Ch. 54 Apartment
by AfuhfuihgsChapter 54 – Apartment
“So, you thought that combining two dolls of similar size would make it bigger by the amount you combined, but it didn’t work that way?”
“Yes…”
“That’s obvious… Is what I’d like to say, but nobody really knows how skills will work, so it was right to check first. Good job.”
“Ah, thank you. Hehe…”
I was squirming at the unexpected praise, and Hosanna carefully examined the slightly larger doll and asked.
“By the way, I can’t really tell how much bigger it got. Do you have another doll?”
“Ah, yes. I have one.”
“Put it next to it. I need to see how much bigger it got.”
“Okay.”
I quickly took Doll 505 out of my inventory and placed it next to the other doll, and it definitely looked different in size.
It’s like the stick-like arms and legs have gained some weight and feel blunt. But it only looks relatively bigger, and if you don’t look closely, the size difference doesn’t seem that big.
Hosanna, who had been looking at the two dolls intently for a long time with his head bowed, stroked his smooth chin and said.
“About… it feels like it got 1~2cm bigger? It just looks like it gained weight overall.”
“I see… At this rate, how much will it cost to grow it to the size I want…”
Let’s roughly assume that the size increases by 1.5cm each time a doll is added. I need to grow it at least 100cm more to be at eye level with me, so I need about 67 dolls.
And since the number of wooden pieces needed to make one doll is 4, the number of wooden pieces needed to make the necessary dolls is 268. Converting that to gold would be about 400,000 gold.
Moreover, this calculation was only the minimum value to grow the doll to be similar to my height. If I were to grow it to Ulrika’s height as I said earlier, the cost would be even greater.
Perhaps I would use more money than the 600,000 gold that Hosanna said he would give me. As that thought crossed my mind, I glanced at Hosanna, who seemed to have finished calculating and nodded, saying.
“Hmm, it will definitely cost a lot of money.”
“Sh-Should we postpone growing it for now…?”
“Huh? What are you talking about? Of course, we should do it right away.”
“Yes? But, but…”
“I told you, we’re going to finish both today. Besides, that’s within the range I can fully support.”
Hearing that, I suddenly became curious. How much money does this person have?
Of course, he stays in the dungeon for several days at a time, so he can earn a lot of mana stones if he wants to, but it was strange to give away over a million gold so easily.
But asking directly how much money he had was a bit much, so I carefully asked something else.
“Um, how much do you earn each time you go to the dungeon, Hosanna…?”
“Huh? Why suddenly that?”
“Su-Surely, even for you, Hosanna, over a million gold is a lot of money. You seem to be supporting me too easily…”
“In short, you’re wondering how much money I have to spare that I’m giving it away so easily.”
“Ugh…”
He doesn’t have mind-reading skills, does he? I looked at Hosanna resentfully for reading my mind again, and he chuckled and said.
“To answer your question, I don’t know.”
“You don’t know?”
“Yeah. Basically, I don’t really need gold. Well, I sometimes exchange it for gold when I need it, but I usually just pile up mana stones.”
“Mana stones, ah, maybe because of a unique skill like me…?”
“That’s right. My unique skill, Memorize, is a magic that can be easily used by storing three spells and uttering commands. And when I store and use skills in Memorize, I consume mana stones separately from mana.”
Hosanna lightly shook the wand he had taken out.
“Like this, set. Shoot.”
“Uwa…!”
Mana poured out from the end of the wand and became a strong wind that stirred up the president’s office.
“H-Hosanna…! What is this…?!”
“It’s a level 1 magic, Whirlwind. Of course, it’s weaker than what I know, and here it just blows a strong wind, but it costs 50 mana stones just to activate it. Besides, mana stones and mana disappear additionally as the duration gets longer.”
That’s not what I was trying to ask, I meant why are you activating it here!
I was startled by the sudden manifestation of magic and covered my face with my arms crossed, but it was impossible to resist the wind blowing from point-blank range.
My hair, which I had put inside my robe, was released and floated in the air. I made a groaning sound as the wind started to get so strong that it was hard to open my eyes, and Hosanna hurriedly withdrew his mana after belatedly seeing my appearance.
