Automatic Doll Automaton

Ariete, who was holding her stomach and laughing, wiped her tears with her fingers.

“Um, sorry. I somehow remembered what happened last winter.”

Last winter, in the South, I remember being teased for being swallowed by a large lizard and spitting it out, making it a slippery mess.

Carrot spotted Lotte and approached him.

“You went together. What did you go for?”

“It was a mission to investigate water lizards in the lake. It seems that the population is increasing and needs to be adjusted.”

said Hirsch, passing Carrot.

“Peanuts, get ready. A water lizard hunting announcement will appear soon.”

“Because it’s not cool at all to wear lizard slime and speak meaningfully?!”

“mind! This is a cosmetic ingredient! When processed, wives use it as a moisture pack! You guys did too!”

Carrot replied, turning her nose up.

“That’s when you don’t have money! You don’t want to do it because it’s smelly and sticky?”

“When this child is full… … !”

Hirsch, who was about to report, turned his head away and turned his mucus-glazed face back. However, they were caught by the steering committee member holding their noses and kicked out.

The report was made outside.

“Uh heh heh!”

While Carrot was teasing that, Ariete came over. The sparkle in those eyes was dazzling, and the elves, who didn’t know the details, were similarly glaring at their party members.

“I want to hear more closely. Is water lizard body fluid good for skin? Cosmetics?”

“Ahh… … !”

Ariete became interested in a request she didn’t want to do because of her bad memories. Carrot sighed in disappointment, covering his face with his hands, as Crank often did.

Carrot said that.

“This is one of the specialties, but when summer comes, the sun is very hot during the day, right? Use it for calming purposes. I also make it with slime, but before midsummer when slime comes out in earnest, I collect the bodily fluid from the skin of the water lizard and use it.”

Carrot’s explanation reached the ears of all the elves in the guild.

Carrot removed her hand from her face and shouted.

“Tell me in advance! Not much money! After you do it, you will smell it and your whole body will just feel smooth!”

“It even makes rough skin smooth?!”

These words were not from Carrot, but from the elves who intervened around him. So Carrot covered her face again with both hands.

“Sisters and uncles, you will regret it. Seriously, how fishy it is.”

In the end, the two went back after putting their names up in advance so that they could automatically participate when the corresponding announcement appeared on Ariete’s Torch.

The elves gathered around the elf US, who was having a party with his colleagues over bottled beer and snacks outside the data collection car, and asked various things.

After returning to the bustling guild, Leclerc made a sad face when he heard the news that Ariete had returned, then moved to the bulletin board.

Just then, a group quest was posted on the bulletin board. Leclerc, who naturally moved his gaze, immediately frowned slightly.

“Collecting water lizard bodily fluids? Ugh, that’s terrible. You mean collecting that gooey, slippery thing from an amphibian like a frog? As expected, the countryside on the outskirts does not disappoint me.”

As Leclerc muttered, the adventurer who followed said.

“Leclerc. Ariete’s name is on the list.”

She frowned, but straightened up again when she saw the words on the bulletin board. No, I couldn’t open it, so the insidiousness was revealed and I even drool a little.

“The city’s main export, water lizard water jelly? hmm? Is this… … ?”

At that time, a female adventurer who was waiting took out a cosmetic bottle she also used often from her waist pocket.

Leclerc’s eyes burned dangerously as he dipped his finger into it and rubbed it on his palm.

Silky, slippery.

“Uhhhhh! Chew! I just had a great idea.”

Among her colleagues, there was a high percentage of female adventurers, including elves. For some reason, there were less than half of the male adventurers, but they all covered their faces with both hands like Carrot or turned their heads with their eyes tightly closed.

* * *

“This happened.”

Let’s go right back to the workshop and report it. Crank raised his head while mending Carrot’s combat uniform.

“Collecting lake water lizard bodily fluids? when?”

“There hasn’t been an announcement yet, but it will be the day after tomorrow at the latest. I’ll have dinner in a little while and go back one more time. Have you finished repairing your equipment?”

Carrot, clinging to his broad back, rested his chin on his shoulder and looked down at his combat uniform, which was being sewn.

“Zion’s arm was put back together. Your combat uniform is over soon, but is it okay to say that as soon as you arrive? It’s not dangerous, but it’s hard work that requires a lot more strength than you think. Those guys are strong.”

“Yeah, I’m fine! Mem!”

“Me too. Mem,”

Krank, who gave a thumbs up and looked at the two sticking out his tongue, shook his helmet.

“Apart from Carrot, shouldn’t you be like that?”

“I tried it because it was cute. I need more hands, so can I take Charles?”

“Charles has to take care of Tuna.”

Tuna, who had just returned from the market dragging a cart with Charles, heard their story.

“Mu, water lizard water jelly! Isn’t that the skin slime of a giant salamander that lives in lakes and swamps?”

“that’s right. I know the details.”

“That’s great! S, as a substitute for slime, there are many places to use it. I also make cosmetics… … !”

Ariete’s gaze became serious.

“cosmetics?”

The two of them met eyes, and before they knew it, they held hands and nodded their heads as they looked at each other’s faces.

“For fair skin!

“For fair skin! hehehehe-!”

Tuna looked at the crank again, shaking her hips as if she had a tail.

“I-I want that! Me, can I go too?”

When Tuna unexpectedly ignited her desire to participate in the war, the crank became sullen.

“If you go, who will help with this?”

“Well, not everything needs my hand, right? What are you going to do with it?”

Tuna smiled broadly as she looked at the concept of the crank drawn on several pieces of paper.

“Come on, it’s simple. I’ll come back and finish it, so let me go too.”

