CH 65.1

It’s been a while since the Torquiva-Tarababara Trading Party departed.

The days are getting longer and longer, a strong, warm wind is blowing in Torquiva and grass is beginning to show up along the roadsides.

Birds were flying, beasts were running, and people were laboring.

In the midst of this exciting and not so exciting start of spring, I was working on a new experiment in the magic construct lab of the academy with the magic tool engineer Tassel-san.

「Do we really have to do this? I feel sorry for this little guy!」

「No no, if we don’t, the device on its head would come off….」

Tassel-san stroked the back of our beast type magic construct bicorn that is tied to a pillar and said in a cat-like voice, “Don’t be afraid”.

Perhaps he is right and maybe we should be more careful but I think it would be less stressful for the magic construct if we do this fast.

What we are doing now is attaching a special device to the head of the beast type magic construct that gained will and make a map by looking at which parts of its brain are actively moving.

It seems that this technology was originally developed by the army to create artificial psychics but unfortunately, it didn’t work well.

「Look look, a magic crystal〜」

「……♡……♡」

I brought this back from my parent’s house since this is the first beast type magic crystal exchangeable magic construct that gained will even though it doesn’t have a vocal organ.

Research on the brain of magic construct itself is not progressing well but at least we can gather data.

We’ll start with small things and work our way up.

「Don’t be a nuisance and give it the magic crystal.」

Stop playing with it.

「Can’t you at least play with the horse?」

Stop playing with it.

「I’ll take you for a walk later, okay?」

Stop playing with it!

「What’s your name?」

If you want to play with animals, go to the animal café!

Anyway, I’m sure we’ll continue to take brain maps like this from beast type magic constructs that gained will in the future….

I secretly decided to proceed with the actual work without informing Tassel-san.

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I’m busy with work these days but my personal life is quite fulfilling.

I have been accompanying Laura-san, who has started to wear maternity dress as her belly is getting bigger and bigger, in her research to relieve boredom.

To solve small inconveniences at home, I use my skills to make magic tools, which I have recently been learning.

She goes to see a play once every three days or so.

It may seem like I’m living my life as I please but I’m still a serious person because I don’t drink sake or have a mistress.

Right, soy sauce.

My sister in law gave me a jar of the precious stuff and it was making a dramatic change in my eating habits.

Of course, I didn’t know any cooking recipes so all I could make were Japanese style failures.

Still, when I ate some fake kakuni, which was made by boiling pork and simmering it in soy sauce, I cried out of nostalgia.

I also made grilled fish with grated radish, Japanese style pasta, shougayaki, zaru udon noodles with soy sauce, all with soy sauce of course.

Regardless of the degree of perfection, I ate them day after day after day.

To be honest, I wondered if I would get sick after eating so much….

However, as you might expect from a 15 year old boy’s body, all the energy was used for growth and instead of gaining weight, I grew a little taller.

Well, even if I gained weight, I wouldn’t regret it.

Anyway, I hope the trading party comes back soon. I might not be able to continue living without soy sauce anymore.

By the way, I asked Laura-san to try some of my food but she said the smell was a bit peculiar and she didn’t think it was particularly tasty.

It’s a very different culture so it’s natural for it to be liked or disliked.

Once we have a stable supply of soy sauce, we will steadily spread it to the world.