Summoning a Book? Maybe?

[Tier-Group 3, Control Room]

"And here, you see, the display was switched to Japanese."

"In English, you can't tell what something means without stopping to think it over each time. What's the sense in the menu for switching away from English being in English?"

"In other words, the aide-de-camp scribe-dono, being an Asura of higher intelligence than a human to begin with, then had the guide and adjutant settings layered on top, so intelligence was added to her twice over. She ought, therefore, to be quite clever. Whether her words and conduct are intelligent is, of course, a separate matter."

To begin with, an Asura is a natural-born racist, a discriminator by birth, and the remark "of higher intelligence than a human" slips out without the slightest self-awareness.

(Mint, isn't that one word too many?)

"So from a point before she burned out this time, her brain was already under a considerable load."

"Most likely. It's not that the brain itself is physically larger, mind you."

(There's no difference in brain weight between a higher race and a lower race, after all. There is a correlation with body size, however.)

In the otherworld there had been no Second World War and no Nazis, so the very concepts of "higher race" and "lower race" remained current. What counted as a higher race, however, was something on which people's claims contradicted one another utterly.

"In the operation log, from there on it's the summoning of books."

How to Make Slime. Weekly Build the Casablanca-class Escort Carrier.

"Ah, right, I figured I couldn't summon an ordinary monster, so…"

The escort carrier was something America built and deployed to its garrison forces around the world, to handle small-scale conflicts and to carry out sea rescue, smuggling crackdowns, and pirate suppression. Near Japan they were stationed in the Philippines and Guam, and they frequently put in at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal for maintenance as well.

"In this dungeon, a 'slime' is that sort of inanimate object. By the constraints of physical law, a living thing such as a slime mold cannot grow large."

"Because there's no corresponding unique law for it?"

(And after that, you summoned a magazine that came with vegetable seeds, and summoned books for me to read. That was how it went.)

"Director-dono, the specifications of slime aside, the cause does appear to be this: the aide-de-camp scribe-dono, stopgap rush job that she was, doubled as both guide and adjutant, and on top of that, with no librarian on hand, she was even standing in for one. Overloaded, her brain burned out from the influx of excess dungeon energy."

"A librarian… Mint-san, this is a library dungeon, isn't it. Come to think of it, it's strange that there isn't one anywhere, not even in the summon list."

(Or else, was the Master itself a mistaken existence from the very start…? Then again, a library director in a public library is often a municipal bureaucrat, and in a university library often a professor, and in many cases they hold no librarian's qualification, so that part shouldn't be a problem. As I thought, it must have been Ox-Head and Horse-Head who held the librarian's qualification.)