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"Hey, ay. Elle, can't you guys find any more white dogs?　If we're going to turn iron into silver, we might as well have a few more of them, right?　It doesn't look like they're going to breed anytime soon, so if there are other herds, shouldn't we bring them back?"

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　Despite the magical tool market, we go about our business as usual.

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　While supervising the construction work being done here and there, I read through the reports from Orient and New Barca Street.

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　Among them, I was still concerned about En.

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　Since it was something that we had newly built ourselves, even the slightest change would bother me.

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　Every day when I was thinking about this and that about En, there was something that came to my mind again and again.

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　That is, can't we increase the number of "er-chan"?

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　There were twenty-four white dogs in all that I had brought back from the mountain peaks in the wintertime.

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　They are being raised in the new Barca town, and iron is being converted into silver.

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　It is working well in itself, but it does not seem to be very efficient.

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　This is because the number of times they can use magic is limited.

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　As long as the amount of magic power per animal is limited, there is nothing we can do about it.

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　When Brother Ars first captured Tarou, the white dog man, he went to the trouble of using new iron to produce silver.

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　He used a special material called "flame ore" to create a flame furnace to forge the iron.

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　They made the steel into a slightly different patterned steel called Barca steel, and then took the countermeasure of having Taro series use alchemy.

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　The reason for this seems to be that they can get more silver with a single magic operation if they use alchemy after forging the steel than if they use just iron ore.

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　Perhaps by removing impurities, one can obtain pure silver.

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　Even if we try to imitate this, we cannot make a flaming blast furnace without flaming ore.

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　They managed to make a furnace that could produce higher temperatures than before by using hardened bricks, but it was not as efficient as Vulcania's.

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　So, since we can't seem to beat them in terms of metal purity, I wondered if we could at least increase the number of Els to speed up the production rate of silver.

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"Dogs and humans have a mating season. Since they do not reproduce at any time of the year like humans do, it is necessary to consider the timing of reproduction.

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"...... So you're saying that it's harder to increase because they don't mate at any time?"

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"That's right. And, perhaps, the interval between estrus periods is longer for the White Dog People than for the Black Dog People. There is a possibility that breeding will be delayed more than originally planned.

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"Oh, I see. That's a problem. Well, it's not like we need to increase the silver right now."

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No. It is true that we would have preferred to proceed with the breeding as originally planned. It would have been preferable to have a little more total en issues."

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　Oh, I see.

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　Unusually, this was not what Ai had in mind either.

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　In his mind, he should have been able to increase the number of elk he caught in the winter this fall.

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　However, things are not going as expected.

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　So far, only one of them is pregnant, and the number has not increased yet.

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　This has slowed down the rate of silver production.

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　Vulcania has white canines, but only those created from taro, i.e. only males.

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　It seems that they are using black female dog people as mothers, which means that black and white dog people can breed at different times.

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　This is new information that we did not know before, and it seems that Ai did not know this either.

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（What is it?　Do you want to increase the number of those dog-kittens?)

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（Hmm?　Yes, Norn. I mean, it's rare. I mean, it's unusual for you to be so interested in this kind of talk.)

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　As I was discussing this with Ai, a thought popped into my head.

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　It was Norn.

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　Norn, who has been assimilated into my blood, interfered in my conversation with Ai.

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　This may not happen often.

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　It seems that Norn is not interested in the breeding of Elle and the others.

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(If you want to increase the number of white dogs, you want to increase the number of dogs that can use the technique of turning iron into silver, right?　Then there are other ways.)

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（Oh, really?　What are you going to do?)

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（As that doll said earlier, it's hard to increase the number of these dogs because they reproduce at a certain time of the year. Then, why don't you just breed them with someone who can breed at any time of the year?)

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(Hmmm, are you talking about the black dog people?　It is true that in the study in Vulcania, the Black Dog People were found to be easier to breed because the breeding interval was a little earlier, but no Black Dog People have been found in the East. That's why it's so difficult.)

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（What are you talking about? There doesn't have to be a black dog. We can breed them with those people.)

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(What about ......?　With humans?　That's exactly what you're talking about, Norn. How can a human and a dog have children?)

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（Oh, come on. What are you really saying, Alphonse? You've got your own people in your house who are descended from beasts. Their ancestors were cats and dogs too. They could have children if they wanted to.)

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　What?

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　Is that true?

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　No, it is true that the story Norn once told me might have been like that, now that I remember it.

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　There were beastmen in a land called the Devil's Continent, which is further across the sea from the Eastern World.

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　I think he said it was a bipedal beast.

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　Some of the people who found the beastman on the demon continent had a rather strange way of thinking, and some of them had children with such a bipedal hairy beast.

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　Then, those who were born between a beast and a human had more children with humans, and so on and so forth.

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　As a result, some of the offspring of mixed blood with beastmen appeared, who inherited some of the characteristics of beastmen, such as beast ears on the head and tails on the hips.

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　Mitya and Yuri created the magic of "beastification", but it is not a magic to become a beastman, but a magic to get closer to the offspring of the mixed blood between beastmen.

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　In other words, what Norn is trying to say is this.

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　Inujin is the same kind of beastmen found in the magical continent, and if that is the case, they should be able to have children with humans.

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　And from the sound of it, they might be able to use alchemy.

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　Seriously....

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　I didn't think those demons were beastmen.

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　What should we do?

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　Who would want to mate with it?

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　I froze for a while when Norn told me what I had never thought of.

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