When I'd received a report from Dorahachi that the students hadn't returned, I hurriedly began the search. Only around midnight was I able to confirm their safety. Apparently, they'd been exploring Kurikala without my permission.
To be honest, it chilled my guts. They seed to have found a strange door in the depths of the 4th floor, got sucked into it, and been temporarily transferred to the Tower of Deceit.
Tower of Deceit was a zone so vicious that even my current self would lose his life if I didn't put up a defense. Fortunately, the chance encounter with monsters was lower this ti, so it was a relief.
However, I couldn't make head or tail out of how the students could co back, even after listening to their explanations. Well, it should be a terrifying mory, though, so it was understandable.
Anyway, I believed they could co back safely with nothing more than luck. For the ti being, all students were banned from exploring Kurikala, unless they were accompanied by a guardian.
anwhile, I was still dealing with the Maguire family. White luminous worms were crucial for the family's industry, but there were more important matters to deal with than this. It was about the reformation of agriculture. The new industry, at best, was only to increase the productivity of the territory, and it was quite natural.
Unlike Toto village, the Maguire family had surplus power, and the farrs themselves weren't in dire straits. Consequently, it was tough to persuade them, but thanks to the Toto village chief and the words of wealthy rchants introduced by Grace, they finally consented.
Right now, a council was conducted to discuss the future developnt of the territory, attended by the retainers of the Maguire family and the chief of all villages and towns.
"Hey, what is the purpose of constructing a sewer system?"
A pink-haired girl with sparkling eyes, who was sitting in the front row, raised her hand and asked.
She was Yui Maguire. My cousin. Apparently, thinking that the territory was still in crisis, she demanded to participate in the council too. Despite being a girl, she was soone who would lead this land in the future. So, she had enough qualifications to take part in the discussion. Besides, there was still an anachronism that won couldn't participate in managent. For these two reasons, I agreed to let her join the council.
"Many contagious diseases, like korori, cause excretion. It creates an outbreak, which can actually be easily prevented just by dealing with it appropriately."
A cheer rose up from the attendees.
At first, these people hadn't listened to my childish talk, and showed their half-convinced expressions instead. However, it all changed completely after I invited trusted mbers of the Maguire family, like Dir and Bart, and the chief representative of villages and towns to stay for a few days in Calot, the capital of Radol. Since then, no one had doubted my words.
By the way, "korori" was the world's na for what we call cholera on Earth.
"Hmm. Does it have any relation with the fact that toilets in Calot were clean?"
"Yes, in Calot, fecal matter collected from the toilets of each household is sent to a certain facility via a sewage pipe running underground. After being purified and cleaned there, it is flushed into nearby rivers."
Many residents still drank river water. We couldn't just flush feces and urea into rivers. Therefore, I used a motor to collect the excretion to sewage pipes and secure it in one place, where it was cleaned by activating sludge and sterilized, before discharging it into nearby rivers.
All of this was largely due to the establishnt of generator manufacture and the successful developnt of motors to power the established steam engines.
However, even in my territory of Radol, only two major cities, Calot and Arkroy, had sewage technology. It would probably take a long ti before they could be widely used in this territory as well.
"Then, then, does it an it will not be necessary to deal with waste in each ho like Calot?"
"Yeah, for that, I assure you. Even so, that's a future talk for now. Right now, we're going to try to install the system only in public facilities on an experintal basis."
First of all, the Maguire household didn't have enough capital to turn this territory into sothing like Calot. I was a rchant. I wasn't a bit interested in charitable work. Even if it was my relative's territory, it would be too much for to provide the funds. Besides, to begin with, it would not make any sense if I did all the work.
"Then, the next is about the research of white luminous worms. I am thinking of improving the original facilities in Shirokane village for research and developnt. But, since the worms and the threads they produce are poisonous, the construction of this facility and the research guidelines will be taken over by my company. Is that okay?"
"It's fine. Either way, we can't handle it."
On behalf of everyone, Dir replied. The poisonous white luminous worms had to be examined from the ground up, which was not sothing that could be easily achieved.
That's right. For now, we should push forward with agriculture and general comrce, where short-term profits could be expected.
"So, let's start with establishing the infrastructure."
I began explaining the specific plan for the territory developnt.
An aromatic and sweet fragrance tickled my nose when I returned to the Maguire mansion, where I was currently sleeping apart from the main building as it was being used as a eting room.
Around six months after staying in this residence, I'd brought a cake specially made by Sagami Co., and my mother loved it so much that she wanted to learn how to make it. So I asked the company confectioner to teach her.
Since then, she had been making it in her spare ti. There was a very understandable reason for this.
As expected, the three proud mascots of Sagami Co. were sitting on each seat around the table with a fork in their hand today too.
"Here, Dora-chan and the others, you can eat."
"Ohh!"
"Yay!"
"Yeah!"
When Yui saw Dorahachi, Sheena, and Haku waving their fork cheerfully, her face lit up. She rushed forward to rub her cheeks with them.
"Cute! So cute!"
Yui's face was dyed with ecstasy as she rained down kisses on Dorahachi's cheeks, making it a bit difficult to eat. But, she might not be that displeased, judging from how she didn't reject much.
In this regard, I ordered Dorahachi to guard this place along with Hatch, who had been guarding my mother. Unexpectedly, she imdiately grabbed the won's hearts instead and beca very popular.
It seed that guarding was only in nas as the three of them only played together during the day and slept in the mansion throughout the night everyday, but I guess it was fine since they were kids.
"Mother, I am going back to the academy."
"Be careful. Also, make sure to show your face here once a week without fail."
Running up to , she gave a hug and a gentle pat on the back of my head.
"Okay, I promise."
At first, my mother had been firmly against leaving this place. Even after listening to my explanation that I must return to the academy, she'd insisted on coming along with .
It wasn't like I hated living with my mother. But, it was just that if we lived together, she might soon realize that I wasn't just a student there and beca even more worried. Besides, my mother wasn't soone who could lie. If she were to co face to face with Cliff, my true identity would pretty much turn into a known fact. That would not be good for anything.
In the end, I told her about the teleportation ability and sohow managed to convince her that I would stay in the mansion at least once a week.
"As much as possible, I will co ho."
For the ti being, I had to manage this territory. As long as I wasn't too busy, I'd try to show up once every three days. After bowing to Dir and Bart, I invoked the teleportation to my room in Straheim.
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