Tohsaka Tokiomi and Matou Zouken were both suspicious, and they didn't talk much to each other. After a few words, Tohsaka Tokiomi stood up and left.
Matou Zouken did not try to persuade him to stay but sent his familiar to secretly follow Tohsaka Tokiomi.
Although Tohsaka Tokiomi also discovered this, he didn't care. Anyway, after returning to the Tohsaka house, there was a barrier, and these familiars couldn't spy on any secrets.
But it made him feel even more that there must be something wrong with Matou Zouken.
But Matou Zouken felt that Tohsaka Tokiomi was pretending when he found out he was being followed and didn't take action to eliminate him!
Suspicion is like this. Once it starts, no matter what the other party does, no matter how you look at it, it will feel suspicious.
Tohsaka Tokiomi returned home, quickly contacted his acquaintances at the Clock Tower, and began to use various connections to investigate the details of Matou Zouken.
And Matou Zouken was not idle either. While monitoring the activities of the Tohsaka family, he continued to search.
The two sides coincidentally took the road of hostility.
...
As for Sakura.
Under the care of her roommate Lijie, she slept peacefully.
When she got up the next day, under Lijie's guidance, she washed herself, put on beautiful new clothes, and found Takumi who was having breakfast with Hestia and Riveria.
"Good morning, Brother Takumi."
"Good morning, Sakura, come over for breakfast."
"Okay."
Sakura came over obediently, took a seat, and politely greeted Hestia and Riveria.
Then, Lia also delivered Sakura's prepared breakfast to her.
During this period, everyone expressed their concern for Sakura and asked how she slept, whether she was used to it, etc.
Of course, Sakura responded obediently.
This was not to be polite, but she really felt good.
Compared to the Tohsaka family, a small local aristocrat, even if the Dimensional City is small, it is much larger than the Tohsaka estate, and the living conditions are better.
In addition, Sakura is so popular with everyone, and everyone takes good care of her. Her current treatment is much stronger than that of the Tohsaka family.
After eating breakfast, Takumi and the others began to work on their own.
Sakura followed Riveria to the office.
A girl with teaching experience was already waiting here early.
This was arranged by Riveria for Sakura to receive an education.
Otherwise, if she was left alone, although her life would be taken care of, she would probably be bored mentally.
After all, there are also people in the Dimensional City, but Sakura has no peers to play with.
In that case, let's study.
"She is your teacher. From today on, she will be responsible for teaching you one-on-one. I am right next to you. If you need anything, you can call me at any time."
"Yeah, yeah, I understand."
Little Sakura nodded, looked at the teacher, and said politely: "Hello, teacher."
"Hello, Sakura-san."
The teacher also responded with a smile.
Then, Riveria started to work.
And Sakura started the class from the side, starting with syllabaries and literacy.
Well, she taught Japanese.
But there is no difference. Anyway, Sakura hasn't been in school for long, so it's still time to correct her writing style.
Although it was a bit difficult at the beginning, it was okay after she got used to it.
Because it is one-on-one teaching, the learning pressure is not great.
Plus Sakura is a smart child. As long as she listens carefully, she basically learns what she is taught.
And she can rest at any time when she is tired.
Well, the main reason is that the teacher occasionally needs to prepare lessons and recall knowledge points before continuing to teach.
After all, she originally taught high school and had never taught elementary school students, which was a bit challenging for her.
But she was already teaching very hard because she wanted to keep this new job.
Previously, she actually worked in the production department.
Because her major was of no use at all, she had no choice but to participate in production.
Now she finally had the opportunity to resume her old job, and she didn't want to lose this familiar job because of poor teaching.
Well, the main reason is that the salary as a teacher is higher than that in the production department.
In this way, Little Sakura studied for a whole morning, and then studied for two hours after a nap in the afternoon. After a total of six hours, school was over.
The rest of the time was free, provided that she was accompanied by a personal guard.
Then she came to find Takumi without stopping.
