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Minasan Oidemasu! Thisis Yukkuri demasu!
As always,
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Author:
すずの木くろ (Susunokikuro)
Translator:
Yukkuri Oniisan
Editor:
Yukkuri Oniisan + OGM
Chapter 93: Trial DiggingCommence
Two days later, morning.
At breakfast, when Kazura arrived at the dining room together with Marie, therewere already other people inside.
This morning, Zirconia also participated and she smiled when she noticedKazura’s presence.
There were no trace nor signs of the slightly exhausted expression she had theother day and her physical condition seems to be excellent.
Since Kazura had I given Lipo-D for Zirconia to Eira, perhaps this was theresult of its effect.
「Kazura-san, good morning. Pleaseaccept my apology to be absent for two days.」(Zirconia)
「No, it's fine. Do you feelbetter today?」(Kazura)
「Yes, I’m already feeling well,I can work even right now.」(Zirconia)
Zirconia spoke with a bright expression, so Kazura sighed a relief insidehis mind.
For the past two days, Kazura couldn’t erase the Zirconia’s crying facethat stuck in his mind and felt depressed of what’s happened with her.
However, seeing her expression, it seemed that for the time being, she had recoveredsomehow.
「Ano, Kazura-sama, about the work for today……」(Lieze)
When Kazura took his seat, Lieze who was sitting on his right, spoke to himwith an apologetic face.
It seemed that there was traces of fatigue remained on her face.
「Similar to the yesterday, thereare another audiences has been scheduled and so I couldn’t accompany you fortoday…… I am terribly sorry.」(Lieze)
「Is that so?…… but the audiencesare also important matters, right? I already appreciate if you can help me whenyou are free, so please don’t worry about it.」(Kazura)
「Thank you very much. Actually,tomorrow and the day after tomorrow there will be audiences even until theevening…… So will it be alright if the military inspection is performed 3 days fromnow?」(Lieze)
「The audiences are 4consecutive days? It will be alright even if the inspection is at a later date,so please take a rest at least for a day……」(Kazura)
「No, 3 days from now, myschedule will be absolutely empty, so please let me accompany you. 」(Lieze)
Since Lieze’s schedule was very packed, Kazura was worried about her.
Lieze must have been very busy with the waterwheel installation in the farmlandsand negotiation with the craftsmen every day in his absence.
Furthermore, it seemed that she received territory administration andmilitary related lectures from her exclusive tutor between the gaps of her crowdedschedule,.
Although he felt sorry to interrupt her meager break day, the person herselfdidn’t feel like taking a day off.
「Are you planning to inspectthe military?」(Zirconia)
Listening to their conversation, Zirconia looked at Kazura with a surprisedface.
「Yes, the day before yesterday,Nelson-san had given me some explanation about the armament, but I wanted to atleast see it personally firsthand. Also, if there is a time later, then I wouldlike to hear about the diplomatic situation.」(Kazura)
「Oh my, thank you very much! Thenif you don’t mind then…… ah, no, it’s nothing.」(Zirconia)
Zirconia was about to say, “should I guide you for the inspection after thebreakfast”, but she felt a dark aura behind Lieze who sat opposite of her, soshe retracted her words back.
Since she heard unanticipated words coming from Kazura, it seemed that shehad unconsciously going to say an unnecessary remark.
From Eira’s words, the relationship between the two was progressingfavorably.
Since Liese seemed to aggressively trying to conquer Kazura, so in a situationwhere these two were together, then it would be better if she stepped aside asmuch as possible.
In these past few days, Zirconia was aware that Kazura was really concernedabout her.
Until the yesterday evening, she kept feeling depressed due to the failureof the night visit, but after having experienced the effect of the cosmeticproducts and the Lipo-D brought by Eira, she felt that her mood made a completechange into an exhilarated state.
After drinking the Lipo D, her body that felt heavy like lead from overworkand lack of sleep was fully relieved in a mere 2 hours and her current physicalcondition was top form.
In addition, thanks to the cosmetics given to her, her skin that lookedrough began to radically improve overnight.
Thought she experienced similar phenomenon when taking a bath with the bathsalt, but the effect of the cosmetics surpassed that by a wide margin.
Thought she had been surprised many times by the performance of the goods thatwere brought by Kazura, but it was unexpected for her that Kazura even possesseddrugs and cosmetics with magic-like effect.
For him to give medicines and cosmetics with such effects to her as ifthese were apology gifts, she realized that she was just she was tooover-concerned about the event that evening.
If Kazura had lost interest in her, then he wouldn’t be this concerned forher like this.
On the contrary, her really depressed-like state was able to induce Kazura’ssympathy and concern.
