The house was decided to be built with visitors, but the work was not delayed.
This is because the women were only assigned to watch over it because they wanted to know what Kousuke was planning to build, not to stop him from building it.
If they had intended to stop him, they would have stopped him from building the house from the very beginning.
Even if Kousuke created something that broke common sense, it would be dismissed with the single phrase, “It’s a Divine Gift.”
The problem is that Kousuke’s technology, if it were to leak out, could have a significant impact on people’s lives.
It would be good if it were properly transmitted and used for good, but unfortunately, that is unlikely to be the case.
Usually, when people discover technology that surpasses their own, it is used for negative aspects like war.
While Kousuke himself has declared that he will eliminate any unnecessary intruders (?), it is easier to deal with if one knows what kind of technology is being used in advance.
By the way, Kouhi and Mitsuki do not interfere in matters like this.
In short, Kouhi and Mitsuki only care about Kousuke, and they don’t care what happens to people who use technology they’ve obtained on their own.
With that said, Kousuke’s house construction resumed. Although the foundation was complete, Kousuke froze in front of the stacked bricks, doing something instead of laying them.
Shurein watched him with a tilt of her head, but she did not possess the common sense to interrupt Kousuke while he was working.
Therefore, she spoke to him when she saw his concentration waver.
“Kousuke, what are you doing?”
“Hm? Ah. Simply put, I’m preparing to embed a magic circle into the wall I’ve made.”
Even when creating ordinary magic tools, the acquired materials are rarely used as they are; rather, they are magically processed in various ways.
The work Kousuke was doing on the bricks was for that purpose.
Shurein was aware of the processing work involved in creating magic tools.
There was a good reason why she still asked Kousuke such a question.
“But, weren’t those bricks made by the spirits? Aren’t they already processed?”
“No. What the spirits did was merely to make them capable of using divine power and magic. Another step is needed to make them usable as a magic circle.”
“I see. So that’s how it is.”
Shurein’s expression became one of understanding at Kousuke’s explanation.
In the end, the bricks up to that point were in the same state as raw materials obtained from monsters.
For Kousuke to use them as processed materials for magic tools, his own processing was indispensable.
“…Even so, being able to process such a large quantity in an instant is beyond common sense.”
Shurein’s words, muttered as she looked at the pile of bricks, did not quite reach Kousuke.
“Hm? Did you say something?”
“No. It’s nothing.”
Shurein shook her head left and right at Kousuke, who tilted his head and asked.
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The subsequent work was a repetition of similar tasks.
He processed the bricks and built walls, and when using other materials, Kousuke performed similar processing to lay floors and build roofs.
After all was said and done, the first house construction was completed exactly two weeks later, as Kousuke had narrowly predicted.
“It’s probably because we kept asking questions and stopping your work, isn’t it?”
Silvia said, looking up at the completed house, and Shurein, standing beside her, nodded.
“Indeed.”
“No, no. That’s not much of a factor. It’s because it was my first time doing this, so it took more time than I expected.”
Kousuke hastily waved his right hand at Shurein and Silvia, who looked apologetic.
While it was true that they had interjected whenever something came up, the number of times was fewer than Kousuke had anticipated.
More importantly, they had done so without hindering his work, so Kousuke didn’t see it as a major problem.
Rather, they had been a useful distraction during his work.
In front of the three people having such a conversation stood the completed house.
Since it was built using bricks, most of the exterior naturally consisted of those bricks, but those bricks were no ordinary bricks.
Their color, reflecting the sunlight, was a pale indigo, a color not seen in ordinary bricks.
What was even more unusual was that the bricks emitted a faint light during the night.
This was related to the preliminary processing Kousuke had done to embed the magic circle, but it was an unexpected result even for him.
On the day he first processed the bricks, Shurein noticed it as dusk approached. Kousuke, seeing it, clasped his head, saying “It’s conspicuous again,” while Shurein laughed.
“Well, since I’ve made something like this, it is what it is,” Shurein declared, which, needless to say, caused Kousuke to worry even more.
However, there was no way to change the specifications now, so work continued as is.
Incidentally, when this house is discovered by adventurers and the glowing bricks become widely known, this color will come to be called “Amamiya Blue,” but Kousuke and the others had no idea of this at the time.
While the exterior of the house appears to be a standard build, its interior is anything but ordinary.
While Shurein and Silvia showed signs of reflection, Colette looked impressed and said,
“At least the exterior is within normal limits.”
Colette and Peach, due to childcare responsibilities, were not present at the construction site during the building process.
They had been specifically called for the completion unveiling.
“That’s right~. But I wish I could have come at night and seen it.”
Both of them already knew that the bricks glowed at night.
Unfortunately, it was daytime now, so they could not see them glow.
Silvia let out a small laugh at Colette’s disappointed expression.
“You have the whole day free, don’t you? Why don’t you come again at night?”
“That’s also true~.”
This house has a barrier around it that selects who can enter, but members of the management layer can come and go freely.
All they had to do was come at a suitable time at night, and Peach’s expression brightened immediately.
“It becomes a truly magnificent sight when viewed at night. It’s worth seeing?”
“It seems it will become a bit of a tourist spot among adventurers.”
Shurein and Floria, who had already seen the glowing house, nodded with serious expressions.
Although the glowing bricks are the main topic of conversation, Kousuke has implemented other mechanisms in this house.
Moreover, there are mechanisms that are extraordinary and break common sense, but the women did not comment on those.
Their biggest concern was whether the magic circles Kousuke created would leak out in some strange way; the house itself was accepted with the understanding of “It’s Kousuke, after all.”
When it came to the secrecy of the magic circles, the best possible measures were used, and it was concluded that there was no fear of leakage.
Of course, it’s not that there’s no possibility of the magic circles being exposed by chance, but that’s an accident with a very low probability, and it’s not something that can be prevented no matter how many countermeasures are taken.
If one were to worry about such things, Kousuke would not be able to produce any magic tools.
As a result, the house was completed and is now being unveiled.
It was completed swiftly.
I plan to see what kind of house it is from other perspectives in the next interlude.
By the way, “Amamiya Blue” is named after the color of the special material used for the house in Amamiya Tower.
The reason it is not named after Kousuke’s name is that it was not publicly announced that Kousuke had built it for some time.