But unfortunately, Takumi was studying magic stones with Hephaestus. Since this thing was dangerous, it would explode if you weren't careful, so he didn't let her get close.
"How about you go play with Kuro and the others? The workshop is really not a place for children to play."
Hephaestus, who sent Sakura out of the workshop, scratched her head in embarrassment and pointed at Kuro and his two children who were patrolling nearby.
"Woof?"
...
There was no way, who made Kuro and the others grow up and not be so cute anymore.
The dogs were forced to go to work, and they played a game of catching Frisbees with their new group favorite, Sakura.
Although the dogs also enjoyed it, that's it...
Then, Sakura, who was chasing the dogs, met a young lady who was waiting in front of the Dimensional Gate with a look of despair.
It was Megumin!
"Sister, what's wrong with you? Are you okay?"
Megumin held her staff with both hands and shook her head weakly: "I'm fine. The time of the oath is coming, and I will definitely be able to persist until that time!"
In this regard, Sakura expressed that she did not understand.
In the end, Lijie in the duty booth explained to her:
"This guy made a mistake a few days ago and was punished. Now she is waiting to be released."
"Woo~!"
Seeing that the matter was brought up in front of a child like Sakura, Megumin couldn't help but cover her face in shame.
"Ah? Isn't it a penalty for standing? But I didn't seem to see her yesterday."
Sakura, who didn't know the truth, felt that Megumin was quite pitiful, so she became concerned.
"No, it's just that she is not allowed to use her favorite magic, because the last time she used this magic, it affected her teammates and almost caused accidental damage."
"Stop saying it, stop saying it, I know it's wrong, let the child go."
Megumin, who had died inside in front of Sakura, suddenly felt that she was almost too embarrassed to see anyone.
But after Sakura understood the reason, she no longer felt pity for Megumin.
She just couldn't help but feel a little confused...
"Then why does she look like this?"
It's just that the use of magic is prohibited. How could she look like she's about to die?
"Because she also has a problem that makes her whole body feel uncomfortable if she doesn't use that magic once a day."
"..."
Megumin had given up struggling. She lay flat and was dead. Let her die. If she is tired, let her die.
At this moment, another elf girl in the booth suddenly spoke:
"Well, the time for Ms. Kanae's explanation has come, you can pass."
Whoosh, so fast.
Megumin, who was still half-dead, suddenly walked like she was flying, rushed into the Dimensional Gate, and disappeared in an instant.
The speed was so fast that Sakura didn't even react.
Then in less than half a minute, this time it was the real Megumin, who was almost dead from exhaustion, but with a relaxed expression and full of energy, came back.
She raised her hands and shouted: "Explosion is the best!"
"???"
Sakura couldn't help but have question marks on her face due to Megumin's unexplained operation.
The same went for Lijie, the other elf girl, and the guard girl accompanying Sakura.
Although they knew about Megumin's problem, they had never seen what Megumin's disease looked like.
At this time, Kanae also came to collect her on time.
Seeing that Megumin was out of strength, she naturally lifted her up.
"Sorry for making everyone laugh."
Then, Megumin, who was unable to resist and muttered about "Explosion" with a satisfied look on her face, left.
"..." The four of them.
"Wait! Did she fail the security check just after she came back?"
"It seems so."
Reacting, Lijie and the others realized that they had been negligent in their work, and quickly went up to intercept Kanae. After hearing the reason, Kanae cooperated and handed Megumin over.
Lijie and the others checked Megumin before handing her back.
"Can't you let me down? I can walk by myself!"
Megumin, who was a little dizzy after being passed around from both sides, couldn't help shouting.
However, her opinion was tacitly ignored by the three of them.
Haha, you, a person who has just been released from prison, dare to mention conditions to us?
Sakura, who was silently watching the farce, suddenly couldn't help but feel that Megumin was a little pitiful.
But she didn't say anything, just stood in silence for a second.
Then she continued to play with the dogs.
They didn't let the dogs go until it was time for dinner.