If she made good use of this situation then she could successfully attract Kazura’sattention even more.
「If there is any informationyou that you need, please inform me. Since I supervise the military, I believeI can answer that question.」(Zirconia)
「I understand. Then, I hope foryour cooperation when that time comes. But, since I don’t know if I can giveany advise, please don’t expect too much.」(Kazura)
I mustn’t fan their expectations conceitedly, Kazura appended his words.
However, Zirconia didn’t made any particularly disappointed expression andsmiled brightly at Kazura.
「It will be enough, even if youonly observing. Thank you very much.」(Zirconia)
「Yes, we are truly obliged thatKazura-dono is helping us in internal affairs as well…… Nonetheless, we aretruly saved to also receive an advice in the military affairs. We are extremelygrateful.」(Nelson)
「Ah, yes, for now, I’ll be justlooking around. Lieze-san, I’ll be depending on you next time.」(Kazura)
「Yes!」(Lieze)
Meanwhile, the breakfast preparation had been finished, so after 2 days, thefour of them finally ate the breakfast together.
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The same day, afternoon.
In a certain corner of the Isteria city, kazura explained to the well-diggersabout how to use the small well-digging auger.
Beside Kazura there was the armored figure of Zirconia, who was listening tohis explanation seriously.
There were cloths stretched around to conceal the work scene from thesurrounding.
Isaac and Havel didn’t accompany Kazura, so the people in this place wereKazura, Zirconia, several escorts, servants, and the craftsmen in this place.
Since it was necessary to construct aqueducts for the hydroturbine generatorat Nelson’s mansion, Isaac and Havel were working at that task.
「Pierce the tip into the groundlike this, then turn the handle and it will dig the ground. The dug up soil willbe gathered at the tip, so after you dig to a certain extent, raise thewell-digging auger and remove the soil. Keep repeat this step.」(Kazura)
The small well-digging auger brought by Kazura was a T–shaped handleattached to a cylindrical container at its tip.
The container tips was a sharp edge shaped like opened bird's beak, if the handleis turned when it was pierced into the ground, then it will gouge the ground todig it.
Because there was a valve inside of the container, the dug soil wouldn’tflow back.
Since it was made from steel, unless they didn’t apply too much force thenits edge shouldn’t break.
Although it wasn’t able to pulverize large bedrock, if it was just a seam ofa small stone, then it could crush the stone by exchanging the tip with aspecial blade fitting.
「If you keep digging throughoutthe day, I believe you will reach the brown sand layer where the poor qualitywater gushed out, but don’t stop digging even when water comes out, but pleasecontinue to dig until it reached the layer where good quality gushed out. Butif you hit the rock bed, stop digging and dig elsewhere.」(Kazura)
The wells in the city of Isteria, not only turned up water that containinglarge amounts of iron content, which was called metallic water, but the amountof water also varies depending on the season.
There should be a groundwater water vein where good quality water could gushout more steadily in deeper depths, so the current hole digging work was to diginto that underground water vein.
However, because there was a thick bedrock under the ground, the objectivewas to find a place to reach the underground water vein without hitting the bedrock.
If they couldn’t find layer without a bedrock even after digging at manyplaces, then there was no other way but to use the prepared ultrahard steelchisel to manually dig through the bedrock to secure the good quality water.
Since the existing wells had already reached the bedrock layer, he plannedto distribute the chisel to the craftsmen and conduct the bedrock digging workin parallel.
Since it was currently a drought season, most of the well had dried out, sothis was a good timing to perform the bedrock drilling work.
If he uses the gasoline-engine rock breaker then it would the work would befinished in the blink of an eye, but because the noise during the rock drillingwas too extensively loud and so conspicuous, he didn’t consider to use it insidethe city.
When Kazura and Zirconia observed that the craftsmen who began their work, theymoved to the next place with only the escort soldiers.
「Kazura-san, I apologize for losingmy composure the other day, also I am grateful for medicine and cosmetics.」(Zirconia)
Kazura walked alongside with Zirconia in the middle of the group, and thenZirconia started talking to him in low voice.
Perhaps Zirconia had been waiting for Kazura’s reaction, she made anapologetic downcast look.
「No, it was my actions thatcaused the misunderstanding, I’m truly sorry for this. That…… ended up gave youa frightening experience……」(Kazura)
「Ah, no! Since I misunderstandingof my own accord, it’s not Kazura-san’s fault! Since I’ already alright, pleasedon’t be bothered with it too much.」(Zirconia)
Kazura apologized and so Zirconia hurriedly made a follow-up response.
