Automaton Charles, Lotte, Venus. Tuna and Ariete, who followed them out of boredom, also received library membership cards.
The explanation of librarian Lulu, who was sitting at the desk, continued.
“Please refer to the notice on the back of your membership card, and anyone can borrow books at any time, so please come often.”
Ariete looked at the back of the membership card and raised her gaze.
“24/7? Are you doing it here at night too?”
“Of course, but the night response will be from this side, not me. Minerva!”
A small automaton pokes its head out from between the bookshelves and shoots at it. An expressionless white face, not for combat, but wearing a yellow heat-dissipating wig for coolness.
Among the automatons, the smallest and cheapest automaton for pets or work aids,
Tuna and Ariete’s eyes and mouth widen.
“uh?”
“Same as Carrot…?”
“Oh! Minerva!”
Carrot smiled hahahaha and raised her hand.
The little automaton that was walking by in the uniform of a library janitor also raised his right hand. It seemed like a sign that they were happy, so Tuna and Ariete laughed.
Librarian Lulu, who was sitting cross-legged on a chair at her desk, put her hand on the head of Automaton Minerva, who had approached her.
“The library is always open to polite people. Please come often to read books and build your knowledge.”
Carrot raised her palm to her mouth and said softly.
“It’s quite fun to come at dawn, right? Automatons are swarming in the library with no lights on.”
Tuna expressed interest.
“What are you talking about?”
“The stories of the masters, the stories of the adventures, and this and that, they are copying what humans do. read books, too.”
Now, Tuna glanced back at librarian Lulu at the desk. From the first time I saw her, she was working hard on the work she was doing. That is, they are trimming their nails.
A bewildered Tuna looks down at Carrot.
“Oh, isn’t it a meeting of automatons? Hey, isn’t that a secret? Can I just talk?”
“huh? no. Sometimes even the drunk Lulu buys in and chats?”
“Yes?”
Opening her eyes wide, Tuna looked at the librarian Lulu, and she raised her finger before replying casually.
“Opening the library is an official matter with permission from the director and lord.”
“Why? Why share knowledge with automatons? No, I’m not asking for it. I’m just curious. In the West, where I came from, the library was a place for wizards. Even more so, it was unreasonable to say it was an automaton.”
Lulu, who was looking at the female knight with her beautifully manicured hands neatly placed on the desk, looked at Carrot.
“Carrot, what is this woman, she keeps talking nonsense when she first met you?”
Carrot, who was playing hand to hand with Minerva, smiled and turned her head. But before Carrot could open her mouth, Ariete, embarrassed, waved her hand.
“Oh no! I didn’t mean to offend! Because my father is a soldier, the way he speaks, the way he speaks is like this…!”
Ruru looked at Ariete, who was flustered, then smiled and nodded.
“it’s okay. They look the same age, and I’ll let go of them too. let’s do something like that.”
“Uh, um, um.”
Lulu, who raised her finger and swung it around, said.
“There was a fire in the great city library of a certain Ark City, and all the books were burned. The lord of that place, who was a book lover, fell into a great disappointment. Then, by accident, by accident, I found out that the automaton I was using for my chores remembered most of the book.”
Lulu took a deep breath and opened her eyes wide.
“At least 103,000 volumes.”
Ariete opened her mouth slightly, and Tuna also pricked up her ears. Lulu pointed to Minerva and said.
“The library has been restored, and the books are all new, filling the shelves. Impressed, the lord gave the automaton the name of a mythical goddess of wisdom. And the Lord wasn’t the only one who was moved by this legendary reality.”
“reality? Did it happen recently?”
“I was about 10 years old, so about 10 years ago. Minerva, librarian of the Municipal Great Library Automaton in the eastern Ark City of Ducalion, it’s treated as a tourist attraction now, but it’ll still be there. Let’s meet again when we go. Yo Minerva is from that Minerva.”
Minerva, who was serving as librarian Lulu’s armrest, raised her hands and drew a V.
Tuna widened her eyes.
“Oh, the memory capacity of the automaton is that big?”
“Um, I don’t know. I am now about 10 years old.”
Lulu smiles brightly.
“There are specialized books on automatons on the bookshelf over there. I’ll recommend them. By the way, nothing has been revealed yet. Automatons that are owned by a group and do not have a master setting or that change frequently are afraid of accidental collisions, so they tend to erase their memories on a regular basis.”
Then Minerva intervenes.
“The oldest document submitted to academia without formal memory erasure is an automaton that is about 120 years old. The warrior’s automaton. I am going to the Demon King now,”
Everyone knew the name. Because it is a legend among legends. But Ariete and Tuna found Minerva’s voice even more magical.
“Your voice is like Carrot’s!”
“Oh oh! Unbelievable!”
“No, what are you playing with? It’s a mass-produced product that uses the same parts, so isn’t it natural?”
Carrot smiled and said, and the two turned their heads to look at Minerva and Carrot. As if Lulu was cute, she brushed Minerva’s hair and continued.