“Then there is nothing you can do. permit Follow Charles too, I’ll prepare my armament. And Ariete.”

“hmm?”

Crank looked at her anxiously.

“Go and don’t be surprised. It will be different from what you think.”

“huh! huh?”

Ariete got a little nervous and asked back, but Crank didn’t answer. Instead, guests came in.

“Yah-ho! Dining together! Dining together! meat! meat!”

Excited, Kobe jumped out of the wagon and came running. Carrot screamed.

“It’s still before we start!”

“I’ll help you get ready! BBQ! BBQ! Uncle Crank! No more troll meat before? I did it!”

Crank, who was holding the tool, blamed it, put it down, and raised his body.

“It’s time to show off the Wyvern Bone Merrow.”

After completing the quest, the adventurers’ barbecue party began.

“Mum yum yum!”

“Oh oh! Eat well. It tastes like grilling!”

Catch up!

Carrot, holding grilled tongs, laughed wahahahaha and praised the young people in the prime of their lives who were picking them up and eating them.

The tin giant wearing an apron brought a piece of bone from somewhere, seasoned it with butter and other various spices, baked it on a fire, scraped the contents out and put it on bread.

“Wyvern Bone Merrow, bone marrow roast. Now, get a taste of the wild.”

Boris, Gio, and Vita were terrified, but Kobe took it and shed tears.

“M-Mashizem!”

“Bone marrow? Aren’t those lumps of fat in the bones?”

“No, it is really savory and delicious. Eat it, eat it.”

“Oops, no! It’s monster meat!”

As Vita made a fuss, Crank snuck in and pointed it out.

Boris objected,

“If you eat an unbalanced diet, you won’t grow taller.”

“Eh? Are you already grown up?”

Ariete, who was sipping her wine elegantly, waved her finger when she heard that.

“I don’t know, height grows until you are in your mid-20s. Eat well and grow up.”

But Ariete, who glanced up at the crank, now shook her head.

“That doesn’t mean it should grow this far.”

Vita, who was eating the well-roasted brown beef, smiled. Then I asked a question I had been curious about all along.

“How is Uncle Crank so tall? Are your parents tall after all?”

Crank, who put the finished bone marrow roast on Tuna’s plate with bread, held it out to Ariete and said,

“I remember my mother growing up. My father was average.”

Everyone turned their heads to the first appearance of Crank’s family history.

“and! Do you have parents too? I thought you were a complete thunderclap.”

Everyone giggled at Carrot’s words. Crank said while grilling meat with Charles.

“I lived in a pioneer village higher up than the current Armistice Line village. Then, by the time they were mature, they all died of an infectious disease.”

Chiyiyi… … .

For a while, only the sound of grilling meat is noisy.

Crank must have felt that too, straightened his back, took a sip of beer, and said.

“Kids grow up without parents. I suffered a little, but now I am rather free.”

Carrot shook her head and opened her mouth.

“You mean there’s nothing to worry about because you don’t have a family? Is that why such a monster was born?”

“Right, right on.”

“You infidel! But I am a little envious.”

Crank, an unfilial son who overheard Ariete’s sincere heart, who was entangled in the family situation but couldn’t bear to let it go, raised a beer mug.

“If I were alive, I would be living a different life. But now my life is more precious. Because I am alive.”

“Oh oh! that’s right! is it so! Because I’m alive! My life is more precious!”

Boris, who has a similar family history, clapped with emotion.

Even after that, people chatted and ate alcohol, drinks, and meat.

“Mr. James, may I ask the guard about the discarded goods? How about a new one?”

James smiled and nodded his head as he got chills from drinking the wine he had prepared.

“I don’t know what’s new. Aside from the guards, places like the guild also sell expired items to civilians.”

Recalling the large transport vehicle at the top, Crank shook his head.

“It is too big.”

“no! I love it! I want something big and beautiful! Put Tuna’s laboratory and Crank’s workshop up there and go on an adventure! Mobile Workshop! Isn’t that a great idea?! Hey!”

Ariete, who had been blowing on the bottle with the entire bottle, is shouting with a flushed face as her spirits rise.

“I told you not to drink alcohol because you don’t have limbs and your blood circulation is worse than normal.”

“Mum yum yum.”

Ariete, who was eating grilled Wyvern bone marrow as a snack, smiled and held up a bottle of wine.

“This Uncle James brought you good wine! Cheers!”

“Cheers!”

James laughed and clinked glasses with her.

Tuna, who has been drinking fruit juice the whole time because she can’t drink, laughs.

“Ah, is this your first time seeing Ariete drinking?”

“I don’t have anything to drink, but I like it! of course! My family doesn’t drink! Hey!”

said Crank, who was cutting meat with a large cleaver.

“Excessive drinking is the enemy of muscles. Especially you will regret it tomorrow.”

“Yes? Are you drinking too?”

“I don’t drink enough to be so embarrassed. If we aren’t here now, who would… … .”

Crank stopped talking and kept his mouth shut. Ariete smiled and said.

“right. I enjoy getting drunk because you guys are by my side. Carrot! Where is Carrot?!”

Ariete turned her head and started drinking while clinging to Carrot who was grilling the meat.

“Oh wow! Somebody clean up this drunkard!”

“Sniff sniff! Carrot, ah, you smell good. sniff sniff! You will go to my bed tonight.”

“You sleep in your arms every day! You drunkard!”

Ariete looked up at the crank and shouted.

“father! Give me your daughter!”

“Nope.”

“crying! Why! Why?”

Ariete turned around with a teary face and now clung to Crank’s waist.

James, watching the shot, holds his stomach and bursts into laughter, while Boris frowns.

“I shouldn’t be that kind of adult.”

Everyone nodded.