Episode 476 Branding

Alisa and her friends and Ami gathered at the Green Pavilion. After seeing the shadow puppet industry in France, I decided to talk to them about branding.

You're trying to brand Shadow Puppets.

　Amane makes a face that she has heard something interesting.

But when you say branding, what do you do?"

　Yukari asked in doubt.

In France, they are going to differentiate their products by design. In France, they intend to differentiate themselves through design."

　It seems that France is going to register the design so that no other manufacturer can copy it. We need to hire a good designer and come up with a pattern that we can use.

With the design, I think we're going to lose to the French."

　Alisa said so. I feel that way too.

So I'm thinking of shadow puppets that come standard with cat or bear language."

　The bear and cat languages were perfected by Metis, and I think they are well done. So we decided to make them standard equipment as part of our branding. Of course, we also intend to create a canine language.

What about butler shadow puppets and security shadow puppets?"

　Chika asks a question.

The butler shadow puppet is on hold because there is the question of how much to educate him. We are thinking of using 40 kilograms of shadow clay for the security shadow puppet.

Wait a minute. Only Dr. Grimm can prepare forty kilos of shadow clay."

　Ami pointed out. Hearing this, I nodded.

So I decided to have everyone learn the magic of 'petit crainide' so they could make large shadow puppets."

　Petit Clay Need" was a trial version of "Clay Need" that Alisa had arranged as a degraded version of "Clay Need". It has the limitation of being able to process shadow clays up to 70 kilograms, but its functions were the same as those of "Clay Need.

　Ami's eyes lit up when I explained "petit crainide" to her.

'But you don't mind if I tell you?　You've been keeping it a secret until now because large shadow puppets are dangerous."

I trust these five. I plan to teach Taichi, Shun, and Dr. Kalina as well."

　I excluded Tesshin because I heard he was busy trying to get the Tesshin team members to C-level. I made him promise to keep the "petit craignide" a secret.

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At first they are going to set up a small workshop to sell Shadow Puppets."

　Alisa explains on my behalf. I was going to start by establishing a small company, but Alisa advised me to start with a small workshop.

But we're still students, we can't work that much."

　Ami said as if to confirm.

I'm going to recruit a living wizard who will graduate from the Academy of Magic next spring," he said. And we'll also be looking for art talent."

　Alisa and I were discussing the workshop we were going to establish, so we explained it to each other.

　After that was over, Ami began to brag about Sebas, her newly fabricated War Bear-type butler shadow puppet. She was happy that she could now do her job as a butler with the help of Kongoji teaching her how to do it.

　He looked at Amane and the others and suggested that they should make a butler shadow puppet, since they seemed to want one.

I prefer cat personals."

　Alisa seems to want to remake her cat-shaped shadow puppet, Mohawk, into a cat-humanoid. She wants to fuse it with the magic core made from the shadow magic stone of the shadow ogre.

　The other three people also said they would prefer the cat person type, so I took it on as a reward for helping with the branding. They would have cooperated even without the reward, but we thought it would be better to set a reward.

　The shadow clay was made to have the same performance as Sebas: ninety kilograms, three sorcery sets including a sorcery eye with night vision, three core attachment holes, one magic battery, and a magic pouch.

　However, only Arisa's butler shadow puppet will use the "demon's eye". This should allow for high-speed combat. Ami also has another set of "Demon's Eyes," but she will modify them a little later.

　Incidentally, it seems that the Dark Fang shadow magic stones that Arisa obtained were distributed one by one to Amane and the others. They are going to make a dog-shaped shadow puppet with it.

　The next day, they began making butler shadow puppets and completed four of them the following day. The reason the four of them made the cat-shaped shadow puppets Mohawk, Hank, Buchi, and Taiga into butler shadow puppets in the form of modifications was to have them inherit their memories.

　The memory of geography and who our allies were was useful. However, we decided to change the names. Arisa's butler shadow puppet was changed to "Sakura," Amane to "Nadeshiko," Chika to "Kanna," and Yukari to "Buttons.

　As the name suggests, the face of the cat-humanoid is feminine and gentle. The shadow puppet has no gender, but the face is somehow recognizably female.

　I know it's a lot of work to train him to be a butler, but I'm sure it will help.

　A few days later, when I went to the Adventurers' Guild, I heard that there had been movement in the sixteenth layer of the Narukami dungeon.

In the ice maze on the sixteenth layer, there was a space where a swarm of ice worms had taken up residence, and the Kirinji team that cleared the swarm discovered a staircase leading down to the seventeenth layer.

What was the area on the seventeenth layer?"

They say there was a large lake in the woods."

　The "Kirin-ji" team was going to name the lake "Nezu Lake" and the undiscovered dinosaur-type monster in the lake "Nezuchie. However, the Adventurers' Guild rejected the idea because of the problem.

　Branch Manager Kondo explained to me that the Narukami dungeon is well underway.

Speaking of which, I hear that the French sage Theodore Emilian has been hospitalized with a serious injury."

　When I heard the branch manager's words, I was surprised. Emilian was a strong Class A 30-something. And Emilian was supposed to be accompanied by Clarice Leandre, who was ranked seventh in Class A. I was surprised to hear the branch manager say that.

Under what circumstances were you injured?"

He was apparently attacked while diving in the Vesuvius dungeon in Italy and investigating the Tortoisegal text."

　The "Kamegal Text" is a text written on the wall of the ruins found in the nineteenth level of Vesuvius dungeon, and it is rumored to contain the words of a god. The rumor seems to have been inspired by the fact that on the wall on which the text was written, there was a picture of a god-like figure and three giant beasts followed by the god.

　The three giant beasts are "Ziz" in the sky, "Leviathan" in the sea, and "Behemoth" on land. The strength is also said to be in this order. The strongest of the behemoths is the land behemoth.

　The day after hearing this information, I received a phone call from Clarice. She told me that Emilian had been attacked by a crook and stabbed with a knife, and that the knife had been coated with poison.

We just can't find a way to detoxify that poison."

　I heard Clarice's voice sounding desperate on the phone. She was calling me to see if I had any help with detoxification.

　As a means of detoxification, I possess a "detoxification ring" and a silver ogre horn, the raw material for the elixir soma. The powdered horn is said to have detoxifying properties.

　Hearing this, Clarice hung up the phone, saying that she and Emilian were coming to Japan on a private plane.