167 Development of shot arrows
***[Sven, Scientist]***
This world is full of wonderful things.
What everyone takes for granted, if you keep digging into it, there are only mysterious things.
The more you know, the more new, surprising and miraculous it becomes.
Sven removed his hand from the magic stone and looked to the side.
A woman with a convex stomach was writing down the research process from a few days ago on a piece of paper.
Her slender fingers were slightly scarred during the study, and if you follow your gaze upward, you can see white, immaculate flesh through her clothes.
Sven sees that her flesh, higher up, on the inside, is very white and shiny.
I knew how soft her body was and how feminine it was.
The woman turned her head, perhaps noticing her gaze.
“Why is that?”
“Nothing… No, it’s strange.”
“What?”
The woman’s eyes sharpened for an instant.
He didn’t want to miss even the smallest flash in Sven’s head.
She is the person the duke assigned as an assistant.
She was in charge of picking up research that Sven discarded as useless, or ideas that he thought of for a while and dismissed as uninteresting, and conveyed them to other researchers.
It is she who records the research process and achievements.
It stuck with him almost all day.
My first night with her was almost a raid.
I don’t know why, but it was she who attacked.
Of course, he didn’t do anything by force, and he was the one who followed what she told him to do, but Sven didn’t do anything first.
Anyway, she gave the order first.
Yeah, that would have been an order rather than a raid.
[Stay still… don’t move. Please lie down… If you close your eyes, it will be over soon.]
It was only later that I found out that she was in a position to marry.
There were many assistants to assist him in the lab, and there were plenty of people to replace her.
Even the duke would have told her to replace her with someone else if something came from her family.
Sven himself didn’t care if it was her or anyone else.
Of course, that was before the incident.
After that day, I started to care about this woman for some reason.
When I suddenly come to my senses, I find myself looking at her without even realizing it, and it becomes strange for some reason.
Sven looked at her face and stomach, then opened his mouth.
“… excuse me.”
“Please speak comfortably.”
She prepares to take notes and corrects her posture.
The bulging stomach headed towards Sven.
In that boat is his child.
Because of that one thing, she had a baby.
It’s strange that a person has a person in their body.
Everyone thinks it’s nothing, but people multiply by two.
Isn’t this a mystery
As I stared at the boat, she urged me to speak.
“If something comes to your mind, you don’t have to choose a horse considering the situation or us. We take care of that. So, Sven-nim, please say whatever comes to mind.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Sven’s mouth opened.
“I am….”
But the words were cut off again.
For some reason, it’s hard to say what I thought.
In the first place, he doesn’t think much about things other than research.
I didn’t want to turn my thoughts elsewhere.
Because it’s her job to worry like this.
It’s the first time I’ve experienced anything other than research occupying my head.
Because of that, I couldn’t study properly for several days.
No, it’s been several months.
I felt strange and strange about myself, and I couldn’t concentrate on my research anyway.
She must be worried about that.
I don’t know the political situation, but it seems that the duke really needs his own research these days, but the research results aren’t coming out properly.
Sven seemed to be talking, but when he closed his mouth again, she looked into his face in frustration.
“It’s okay, so tell me, Sven-sama. It’s not like Sven-sama to worry. Please just say it.”
“I want to get married.”
“… yes?”
She opened her eyes wide and frowned slightly.
It seems that the eyes are somehow injured.
But that expression soon disappeared and she nodded.
“Okay. I’m under orders to prepare whatever Sven wants. Just wait until we find the right person.”
“uh?”
“Sorry, but it can’t be found as quickly as research materials. It will take some time. Sven is a precious person to the Duke, and the family and character of the hostess are also very important considerations.”
“No… I’m over there…”
Conversation goes awry.
But she was so businesslike and smooth that it was hard to find anything to say.
Maybe he said the wrong thing.
Sven started to care about her, but the other side just wanted to avoid marriage.
He is a person who occupies a fairly unique position in the ducal family, and it is difficult to resist strongly just because he tampered with a woman in the family.
That much could be known even to himself who was not interested in other things.
