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"Boy, we need more glass. Can you get me some more?"

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Again. You've been making a lot of things.

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"It can't be helped. All the buildings you build in the castle town will be made of glass. And some of the merchants are buying it.

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"Huh?　The merchants?　You couldn't have sold the glass."

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"Well, now they're probably just buying them for curiosity. But maybe there will be a demand for them.

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"Why not? What you're making now is plate glass for windows, right?　There shouldn't be any buildings with windows in the city of Fontana. ......"

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That's because you built this town. Maybe you actually saw a building with windows and thought you could use them. You can sell a lot of bricks while you're building a new building."

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　The old man who is looking after Vulcania's finances comes in and places an order for more glass.

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　But the contents of the order were not what I had in mind.

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　He told me that there were merchants who were buying glass that had never sold before.

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　Although the number is still small, there is a possibility that it may increase in the future.

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　It seems that the building I built in the castle town has become a kind of model house.

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　I can't ignore the intuition of an old peddler.

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　I've been making glass with magic for years now.

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　But the glass never sold.

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　I still think that if it had sold a little more, I would have made a little more money.

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　But now I make a lot of glass that doesn't sell.

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　After I built the castle town.

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　When I built the town, I thought it would be better to make it as uniform as possible, so I magically built a lot of buildings with the same shape.

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　I mass-produced my house made by Gran, which I had stored in my brain with [Memory Storage], as a building made of hardened bricks.

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　This building is made of as few bricks as possible, but has many arched windows and doors to make the space wider and the strength of the building higher.

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　In other words, the more the building was built, the more glass was needed.

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　The amount of plate glass that was being made for no reason was decreasing rapidly.

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　We hurriedly made more and more glass to fill the shortage.

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　The amount of glass that was not enough was added in a hurry.

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"Well, I don't know what to do."

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"Is something wrong, that it is, Mister Ars?"

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"Gran. Well, if the demand for glass is going to increase in the future, I thought it might be a good idea to make a spell for making glass."

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"...... magic, that it is?"

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"Hmm?　You have something you want to say?"

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"No, it's not a big deal, that I don't like to mass-produce everything by magic because I am a builder, that I am not.

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"Really?　Bricks are useful and helpful, though."

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"Well, yes, that is true, but there is a difference between bricks and glass.

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"What do you mean?　What's the difference?"

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"The hardened bricks made by Mister Ars are very easy to use, and from the standpoint of materials, they are suitable for magical mass production, that they are. But what about glass? Apart from window glass, they used to make plates, glasses, and other tableware of various shapes and sizes out of glass, did they not? You don't mean to spell all of them, that you do?

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"No, for now, I'm hoping for a window pane."

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No, that it is not, Mister Ars. It is not right to make things with such feelings, that it is not. A builder must always have the desire to improve, that he must. If it becomes a spell, there will be no development from there, that it will not. It is better to make glass by hand, that it is.

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　No, that's not what I'm talking about.

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　I'm not a maker like Gran.

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　But maybe he's right.

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　It's a hassle to make a lot of windowpanes, but I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble to make a spell so that everyone with the surname of Barca can make them.

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　To tell the truth, if you have enough materials such as sand and lime, you can make them without using magic.

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　However, the window glass I make is based on the memories of my previous life, so I think it is a very advanced glass, well ahead of its time.

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　However, there is a possibility that no one in Barca will ever try to make glass by hand again, if I make a spell of glass-making.

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　In terms of technological development, there may be some negative effects of the curse culture.

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"If you insist so much, Gran, why don't you try to make something out of glass? I mean, if you can make something, I'd like you to make it for me.

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"Well, what is it, that it is, Mister Ars?"

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"Lenses. Lenses made of glass. I don't know if you can do it, Gran."

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　Thus, I suddenly asked Gran to make something for me.

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　* * * *

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"Pfft. I finally finished it, that I did, Mr. Ars. This is the finished product, that it is.

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"You are still amazing when it comes to making things. You must have been working almost the whole time without sleep."

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I am fine, that I am. I also have the family name of Barca and I can use [meditation], that I can. I don't need to sleep, that I do.

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　No, no, [meditation] is a spell to reduce unnecessary outflow of magic power and speed up recovery.

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　It is to be used before going to bed so that you can recover all your strength while you sleep.

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　Gran has been awake and working with [Meditation] for a long time.

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　You may be surprised to learn that it was rather effective.

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"Well, it's too late to tell you now. Well, I'll take a look at it right away, then.

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　What I got from Gran.

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　It was made with five different glass lenses.

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　To be precise, two sets of five different types of glass were used, so I guess that means 10 glass lenses were used.

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"Wow, I can see very far. The accuracy is amazing too, Gran."

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　I climb to the top of the outer wall tower and try to use it.

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　I hold it over my eyes and look into it.

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　Gran made me a pair of binoculars.

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　I vaguely remember the construction of the binoculars.

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　Basically, they were made by using multiple glasses to magnify objects in the distance.

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　However, it is not possible to make binoculars simply by preparing glass lenses.

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　Five different types of lenses must be placed in order inside the tube to refract light at appropriate angles and make the image of the object appear larger.

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　I could never have reproduced it with my vague memory of my previous life, even if I had used magic.

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　Gran had created it based only on the blueprints of the binoculars that he had dug up from my hazy memories on paper.

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　This guy is so talented.

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　As I looked out over the Barka Knight Territory from the top of the tower, I was once again grateful for Gran's existence.

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