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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Kabur & Silavin
Kousuke was receiving regular reports from the magical tool creation unit, known as Madosaku, on the 47th layer.
Of course, the person making the report is Andre, the person in charge.
In the periodic report, the number of magical tools created during the month and the unit’s income and expenditures are reported.
It had already been nearly three years since Madosaku was established.
Andre, who was just a boy when it was launched, has already reached the stage of a young man.
In this world, however, 15 years old is considered an adult, so he is already an active member of the group as an adult.
Madosaku, which initially consisted of about 30 people, has now become a unit with more than 100 slaves working for it.
Since the development of the rechargeable magic stone, Madosaku’s presence has become indispensable to Razequa Amamiya.
Of course, there are some magical tools that are wholesale to Crown, but considering the future, replenishing magical power to the magical stones is likely to become his main job.
Initially, it was not so much because there were few products using rechargeable magic stones, but with new magic tools being developed in Crown’s craft department in addition to Kousuke’s development, it is becoming more and more important.
We expect that Madosaku’s main income will eventually come from replenishing magic power to rechargeable magic stones.
In fact, replenishing magical power is the most basic task in creating magical tools, so it has become an important task for those close to apprentices.
However, replenishing magical power is not the only way to ship them, so some skill is ultimately required.
“This is the usual report, but Maya being here means there’s something else going on, right?”
Maya, like Andre, is one of the members who have been with Madosaku since its inception.
Her job is not to create magical tools, but she is in charge of general housekeeping.
In a nutshell, she is the mother of the slaves working at Madosaku.
However, it is tough for one person to support a group that has grown to nearly a hundred people, so the number of people in the same position is increasing.
“Yes. Actually, I received a certain proposal from Maya, and I thought it would be better for hell to tell you, so I asked her to come with me.”
After Andre said this, he pushed out Maya, who was standing behind him.
There is no particular difference in rank between Andre, who is in charge of the whole operation, and Maya, who supports all aspects of life, but she has a very fearful attitude because she has very little contact with Kousuke.
He was very grateful to Kousuke because he has little contact with Kousuke.
Maya, who had been pushed out by Andre, began to speak gingerly.
“Can’t we separate the boys and girls and have them live separately?”
At Maya’s suggestion, Kousuke’s face suddenly turned blue.
He thought that the fact that Maya was suggesting such a thing meant that something was wrong.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I wasn’t thinking at all. Did something go wrong?”
“No, no! Nothing special is going on right now!”
Maya hurriedly denied it, and Kousuke was relieved inside.
“That’s good. But, does that mean that there is going to be a problem?”
Separating the living space into male and female is naturally in consideration of gender-related issues.
If there are fewer people, such problems are easier to manage, but if there are more people, they are more likely to be overlooked.
Maya nodded in agreement with Kousuke’s words.
“Of course there is that, but there are other things as well.”
“Others?”
“I don’t mind if people are free to fall in love, but I don’t think it’s good for others to be exposed to that at all hours of the day and night.”
When Maya said this, Kousuke’s cheeks twitched.
“… In the living room?”
“In life, yes. Or rather, I would say until we enter the room just before going to bed.”
Even today, men and women still live their lives with some degree of separation.
But with more and more of them being adults, they sometimes sleep over in so-called separate rooms.
There is no particular prohibition against this.
But for those who do not have such a partner, it is not a very good environment.
Hearing this, Kousuke’s thoughts turned to the subject.
“I left him in charge as far as the living place is concerned, but I didn’t think it was going to be like that.”
Not a good situation by any stretch of the imagination.
This is Kousuke’s fault for neglecting the situation.
Kousuke was grateful to Maya for coming to report the problem before it happened.
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When Kousuke heard what they were talking about, he immediately called Peach.
This was because he felt that there should be no omission in thinking only of himself as a man.
Peach, who heard what happened, nodded her head with a humph.
“I see~. So you are planning to separate the living space for men and women by putting up a barrier?”
“That’s right. I was thinking of dividing it into a men’s dormitory and a women’s dormitory. I think it would be better to have elders to manage them.
“I think that’s a good idea. You don’t allow the opposite sex to live in the dormitories, do you?”
“Of course.”
Otherwise, there would be no point in dividing the dorms into men’s and women’s dorms.
“And by the way, I would like to entrust Peach with that area, no?”
I don’t think I could manage such a thing, having been completely out of the loop until now.
If that’s the case, it’s better to leave it to someone else.
“That’s fine~.”
Peach readily agreed, and most of the matters were decided.
Andre and Maya, relieved by this, returned to the 47th layer with relieved expressions on their faces.
Kousuke saw them and looked relieved.
“… What are you doing, really?”
It was a lazy move, no matter how you look at it, to have gathered men and women in the midst of puberty and not pay attention to issues related to sexuality.
He was able to save the day because he advised us before any real damage was done, but if he had done a poor job, he could have caused them a lifetime of trauma.
Peach approached Kousuke, who was feeling down.
“Hmmm. I don’t know if it was like that before, but at least from the time I met him, Kousuke was like that~?”
Kousuke tilted his head at Peach’s curious comment.
“Like that?”
“It’s more like he’s not very sensitive about sexual matters, or rather, he’s a bit dull.”
Hearing Peach’s words, Kouhi nodded his head in agreement.
“No, I think that’s different from crisis management, don’t you?”
“No, that’s not what I meant~”
Peach looked as if she was having trouble deciding what to say.
Kouhi added some words of advice to Peach.
“I don’t think that you are dull when it comes to sex, but rather that your thinking is not oriented in that direction.”
“… What do you mean?”
Kousuke tilted his head, not understanding.
“I don’t know if it’s because you are a man, but I don’t feel that you have any sense of danger regarding your sexuality. Perhaps it was similar in your previous world?”
“No, I don’t think it’s a quirk…”
No matter how much you want to say it, you don’t come from a world where sexual crimes are completely absent.
In fact, since there is the concept of boys’ and girls’ dormitories, they must have had that level of awareness of the danger.
However, if you ask me, I do feel that I have been less aware of the danger in this area since I came to this world.
“… Huh? Why is that?”
Kousuke tilted his head for a while, but could not think of any reason.
It was as if he was completely missing that part of his life.
Kousuke himself had started with Kouhi, Mitsuki, and Peach, but it was unnatural.
Kousuke couldn’t come up with the answer alone, so he contacted Asura just to be sure, considering the possibility that something was missing when he came to our world.
However, the answer he received was “no.”
The answer was “No.” The answer was that neither his soul nor his memories had been altered.
If this was the case, Kousuke wondered what the hell was going on, but he still couldn’t figure it out.
In the end, no matter how much he thought about it, he could not think of anything that could be the cause of the problem, and he spent the rest of his days contemplating it.
