I want to... de...

"Kari-chan… please, I can't hold back anymore!"

"Hmm? Honestly, Mie-chan. You want it that badly?"

"Yeah, I want it. I want to… de…"

"Your voice got too quiet there. What do you want to do?"

"Um, de…"

"De?"

"Design! I want to design! Let me design my workshop!"

So yes, starting with Mie-chan, all the Five Elders came begging.

When I invited everyone to my base and showed them their rooms and future workshop sites, it seems they couldn't hold back anymore.

From somewhere, they pulled out letters scrawled with "petishun" and "direct apeel" on bamboo sticks and thrust them toward me. Cute.

"So that's how it is. Is it okay to let them handle the design part at least, Dea-kun?"

"… The return ceremony preparations are going smoothly, so just the design should be fine."

When Dea-kun said that, everyone's faces lit up with bright smiles.

"Thank you, Dea-chan! I'll gift you the cutest outfit ever as thanks!"

"While we're at it, let's load it up with enchantments. She's Kari-chan's companion, so we can go all out, right?"

"Then I'll make the underwear. The sexy kind that Kari-chan likes."

"Wait, Dea-chan is still a child by elf standards, so tone down the sexy and make it cute instead."

"Pure and innocent beauty. Actually wait, gothic lolita might be good. We can pile on accessories too."

Good for you, Dea-kun. Looks like you'll be getting clothes handcrafted by the Five Elders.

… Huh? Does this mean Dea-kun is also going to be married to all the Five Elders?

"We'll give it to Kari-chan first, and then you can give it to Dea-chan from there."

"Since there's compensation in the form of design permission, I'd say it's just regular work for me."

"I don't mind at all! I already thought of him like a grandchild anyway."

"Huh, isn't Dea-chan already Kari-chan's bride? Aishia's been in her care too, so she's already family."

"I just want to dress him up. Elf boys are cute, and I don't care about the details."

Hmm, okay. So as long as we add a buffer step, it's fine?

Anyway, though it's a bit late, let me introduce all the Five Elders in order of skill.

First place: Mie-chan. Real name is Vermilion. The one who gave me the hair ornament. Uses "I" in a casual way. The Queen.

Second place: Shii-chan. Real name is Maheshvara. The one who gave me the knife. Uses an old-fashioned "I."

Third place: Aa-chan. Real name is Amber. The one who gave me the storage pouch. Uses a quirky "I."

Fourth place: Kuu-chan. Real name is Carbuncle. The grandmother of Sati-tan and Aishia who gave me the ring. Uses a girly "I."

Fifth place: Ruu-chan. Real name is Beelzebul. The one who gave me the cup. Uses a standard "I."

All the current Five Elders have "ba" in their names, so they're sometimes referred to collectively as "the Ba-samas." I see, the Baa-chan Squad.

"By the way, I just realized something… If I make rooms for all the Five Elders at the base, wouldn't that make them live-in wives rather than local wives?"

"By dwarf standards, that's basically living together already, isn't it? It's even closer than the distance to my village."

Aishia smoothly answered my question.

Opening the door in their own rooms would bring them to the base, so it's essentially the same building. Right, makes sense.

"It's amazing! The land size can be whatever you want, and you can line up as many warehouses as you want by category. And you can even make ones where materials don't deteriorate!"

"What!? So we could use fresh materials from different seasons together!?"

"The pouch was my proud creation, but… I'll make something else and give it to Kari-chan again…"

"Hey Amber, then make bedding, bedding. Make extra for the workshop too while you're at it."

"We can experiment with dangerous concoctions all we want… and in the worst case, isolate the whole section and delete it? Amazing…"

For these local wife-chans who excel at crafting, my abilities seem incredibly attractive.

I have a feeling these workshops are going to become something incredible…!

"… Just so you know, I'll set it so you can only exit from where you entered, okay?"

"You can sort by conditions!? What's the principle behind that!?"

"Hey, can you separate mixed liquids with that?"

"At the very least, you can filter out impurities, right? Can we ask you to do that?"

"What happens if you block only specific substances from passing through and use that to make alloys containing them?"

"Invisible walls open up all sorts of possibilities. Could they work as containers? Like making a furnace out of them?"

Wait, wait. The wives' curiosity is way too intense.

Kids are like that, you know? The "why, why" phase or whatever it's called. So cute.

"Oh. You're making a large bedroom inside the workshop. We can all sleep together."

"Yeah. Like a love nest for Kari-chan and us? There's no reason not to make one."

"Amber's, I mean, Aa-chan's beds are among Tessin's finest luxury goods."

"I'll put my best skills into making it. Oh, and you can do whatever you want with our bodies, Kari-chan."

"Come visit anytime. We'd all welcome Kari-chan with open arms."

"Seriously, even every day is fine! We have these rejuvenated bodies with energy to spare!"

One word from me and I get five times as much back. Their love is strong. So cute.

"Man, the base's population really shot up all at once. I can't control any of this. I'll leave it to Dea-kun."

"… So we have the A-rank adventurer Mashiro-sama, who fears the dragon Arthur, who is treated as material by the Five Elders who govern the dwarven nation of Tessin, who are perfectly controlled by Dea-sama… Is that right, Master?"

"Wow, Dea-kun is amazing?"

"I think in this case, Karina-oneesan is the amazing one, though."

Since Mashiro-san has me wrapped around her finger, I might actually be at the very bottom.