When I got some potatoes, I wanted to eat them as is, but Iâll make something I havenât made before. Yes, croquettes. You have to use oil, bread crumbs, and other precious things. The heating process also includes frying the meat, steaming the potato, then deep-frying it. Itâs a super-fuel-eating dish with three stages.
But now I can get most of the ingredients and the fuel is my MP so itâs okay.
Therefore, we will make croquettes by making a machine that makes croquettes.
Itâd be difficult to make croquettes alone.
So itâs easier to divide the labor between the person who shapes it, the person who puts it in flour, the person who puts it in the egg mixture, and the person who puts it in bread crumbs.
Thatâs why I mobilized the maid dolls. Itâs nice to have manpower at such times. People should have dolls.
It seemed like all the maid dolls got miniature dog tags and each one received a skill, all magic-related. All in one word and in katakana.
The most common is [Heal]. This skill can heal injuries.
The next most popular is [Petite Wind]. Itâs an unfamiliar skill where a normal strength wind blows in a limited range, but it looks like the light maid dolls can ride on this and fly faster.
Other than that, [Petite Fire], [Petite Ice], and such petite magic are available.
âŚapart from that, I feel like it didnât have to add the word petite. As expected, is it necessary because theyâre small?
Everyone returned when the croquette was just ready to be fried.
âWelcome back, today weâll have croquettes.â
âWeâre back. It became a little troublesome.â
âŚhou?
âWell whatever, is it okay to eat first? I also got information after talking to [Alive Grimoire]-san for a while.â
They said itâs fine, so letâs fry the croquettes quickly.
The croquettes were well received. We should eat it periodically, this croquette.
And I listened to everyoneâs report while eating.
âWe found the Brass Band. With Ketorami, itâs a short distance to the South from here. We arrived in less than 10 minutes.â
âŚhou.
âTheyâre really united. It seemed like three people from the Chorus Club went there, but they were turned away. We found three jewels that seemed to be those three.â
President gently pulled it out of his pocket, wrapped in a cloth, and put it on the desk.
âThen, we talked about collecting classrooms, butâŚthey donât seem to want to cooperate. They said they wouldnât give us the Multipurpose Hall. âŚor rather, they donât seem to know that they can move the classroom. I didnât tell them how because they didnât ask.â
Uwaa, whatâs with thatâŚyup, actually, I already expected it.
âWhy? Itâs better for them to cooperate and quickly collect the classrooms so that we can go home sooner. I donâât understand, whatâs with their exclusive atmosphere?â
âAh, thatâs what I thought too. It was like an army, that Brass Band Club.â
âŚI donât think I understand, but yeah, I can imagine it. Somehow, I can.
Many people joined our high school Brass Band Club. There should be an audition to decide whoâll participate in the A section of the Brass Band Club competition, so their members should exceed 60 people.
And for them to unite with that number of peopleâŚI mean, you know, itâd have a unique atmosphere and a unique rule would be set up. Thatâs why theyâre so united.
Then, when the situationâŚbecomes a very harsh different worldâŚthat atmosphere wouldâŚbecome exclusive.
Theyâd become unrivaled in strength because of their unity, and also very exclusive.
And as a result of doing that, the people from the Chorus Club died.
âŚyeah, temporarily, that is.
Of course, I canât say that we should help others under these circumstances.
Weâre just sticking to our policy of helping unless theyâre hostile from the very beginning, and thatâs because we (except for me) can do it. Thatâs all there is to it.
âŚbut. If you donât have the ability.
âFor the time being, did you check if the people from the Brass Band have skills?â
âI can guess. They had it but almost everyone only have three at most. Seems like the correction is also very small. Also, only the manager and vice leader had double-digit skills and had a large correction.â
Letâs recap here.
First, Kadomi-kun.
Kadomi-kun was a [Knight] from the moment he was dropped into this world.
Probably because he started from a room thatâs very inconvenient to use as a fortress or a residence, such as a toilet, and alone. I wonder if thereâs a bonus pack for that so that he moved up one level.
Next, I donât want to remember him, but Fukuyama-kun. Heâs probably a [Knight] or something like that.
Alone in the corridorâŚin other words, starting from the river. I think this also helps to support the hypothesis that if you start from a disadvantageous situation, you will get a bonus.
What can be said from these two cases is that the strength of the correction and job might change depending on the starting point and the number of people at the starting point.
Then. With more than 60 people and starting with a very large and sturdy hall, I think theyâll have the opposite correction from Kadomi-kun and Fukuyama-kun.
In other words, weakening. No, itâs a bit strange to say that. If we set the standard to the original, theyâd still be strengthened but to a very low degree.
âŚthis is a different world. As I said many times, this is a different world.
Itâs a different world where you can use magic, you donât understand the rules, and monsters are messing around.
In such a situation, each one is not so strong, but the number of people is very large, so their survival strategy can only be âunityâ.
And I donât think I can blame them when they got rid of the Chorus Club members for the sake of their âunityâ which they used to survive.
Not to mention, if the people in the Chorus Club had higher stats, theyâd become the target of fear.
Classmates who are in the same position as them, but have an overwhelming difference in power.
And this is a different world. They donât know what to do. If there is an overwhelming power difference, it might be possible to treat the more than 60 people like slaves.
If thatâs the caseâŚeven if theyâre kicked out and died as a resultâŚor even if they have the intention of emergency evacuationâŚbut in the first place, itâs hard to have decent judgment under such circumstances.
