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Chapter 154 - A Mountain of Letters and a Company Employee

Prev | TOC | Next "What are all these letters...?" Inside the room rented by the Rossetti Company at the Merchants Guild, Dahlia stared at the piles of letters on the desk. They had been arranged into three stacks of varying heights. By the looks of them, there had to be at least a hundred. Ivano, seated across from her, reached for the tallest stack. "The majority of these are greetings, congratulations, and letters expressing hopes for future business dealings." "Congratulations? For becoming an official supplier to the Monster Subjugation Squad?" "That's part of it, but most of them are because you've been appointed as an advisor to the Monster Subjugation Squad. That made it practically certain you'll become a Baroness." "...Oh, right." Visiting the slime farm and going out with Volf had helped her recover somewhat from her recent troubles. Even so, the thought of becoming a Baroness next year weighed heavily on her. ...

Chapter 102 - Tool Production

Prev | TOC | Next When Peta-chan asked me to explain the steam engine, I decided to show her an educational program about steam engines that I'd watched ages ago and leave the explaining entirely to the show. She'd probably understand it better this way than if I struggled to explain everything myself. It wasn't like I was taking the easy way out or anything. "Wow, Doctor! What a complicated machine! How does this thing even work?" "Well, you see, this is called a crank mechanism. It's a device that converts the reciprocating motion of a piston, generated by steam, into rotational motion." The banter between the characters, just like something out of a children's educational show, felt strangely nostalgic. Peta-chan naturally wondered, Who the heck are these people? But I couldn't exactly perform the delicate trick of removing the characters from the footage and extracting only the explanatory parts. What else was I supposed to do? I had to...

Chapter 101 - First Meeting

Prev | TOC | Next "I discovered many things about the principles behind the Dungeon's absorption of matter through my efforts to get myself absorbed. Although I ultimately failed to get the Dungeon to absorb me, I was able to make numerous discoveries." Auf was talking with an older man she had invited to the ducal mansion, a fellow dungeon researcher with whom she had corresponded by letter. Originally, the man had come to investigate a new business venture said to have originated in the Hot Spring Dungeon: mobile residences that would not be absorbed by the Dungeon. However, after hearing that the various theories behind the technology had supposedly been developed by Auf, a daughter from a ducal family... "Don't give me that nonsense! Those theories were developed by my longtime pen pal, young Mushiburo!" he had shouted as he stormed into the ducal mansion. Mushiburo was the name Auf had used while pretending to be a commoner and corresponding with rese...