Maybe because he was the most suitable partner to avoid marriage, no, there is no reason other than that.
If she said it strongly, she might be forced to agree to the marriage, but that’s probably not what she wants.
I feel like an idiot for thinking, even for a moment, that she might like him.
I lost all strength in my shoulders and tried to turn around, but the assistant researcher, who had been far away, approached me.
“I can’t watch it because it’s frustrating. Both of them are smart people, so why are you doing that?”
The assistant researcher looked at Sven and opened his mouth.
“Sven, if I intervene here, I will only give you advice. Just be open and say what comes to your mind. Our job is to analyze and study what Sven says. There’s nothing wrong with being told.”
“…”
“Not all of the researchers here will stay here forever, especially the women. They are very likely to leave at some point. Even women with children are not unmarried.”
The assistant researcher’s gaze turned to the woman in front of Sven.
Is she leaving too?
I avoided marriage at best, but after giving birth to a child, will I eventually go somewhere?
When I thought so, the words that had been shut up until now came out as if they were lies.
“I want to marry you, not another woman. I’m not interested in women anyway, so it would be useless to get married. Because I’m interested in you. And the fact that a child is growing inside of you… I don’t know why, but that day After that, I can’t do my research because I’m worried. If I have to marry someone else anyway… Won’t you pick me? … but… uh… uh…”
Suddenly, the woman started to weep.
Sven was flustered, but the woman looked up at him.
“I’m old, Sven. I’m already well over thirty and I don’t have any charms as a woman. If the teacher wants, there are as many better women as possible…”
“Uh… But I’m a lot older. I don’t know, but I’m well over twice as old as you, in fact, I’m a grandfather now.”
“That’s fine. Sven doesn’t feel that way at all even when he gets older.”
I don’t think it’s a compliment, but it’s a positive answer anyway.
Besides, her way of speaking, always using honorifics and sticking to the ending, was broken.
Somehow, it seems to be getting very close.
My face tickled, and I was more happy than when the research results came out well.
Sven swallowed.
“So, will you marry me?”
“… yes.”
People in the lab who were watching from afar applaud.
The assistant researcher who was nearby was also clapping with all his might.
I’ve been thinking about it for months, but can it be solved this way?
I feel like I’m possessed by a ghost.
Sven stood blankly for a moment, staring at the woman’s bulging stomach before coming to his senses.
Oh, yes.
I forgot the most important thing.
Now, when we get married, since we are a couple, there are things we need to know first.
“By the way… what’s your name?”
“…”
Sighs poured out from all sides.
But I can’t help it.
The name is usually heard only once when greeting first, and there are very few situations in which someone else’s name is called.
Sven spends all day alone thinking and researching, and one of the researchers always sticks by his side, offering what he needs before he even says anything.
The situation itself to call the name did not arise.
I thought she might get angry at me for not knowing her name, but the woman was smiling through her tears.
“As expected, Sven-sama is Sven-sama.”
“…”
She said her name in a low voice.
“I won’t forget you anymore.”
“It’s okay, even if you forget. I’ll always be by your side. If you forget, I’ll teach you.”
oh oh oh
Hearing her words, I don’t know why, but my strength suddenly increased and my mind suddenly became clear.
something flashes
yes, flash!
“I see. You can do that.”
Sven muttered that and hurriedly lowered his head.
My mind is busy.
You have to catch the thoughts that come into your head before they pass.
As my free finger moved involuntarily, someone held out a charcoal pencil from the side.
The fingers are slender and pretty.
it’s her
Now that she is his wife, she will always be by his side.
Not at home, but in this lab.
As I thought so, my mind moved faster.
It seems like a lie to have been sluggish for several months.
Sven started drawing the ideas that popped into his head with charcoal.
Charcoal can be used whenever you think of it faster than a pen with ink.
For this reason, the laboratory always uses charcoal.
After he scribbled down ideas and ideas with charcoal, the assistant researchers put them together beautifully on paper.
So you can draw whatever you want without worrying.
Feel free to do whatever you want to do as you please.
ok all is fine
The things that bothered me have been solved cleanly, and now the only thing left is to clean up the things that I have not been able to solve.
