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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Kabur & Silavin
Kousuke, who was holed up in his laboratory studying magical tools, received an unusual visitor.
“Father!”
Kousuke looked up hurriedly at the voice and smiled as he looked in the direction of the voice.
“Mia… And Luka? What’s wrong?”
From Kouhi’s presence beside them, it was immediately apparent that she had brought them to the management layer.
Kouhi would not have brought the children without the parents’ permission, so of course she must have gotten the mother’s permission.
Mia was Floria’s oldest daughter, now eight years old, and Luka was Sylvia’s oldest son, now five.
Floria had three children, two boys and one girl, and Sylvia had two children, one boy and one girl.
The youngest of Kousuke’s children currently would be Luka.
Mia looked a bit miffed at Kousuke’s response.
“If you don’t have something important to do, why don’t you visit us?”
Kousuke smiled and picked Mia up in his arms.
“Of course I will visit… but not right now. Oh, you’ve gotten bigger again.”
Lifting Mia up, Kousuke squinted and felt his child’s growth.
Luka, who came up to his feet, also seemed to have grown since the last time he saw him as well.
But it had only been half a month since he had last seen him, so he couldn’t tell by his appearance that he had changed.
It was just a matter of mood.
Since he was unable to pick up both of them at the same time, he patted Luka’s head, who was at his feet.
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Since his research had come to an end, he was about to pull Luka’s hand and head to the relaxation area with Mia in his arms, when Mia put a stop to it.
“Father, please show me the control room again!”
“Control room? That’s alright, but you really like that place, don’t you?”
“Yes!”
Mia replied with a big smile.
“Is that okay with you too, Luka?”
“Yes!”
Kousuke looked at her and Luka and nodded.
It appeared that both of them came here originally to ask him to bring them to the control room.
Mia was fond of the crystals found in the control room.
When Mia first entered the control room, she looked at the crystals with a sparkle in her eye.
The crystals shine like jewels, depending on how you look at them, so it was understandable why the child liked them.
If the crystals were fragile, he would not allow the crystals to be shown to the children, but since they were not something that could be moved in any way, he always let them do what they wanted with the crystal.
In Luka’s case, Kousuke thought he was more interested in Haku, who often visited the control room, than in the control room itself.
After entering the control room of Amamiya Tower, Mia headed straight for the control panel.
At first, Mia’s interest had been in the crystals, but for the past few times, she seemed to prefer looking at the control panel.
She seemed to enjoy the fact that when she touched it with her hand, information was displayed one after another, one after another.
Luka seemed to be the same way, staring at the screen with a sparkle in his eye.
Unfortunately, Haku was not around, but he did not seem to mind.
Of course, since the two of them were not authorized to make changes, they could only browse the screen.
Still, Mia was playing with the control screen, changing the contents of the display one after another, wondering what was so fun about it.
He asked Floria how well they could read, as he had wondered before, but the children seemed to be able to read words normally used by children.
Mia could also read numbers normally.
Most of the letters on the control screen were nouns, so she could understand most of them.
Luka, on the other hand, could hardly read the words yet, so he was purely enjoying the screen switching.
In the other empty seat, she was happily rubbing his finger on the screen to switch the display.
He simply found the movement amusing.
“Father, what is this?”
“Yes?”
Kousuke, who had been watching Luka, moved closer to Mia and looked at what she was pointing at.
“Oh, this is a screen where you can put things on various Floors.”
“Floors?”
Mia tilted her head at his words, and Kousuke wondered how to explain it to him.
“Did you know that the castle where Mia usually lives is a smaller place than the outside of the tower?”
“Yes!”
If Mia didn’t even know about it, Kousuke would have had a hard time explaining it, but knowing that Mia had some knowledge about it, Kousuke could explain it to him somehow.
“The tower is made up of a bunch of places like the first and second floor of a castle.”
“Hmmm…?”
However, it still seemed difficult for Mia to make her tilt her head.
Kousuke wondered how to explain it, and decided to use the screen that Luka had just opened to explain it.
The screen showed the fifth floor, where Mia’s castle was located.
“This is the Floor called the fifth floor where the castle is located.”
“Castle?”
“Yes. Here it is. This is where the castle is.”
On the administration screen, each Floor could be zoomed in and out to a certain degree, just like a map on the Internet.
Using this function, he showed him the castle by zooming in so that he could see where it was.
“Oh, the castle is tiny!”
“Yes, it is. If you shrink it down a little… Here is the castle and here is the town. You can see the fields and stuff around it, right?”
“Yes!”
Mia was sometimes taken by her entourage to tour the town with her siblings.
It appeared that her memory of it neatly matched the location on the screen.
“I’m going to make it smaller and smaller…”
“The castle is getting smaller and smaller!”
“That’s right.”
Mia widened her eyes as she watched the castle from the top of the screen as it gets smaller and smaller.
Before she knew it, Luka had joined her and was staring at the screen.
The screen was now pulled back to the point where the entire fifth layer could be seen.
“Look. This is the castle, and this is the area where the city is located.”
“Wow. It’s small.”
Mia was pleased to see that the cityscape, which she usually thought of as spacious, was smaller on the screen.
Luka, who was sitting next to her, also widened his eyes as well.
Incidentally, although Mia said it was small, the town on the fifth was now considerably large.
Initially, it was almost invisible when the zoom out was maximized, but now the cityscape could be seen, showing just how big it had become.
If you include the surrounding fields, you can see that the area has grown considerably.
This screen alone was enough to show that the city had developed considerably.
“This is about the size of the town where Mia and Luka live now.”
“Hmmm… It doesn’t look like you’ll get to the end of it even if you run?”
“Yes, I think so. It will be hard with Mia’s current speed.”
With a child’s legs, it would be impossible for her to go from one end of the Floor to the other.
Of course, it was a different story for an adult adventurer.
Kousuke thought it was pretty remarkable that she could imagine that just by looking at the screen.
“What you see on this screen right now is one floor. You can’t go any further than this, no matter how hard you try. If you try to force your way forward, you’ll get lost, so don’t try to go alone, okay?”
“Yes.”
“Now, you see, the tower is made up of a bunch of floors like this.”
Kousuke operated the screen and changed the floors one after another.
Among them, the one that Mia responded to most was the sandy desert floor.
“Is there nothing here?”
“It’s not that nothing is there, it’s just that the floor is nothing but sand… I’ll go with you next time and show you around there.”
“Really? Really?
“Of course.”
“Yes!”
It would be tough to stay in a desert environment for long periods of time without any preparation, but for short periods of time, it would be fine.
It might be interesting to let them experience the heat of the desert at least.
Of course, Kousuke had no intention of making them do anything reckless, so he planned to return soon.
Kousuke also thought that it might be interesting to show them the dependents, since it was a good opportunity.
Kousuke thought about that as he watched Mia and Luka raising their hands in delight.
