Chapter 326: Sword Got a New Child to Humor him!

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Once we opened the door and went inside, we were confronted with the atmosphere of having stepped into an entrance hall, or maybe you could call it a guard hall. Rows of armor orderly lined up in the long room. And at the very end of those rows towered a conspicuously huge armor.

Pheew, looks like it’s not going to be puppet soldiers this time around. And, that armor looks fairly powerful.

Sword was delighted as well.

“Oh, looks quite formidable, doesn’t it? …You sure ain’t gonna call that 『lovely』 like you did for the 10th floor boss of the dungeon’s capital, right?”

“I won’t!”

Armors aren’t lovely! No wait, they might be lovely depending on the way they move. I guess I have to be on guard!

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The instant Sword took another step forward, the knight armors in the rows all faced this way! That harmonized, simultaneous movement was pretty cool!

“Nice!”

Hearing me instinctively expressing my admiration, Sword smiled and took another step forward. Apparently planning to defeat them in one go, he got ready.

The knight armors completely turned their bodies in our direction, still acting simultaneously in a group.

“I’m off.”

Sword dashed off all of a sudden, starting to defeat the knight armors. The armors, on the other hand, quickly intercepted as if trying to match Sword’s movements, but they lacked the speed and power to take on Sword, resulting in them getting trashed all too quickly.

“Hmm, I see. I guess those adhere to the template,” I nodded while inspecting one of the fallen armors.

I had expected as much, though.

Once Sword defeated all the armors except for the boss, he looked at me, furrowing his eyebrows.

“…The armor bein’ empty means it’s magic?”

Yep. Those armors were empty.

“There’s that as well, but aren’t they closer to magic tools…or rather, golems? A spell formula has been written into the armor with a sorcery solution. A server, which has been installed somewhere, serves as a brain, moving magic elements throughout the armor parts. …But, didn’t you destroy the magic circles passing on the instructions because you were aware of this?”

Sword’s attacks always destroyed that particular part of the armor. That’s no coincidence, right?

“I did it because I somehow felt it was the best way.”

“Ah! There it is again! Your sixth sense!”

Sword keeps claiming that he’s a normal human despite that, but I can only call that truly weird!

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Sword, the man who’s abnormal in his insistence on claiming to be an ordinary human, faced off against the huge knight armor boss at the end of the hall. Meanwhile I analyzed the knight armor server which I discovered through a gap in the wall.

“Hmm? I see, okay.”

“Is it fine for me to finish off the boss now?”

“Sure, go for it.”

While casually chatting with Sword, I made a prototype of a client robo 『Mini Mini Knight Armor Boy One』 who used the knight armor server’s magic circle. I was messing around…err, checking to see whether it’d actually move in accordance with the server’s instructions.

“Good, good, it’s done. Give attacking a try.”

Mini Mini Knight Armor Boy One, who was smaller than my torso, tottered unsteadily once I moved, readied his spear, and thrust it out.

How adorable~~!

“Mufufu~”

Sword immediately reacted when I instinctively breathed roughly through my nose.

“Hey!? I told you to not fall in love with it, didn’t I!? ――Wait, what are you doing over there ‘nyway?” He turned my way and roared at me, before giving up in the end.

“I just ran a small test. ――Look! This is 『Mini Mini Knight Armor Boy One』 whom I made by using this magic circle server here! Once I move, he stabs with his tiny spear! See here!”

I moved and repeated the earlier sequence.

Sword began to sway. It looks like he considers the small robo to be cute too.

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――Suddenly, at that point, we heard a voice.

『This is the demon king speaking. I’m sorry to interrupt while you’re having fun, but I’d like to ask you to cease altering the castle’s interior without permission』

My modifications were banned through a castle-wide announcement.

“Okay, sorry. I just ended up getting a bit too excited. …Well then, time to say goodbye, Mini Mini Knight Armor Boy One. Make sure to fight at the outer parts of the castle, okay? Defeat any visiting adventurers with your loveliness!”

“Your not goin’ to take him back with you?”

Sword obviously wanted him. But, what is he saying now that I’ve apologized to the demon king and bid farewell from Mini Mini Knight Armor Boy One?

I rebuked Sword.

“No, that’d be going too far. He’s no drop, nor loot from a treasure chest――”

『I don’t mind you taking him back with you, but he’ll stop moving once you leave the castle』

Oh my, we got permission from the demon king himself. Sword was all smiles.

“Yahoo! ――Indra, you can make it so that he keeps runnin’, right?”

I scratched my head, “Well, I could make a new server and have him controlled from there, or I could install a server in his body and program him to run autonomously. …Thank you, Your Majesty. I have no words to show my gratitude for your generosity.”

In addition, we also got a treasure chest for defeating the boss. Moreover, it was quite big, full of luxurious loot.

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Sword apparently took a deep liking to 『Mini Mini Knight Armor Boy One』. He kept carrying him around without any will to part. Occasionally he let his Ryoku carry the tiny armor, and he enjoyed making the tiny armor attack him. He got so absorbed in this that he didn’t even notice Ryoku’s cold attitude.

“Its movements are a lot funnier than the armors from before,” said Sword while playing with Mini Armor Boy.

“Well, the knight armors from before were what you’d usually expect while my version is more like a cartoon version. Its movements are characteristic of knight armors though,” I answered flatly.

In response, the mini armor moved very much like a robot. That’s probably the reason why Sword fell in love with it so much.

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I told Sword, who was engrossed in playing with the mini armor, “So, would you be able to mow ranks of this guy down, if they started to shout, 『Incoming enemy!』 and 『Ready your weapons』, once they spotted you, tottered towards you, and stabbed their tiny spears in response to a commander shouting, 『Attack!』?”

“Uuhh,” Sword groaned in anguish.

That’s a first.

I intensified my attack, “Would you be able to destroy them after learning that you wouldn’t be able to take any of them back home since they wouldn’t be able to move outside the castle?”

Sword dropped his head in depression.

“……Impossible. I’d take them back nonetheless. I’d put all of ’em in my magic bag.”

“Then you finally understand my feelings regarding monsters being lovely!”

I thrust a finger at Sword.

It was my first time to win against Sword on this matter.

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