“This is it, this is why we opened the library to automatons. Everything needs a plan B. The report of knowledge must continue. If the book doesn’t burn, you can shove it into the automaton’s head.”
“Are you signing up for Automaton’s library membership for that!?”
Lulu smirks. With a large desk in front of her, she opened her arms in a gentle gesture.
It was so cool that Tuna went wild. Hogok!
“Knowledge must be kept together, utilized, and shared. to that future,”
“Ohhhhh! Hey, woman of ambition! Bo, I want to be followed!”
Librarian Lulu burst into laughter at Tuna’s evaluation.
The people who heard about the reasons why Automaton’s library membership was favorable, made a friend, and borrowed a few books moved to the workshop.
“Before that, let’s stop by the guild for a while and then go.”
“Um, yes. I want to know if there is any news.”
In the meantime, Tuna was being led by Charles and Lotte while walking and reading. While Carrot and Ariete entered the adventurer’s guild building to shine their faces and listen to the latest information, people passing by on the street glanced at Tuna, a woman with glasses with an open book, guarded by three automatons.
But their eyes were on the automatons, not Tuna. Well-built men in overalls look at Charles, Lotte, and Venus while shaping their beards.
“There are three clean and sturdy automatons standing there. Did the maintenance go well?”
“Is that woman in the middle a Master?”
“No, that’s Crank’s automaton.”
“crank? Oh, that big, kind fellow? Would that friend help again this year?”
The men with beards laughed hahahaha.
“of course! He will definitely come.”
“Good. very good.”
At that time, Carrot ran out of the guild building.
“Oh oh! A job has arrived! let’s go!”
“Oh oh! This is true for automatons! You guys are rich in rare metals!”
“Stop talking like fat, go home!”
Cranks who were lightly working out in the studio are back? welcomed He accepted the request from Carrot and nodded.
“You’re doing it again this year.”
“huh? What are you doing?”
As Tuna interjects, Crank, who is wearing only a pair of black underwear from working out, shows her a piece of paper in his hand. Then he looked down at Carrot.
“good. Do not prepare work clothes. Let’s go back and fix the soft skin.”
“Oooh! Going to the field again this year!”
Tuna, who was reading the official document, murmured.
“Spring farmland clearing work?”
“Every year around this time, hardened land is pounded to make it soft, manure is applied, farmland is trimmed, and the land is reclaimed. The wheat fields around Argon City make it that way, farming is important.”
Crank also helped.
“Clearing land is a difficult task. It goes without saying that it is faster and easier for an automaton to do it than for a human to do it. Money is money, but it is directly related to food production, so I tend to encourage people who have automatons to do this.”
“Please send your automaton to the land reclamation project promoted by the city. Let’s make delicious bread together.”
When Carrot, who held her hands together, spoke, Ariete nodded. Carrot now raised her arms and shouted.
“Until last year, me and Crank went out together! This is pretty salty! I pay right away for a day!”
“Let it all go out this year. Don’t prepare work clothes. But I’m going to fall for it this time. Not enough to withstand the hard work.”
Those who knew his personality well nodded. When Crank says he’s taking a break, there’s a reason.
Ariete raised her hand.
“me too! I want to go out too!”
“Clearing land is difficult. You will regret it.”
“I want to experience anything! And I am not a normal human being.”
After thinking about it for a while, Crank allowed Ariete to sortie.
The next day, the receptionist and work clothes were prepared for the guild, and on the morning of the third day, the city’s automatons began to gather in front of the Argon Farmers Guild in front of the central square.
“wow-! These are all automatons! More than last year!”
Ariete also opened her eyes wide and looked at the various automatons. From battle use to home use, from good condition to one without an arm or a dented armor plate on the body, the color and shape of the heat-dissipating wig decorating the head were also varied.
“and···!”
It was a look that Ariete couldn’t express in words.
Somehow, I want to show it to Tuna.
And there were quite a few human workers in between the automatons.
A man in work clothes climbed onto the podium and shouted through a loudspeaker.
“Thank you for coming out this year too! Check your name on the reception list and follow the instructions of your assigned leader!”
The automatons and human workers checked attendance and gathered along with the assigned leader. Here, Carot and Venus were divided into one team, and Ariete, Charles, and Lotte were divided into one team.
Ariete was a bit nervous, but Carrot cheered.
“don’t worry! All you have to do is do what I tell you to do!”
Carrot waved and followed the captain. Carrot and Venus took on the task of pounding and plowing the farmland outside the gate with the handing out hoes in their hands.
“Yaaa!”
Pupper pupper puck!!!
As the automatons pass by, swinging their hoes in a row and pounding the ground, the ground is gently plowed with dust. The hoeing of an automaton surpassed the plowing of a horse or ox.
In fact, there were also automatons running the farmland with a human-powered plow in pairs of two.
Human workers whistle.
“This is it! hahahahaha!”