I'm going to make a bath.

"Alright, let's make a light magic item for your room."

Only lighting the space itself with spatial magic is fiddly to adjust. For my room it's fine, but Dea should be able to turn his on and off himself.

"And for the bath and toilet too, please."

"Yes. Though you'll have to do the finishing and duplication, Karina-neesan."

"Leave it to me!"

So dependable, Dea. Still, there are personal magic items I can't have him build, so I need to level up my own item crafting too.

That said, a plain massager is wholesome so Dea can help.

"By the way, Dea. I want to miniaturize the massager we made."

"Miniaturize? Then we'll have to shrink the array while increasing its output…"

Yes — Dea can help with the miniaturization!

So, Dea will make the items while I make the bath.

Just hollowing out isn't enough for it to be complete, so I lined the edge with stones for a hot-spring feel. Stones are easy to find outside. For larger, round ones, I just had to look along rivers.

While picking river stones, a boar charged me.

Boar steaks for dinner. Vegetables would be nice too.

"Area Cutter — and bleed!"

The boar became meat.

… What to do with the blood? With spatial magic I pulled it into a sphere. Tossing it feels like littering.

"If I dump the offal in the forest it'll feed animals… but I can't feed blood to the scavenger slime — don't want it acquiring a taste and turning on us."

Blade-senpai taught me that when camping, you shouldn't bleed meat much; then even if you do, you dig and bury it else monsters would come.

I could just wipe the monsters out, but still.

I'll stash the cleanly collected blood in storage, might be useful. It won't rot there at least.

… Speaking of blood — time to take a skip pill. The limited offer one.

I bought a year's worth; we can skip the first one for sure. Gulp.

 

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"Dea-kun, look! The hot-spring-style bath is done!"

"I finished the light array too. It can adjust brightness continuously with a single array!"

"Whoa, you embedded a continuous brightness control into one lighting array? … The book said to split that across several arrays. So it can be unified. Huh… And dimmer means lower mana drain — nice!"

"Maintenance is easier if you split them, but to save stones you want to combine as much as possible."

My Dea is steadily walking the magic item path…!

Technically it's alchemy I guess? Alchemy sure is broad.

"Next I want a sensor that keeps brightness constant. The continuous control was just the groundwork."

"Could use that to keep loads at a constant height too."

"Right! And apply it to golems!"

Dea grinned, proud. Cute, like an engineering girl. Gotta hand him a wrench.

"How's your bath going?"

"Quite tasteful. Come see."

I led Dea to the bath.

There was an open-air bath — more precisely, a whole wall was a big window, letting you soak while gazing at nature.

There's a drain that overflows into a forest. There's a washing space too.

"Spacious, nice… Where is this?"

"Upstream on a river near Solasidor. They can't get in, so even if monsters appear, it's safe."

From outside, you can't touch or see in. Like a fixed camera.

I could add switches for various scenic spots worldwide. Hunting for vistas sounds fun.

"Wanna bathe together? I'll scrub your back. Ah, no soap though."

"Fya!? I-I'll pass! Not that I'd hate it!!"

Dea turned bright red and refused.

So fun to tease! I love that about you!