“If you put this and this in the mana stone at once… so that the explosive power is carried by the wind… that’s right… if you do it this way…”
As I frantically sketched out the idea on paper, Oscar, who came up with it in the first place, seemed even more amazing.
“… Really… How did the Duke come up with this idea?”
While muttering that, I nodded my head and drew the structure of the arrowhead again.
“Okay, okay, let’s do this.”
Involuntarily, a voice leaked out.
What the duke requested a while ago was a bit different from what he had hoped for before.
It’s the same as using a magic bomb, but I don’t want a strong explosion.
He didn’t want bombs that were strong enough to distort the surrounding terrain or devastate the surroundings.
What he wants is for the magic bombs attached to his arrows to explode and injure nearby creatures.
The purpose was not to kill, but to injure as many people and as many horses as possible.
In order to do so, it is not enough to simply have great destructive power.
It had to have the property of spreading widely around.
However, since it is dependent on the arrow, it is difficult to be heavy, and it is more difficult than expected.
Oscar asked for something that weighed about the same as a conventional arrowhead.
If the weight of the arrow suddenly changes, the soldiers’ senses become dull.
“Hmm, hmm, it’s tricky. It looks easy, but it’s quite difficult.”
But that makes it even more rewarding.
Sven continued muttering and immersed himself in making arrowhead bombs.
I completely forgot about the woman next to me.
maybe even the name.
“Whoa… Really, Sven-sama…”
I think I heard a woman’s voice at first glance.
However, the sound was quickly dissipated by the shotgun arrows that filled my head.
***[Heroine Oscar]***
Autumn deepens.
Tracking down the grasslands who were sold into slavery was slow, but it was showing results little by little.
However, there were many cases where the conditions of the grassland tribes he found were not good.
I tried to find them, but in many cases they were already dead.
If you see such a horror with your own eyes, it seems that the grassland tribes will attack at any moment.
‘I don’t think I’ll ever forgive you.’
All found grassland tribes are being brought back to the dukedom for treatment or protection.
I informed Goruka of the general situation and told him that he would send it after he calmed down to a certain extent, but it is not known whether sending him to the grassland is the best.
Rather, it may be the result of fanning the house on fire.
‘Anyway, that’s the story after people get together to some extent.’
Most of the grassland tribes sold by slavers went through their own washing process.
There are almost no conditions as they were sold illegally, and it was impossible to recognize what kind of slave they were originally after going through the slave market several times.
The steppes do not know the language of the kingdom and few people understand their language.
The fact that they are illegal slaves cannot be known even after going through the market just once.
In the case of cheap slaves, tracking was more difficult, as sales records often remained unrecorded.
I got up from my seat after reading Martin’s report on the meadow to the end.
The situation in the grasslands is getting more and more dire.
It is said that the Red Hawk and the hostile Silvermoon Tribe have increased their right to speak.
There are some tribes that have changed their opinions in a favorable direction because I sided with the grassland tribes, but most tribes are angry.
It seems that there is a tribe that is rampaging to attack the kingdom right now.
It is said that it is a situation that some tribes press.
The kingdom also told the story, but the king and most of the nobles sneered at it.
It was said that the steppe tribes were angry.
Rather, there was a widespread voice in the kingdom that they would not attack again if they were scolded before they invaded.
Prince Robert, in particular, seems to be arguing that way.
It must have been because Robert’s position had narrowed as the Marquis Hoven and Prince Emile hunted the demons around the capital.
‘The king will have to make a decision sooner or later.’
There is no choice but to send soldiers to the meadow to calm the dissatisfaction of the rising nobles and divert their attention.
Large families such as dukes and marquesses were against it, so it would not be large-scale.
But I can’t leave it as it is, so I’ll have to pretend.
I took a small breath.
Benno, who entered the office before I knew it, spoke quietly.
“Master, I got a call from Mr. Sven. He said he wants to see you right away.”
“…”
“It looks like you’ve completed the shotgun arrow.”
“!”
When I heard that sound, I jumped up from my seat without realizing it.