Uh.........I'm stuck.......

　Although there was an unexpected event that Arthia jumped in, the tour of the amusement park was finished without delay. We found out a lot of things that could be used and not used for Brunhild's amusement park, but we wondered if we should spread this sense of fatigue to the fathers of the world.
　Well, if I can see my children's smiling faces, it's probably okay.
　With the arrival of Arthia, the number of relatives in the building has increased again, but since I told them in advance that some of them would be coming, they were accepted as normal by the people of the castle.
　Immediately, Arthia went to the castle's kitchen and helped Claire-san, the head chef. Thanks to this, we had a sumptuous dinner tonight, but I'm currently feeling a bit sick to my stomach as Aasiya keeps recommending me to cook one dish after another.
　I thanked Robert for dropping off Arthia, and after having dinner with him, I dropped him off at the 【Gate】 to Panachez. For once, I feel sorry for bothering you.
　Anyway, Arthia came, and the five children gathered together with Kuhn, Frey, Erna and Lynne. That's more than half of them.
　The rest are Yae, Sakura, Sue, and Yumina's kids, but Yakumo, the kid with Yae, has already come to our time. I don't know where they're really walking around........


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''Speaking of which, what's Aasia's attributeless magic?''

　The next day, Arthia asked me to take her to the market, and while walking with her through the morning market, I asked her a question that came to mind.

I asked him a question that came to mind as we walked around the morning market.　I'm going to be able to use 【Search】 and 【Apports】. Because its effect range is short, it's not suitable for combat, but it's useful for searching for ingredients.
Oh, so that's how you use it...

　It's true that 【Search】 is useful for finding things to eat in the mountains and such, and if you use 【Apports】 you can harvest fruits and such without having to climb a tree. If you say it's useful, it's useful, but........

I can also recognize poisonous ingredients. I can also distinguish what's damaged.

　Hmm. I've found poison in [Search] once too, though. That being said, I feel like it's a useful magic for cooks.

''Ah, father, there's an apple!　I'll make you an apple pie and we'll buy some to take home!
Does Arthia make candy too?
I'm rather good at this. Your father doesn't eat a lot of sweets, but his sister and brother are very fond of them.

　It's not that I don't like sweets. It's just that I can't eat that many pieces. I can't eat more than a couple of cakes. It's not a question of quantity, it's that my taste buds give up. I don't know how women are able to eat so much....
　They ate a whole cake in one sitting, like Yae. It may be because it's Yae, though.
　It's a good idea to have a good selection of apples. Should I buy something for the kids too........
　As I was thinking about this, while I was rummaging through the market's merchandise, the people in the area began to make a commotion. What's that?

What's that?　What's the weirdest thing flying around?
I don't know. Isn't this His Majesty's new grimoire again?

　I look up to the sky at the sound of the marketers, and sure enough, there's something like a pea grain floating in the sky. It's moving, though slowly.

''[Long-sense]

　Skipping my vision, I see a mysterious flying object. Is that ... an airship?
　Underneath the rugby ball-like air sacs, I could see large wings with propellers and a dull, glowing hull. The hull has parts that look like long arms.
　That doesn't look like a magic artifact. Is it the one from the Western Continent (formerly the Underworld)? Is it a golem airship instead of a golem chariot?
　I wonder what they're doing here. It's troubling even if they came without notice. It's because there's no such thing as airspace violation here.
　It seems that in the other continent, Golem airships are rarely excavated, and are usually owned by the state or by rich people, which is quite rare. In other words, there is a high probability that this is also a national or grand aristocrat's aircraft.
　I've heard that the flight range is not that great, but I don't know where it came from.
　However, I can't just sit back and watch. I don't think it's possible that they're going to attack us, but there's no chance of that happening.

Arthia, come here.

