episode_0105

“So, what’s going on?”

How should I explain this?

We looked at each other for a moment and thought about our answer.

“Um, that’s… Excuse me, but what do you do?”

Lisa finally took the lead and asked the question.

You’re so pretty, Lisa!

Awesome, Lisa!

“I said it before… This is the lord of the doll castle. Do you need to say anything else?”

No, that alone doesn’t explain anything.

But he didn’t seem to want to talk much about anything else.

“Well, is it possible that the reason you’re underground is because you don’t have the confidence to do this on the surface?”

For the first time in a while, the elf Karin, who couldn’t lie, pierced his heart with the cruel truth.

“… … .”

He lowered his head with an expression that looked obviously wounded to anyone who saw it.

Suddenly, he shrank down.

“Ka, Karin…! Truth is also violence!”

“Ms. Asia is also quite something… .”

He suddenly started muttering like a hikikomori in a corner of a room.

“Yeah… I’m just a third-rate doll maker who doesn’t even care about my teacher… No one notices me… So instead, I just diligently practiced my magic… .”

“Seo, did you put a spell on the dolls?”

“Huh? Uh, yeah… But?”

Lisa slammed the table, her eyes sparkling.

“Oh, how did you do that? As far as I know, existing doll magic can’t give such a variety of expressions…!”

“Huh, huh? That, that’s just… I just applied plastic surgery magic and grafted it on… .”

“Seo, plastic surgery magic? It’s a completely different system?”

“That, that… Even though the lineage is different, using the magic circle is the same, so just connect the appropriate lines… .”

I don’t know what he’s talking about, but he seems to be more talented in magic than I thought.

I guess I’m better suited to being a wizard than a doll.

“Oh my god… Is that possible… .”

“Huh, huh… ? Is this something great… ?”

Lisa answered him excitedly when he asked her timidly.

“Of course! There are only a few wizards in the entire continent who can disassemble and reconstruct magic circles! Oh my, there’s such a talented person in a place like this!”

“Oh, that, that’s it?”

“Go to the top of the tower and give a presentation right now! Then, the position of the top professor won’t be a dream, right?”

professor!

Isn’t this a job that makes you feel like you’re an intellectual just from the name?

Anyway, I guess Lisa must be a great person to be making such a fuss.

Is he a genius character who doesn’t recognize his own talent?

I’m sure I have a talent like that, right?

I really hope that isn’t sex.

Actually, I’m scared to even open the status window these days.

This… I wonder how high it will go.

“But, but… I like it here… .”

But in the end, he became a hikikomori.

He was a man who refused to come out of his own castle!

“What, what the… You created such great magic and you didn’t tell the world about it! It’s such a shame!”

“I’m fine, so if you really want to, go and announce it yourself… It’s okay if you leave out my name.”

Lisa was shocked by those words.

“What are you talking about! You are worth it!”

He seemed a bit harsh at her words, but he hesitated as if he was still afraid to go out of the castle.

“Haa… What a great achievement this is… .”

dripping.

Just then someone knocked on the door.

There can’t be anyone else besides us, so it must be another doll?

“D, come in!”

Squeak.

The door opened and a maid came in, dressed politely.

Huh?

“PhiPhi?”

“Peepee!”

The maid who came in was the Pippi we had been looking for.

She also looked surprised when she saw us.

“Huh? Phi Phi?”

He blinked.

Oh, if you call him that, he doesn’t know.

“Ah, that’s it… We met by chance and got to know each other a little. We decided to call each other Phi Phi… .”

“Pipira… Hmm, not bad. Pipira, come here.”

She approached him with a puzzled look on her face as to why we were here.

Judging by the amount of things she has in her hands, she might have gone shopping outside.

Most of them are similar ingredients.

“Hmm… Okay, I got everything I ordered. Go make some dinner with this.”

She nodded, blinked a few times at us, and left.

“Okay, until grocery shopping… .”

Lisa seemed amazed by the doll’s intelligence.

“That, that’s not that great… .”

He said, scratching his cheek as if embarrassed when Lisa suddenly praised him.

“Cha, then should I teach you?”

“Yes?”

“I, I don’t plan on presenting… If you don’t want to present without my name… Just learn from me and keep in mind.”

“But, if I announce it under my name… ”

“I, I don’t care… .”

To him, this small castle already seemed like his whole world.

What about the rooftop or honor?

It’s all meaningless.

It seemed that his only wish was to spend his life in this small castle with the dolls that served him.

Well… if they’re not doing anything particularly bad, then there’s no need to bother them, right?

