"Wow... It's a giant cacao farm!"
[It's huge in scale. Truly worthy of being called a chocolate factory.]
[To begin with, why grow chocolate on the Hanging Gardens... Am I the weird one?]
[Just accept it, Director~ Who knows? The legendary Assyrian sage queen might like chocolate, right?]
The garden itself was enormous, and the cacao farm there was also huge.
"Inside, there's also a factory that processes and produces chocolate. Inside the garden, there are rooms with horizons visible, and thanks to spatial expansion magecraft, the interior is practically infinite."
"An absurd level... Maybe even more than Camelot."
"This scale is certainly rare even in the Universe. But using it for chocolate production is very Universe-like..."
"Chocolate, huh... Haven't eaten it yet? They say you spread it on things too, what do you think?"
"Spread it on takuan."
"What crazy talk~ Even I, from Japan, think that's a bit much. Baouji would say that's too much too."
"Then... should we help with that chocolate factory?"
Mash cautiously asks Semiramis, and she nods.
"I've installed farms and factories here... but management isn't easy. It's too much for me alone. Even though I've produced chocolate golems, dragon-tooth warriors, and even Servants, they're hard to handle. Intelligent laborers are indeed needed. Primarily, harvesting Mandchocolates or reviving chocolate discarded due to substandard quality into proper chocolate through Chocolomancy (chocolate magic), for instance. If you help, I'll give compensation. I give appropriate compensation to laborers."
"Then let's do it! Chocolate means chocolate! Let's try it!"
"Master. When you do that, an accident always happens, doesn't it? Surely another accident─"
Bam!!!
"See. The Universe's intuition is accurate."
Then, something huge fell onto the Hanging Gardens. Semiramis sensed it earlier and tried to intercept, but...
"Don't worry. That is also chocolate."
It was a giant chocolate. Then a chocolate door opened, and another Artoria Face popped out from inside. A glasses-wearing girl in a high school student-like outfit.
"Et-chan!?"
"Oh, it's X-san. I came because of the giant chocolate signal, but to think such a splendid chocolate factory exists on a backwater planet like this. Truly a paradise."
That was Mysterious Heroine X Alter.
"Who...?"
"She was my roommate and academy classmate... But what's that? It's a spaceship type I've never seen before..."
"Ah, I had no chocolate at home, and it was sold out on the planet too, so I went all the way to Planet Totori's Spacebucks, you know? I won it in the store visitor count commemorative service."
"Hoh... Though it's a spaceship, it's made of quality chocolate, huh? If mixed with my Hanging Gardens chocolate, it would surely become incredible chocolate. How about it? Won't you hand it over to me?"
"... This is my one-way trip spaceship. In that case, let's trade it for one ton of chocolate and one confectionery."
"One ton... Ha, a heroic, groundbreaking proposal. Chocolate from space, good. I'll do it. But the confectionery might have poison mixed in."
"It's fine. I'm not a hero but a villain, and I have poison resistance through training. For your information, I got this for being the 11th visitor. If you go back and forth to the store like the 22nd or 33rd, you can get more."
"No no, the visitor count is too low!? X, is the Universe normally like that?"
"No, Master. It's because that place is unpopular... More importantly, do you have a spaceship to go with!?"
"I always carry a portable portal with me."
"Damn, if only it weren't for the contract...!"
X now has a means to return to the Universe, but due to the unfair contract, she cannot return. Be that as it may, X Alter leaves immediately after receiving the goods to get another Spacebucks spaceship.
[What is the Universe...]
[That's right, Romani...]
[At times like this, it's better not to think~ By any chance, Da Vinci-chan knows?]
[Of course I know well. However, frankly, no one other than Master can handle that place. Even if Ritsuka-chan says she wants to go, she must not go, okay?]
"That much...? What on earth is the Universe."
"More importantly, follow me now. I'll tell you what to do."
Semiramis takes Ritsuka's group inside, and chocolate labor is about to begin....
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"Not going."
"You're not going?"
"Yes. It's obvious there will be many troublesome things, and judging by the difficulty, Ritsuka can handle it alone. There's simply no need for me to go. I'll rest comfortabl~y in Chaldea like this."
Koyanskaya comes to me and asks about the schedule, but I have no intention of going. Because there's simply no need to go.
"More importantly, weren't you making chocolate too?"
"Chocolate is important too, but as Master's secretary, fulfilling my duty is more important, right?"
Koyanskaya smiles while adjusting her glasses. Should I say it's reassuring or what...
"Is it because of the possession by Shuten... My body still feels languid."
I decide to rest a while in the lounge and lean on Koyanskaya.
"Are you very tired?"
"Just my body feels a bit languid... A bit lacking in energy."
"In that case~ How about my soft lap pillow, or my ample chest pillow~?"
"Either way, it's a route where I get eaten..."
Buzzing~
"What's this, you were here."
"... Why a swimsuit all of a sudden?"
Then, Scáthach enters. A swimsuit, what's this about?
"Just no particular reason. Well, it's not entirely without the meaning of seducing you."
"No intention to hide it. I'm tired of being raped now..."
"You can just take the lead like that time. Even if you're still inexperienced, that, filled with love, feels good, you know?"
"...."
Koyanskaya glares as if to interfere, but Scáthach sits next to me regardless.
"Sorry, Koyanskaya. I can't resist this."
"You...! Quite something, Scáthach-san. But, this Koyanskaya, won't give up so easily, you know?"
Just give up... Receiving Scáthach's lap pillow, I spend a leisurely time.
A certain workshop located in the Hanging Gardens.
"Hum~ hum~ A cute newlywed house is complete!"
Tamamo remodeled a certain room in the garden into what she calls a newlywed house where she and Dammit can spend an intimate time alone. She was so serious she even changed her tool creation skill, 'Wedding Fox', to create items solely for the married couple.
"Fufufu~ When Master comes like this, I'll immediately kidnap and confine him, then have an intimate week-long honeymoon~♥ And if I seduce my husband..."
"Eyaaang~♥ Even I think it's a perfect seduction that would cause an instant brain death~ And then overlapping with my husband in the bath... Fuhehehe...!"
Tamamo happily fantasizes while waiting for Dammit...
"Aah~ Won't he come soon~?"
And waits endlessly for him who will not come.
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