　I took Arthia's hand, who had picked out an apple, and we transitioned together to the large training ground in the north with [Teleport].
　Calling Regingrave after a long time from 【Storage】, we climbed into the cockpit.
　Regingrave is basically a one-seater, but there's enough space for a child the size of Arthia to ride somehow. Well, it's not like I'm going to leave you alone. But why do you want to ride on my lap?　It's hard to see the monitor.
　I activated Regingrave and jumped up into the air. In the blink of an eye, I reached the front of the airship, made the aircraft levitate and stay afloat, and deployed my non-attribute magic [Speaker].

I'm not going to be able to get it right. It is the airspace of the Principality of Brunhild. Disembark immediately and state the reason for your entry. If you do not respond, you will be forced to wait. If you do not respond, you will be forcibly transferred out of our airspace.

　For now, I'll give you a warning. Will this lead to hostilities, or will it change course again? Well, it wouldn't bother me if they went to another country. We didn't have an agreement on that part of the world. I'll propose it at the next world conference.
　However, if you shoot the [Fireball] at that air sac from the ground, it's likely to fall with one shot. Or is there some kind of barrier?

''Father, the ship is descending.
Oh, there's a story there.

　As the airship descended, I lowered the Regingrave as well.
　A skid, a landing gear that looks like a long, slender leg, comes out from underneath the hull, and the airship silently lands on a hilltop.
　I landed the Regingrave here as well, leaving Arcea in the cockpit and me alone on the ground.
　The hatch of the airship opened and a number of people descended from inside. Oh, there are a few dwarf-like people as well. Are they airship mechanics?
　Hmm?　Hmm?　Something ... an old man with a bear-like beard is running towards me. His eyes are sparkling and he's screaming incomprehensible screams. Hey, scary, scary!

[SHIELD]
"Gah!

　The old man crashed into an invisible wall and fell backwards. His bearded face was stained with blood from his nose. ''Hey, how fast did you run into me?

''You idiot!　Don't just jump out at me!　You'd be surprised at what they'd do to you!

　A beautiful woman, albeit over thirty years old, who came in pursuit, kicked the old bear who had fallen. Wow.

I'm sorry, my dear. I'm sorry," he said, "but that's just because this idiot got excited about the gorem and went off the rails.
''Oh, oh I see........''

　So Golem is a Regingrave. A woman chuckles and kicks the old man underfoot. Ugh.
　Her brown hair is pulled up in an up-do, and she's dressed roughly in gray tuna. She wears a towel around her waist and leather gloves on her hands, her appearance is that of an engineer.
　If you look closely, you can see that the bearded old man is also dressed in the same way. I'm not sure if they are both Golem engineers.

It's a great golem, as they say. It's worth it to come all the way from Gandiris.
Gandiris?　Are you saying that you are emissaries from Gandiris?

　The Steel Kingdom of Gandiris is a mining country surrounded by mountains to the south of the Holy Kingdom of Arendt and east of the Galdio Empire. I heard that this kingdom, which has abundant underground resources, exports much of the ore needed to make golems.

I've heard that this kingdom has abundant underground resources and exports a lot of the ore needed to make golems. We're just from Gandiris, so we have nothing to do with the country. We are a group of engineers called the Seekers.

　The Search Engineers Seekers?　Haha, I think I heard that somewhere........
　Ah!　The same five great golem engineers (meisters) as the Elka engineers and the old bastard old man of the Mage King...!

We're a guild of engineers. That title doesn't belong to anyone, it's a collective title. The idiot there is Mario Phalanx of Gilmas. I'm Ripple Phalanx's husband.
Oh, you're married?

　I was kicked around a lot!　Is it an epic kakaa heaven? I'm starting to feel sorry for the old man with the beard for a bit.
　But an old man with a beard and a Mario. In a way, I think it's a very good name for him.

'Ah. I mean, are you Parrelle's parents by any chance?

　Mr. Ripple's eyes widened in surprise when I said this.

'You know my daughter?'
'Yes, well. I met with the Princess of Gandiris once.

