didn't start until the day after they reopened the school building.　

Whenever the beasties found free time, they started cleaning up the buildings that had been turned to charcoal.

I wonder if they had a lot of thoughts on this matter... they are slowly beginning to think and act on what they should do for Yenis in the future. By the time the school was completed, the burned out area of the special healing zone had been transformed into a beautiful clearing.

Since the treasury was enriched by this event, I decided to take the order for the construction of the Special Healing Zone, as a result of the firm budget that was set up at the representative meeting in Yenis.

The construction of the Special Healing Zone began soon after the school building was completed.

Dolan was to be the master builder, and each member of the Basel team was to be the leader of the team, teaching the half-beast Dolster and the other beastmen the building techniques.

We made an oath to each of them so that they couldn't cheat or interfere, and we also took measures to ensure that there wouldn't be any subversive activities like before, but the people who wanted to work with us on the buildings in the special healing zone didn't look down on us because we were half-beast.

We were in the uncivilized forest, procuring materials, securing magic stones in the labyrinth that had settled down, and preparing for the opening of the school.

''We did prepare a lot of parchment, but I'm glad we were able to develop it in time.

Lady Luciel's idea was brilliant.

It's a blind spot.

Paula and Lisian, who had become complete rivals and collaborators, had successfully developed the Magic Sheet and Magic Pen.

You can write and erase over and over again. It's pretty good for getting them to remember letters and calculations by repetition.

'Now if you learn to write, you'll be able to read and write the bard's poetry, and if you've learned to do the math, you won't be fooled if you can't be a merchant.

Well, let's hope it comes to that.

I think these two are pretty close.

Because they are always together.

I guess that's why they call friends.

I'm not going to be able to say that the development of this project is finished, so the work I asked the two of you to do is over. So, where do we go from here...

I'll take my grandfather.

I'll follow my lifelong rival where he goes. But ... I would like to be employed as a researcher with Master Luciel, like Mr. Nahlia,

Lisian had been saying that for a long time now.

'If you're a researcher, just ask Doran. I leave it up to Doran to hire you as a researcher and technician. If Doran refuses the offer, I'd like to hire Lisian as a field manager. I'll pay you a good salary, and I don't mind carrying out research on magic tools in that capacity.

That's the point, isn't it?

I'm hard to the end, and this time Lisian backs down again.

'You have to get your shit together before you can take on someone else's life. That's why I'm leaving it in the hands of someone more qualified than me. I trust and rely on Doran, and he's a better fit for the job than I am, since I'm not very good at technology.

Trust and confidence.

'In the beginning, I had to get my head around the two runaways. I can see that you have a solid plan these days, and I had faith in your skills, but lately the runaway has gone away. So I guess that means I'm starting to trust it, too.

I laughed, remembering those days.

Paula looked away, but she seemed to remember those days too.

'Then you two will need to help Nahlia and Doran. When you're done with that, you can make whatever I allow on the list of things you want to make.

Again.

Excuse me.

The two of them ran off happily when they heard my words.

'I don't know who's more blinkered...'

I muttered with a wry smile.

That night, I called Doran to the Guildmaster's room in the Healer's Guild.

''Luciel-sama, you wanted to see me?''

Yeah. Have a seat.

I sat Dolan down in the receptionist's chair and decided to talk to him about the progress of the construction of the special healing zone, as well as the future development of the zone.

'How are you progressing with regard to the current general clinic you call a special healing zone?

'I'll have a meeting with Lord Jord of the Healer's Guild and Lord Smick of the Medicine Master's Guild, and then all that's left to do is finish the interior.

'Right. When it's over, my term ends. What do you want to do after that?

'I will follow Master Luciel. That is all I have in mind.

A completely unclouded stare makes us nervous.

''Don't you want to go back to your hometown where all the techies hang out?''

'Mmmm...I had to blow up the workshop and become a debt slave...there's no place for me in there...'

'Well I was actually hoping that as the head of development over there, you'd be able to support me...'

..........

"Will you stop being a slave and hire me as the head of technology development for my, uh, S-level healer?

Thank you.

So, aside from taking me to Melatni once, will you employ me?

Ha!

'Thank you. You can always tell me when you're ready to unenslave Doran and Paula.

In that case, let's wait until we get back to that city, please.

All right. Just keep doing what you're doing.

Ha!

Dolan left the room when he had finished his business.

'It's my home town and my family's grave, you should have said more.

Dolan's son and daughter-in-law had gone to the mine and never returned.

I suspect that there was an explosion in the mine and they were caught in it.

With all the noise around them, Dolan was not about to leave Paula's side.

A search party was sent out for days, but apparently the two of them had not returned for any length of time.

I learned of such facts by exchanging letters with Mr. Grand. I also heard that when Mr. Grand found out that Doran was with Luciel, he built a new workshop in the place where Doran's workshop used to be.

When he found out about the accident during his expedition, he looked for Dolan and Paula, but he couldn't find them.

