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Billy, are you there?

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"Oh, Mr. Ars. I'm sorry. We haven't been able to hatch any [spawning] messenger beasts yet. ......"

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Yes, I have heard the report. I know because I've been reading through the materials that have come to us.

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I'm sorry. I haven't been able to do it as well as I would have liked.

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"Well, I thought it would be difficult, but it's not so easy after all. But don't worry, I don't blame Billy. Tracking birds and weathervane birds are a good enough track record."

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"Oh, thank you, Mr. Ars. But then, what brings you here today?"

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"No, actually, I remembered seeing a failed messenger beast from a previous report. I overlooked it at the time, but now that I think about it, I think it might have been a pretty useful messenger. I came here to ask about it."

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"The failed one?　Oh, as you know, Ars-sama, we basically use the beasts that don't seem to be connected to the [spawning] type of monsters and beasts for the beast race. However, the ones that are judged to be unsuitable for the show and not likely to lead to a hexenbiest type will be discarded, so they may not be around anymore. Do you know what kind of Maserati it was?

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"Oh. I think it was a bird-like beast that kept losing its hair like it was sick. It was not as useful as a tracking bird or a weather vane, and it did not have a lot of magic power.

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"A bird type that keeps losing its hair?　Well, what are we going to do with such a failure, Mr. Ars?"

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"If I remember correctly, there was also a story about a man who had so much hair that he had trouble dealing with the shedding. Strangely enough, the amount of hairs falling out was more than the size of the body. I came to Billy to see if we could use some of that hair. Can't you make it again?"

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"Uh, wait a minute. I remember that time. Mr. Ars was right. We had a problem with hairs scattered all over the lab. ...... Well, there was. I think I can reproduce the ratio of the magic power in the data at that time.

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"All right, then make me that shedding bird again, Billy."

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"Wow, okay. But what are you going to use it for?

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"No, I'm just wondering if there's any use for the hairs rather than the beast itself. I'm thinking of making a feather quilt or something.

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　What can we do for Lilina?

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　I thought about it, but realized that there was basically not much I could advise her on.

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　This is not the first time I have seen a pregnant woman in this world.

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　I have been aware of my surroundings since I was a child.

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　I even saw my mother when she was pregnant with Kyle.

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　But that's a little too different of a status to see her as a pregnant woman.

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　A farmer in extreme poverty and Lilina who lives in a castle and even has a good servant like Clarice are in completely different situations.

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　Of course, Clarice knows how to treat such a pregnant woman.

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　Therefore, I think the best I can do is to fulfill their needs and requests to the best of my ability.

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　However, there is something that I think is still necessary.

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　It is a tool to get through the coming cold season with a heavy body.

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　In other words, I thought we should have more tools to keep our bodies warm.

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　For this purpose, the castle of Barca has been subtly renovated.

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　In one room, a heating room of sorts was installed.

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　In it, a fire ore is placed.

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　When a magic stone is thrown into the flame ore, an ultra-high temperature flame is produced, warming up the room.

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　The room is connected to the outside of the room by a pipe that serves as an air passage.

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　Inside the castle that had already been built, I used my magic power to forcibly create pipes made of hardened bricks.

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　The heated air is then fed into Lilina's living space and so on.

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　In other words, I decided to use the air heated by the flame ore as an air conditioner for the other rooms.

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　I have consulted with Gran, the builder of Barca Castle, and have connected the piping so that there should be no structural problems.

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　The flame stone can provide very high heat and warm air even without firewood, and it should not be contaminated by soot.

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　The air conditioning system is connected to the other rooms, so that the rooms will not suffer from lack of oxygen.

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　But I didn't want to stop there.

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　Since I had to heat several rooms together, it was not so much warmer as it was less cold, so I wanted to create a warmer situation.

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　I wanted to create a warmer situation, so I turned to bedding.

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　Unlike the poor farmers, we had warm furs and blankets, but I realized that we did not have anything like a fluffy down comforter.

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　So I decided to make one myself.

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　That's when I remembered the bird-shaped one with a lot of hair loss that I had received in a previous failure report of a messenger beast.

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　After a while, Billy reported that he had succeeded in reproducing the bird shape, so I went to see it.

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　There was a rounded, waterfowl-like messenger.

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　Even before my eyes, it was shedding hairs.

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　But Billy tells me that apparently, as long as the bird is well fed, it will continue to shed its feathers for a long time without going bald.

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　What is naturally falling out is a beautiful little white feather.

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　But when I scooped the bird's breast with my fingers, I also found fluffy, dandelion-like downy hairs.

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　Is it like down and feathers?

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　I am not sure if this is really a waterfowl or not, but I will actually try to make a comforter with this feathers.

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　I try to make a comforter with only down, only feathers, or a mixture of both.

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　And so it was completed.

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　He prepared a smooth and sturdy cloth, and filled it with feathers with a little more down than usual to make a comforter.

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　The finished duvet was light and smooth to the touch, yet very warm.

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　After consulting with Clarice, he had the fabric beautifully embroidered before presenting it to Lilina.

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　Wrapped in this heavenly duvet, Lilina was speechless for a while, and then thanked me with tears in her eyes.

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　Well, it was a success.

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　I haven't done anything proper at home, but I must have earned a lot of points for this.

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　I thought about that while looking at Lilina's happy face.

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