Chapter 277: Sakura’s Debut

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We’ve come up to the third floor, but now we’re going to visit the basement.

“The basement is the wine corner. This is the place with the strongest security measures inside the building. You can’t casually stroll in here. Only someone having permission to enter the basement can open the door leading to it. We’ve climbed all the way to the third floor, so let’s use the “elevator” to get down to the first floor.”

“”There it is again! Her cheat powers!!”” I was told simultaneously by Mr. Amato and Damsel Scarlet.

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We went down to the ground floor with the elevator and entered the corridor leading to the basement.

“Now then, the rooms coming up next will be totally “SciFi.” I think, Mr. Amato and Damsel Scarlet, you’ll understand what I mean.”

Everyone was lost for words restlessly looking around themselves. Our current space―still part of the corridor―was enveloped in a dim mint-green light despite the lack of lamps and windows. Sahad and I had created the wall surfaces. They were decorated with elaborately ornamented wine bottles that appeared to be floating. By the way, they didn’t contain any wine.

“I think I like this place.”

“I feel you.”

Sword and Mr. Amato commented. As I thought, men like the SciFi style more, huh?

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Mr. Amato briskly walked up to me, and nudged me.

I know, I know.

As soon as I nodded, Mr. Amato faced everyone else in high spirits.

“Okay, please give me your attention for a moment!”

Light particles gathered in the direction of where Mr. Amato’s finger was pointing, just to take the shape of a floating woman moments later. She had black―looking like brown―hair with a straight bob-cut and brown eyes. In the other world you’d estimate her age to be in the early 20s, but in this world, people would think of her being in the midst of her teens. Her chest was moderate, making her look slender and well-proportioned. In short, she was a beauty with an impression of being neat and prim.

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Everyone got startled, apparently mistaking her for a wraith, but as could be predicted Sword remained calm.

“Hmm? The same function as with that map display?”

He easily saw through the trick behind her. Nothing less of a sense skill owner!

I nodded once to him and curtly said, “Mr. Amato made her.”

“”””For real!?””””

All of them were shocked.

“Mr. Amato had been working on such things in his job before coming to this world. You would rather say it’s his specialty.”

Mr. Amato smiled wryly in response to my explanation.

“I mostly relied on Lady Indra for the AI part though.”

The faces of everyone else were clearly asking what sort of work he’d done. Makes sense.

“It’s about gathering magic elements and making them visible. Kind of like magic arts or tools, not like wraiths. We created it from scratch. Her appearance corresponds to the type preferred by Mr. Amato. Her way of receiving customers refers to our maids. You could basically call her a 『Female Guide Golem』. …Mr. Amato, what name did you give her?”

He instantly answered without a shred of hesitation, “Sakura.”

Hearing him, Sakura smiled cheerfully.

“Nice to meet you, everyone. My name is Sakura. Please allow me to guide you into the room where the wine is going to be sold.”

I wanted to equip her with a suit since she’s a tour guide lady, but Mr. Amato insisted on her being a navigation fairy, and went with an outfit copying a game’s fairy dress.

In reality, the navigation fairy Sakura is being projected by a horb. She has been installed on all horbs as something similar to the horbs’ auxiliary personality, and any of them can project her holograph. If I feel like it, I can also make her appear from my tablet.

Such a holographic navigation feature is an essential part of any SciFi, yep!

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Staring at Sakura, the guys had lewd looks. Mr. Amato’s preferences in girls apparently resonated with the other guys as well. The only one not joining in was Sword. He was brooding while scrutinizing Sakura.

“Is something the matter?”

Once I called out to him, he turned around and stared at me.

“…Doesn’t she resemble you?”

…..

“You think so?”

After nodding his head in uncertainty, Sword made a bombshell statement, “Somehow…――In other words, Amato likes your figure, but turned into a woman’s body, eh?”

What was that!?!

“What do you mean!!?!”

Sure, I might look asexual, but I don’t want to hear this from Sword!

Noticing his own rudeness, Sword hurriedly justified his words, “Ah, I phrased it wrongly. I mean that you’d likely look somewhat like that when you grow into an adult.”

That’s definitely not what you’ve said just now!!

“Sakura’s base body is based on me to begin with!”

“”””Eh??””””

Why is everyone looking so doubtful?

“Creating an existence from nothing is quite troublesome. As such, Sakura uses me as a base while adding some alterations like being taller, having more fat, her eyes having a different size and shape, her eyebrows and contours faintly varying, and her having different colors for skin, eyes, and hair. It’s not like we could reference the naked body of another woman, right? If we had asked the maids, they might have modeled for us, but that’d be too pitiful on them, wouldn’t it? All golems were created by me anyway, so they’re basically copies of me. Even their voices are modulated versions of my voice. I’m a pretty girl and since my body hasn’t fully developed yet, it’s perfect as a sample. Everyone has preferences when it comes to body shape, right? And an undeveloped body type allows one to freely tamper with it.”

Sword felt dumbfounded for a while, before turning around to Mr. Amato. Somehow Mr. Amato was flustered.

“Ah, Mr. Sword, I feel like you’re misunderstanding something here.”

Sword pointed at me with his body trembling, “Doesn’t that mean you modeled that Sakura by copying that girl’s chest and butt while she was completely naked, no? Isn’t that………somehow a crime?”

He started to talk about weird stuff like that. Being branded as a criminal, Mr. Amato yelled, “As I thought, you totally misunderstood!!!! I’m telling you, that’s wrong. I used the approach of an engineer here! Sure, I won’t deny that I used her as a base, but since it’s quite a bother to calculate the values for replicating a human from scratch, we scanned Lady Indra’s body, fed the results to the computer and quantified them! Afterwards, I tampered with those values, computing Sakura as an adult woman in such a way! This whole process had absolutely nothing to do with lewd stuff! I did it as a very normal job!”

I also nodded, “Quantifying the whole body of a human is quite a chore. If he hadn’t scanned me and used those values as foundation, it could have led to us creating an unbalanced, weird golem, if things went south. That’s why we chose this approach. …I had never expected you to be such a closet pervert. Neither Mr. Amato nor I thought about any such perverted stuff.”

That caused Sword to fall silent in a huff while the rest around him broke into loud laughter.

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