No, I don’t know yet if he’s a bad guy or not.

In fact, how do you know that deep down inside, evil experiments are being carried out to turn humans into dolls!

Now that I think about it, it’s a little scary.

Surely that’s not how it’ll turn out?

Lisa seemed hesitant about his offer.

Well, I was going to rest anyway.

“Yes, Lisa.”

“But then the schedule… .”

Karin and Serena also joined in to ease her worries.

“It’s okay, Lisa. It’s good if you get stronger.”

“That’s right. We wanted to rest more anyway.”

“Everyone… .”

Yeah, let’s think positively.

This is her strengthening event!

I was thinking that it was time to get a skill, but was this the way to make your companions stronger?

I don’t know.

This might be a game with a concept like a second job advancement!

Wow, this is a better game than I thought.

My rating for the production team in my heart went up from one to three stars.

We will fix the remaining two through patches and give them to you.

I hope you work harder.

“Well, then… .”

“Instead!”

But never let your guard down.

I, Asia, am the night game master.

We never leave Lisa alone with a man who doesn’t know her.

“Let me or someone from us go with you. There are a lot of monsters in the waterway.”

“Ah, ahh… Those dolls… Sorry.”

Oh my gosh, could this guy be…?

“Those… are the ones that failed while practicing magic. I’m trying to get rid of them too… but there are too many.”

Somehow there was no face… .

It seems they were all failures.

I thought so too.

Anyway, I think it was a good excuse.

I guess I’ll just keep an eye on Lisa and see if that guy does anything weird.

If something happens, we should make sure that justice is served, and if not, we should all be happy that Lisa is getting stronger.

Okay, perfect plan!

“Well, then… Since there is a direct passage, I’ll take that and go back and forth from now on.”

“Oh, thank you.”

Huh?

If this is the case, won’t my excuse of hanging out with monsters become useless?

But it’s a game… and it’s necessary for our convenience, so I decided to keep quiet.

There’s no way around a direct route!

***

After that, Lisa went to see him every day to learn magic.

The first day I followed, but after that the three of us decided to take turns going down.

“Mr. Asia, I don’t think he’s such a bad guy… .”

“Well, Serena. Listen carefully. All men are beasts.”

All men in the game are beasts!

You should never trust that!

Of course, considering that he is a doll, it is unlikely that he would do anything to Lisa, who is human… .

“Oh, is that so? When Asia-san says it, it’s convincing… .”

“… Good intentions, right?”

Serena’s words sound strange to me.

“Um, tomorrow is Asia?”

“Yes. What are Karin and Serena going to do?”

While Lisa was having fun gaining new knowledge, we were also having a blast enjoying our vacation.

“Well, I’m at the doll experience workshop… .”

“I am with other sisters at church… .”

Karin seemed to have taken an interest in carving dolls using the same blade, and she seemed to be attending beginner doll-making classes all over the city, trying her hand at carving dolls.

Serena seems to spend her time going to the church branch in this city to pray or chat with the sisters.

Everyone is having a great time.

I have a feeling that everyone will gain something from here.

This place is totally for farming, right?

I have a feeling that only good things will happen!

***

And the next day, I got bored listening to their professional discussion, so I followed Phi Phi around and played with her.

[I feel embarrassed if you keep looking at me.]

“Hey, it’s not even wearing out.”

[It wears out.]

“That’s a lie, right?”

Are you saying that dolls really wear out?

Pipi didn’t answer me, perhaps because I was annoying her.

Wow, the more I do that, the more I realize that I’m still a child, not knowing that I’m burning with passion.

Pippi was cooking for her master, feeling burdened by me.

She opened the cupboard and paused for a moment.

“Why?”

[There is no soy sauce.]

“… soy sauce?”

Is there something like that here?

No, what’s the point of arguing?

[I will report that I am going to buy soy sauce.]

“Oh, I’ll tell you about that!”

If you’re just going to relay it anyway, it’s better for me to do it instead and have Pipi go and come back quickly.

I want to see Lisa’s face too!

[Then please do so.]

“Yes!”

I rushed down the stairs in her place.

Office… Of course, it’s just a word, and it’s just for decoration, but anyway, I opened the door wide and shouted, “Office.”

“Pipi bought soy sauce and came… .”

“Dol Live… Gosh!”

Lisa was startled when I suddenly slammed the door open.

Thanks to that, the spell that would have been cast on the doll on the table changed direction and was directed at me.

“Huh?”

“Ouch… !”

Phagec!

“Hiyaak!”

A magic ray engulfed me!