　A blind date party held in Leafs. The pseudo-golem replacement riot that took place there. The mastermind behind it is the second princess of Gandiris, Parrelle, the maid who was attached to Cordelia.
　Does that mean that those two made the anthropomorphic golems? No, to be precise, they dug it up and restored it.

"By the way, you're...
Oh, I'm sorry I'm late. My name is Fuyuya Mochizuki. I'm the king of this duchy of Brunhild.
'What?　Are you the king?

　When I said my name, his eyes widened and he was surprised. It's a familiar sight, so we're not surprised. I wonder when they will get their dignity.

".........well, I, uh.......I'd like to apologize for the disrespect my husband has caused to His Majesty the King....
'Oh, you can talk normally. I'm an adventurer by nature, so I don't mind.
Oh, yeah? That's very helpful. There's no such thing as decency in my family. That's why I left Parrelle with the princess.

　With a relieved look on her face, Ripple replies, "I'm not going to arrest your husband for this. We're not going to arrest your husband for that, sir.

What brings you to Brunhild?
'Yeah. 'Yeah, partly because I wanted to see this big golem. Also, I heard that the Elka girl is in the country. Can we meet her?

　You remember Engineer Elka?　She's one of the same five great meisters, the 'Regeneration Queen 《Rest Aquine》'. It's not surprising that she's acquainted with these two people, but what do they want?

Before you do. Can I get those itching bastards in the back?　I need to see that guy up close and personal.

　The same sparkling-eyed guys with the same sparkling eyes as Mario's old man who had rushed in earlier were waiting for him, as Ripple-san pointed with his back finger. Noooooooooooo, hot!

Well, you're just going to have to look.
You are forgiven. Come on!
"Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!

　Dodo-dodo!　And the men swarmed to Regingrave at once with an earth shaking sound.

'What's this material!　It's not Mithril or Orihalcon!
Hey!　This isn't just armor!　The magic mark is all over the place...!
'How are you supporting this weight on such thin legs...!

　Old men clutched at Regingrave's feet, examining this and that with what looked like a loupe. I wonder if all people in the technology field are like this.

''Hee!　Father!　I'm scared!
Oh, no.

　It was like the Arthia left in the cockpit was terrified of the men who were swarming her. If it was simply strength, that girl was also a gold and silver class adventurer, and there was no way she could lose.
　Well, he was probably consumed by the uncanny atmosphere that was different from those things.
　When I used [Fly] to hold down Arthia, the old men tried to climb up to Regingrave. Hey guys, I told you we were just going to watch.
　I quickly put the Regingrave away in 【Storage】 and, although I don't think I can call it a replacement, I called out the heavy knight《Chevalier》. You can't afford to have your Reginrave destroyed.

''Do you have another plane too?

　This time the old men's crowded around the heavy knight. Mario's old man, who had fallen down with a bloody nose before he knew it, also got up and clung to the heavy knight Chevalier.

It's a different plane than the one before. How many airplanes do you have in the world?
'Well?　I'm sure it didn't exceed a thousand planes.
Let me...

　Ripple-san is hardened. I think that's about it, since I stopped the mass production of Frame Gear after I killed the evil gods.
　They've become more active, mainly in the slaying of giant beasts and disaster relief, which is where they often appear.
　If it's a disaster relief aircraft, I think if the engineers from the West and the East teamed up, they could produce a better aircraft than those ironcraft that were called shoddy frame gear.
　I'm sure these guys would build something more unusual than that.
　Well, there's no point in thinking about it. Let's just call the Elka engineers.


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What's this?
'No, what do you call it...'

　The doctor, who came down from Babylon with the Elka engineer, muttered to himself as he looked at the old men flocking to the heavy knights.

They're excited to see a rare magical machine, just like children. They're just like children. You can leave them alone.
Do I bother you?

　At Engineer Elka's words, Ripple tapped him on the shoulder with the wrench in his hand. Wait, silencing him is physical!　You don't have to go that far, though.

'Fluffy...!　This is a rather rare type of Golem airship...!　What is mithril?　No. Do you also use high mithril for some of it?　This is a side impact...

