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"It's going to be more like a cathedral than a castle."

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　Gran and I were butting heads and thinking about building a new castle.

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　We used the plant paper made in Barca sparingly, and drew the plans incessantly.

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　Using rulers and compasses, they drew detailed architectural drawings based on the common metric system.

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　Stained glass is used as a symbol of power.

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　This idea was of course an idea that I came up with based on my memories of my previous life.

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　And with my poor brain, I could only imagine a cathedral rather than a castle.

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　In my mind's eye, it is a deep room with vertical windows on the back and sides and stained glass windows.

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　And at the top of the back of the room, there is a stained glass window that looks like a snowflake, like you see when you look through a kaleidoscope.

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　It might be better to have some uniform colors than too many different colors scattered around.

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　After much consideration, I decided to use blue as the basic color to match the color of the magic power.

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　I draw an appropriate image on a piece of paper, giving a rough idea of what I want.

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　Based on this, Gran drew in more details, including the size of the walls and windows, along with numerical values.

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　In this way, a blueprint of the audience hall alone was completed.

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"Mister Ars, does this stained glass look different depending on the angle of the sunlight, that it does?"

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"Yes, it will."

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"If that is the case, we must consider the orientation of the building, that we must."

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"That's what I've heard you say. We can't change it later, so we have to think about it now.

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"Also, this castle uses a lot of glass, which makes the defense weak, that it does."

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"Well, I guess that can't be helped. We are going to build it inside the inner wall anyway, and the defense of the city will depend on the outer wall.

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"That's true, that it is, but we should also consider what would happen if we were attacked, that we should.

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"Then, let's build a hidden passageway. How about we prepare an escape route in case of emergency?

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"I see. That's a good idea.

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　We completed the blueprints, talking about this and that like this.

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　Now that the blueprints are complete, construction can begin.

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　The new castle is to be built on land within the inner walls of Vulcania.

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　In case you are wondering, I actually saw Carlos' castle as a castle in this world.

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　Basically, it is a building where the head of the family lives, the center of defense, a symbol of power, and a place where various people visit.

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　The living quarters where I, the head of the knighthood of Barca, live, a space for the employees I employ to maintain the castle, and an audience hall with stained glass windows.

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　And then there will be a meeting room and a reception room where I will meet and discuss things with the main members.

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　In short, it will be my home, my workplace, and my symbol.

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　I have already prepared the building materials.

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　During the winter, I can't work on the farm for a long time.

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　But since it was decided that the castle would be built, the people were allowed to continue making hardened bricks during the winter when there was nothing to do.

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　A large number of bricks have already been piled up.

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　Gran, who had the blueprints in hand, started to build the building from the foundation using the hardened bricks.

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　I watch as he goes about his other work.

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　I'm going to build the stained glass windows.

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　I'm going to make a snowflake-like shape with stained glass based on blue color.

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　The vertical windows on the sides will have mosaic-like stained glass.

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　I am in charge of this part, but instead of making a large one at once, I decided to make a miniature one by magic first.

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　Based on the image in my mind, I created a small wall with a stained glass window in it.

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　Then, I would check how the finished object would look by actually shining light on it.

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　Just as with a clay sculpture, he crushes and rebuilds it again and again, through trial and error, until he has created a miniature that he is satisfied with.

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It's perfect. This must be a surprise to everyone."

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"That's great, brother Ars!"

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"Kyle. What do you think, nothing weird?"

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"Yeah. Yeah. It's amazing. It's so small, it looks like a real building."

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I know. If you marketed it as a children's toy, it might sell well."

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Ha ha. I think the aristocrats will want it, not the kids. So, are you going to make the building bigger?

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"Yeah, I'll give this to Gran as a sample, and then he can actually make the stained glass and fit it in."

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"Huh?　You sometimes use magic to build the buildings themselves, don't you?　So why don't you just make that with magic, too?"

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"Hmm?　But if you try to make a building itself with magic, you will use a lot of magic power. You can't just build a castle out of thin air.

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"No, that's why. Why don't we just use magic to build the surface of the wall with the stained glass?"

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　...... What?

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　What did Kyle just say?

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　Did you mean to say that only the walls of the castle building would be magically built?

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　It may be possible, if you think about it.

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　When I build a building with magic, if I have the structure of the building [stored in memory], I can build it without wasting magic power.

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　However, if I only have an image of the building, I cannot build a very large building because I have to use magic power to build the entire space without building materials.

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　But what if it is only walls?

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　If we do not try to build all the building itself at once, but only the walls with magic, will that also reduce the consumption of magic power?

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　No, come to think of it, the first time I built a building with magic, my hideout had 4 walls attached to each other.

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　I've forgotten all about it since I've been building with a single magic spell recently.

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"Nice one, Kyle. I'm going to have a meeting with Gran."

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　After discussing the matter with Gran, I decided to quickly and magically build the walls with stained glass inlays.

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　Under Gran's direction, the entire castle was completed by piling up the building materials to match the magically constructed walls.

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　As a result, the new castle was completed even earlier than planned.

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