Doesn't feel bad.

We've got rooms inside storage now.

Yeah… I'd been with Dea-kun nonstop, so I had some… pent-up needs. There really are things you can only do alone! Whew. Thank goodness for perfect soundproofing.

 

 

"Fwaa… morning—"

"Ah, g-good morning, Karina-neesan… Please, your clothes — put your clothes on properly!"

Dea's face went red. Whoops, I was still in my underwear. My bad… or is seeing your first-love Onee-san in her underwear a treat? Hm. Doesn't feel bad. I'll change, though.

"So, we're 'on the road to Solasidor' right now — on paper that is — so we've got two or three days. Let's beef up this base."

"? What do you mean?"

"Well, it's actually—"

I explained how moving from Solasidor to Véraldo in an instant made Karina Shonin-chan suspicious, and that Karina Shonin-chan is supposedly already departed from Véraldo.

"… You can move between towns instantly?"

"Yup. Which means I could deliver Kumin instantly too — if I wanted to. I don't."

"Better not to. Once you start doing that, there's no telling where to draw the line."

Not that I'd turn down transport fees, but I wouldn't know how to price it.

"So I thought we'd spend a couple days upgrading the base! Oh — what about your ID? I totally forgot."

"I do have one. But if I'm going to work alongside you as a merchant, I should get an ID at the Adventurers' or Merchants' Guild… or I could become a slave."

Slave…? Dea!?

Making such a cute 'girl' into a slave — now that's some forbidden territory.

"L-let's not. Adventurers' Guild is fine — it's cheap."

"Then we'll register in Solasidor."

We'll just form a normal adventurer party and list him as my helper.

"Also, there's no door to the outside yet, so you can't enter or leave my storage without me. What should we do about that? I could keep an eye on you forever, you know?"

"If you can set it up like my room's door, we could rent a private room at an inn and place a door there. Then remove it when we check out."

So we'd just use an inn as a base.

Makes sense — that's the obvious answer.

Even if we're cut off from the outside while traveling, it's like being on a ship. And if it's safer, all the better.

"Let's add more rooms, then. A bath! Maybe a garden too!"

"Then please add a toilet near the rooms… It's quite a trek to the pirate base."

"Toilet, got it. Easy enough. We'll use the slime from the base."

My Scavenger Slime is female-only, so Dea can't use it. Right, he's been using the toilet at the base.

"I was going to use the pirates' boat for a bath, but the bottom isn't flat — it'd rock around. Hm."

"Er, what did you do with the sea the ship was floating on? The water's still there, isn't it?"

"Huh? I just lowered the 'ground' and — oh. Do that again and we won't need a boat. Smart thinking, Dea. Good boy."

"P-please don't treat me like a child… mm."

I patted his head. He narrowed his eyes, grumbling but clearly pleased. So cute.

With Spatial Magic, I can easily control water temperature. I can also filter out dirt.

Which means I'll be on bath duty, huh.

A sauna would be nice. And a cold plunge too. Hehe, this is shaping up nicely!

"Um, about the garden you mentioned — can you make one?"

"Yeah. Let sunlight in through the windows, bring in soil and water from outside. Buy some seeds, or transplant fruit trees from the forest."

We could even set up a plot outside and put a door leading straight to it.

Buying land in some town could work too.

"Your magic can do anything."

"Pretty much. It's a gift from the Goddess, after all."

"I suppose you'd need this much power to save the world."

Honestly, it was overkill even for messing with that self-proclaimed Chaos God. Yeah.