「I am thankful…… Umm, did themedicine I gave effective?」(Kazura)
「Yes, it was truly a wonderfulmedicine. After drinking it, just one night passed and all of the tiredness inmy body had vanished. As one would expect from a medicine from the God’s Realm.」(Zirconia)
Zirconia answered with her usual gentle smile and Kazura felt relieved fromthe bottom of his heart.
Although he had seen her cheerful figure at the breakfast, he didn’t havethe confidence that they could normally converse like this again.
But looking from her current state, it seemed that he didn’t need to worryanymore.
「That’s good to hear. Are youpleased with the cosmetics as well?」(Kazura)
「Yes, after I applied it, myskin became so beautiful overnight, that I couldn’t recognize myself. It istruly like a magic.」(Zirconia)
When he looked closely at Zirconia’s happy smiling face, certainly the skinfelt more firm and moist than before.
Perhaps because the effects of shampoo and conditioner also began toappear, her hair also looked glossier and more beautiful than before.
「Since I still have some inhand, please inform me when the cosmetics are about to be used up. Also, pleaseinform me immediately if your body felt unwell, since I'll give you thatmedicine again.」(Kazura)
「Thank you very much. However, Iwill be careful to not overdo myself in the future, so please don’t worry aboutme. But, perhaps…… If you do not mind, I wish that you can share the medicinewith Nelson and Isaac as well. Surely, they should be more tired than me……」(Zirconia)
Timidly Zirconia came forward with a suggestion, the greedy atmosphere thatshe had previously had completely disappeared.
Kazura didn’t know what is happening on her, but recently he really feltthat she held gratitude and attentiveness towards him.
This might be too meddling, but somehow after seeing how she was doing herbest with her own power, he ended wanted to help her.
「I understand, I’ll give it tothem after this.」(Kazura)
「Thank you very much. Since Nelsondoesn’t know the medicine’s effectiveness, surely he would be surprised.」(Zirconia)
Zirconia said this while smiling delightedly and Kazura smiled back andthen he asked the question that had been bothering him since last night.
「By the way, you have caughtthree bandits who attacked Grisea Village before, right? Did you interrogate thosebandits?」(Kazura)
「Yes, when Kazura headed backto the village, I interrogated them.」(Zirconia)
「So Zirconia-san personally interrogatedthem…… What kind of thing had you heard from them?」(Kazura)
Kazura asked and Zirconia thought for a while as if to recall it before sheopened her mouth to reply.
「Etto, I heard about the details of the crime they had committedso far. Since it matched the content of the other damages recorded in thedocuments, it seemed that they had confessed honestly without lying.」(Zirconia)
「So they habitually attackedpeople…… Did they told anything else?」(Kazura)
When Kazura continued to inquire, after a while, Zirconia made a sidelonggaze at Kazura.
That gaze was trying to infer Kazura’s expression.
「About that…… they said thatthe villagers of Grisea Village were strong like a monster……」(Zirconia)
「…… Like a monster?」(Kazura)
When Kazura murmured like this, Zirconia looked at Kazura’s face with apanicked expression.
「Ah, no, it doesn’t mean that Iintend to treat the people in Grisea Village differently! As for the blessingof strength, only Naruson who knows about it besides me…… Ah, Eira also knowsthis….. Then I should have properly conveyed the content of the interrogation……I apology for not saying anything……」(Zirconia)
「No, it's alright. Please don’tmind it.」(Kazura)
While calming Zirconia who was ruefully apologizing, Kazura felt relieved.
He didn’t know how much had Zirconia aware of the villagers' strength, butat least if she knew about it then she would like to utilize it.
From her words 『Blessing of Strengh』, perhaps she didn’t aware that the strength was gained from the continuousconsumption of the food.
He also thought that she would appeal to him to give them that strength too,but there was no sign that she would do this at all.
She was nothing but modest and this was an unexpected response for Kazura.
「So where are those bandits now?Are they being imprisoned in a gaol somewhere?」(Kazura)
「No, they were executedimmediately after the interrogation. Their heads were displayed on the SouthGate exit, but soon might be the right time to collect them.」(Zirconia)
「……」(Kazura)
「Because they had honestlyconfessed about their past deed, I decided to punish with the least pain, …… ano, I wonder if I should have consultedabout the execution method too?」(Zirconia)
「N-no, it's alright. I see, sothey were decapitated……」(Kazura)
Although Kazura was at a loss for words from this sudden dreadfulinformation, he could understand that this was natural for this world.
Though he thought that the bandits weren’t given any trial if they were executedimmediately after interrogation, but there might be no need to try each andevery bandit.
While Kazura shuddered at this difference with his own world, he shiftedthe topic of the conversation into a harmless and peaceful one.
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