Then, before long, the wind subsided and became completely calm as if nothing had happened.
I was so surprised. I was still blinking with a dumbfounded face, and Hosanna smiled wryly with an apologetic expression.
“Sorry. It’s a habit to explain by showing rather than telling. Were you very surprised?”
“A-A little…”
To be honest, I was very surprised. I had no idea that he would suddenly use magic in the room.
But I’m glad it wasn’t a dangerous magic and it only blew wind… well, anyway. I lowered my arms that had been protecting my face and looked around, asking.
“B-But are you going to be okay, Hosanna…? The president’s office is completely messed up…”
The president’s office was a mess because of the unexpected wind. The flower vase that was placed as an interior decoration fell to the floor and shattered, and the documents on the desk were scattered all over the room. Besides, the chair was knocked over backwards and couldn’t be seen.
Hosanna also scratched his cheek as if embarrassed by the sight and let out an awkward laugh.
“Well, it’s okay. I can clean it up later. Of course, you’ll have to make dolls in another room, though.”
“Another room?”
“Hmm… there’s also the training room we went to last time. Of course, there are no chairs or tables there, so we’ll have to bring them separately.”
The training room… to be honest, I didn’t really like the training room. Not because I had bad memories while being taught by Hosanna, but simply because it was too stuffy a space.
It was originally a place where everything except the door was blocked off to better feel the mana, so it was natural.
But there’s no other place to go, so I can’t help it. As I was worrying about that, Hosanna said.
“If you really don’t like the training room, there are other places.”
“…You’re not really using mind-reading, are you?”
“I told you I don’t have that.”
It looks like he’s using mind-reading no matter how I look at it? As I looked at him suspiciously, Hosanna smiled and said.
“Follow me for now. I’ll take you to a better place than the training room, at least.”
I followed Hosanna, who was leaving the president’s office.
And after walking a few steps, I stopped following Hosanna and asked with a puzzled voice.
“…Isn’t this the room right next door?”
“Yeah, isn’t it?”
The place where Hosanna stopped was in front of the door located right next to the president’s office. I had no choice but to follow him as he casually answered my words and opened the door to enter, and an unexpected sight unfolded.
“What a hallway…”
It wasn’t that long of a hallway. Following the narrow hallway where two people could barely pass through at the same time, another door soon appeared. But unlike before, Hosanna didn’t immediately open the door and enter, but said to me.
“You have to take off your shoes from here.”
“…Yes? Take off my shoes?”
I asked, not hiding my bewilderment, and Hosanna grabbed the wall near the door and pushed it to the side.
Then, the wall slid open and a storage box with slippers lined up appeared.
Why on earth? As I stood there blankly at the absurd sight, Hosanna said nonchalantly.
“Uh. You see these slippers, right? Take out the slippers you want to wear, and put the shoes you’re wearing in the empty space.”
“Ah, yes…”
Was he trying to tease me? But Hosanna was also changing into slippers.
What is going on? I followed Hosanna and put on slippers, and Hosanna nodded and opened the door. This time, there wasn’t another hallway, but still, a rather unexpected sight unfolded for me.
“…It feels like I’ve entered an apartment.”
If the house I live in is a vague mix of fantasy and modern style, the room I entered following Hosanna was just a modern apartment itself.
If there wasn’t a TV hanging in front of the sofa, I wouldn’t be able to tell whether this was another world or modern times. As I muttered and looked around, Hosanna said nonchalantly.
“That’s right. It’s a room decorated with memories of the house I used to live in.”
“Ah… Wa-Wait, that means-“
Belatedly realizing the meaning of those words, I looked at him with a flustered face, and Hosanna smiled and said.
“Welcome to my room.”
Author Note
A/N (Author’s note):
Come to U.P., which makes adjusting from work life to daily life possible in one second.Thank you for reading as always!!
Translator Note
T/N (Translator’s note):
The rates are a scam, yes? Well it is, everything in life is a scam either way. Like the everyday food you eat.What, don’t believe me? Take pizza for example! Cheap ingredients, yet overpriced beyond compare!!! Oh, and milk tea, but only suckers buy those.
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