''Now it's up to Kefin and the others.

I crossed my arms and wondered what to do, returning to my room and practicing my magic chanting before I went to sleep.

By the way, the elf Milfine will be working at the factory, and the slave contract has already been cancelled.

Since Milfine has been restless since Nahlia-san's appointment as headmaster, I called her into the guild master's room and she told me the story of the water spirit.

I heard the story of the spirit priestess, but as for why she suddenly began to speak, she couldn't bear her conscience.

''After all that happened, you treated me the way you did without changing anything. It was impossible for me to remain silent after this.

I couldn't believe her words, but I decided to leave it behind because I could do my job properly, I could use spirit magic to help plants grow, and I was a good match for the Hatch people.

She was so impressed that she cried.

''Thank you. The spirit-sama told me to find a spirit priestess, but I don't have that special ability...''

Apparently, he wasn't very good at fighting either, and he completely loved this environment where he could get delicious honey from time to time.

And the half-elf Cressia respected Nahlia and requested to be a school teacher.

Nahlia also thought highly of Cressia, so when she decided to hire her as a school teacher, she terminated her slave contract and signed a new contract of employment as a teacher.

In fact, if only Cressia wasn't confused, she was good at archery and twin swordsmanship, and she had a strong admiration for Lord Leinster.

Even though he was higher than me in status, I was cruelly rolled over so many times that I stopped judging him based on his status.

I mistakenly thought I was getting stronger as my level went up and I adopted Cressia on the spot, as she taught me the harshness of reality.

Don't tell anyone that the day I experienced what I knew in my head from Instructor Brod's teachings in real life, the amount of training I had done increased from that day on.

I wanted the two of them to find a new level of happiness in Yenis in the future.

The next day I had an interview with Kefin and the others, and they declared that all but Kefin would remain here in Yenis.

Moreover, all of them, including Kefin, would remain slaves.

'I'll go with Master Luciel, but the others will remain in Yenis.

It is not yet clear if the country will really improve in the future.

That's why I want to protect the underground factories and schools here that Master Luciel has built then.

Besides, if criminal slaves like us are terminated from our slave contracts so easily, there will surely be some people who will resent Luciel-sama.

That's why we all thought it would be a good idea if you could terminate our slave contracts as a pardon when we worked for the next five or ten years.

I was reminded that I'm always spoiled by the ideas of the kefins, who think so much more than I do, and I got this story.

However, they requested that their slave-owner be left as me.

The reason was that they were my slaves and the adventurers would not get involved.

When I checked with Lord Jasuan later, I found out the fact that the top of the list of people who should never get into trouble was me, and the slaves would also be my property, so they were protected by it, so I left the slave master as me.

The Healer's Guild and the Medicine Master's Guild combined to create a special healing zone and general clinic.

The first floor has a general reception area and is fully equipped with a treatment room.

On the second floor, books on healing and pharmacy are available for reading.

The third floor is the dining room, which is designed to be accessible only to those involved in the project.

The men's living space is on the fourth floor, and the women's living space is on the fifth floor.

The basement has a medicine preparation room to prevent smoke from escaping as it did in the past.

I was forced to take over as the first person in charge of this place for one day, and this is where I first learned that Mr. Jordo is also someone who doesn't want to stand out.

I feel like the last few months have gone by so quickly.

And I'm currently in the process of giving the school's opening address.

''I'm Luciel, the S-class healer you have just introduced to us.

It is my great pleasure to be able to open Yenis School on such a beautiful and sunny day.

As the founder of the school, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all the people who have made this effort.

Congratulations to our first class of students.

The reason I decided to establish this school was due to the conflict between races and prejudice against half-beastmen.

People are not born equal, but everyone has an equal right to learn.

However, we believe that everyone has the right to learn equally.

The same is true for the eight races today, and we hope that by learning here, you will expand your potential and increase your chances of becoming an inventor, apothecary, merchant, or any other profession you want to be in the future.

We hope that you will be able to lead Yenis in the future by cultivating your ability to think through the lessons here.

If you have started to clean up the burned out special zone, if you are trying to make Yenis a better place, you can do it.

It has been a year since I came to Yenis, and to tell you the truth, I have no good memories of it.

From my first day here, I have had people try to kill me, interfere with my healer's demonstrations, and traverse the labyrinth.

Various obstructions and injustices that have come up after I became chief and the more I hit them, the more I hit them.

At the extreme is the great riot in Yenis.

If you are all a little happier with the building of this school, that will be my happiest memory of Yenis.

I pray that this will be the case, and I would like to offer my greetings.

Congratulations to all of you on your enrollment.

I was so angry with Mr. Nahlia the night after the ceremony that my feet were numb, but I won't talk about it.

Early the next morning, before the sun had even risen, the carriage with me on the forenoir and Lionel riding alongside it, and finally the carriage with Kefin as the leader, left Yenis.

The carriage would carry Keti, Doran, Paula, and Lycian, and we would first head for Doran and Paula's hometown.