Read I Was Reincarnated as a Poor Farmer in a Different World, so I Decided to Make Bricks to Build a Castle

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"It's dark. Let's see the lights.

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"...... Is that magic, that it is, my boy?"

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"Yes. It's called "lighting." It's the magic of life. Isn't it convenient?"

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"Mm. A spell that makes the darkness instantly brighter certainly sounds useful. I don't have to bother turning on the light anymore, that I don't."

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　Move the desk out of the way and go down to the basement.

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　A surprisingly solid staircase leads down to the ground.

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　It is completely dark beyond that point, and we cannot see the back of the stairs.

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　For this reason, I turned on the light myself.

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　We descended the staircase, relying on the light from the lamp.

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　After making my way down to the bottom, I found a door.

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　Surprisingly, this staircase and the door in front of me were well built.

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　Seeing that the original house was in shambles, this basement must be quite a magnificent one.

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　Maybe this is the really important part of the house.

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"You are right, that you think, my boy. This house was prepared for the Soma Kingdom, that it is. I live here and sometimes take jobs from the people of the Church who visit me. At that time, the house on the ground is only temporary, and what is really important is this basement, that it is.

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"Do a lot of people from the Church of Soma come here?"

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It depends on the time. I don't come here that often these days, that I don't.

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"Old man, what are you making here?"

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"Various things, that it is, Kiku. My main profession is weapons and armor, that I know, but because of Gran's influence, I have dabbled in many things, that I know. There is a wide variety of things that can be made, and I can make almost anything, that I can."

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"It sounds like you make some pretty nasty stuff that you can't tell people about."

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There are some things like that, yes. Now, it's open, that it is.

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　Garius unlocked the door at the end of the basement stairs.

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　With a heavy creaking sound, Garius moves toward the back of the door.

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　I followed behind him.

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"It's big. It's much bigger than on the ground."

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　And I was surprised.

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　Underneath the ramshackle house in the chaos of the poor district, there seemed to be a basement that was more spacious than I had expected.

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　Not only was it spacious, but it was also filled with all sorts of things.

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　There are tools that we don't even know what they are used for, and materials to be used as materials.

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　Some of them looked like chemicals, and the room smelled a little peculiar.

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"This way, that it is."

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　They look around the room with great interest.

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　But Galius did not care about that and went from one room to another.

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　It seems that there is another room in the basement.

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　After passing through the room with objects placed here and there, there was another door and a room beyond it.

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　I followed Galius as he entered the room.

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"Is this the daughter of Galius?"

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Yes, that I am. His name is Marlon. My only daughter, that she is.

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　There was a woman there.

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　In the back room was a large bunk.

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　A woman was sleeping there.

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　A woman lying on the bunk, sleeping.

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　I wonder if she is really alive.

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　I felt that the scene in front of me was so abnormal that I could not make a proper judgment.

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"Is she alive?　Are you sure?"

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"Of course, that I do, Hannah. Marlon is alive. I'm sure of it, that I am."

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"But isn't there some kind of tube sticking out of it?　Are you sure you can do this?"

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"I'm fine, that I am. It's an intravenous drip of nutrition, that it is.

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　Hannah, as surprised as I am, asks Galius.

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　Marlon, the woman lying on the bed, has several tubes connected to her body.

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　The tubes have needles at the end of them and are stuck into her body.

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　I wondered if it was safe to do that, but it seemed to be OK.

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　In fact, it would be worse without them.

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　Marlon is surviving as if he were sleeping on life-prolonging drugs, but it seems that if left untreated, he will still die.

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　I guess it is natural for him to die, since he needs to eat if he is alive.

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　They say that they are feeding him through a tube with a substitute for food.

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　That's the reason Marlon has been alive for so long.

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　But there must be a price to pay.

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　Marlon's body was small.

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　He had stopped growing since the time he took the life-prolonging drug.

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　And all the muscles in his body had been lost and he had become scrawny.

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　It was a painful sight to see.

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"What do you think, Norn?　I heard he has a heart condition, do you think he will recover?"

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"I don't know, I don't know."

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"If you can fix him, fix him."

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d*mn it. I'm not a handyman.

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　Is he going to be okay?

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　Originally it was just a sword, Norn.

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　It may be a somewhat unusual sword, but can it really heal something that is ill?

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　Garius is looking at Norn with a rather worried look on his face.

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　He must be clutching at straws.

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　Norn, in his bright red blood armor, touches the skinny little woman's body.

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　They all look on.

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"Ah, I see. I see. I think I can handle this.

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　Norn, placing his palm on Marlon, says so.

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　Then, he stripped off his chest and put his hand on the place where the heart was located.

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　Marlon's body jumps.

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　Seeing this, Garius rushes over to him.

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　But it seems that it was already over by then.

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　Norn's hand was covered with a mass of black blood.

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