　I look at the girl who clings to the golem airship that the "Searching Engineer Corps [Seekers]" has boarded with the same eyes as the old man who flocks to the heavy knights with disappointed eyes.
　Yes, it's my daughter, "Kuhn". I'm sure you'll be able to find out more about the "Seekers", and then you'll be able to get off with the doctors when I told you about the "Seekers".

"You are the same as always, sister Coon....

　Arthia was looking at her sister with a rather dumbfounded look in her eyes. 'Hey, Kuhn,' she said. You're losing your sister's dignity," she said.
　While we were looking at her, Engineer Elka spoke to Ripple.

Well?　Why did you come all the way to Brunhild?　You don't mean to tell me you're really not here to see my face?
Oh, I shouldn't have come to see it, should I?　Well, there's definitely more to it than that. I've got something I'd like you to see.

　Mr. Ripple pulled a few sheets of paper from the breast pocket of his tupperware. Pictures,?

This is....
'I found it in a new site recently discovered in Gandiris. Do you know what it is?
It looks like a ship.... This huge?

　I was a little curious, so I looked at the picture from behind Engineer Erca. There was what appeared to be a rather large ship sitting in what appeared to be an underground dock. Compared to the small person standing there, it's probably about half the size of Babylon.
　A ship........or rather, it looks somewhat like a spaceship.

'A ship of an ancient civilization.......!　d*mn it!　Wait, this sigil is...!

　Engineer Elka stops at a picture. It seems to be a part of the hull, but the emblem on it - or rather, the markings on it - looked familiar to me as well.

"[Crown]........　No way, this is...!
Oh, yes. The man who probably built that ship was the ancient genius of Gholem, Crom Ranches, the creator of the "Crown" series. He's the father of the "Crown" series.

　Crom Ranches. The genius golem engineer who created the [Crown] series, and the man who used the [Black] and [White] crowns to transcend the boundaries of the world from the underworld to the surface world in the past.
　He was also the key figure in preventing the great invasion by the Frays five thousand years ago, although it was not his intention to do so. However, due to [White]'s outburst at that time, he seems to have lost all his memories.......

''Don't tell me that this ship itself is not the [Crown]!
I don't know. It's hard to say. After all, I couldn't go inside the ship at all, you know. So I thought that the same [crown] would know something about it. There's a [black] and a [white] here and a [red] as well, right?

　I see, Ripple-san and the others came to see [Crown] and the others. Well, actually, there's already one more person here, though, [Purple] is also here. Ah, but that guy has a problem with language function.

Blue and Green] are the property of the royal family. It's also a bother to have them probe my stomach which doesn't hurt.
Uh, the [white] also belongs to the royal family, but...

　The [White] crown, "Illuminati Arbus", although "temporary", Yumina is the Contractor 《Master》. In other words, it also belongs to the Brunhild royal family.

''It hasn't even been a year since we signed a contract, right?　[Blue] and [Green] have been immersed in the royal family for hundreds of years, you know. Just meeting the crown is a pain in the ass, and it's a hassle if a big country knows about it. Let me have a bite of one of those, too.

　Well, I see what you're saying. It's true that this ship is a great discovery for the Golem engineers, and I'm sure every country would want to incorporate the technology used in it into their own country.
　We're not very interested in that. I don't even want to get involved. We have something similar in our "hangar".
　If you just want to hear from Albus, then it's fine....
　And after thinking that far, I notice that there's someone who gingerly pulls my sleeve.

''Father, father!　This is the legacy of the ancient Golem civilization!　But also of the "crown" series!　Hey, this is a great discovery!

　Ahhh..... There you are.
　I don't know when you were over here, but Kuhn was looking at the picture with sparkling eyes.

'Sounds interesting. I'm a little curious, too.

　And even the Dr. said something like that.
　Kuh. It's inevitable that I won't get involved in this situation.
　It's no use. I'll just go get Yumina and Albus.