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　No, no.

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　If I don't do something, my cute little brother will think I'm weird.

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　I can't let that happen.

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　I must at least show Kyle how cool I am.

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　With this thought in mind, I decided to think of ways to make further use of the hot springs.

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　I must do something to justify the act of drawing hot spring water from the river.

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　It's not just a substitute for a bath you can take by boiling water, but something worthwhile enough to justify the effort of bringing the hot spring.

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　But is such a thing possible?

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　I put all the knowledge I had at my disposal and pondered over how to make the best use of the hot spring.

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"General, what are you going to build in this village this time?"

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"Hmmm. It's a good one, Mr. Vargas. I've been working on a plan for a long time, and with the presence of these hot springs, I'm bringing it to fruition."

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"What's with the accent? Well, I don't know what you're making, but it's going to get a lot colder soon. Let's get this over with as soon as possible.

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　Vargas, looking at me as if I had been overthinking things and had become a little tense, casually pushes on with his story.

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　I had come to the next village again.

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　I had come to the neighboring village again because I wanted to make further use of the hot spring water that I had drawn from the river.

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　I had brought the hot spring directly from the fountain pool in the river to this village.

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　Then, using hardened bricks, I have succeeded in pouring the hot spring water that came through the ground into a bathtub as wide as a swimming pool in this village and bathing in it.

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　This time, they decided to use a part of the hot spring water flowing from the pipe to another pipe.

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　First, some buildings were constructed.

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　These are no ordinary buildings.

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　Or rather, we have created a building that probably does not exist in this world.

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　We erected a series of lattice-like pillars made of hardened bricks.

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　Then, plate glass was installed to fit into the lattice.

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　The glass is not limited to the sides of the building.

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　Even the ceilings were glazed, creating a glass building in which one could see the other side of the building and even the sky.

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　I built a building that resembles what is called a glass greenhouse.

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　In this climate, it snows in the winter and it is basically impossible to grow crops.

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　Ever since I was born into this world, I have been wondering if I could get food even in winter.

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　But it was impossible.

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　No matter how much magic I used, I could not grow food in the snow.

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　What about using glass?

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　I once thought so.

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　If you build a building made of glass, it will be exposed to sunlight during the day.

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　But, there is no need to worry about the effects of snow and other elements because of the glass roof.

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　I had built a small glass greenhouse before.

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　But it was a failure.

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　Apparently, I found out later that there is a definite difference between a greenhouse like a plastic greenhouse and a glass greenhouse.

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　In the case of glass, heat can easily escape from the greenhouse.

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　During the daytime, the temperature inside the greenhouse is maintained by the sun's rays, but at night the temperature becomes almost the same as the outside temperature.

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　In other words, even if a glass greenhouse was built, crops could not be grown properly in winter, because they would still be exposed to extremely cold temperatures.

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　However, the discovery of hot springs has changed the situation.

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　The steam from the hot spring is used to supply heat to the inside of the glasshouse.

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　In this way, the temperature inside the greenhouse will remain high even on extremely cold nights after the sun has set.

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　There may be some problems, such as the humidity, but we will never know until we try it.

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　I would say that this is a semi-experimental project.

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　I made a lot of glass greenhouses, and I put hardened brick pipes through them so that the heat from the hot spring would be supplied to the greenhouses.

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　When I entered the completed greenhouses, I felt that the temperature was about the same as that of the inside of a bathroom after taking a bath in winter.

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　It is quite an achievement to have created a space that maintains this temperature during this time of the year when it snows.

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　Now if only there were crops that would grow well under these conditions.

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"Vargas. Tell the villagers to grow food in the greenhouse. Hopefully, this will greatly improve the food situation in the winter.

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"Ha-ha-ha, you're a real general, aren't you? I never thought you'd come up with something like this. I'll tell the villagers to take good care of you.

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I'll take care of it."

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　Thus, in the neighboring village, in addition to a hot spring hotel, an unusual building, a glass greenhouse, was added.

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