The buildings changed from stone to wood, progressively looking more and more squalid as we proceeded deeper Hey, Another World! Are you perhaps looking down on wooden construction? Whats up with this treatment of wooden buildings? Is stone that great, huh?
Why is wood somehow treated as a material of poor people?! Good grief, thats why this world is no good. It seems to have no understanding of oriental esthetics and construction techniques.
By the most modest estimations, its 3,000 years too early for them to challenge wooden constructions with such architecture, no different than a pile of rocks stacked up on top of each other. In 5,000 years they might have a chance? Nonono, even in historical terms its
Heey, Haruka-kuun. I told you that you cant remodel the Capital as you please, didnt I? Somehow, the townscape is turning into something like traditional temple architecture, just what are you trying to do? Or rather, actually doing?
Importing Buddhism? Also, I have no idea what you are up to, but why are you building a five-storied pagoda with your mana fully leaking while we are infiltrating enemy territory? You do realize this is another world? Others will mistake this for a Kyoto sightseeing tour, you know?
Looks like Ive gone and accidentally did it. Well, now even denizens of this world will comprehend the beauty of oriental architecture and sophistication of wooden construction. The place looks a lot better after all?
The slums now look as if millionaires live here? We couldnt go on the field trip, but is this a fake Kyoto?
I mean, its vexing that people would consider those miserable shacks to be examples of wooden architecture. I had to properly demonstrate the splendor of wooden architecture here. But unfortunately, its not a fake Kyoto? I mean, there are no geishas or dancing girls!
Every highschool boy is attending school believing that one day he will kya~kya~ ufufu with geishas or dancers during the school trip! Dont just go and summon people to another world before the trip! And if you do, at least send some geishas along as well! Ill be sure to treat them well?
Like, I bid you welcome? Sincerely?
No one showed up.
Somehow, the slums look more extravagant than the rest of the city? The nobles district over there looks like some ordinary stones?
The warmth of wooden buildings? The comforting feel of it? I was admiring European-style but there is a special familiarity to this.
Yeah, the Royal Palace is doing its best But even Nigatsu Hall of Todai Temple was erected here [2]
I mean, that little girl with unkempt blonde hair and dirty face has the features of an angel from paintings, that dirty urchin with red hair, would be annoyingly good-looking once his soot-smeared face is washed and hair combed.
But they are dressed in terrible dirty rags, living in derelict rubble that might collapse at any moment. Thats why the girls are crying from the shock. Even back at the Frontier, as poor as it was, it wasnt like this.
As worn out or poor things might have been, it still was tidy and orderly, everyone was helping each other. The first thing that Meripapa-san asked for, despite the dire lack in money, was a splendid orphanage.
Back at the Frontier, everyone, be it an orphan, a wounded, or sick, everyone desperately did their best to help each other.
But this place is abandoned. These kids are abandoned.
Royal Girl said that this place is operating with donations from the royal family, which makes me really curious exactly which part of this had any money spent on it?
Royal family is donating money, but this place is supposedly under the jurisdiction of the aristocratic district, and customs seem to prevent the royal family from interfering with it. Thats why Royal Girl hadnt visited this place, and only somehow managed to draw a map.
I wish I could show her this sight. And I also really wish she would kindly introduce the nobles involved with this to me.
I would like to implore a thorough and detailed explanation of where and how much of the donations were used on this abandoned wreck of a building, tattered rags of clothes, and malnourished kids.
But for now, lets take care of the orphanage first. Its not too late to turn the aristocratic district into a hellish district after that. The streets built with the money donated to this miserable shack can wait. They can wait, but they cannot hope.
But first, the orphanage. The orphans come before that.
[TL Notes:
[2] Nigatsu-d (Japanese: lit.The Hall of the Second Month) is one of the important structures of Tdai-ji, a temple in Nara. It includes several other buildings in addition to the specific hall named Nigatsu-d, thus comprising its own sub-complex within Tdai-ji.
The current main hall of Nigatsu-d is a designated National Treasure.
[3] Kiyomizu-dera (, Kiyomizu Temple, Pure Water Monastery) is a Buddhist temple located in eastern Kyoto, Japan. The temple is part of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities) UNESCO World Heritage site.