Yup. Well, that kind of thing.
In other words, I canât blame them for that kind of thing.
âAnd then. As soon as they realized weâre much stronger than their leaders, they attacked us in groups, so President made a clay wall for the time beingâŚand we ran away.â
Yeah, letâs say it again.
We have a policy of helping unless theyâre hostile from the beginning. Unless theyâre hostile.
âŚyeah, well, the other side didnât seem to want to get involved either. Itâs unlike with Minehara-san from before where if we donât defeat the other side, weâll be in danger. So this time, I wonder if we should just leave without minding the other. Of course, if weâre chased, weâll think about it then.
âThen, maybe I should be next.â
I briefly explained the story I heard from [Alive Grimoire]-san. Somehow, I mixed my interpretation, so Iâll annotate that part each time.
ââŚso? Are you trying to do something like you did with me and Suzumoto and bring the chorus club members back to life?â
Hagasaki-kun made a disgusted face. Yeah, I lost a lot of things for you.
âNo, Iâm not martyr enough to do it for people I donât even know. âŚno, this might sound strange, but Iâm thinking of something like a donation.â
In other words, if thereâs another person who can [Share] other than me, cooperate with that person and have a lot of people share their lives little by little, so you can pour it little by little and make enough for one person. I wonder if thatâs possible.
âHe~y, I donât really understand, but is life such a simple thing?â
Hariu held his head for a while, but I also donât know.
âI donât know, but that seemed to be the case in this world, sorry.â
Well, this is a different world, and I think itâs okay to have something like this. I mean, if thatâs not the case, I wonât think we can do it.
âThen, do you mean that if you have a huge amount of magical power and a way to clean a vessel full of foreign substances, and as long as you have life, they can come back to life?â
âThatâs right, according to [Alive Grimoire]-san.â
I think itâs credible. I still donât know what that book is, though.
âŚno, what is that book really? Iâll ask when I go to talk next time. I have to focus here.
âAh, I forgot to say that my job changed. Itâs now [Samurai].â
And suddenly, Suzumoto said this. I thought Iâd spit out my tea. Stop it!
âMine changed tooâŚIâm now a [Mad Scientist].â
PresidentâŚwent mad, finally.
â[Ninja]!â
Hariu changed from an assassin to a ninja. âŚare you a spy now?
Come to think of it. This is the second time, so there are now four people, including Katori, who changed jobs, right? But as expected, Iâm still a maidâŚhn?
That?
A-ahâŚuhm, okay. This is probably a dream.
âTokoyo! Pinch my face!â
When I asked Tokoyo, she immediately flew up and pinched me with her fluffy hands. Yeah, it doesnât hurt much, but I finally felt like this is not a dream.
ââŚooh, thatâs good, Maito.â
Suzumoto looked into my dog tag and wryly smiled. When the others looked, they showed âahh, as expectedâ expressions.
Yup. âŚyup. Uhm, thatâs right. One character has been added to the dog tag.
[Maid] has become [Head Maid].
âŚI did it! Iâm the [Head Maid]! Hurray for my maid escape!
Somehow, this seemed related to the fact that all the maid dolls have miniature dog tags.
Fufufu, but Iâm sure that my strength has improved! Because itâs a [Head], you know? [Head]. Something must have changed! Then letâs experiment!
âSuzumoto! Please give a straight right! I will avoid you brilliantly!â
âThen, I wonât hesitate.â
Wonât hesitate. I was beaten the moment I heard that.
âŚno, I canât see it. I still canât see it.
Even after checking the dog tagâŚI didnât gain any particular skills.
âŚuhm, did I really change jobs?
In conclusion, although I became a [Head Maid], my own correction didnât especially change. I still have no offensive power, my defensive power is paper, and my agility is still reasonable.
W-why did this happen! Return my short-lived elation!
âŚbut even though my own correction didnât change, there are two clearly different skills.
The first is [Share]. I think this was originally such a skill. And the usage so far was strange.
But with the maid dolls, I can share visual, auditory, thoughts, memories, and so on even if I donât touch them or theyâre far away.
If I use this method, I can become the command tower of the maid dolls.
In other words, this skill, [Head Maid], was probably only possible after having [Maids].
âŚif so, please make me a [Head Maid] earlier, dog tag-san!
Then the second one.
This isâŚ[Cleaning]. Obviously, MP consumption has decreased and the range of effect became wider.
Now, I can clean Ketorami-sanâs whole body with just three waves of a normal-sized duster.
However, the image of the object to be erased is still difficult, and when I erased the ground instead of cleaning it, it ate a lot of MP.
In other words, I donât know if itâs the mass or volume of the object to be erased, but my MP consumption is proportional to it. Even so, I think it decreased considerably.
If I were to fight from now on, I think the key would be the cooperation between [Cleaning], which has expanded the range of effects, and the maid dolls.
Even so, the fighting power of the maid dolls isnât that goodâŚ
I thought it would be good to strengthen the maid dolls, so I asked Katori to make armor for the maid dolls with a thin metal plate, but the moment I equipped it, it seemed to be out of the [Maid] category and it stopped moving. It did. The same was true if I gave them a weapon.
âŚa-as long as they can be my ears and eyes over a long distance, I think itâs good!
Maybe Iâll be useful from now onâŚyou wonât know. Yup. Probably. Maybe.