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"Quality improvement?　That's the grimoire you're making here, isn't it, Mr. Alphonse?"

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"Yes, Kristina. You see, the magic tools we make are sold at a high price to Banagher, aren't they?　But, although their functionality is recognized, they are said to be of poor quality."

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"Well, yes. The people who make things here are amateur mercenaries with far less skill than the craftsmen of the Orient.

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　In the middle of a hot summer day, I was talking with Kristina, a merchant and the treasurer of the village of Barca.

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　The house of the village head, which had burned down earlier, had already been rebuilt.

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　It is a slightly larger house, mainly made of hardened bricks and with glass windows, as is common in Vulcania.

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　In a room of the new house, we talk about the magical tools we are making in the village.

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　The village has changed a little in the last six months.

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　The number of people has increased while I have been making magic.

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　This is because new residents from Valiant have already arrived.

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　While the winter snows still linger, I asked Ai at the castle of Valiant to send a message to the settlements on the ground.

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　When the snow melts, I will bring the number of people I have indicated who wish to settle here to the village of Barca in the Orient.

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　For this purpose, I told them to recruit and select the applicants in advance.

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　These are the new mercenaries and the candidates for the craftsmen of the village.

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　They were trained to be dexterous with their hands and to be able to fight at a moment's notice.

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　Elvis rode back on his Valkyrie and had already brought him here.

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　As a result, there are now twice as many people in the village of Varka as before.

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　Thanks to this, the speed and quantity of the production of magical tools has increased a little more than before.

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　However, there was one thing that concerned me.

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　It is about the quality of the products made in Barka village and distributed to Banagher.

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　Compared to other products made in this region of the Orient, the quality was inevitably low.

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　A useful tool using the technology of magic circle.

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　This is one of the factors that have driven up the price of magical tools.

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　However, the people who made the products themselves were people who had lived only in the harsh natural environment known as the sacred mountains.

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　They were by no means skilled craftsmen.

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　From the point of view of the craftsmen of the Orient, if we take the magic circle technique out of the equation, the making of earthenware pots and the like was close to that of an amateur.

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　For this reason, Banagher was sometimes asked if the quality could be improved a little more.

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　No builder in the Orient would ever make such a poor earthenware pot.

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　The low quality was one of the reasons why Banagher initially claimed that he had succeeded in creating this magical artifact through research and development of magic circle technology, and later hinted at a secret relationship with the Brillia Magical State.

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　It is said that people around them often wondered whether Banagher had really had these clay pot type magical tools made.

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　So now that we have more people, I would like to take care of the quality issue.

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　For that purpose, I thought I could make use of the magic I had created.

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　I thought of using [practice] to improve the quality.

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　By actually showing the movements that Ai uses to make magic tools and then learning them through [practice], the same movements can be made relatively easily.

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　I think that the work that we had been doing by watching and imitating will become more skillful.

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　For that reason, I'm willing to name the mercenaries again and give them my magic.

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"I see. I see. Then perhaps we should bring one of the Orient's artisans with us..."

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"Yeah. Yeah. I think so, too. Ai has information on technology, but in terms of craftsmanship, it would be more effective to have a skilled craftsman around for [practice].

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"Yes, that's right. It's true that Ai can do anything, but there are some things he can't do as well as someone who is a professional in his field. The craftsmen of the Orient are really skilled. If there was even one such person here in Barca Village, I think the quality would improve even more.

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"But wouldn't it be a bad idea if we let someone else in?　If the magic circle technology leaks out, we might lose our money, and that's the only thing I'm worried about."

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"Yes, that's true."

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"Someone who has the high technology of the Orient and still works for Barca. I want someone who is convenient. Is that too much to ask?"

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　No matter how much you can learn a job through [practice], you can't learn craftsmanship overnight.

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　The same goes for swordsmanship.

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　Even if you can imitate an ai's movement by watching it, it is meaningless if your body is not well-trained.

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　It is because a person who has neither strength nor endurance can imitate the movements of a sword saint for a moment, but it will not help him in a fight.

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　And this is also true for craftsmanship.

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　Even to make a single earthenware pot, it is necessary to take into account the weather and humidity of the day.

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　And there is no end to the variety of shapes, colors, and patterns that can be produced.

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　I think that the craftsmen in this country are far superior in such things, and if we are going to learn from them, we should be able to learn for a reasonable period of time.

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　I thought about sending a person who can use [practice] to a craftsman for training, but it turned out to be a little difficult to do so.

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　This is because the skills of craftsmen are important not only in the village of Barca, but in the Orient as well.

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　They don't let people into their workshops unnecessarily, and apprentices are subjected to a lot of scrutiny, and once they start their training, it will not be easy for them to get out.

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"Then why don't you go back to the favelas?"

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"In the favelas?　There aren't any artisans there, are there?"

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"Not really. There are many talents hidden in such places. I think there are technicians who used to work as artisans in the Orient, but for various reasons are living in the favelas. Hannah, do you know anyone good?"

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　Is there such a person?

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　But apparently there are.

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　The information network of orphans in the favelas is quite impressive.

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　Kiku told me that she had some information about artisans.

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