She returned to the City Lord's Mansion and had dinner with Takumi and the others.
Takumi finally had time to spend with her.
After chatting for a while, at Takumi's suggestion, we played a two-person cooperative video game to enhance our relationship.
When the time was almost up, Riveria took her to wash up. Accompanied by Lijie who had returned from work, she turned off the lights and went to sleep, ending her day in the Dimensional City.
Then, repeat the process the next day.
As Sakura gradually integrates into the life of the Dimensional City, the Dimensional City has also returned to peace from the small commotion caused by her arrival.
Farming, breeding, infrastructure, production, processing, and research are all proceeding in an orderly manner.
There is nothing else to say, except for the research on new projects, there is good news.
Takumi and Hephaestus worked together to study the technology of using magic stones and achieved great results.
In fact, there is no need to study too much. Orario's technology using magic stones as energy is already quite mature.
Hephaestus was also good at it. After she told Takumi her technique, the two practiced it again and quickly got it done.
Then, a large magic stone was added to the Dimensional City's protective barrier. It was the magic stone dropped by Goliath that Megumin brought back.
The remaining one is the magic stone of Udaeus that Takumi obtained during the expedition.
This one was bigger, so Takumi was reluctant to use it.
Because the current magic stone utilization technology can only achieve one-way output, the magic stone will be discarded after use.
Takumi's goal is to unlock the storage technology and turn the magic stone into a magic storage battery based on magic technology.
Therefore, before the technology matures, it is better not to waste this scarcer resource.
In fact, Takumi has already mastered this kind of deposit technology.
That's right, it's the energy-accumulating magic pattern!
However, the problem is that energy-storing magic patterns are used on the human body and are not applicable to magic stones. The structures and characteristics of the two are completely different.
As a result, when Takumi used the energy-accumulating magic pattern to charge the magic stones, he exploded dozens of small magic stones dropped by ordinary monsters.
This is why when Sakura came to him, he asked Hephaestus to send Sakura out of the door.
Because I don't know if it's the magic stone itself or the reason why Takumi has injected magic power into it, but the power of this thing's explosion is really great.
The magic stone is as small as a fingernail, and its explosive power is comparable to a grenade!
That is to say, he anticipated an accident in advance, so he arranged a barrier in the laboratory before the experiment.
Otherwise, let alone the damage caused, the sound of the explosion could also make the Dimensional City less peaceful.
However, after several days of experiments, there was no progress, and Takumi couldn't help but feel a little impatient.
Then he thought of the Konosuba World.
Konosuba World also has similar technology, and it is more complete. At least it has magic power storage technology.
Then Takumi called Megumin.
"Lord City Lord, do you have anything to do with me?"
Megumin came to Takumi and asked nervously.
She was really scared by the punishment last time, and now she's afraid that she accidentally got into trouble and Takumi is going to punish her again.
"Don't be nervous, relax, it's not a bad thing."
Takumi smiled and relieved Megumin's nervousness, and then asked:
"If I remember correctly, you seemed to have said before that your father made magic items, right?"
"Yes." Megumin nodded. "Is there any problem with this?"
Takumi waved his hand: "I told you not to be so nervous. Of course, there is no problem. I just hope to purchase some magic items from your world, so I thought of you."
"In this way, I give you a task. Go back and tell him that I need a batch of magic items for research. Well, if he is willing, I want to buy the technology directly. The price is negotiable."
"The enhanced ingredients in the Dimensional City are almost experience ingredients in your world. You can also pay with this. If not, I also have gold and jewelry here."
As he said that, Takumi took out two bags, one large and one small. After opening them, he revealed the ingredients and gold and silver jewelry. The jewelry included was taken by Takumi when he was searching for it from the Apocalypse World. Originally, it was intended to be given as a gift to his own women later.
But neither Hestia nor the elf girls were very cold to these things.
Even Marikawa Shizuka became immune to them after receiving them a few times. So that these things have been gathering dust.
So Takumi took out the waste and reused it.
As for gold and silver, they are raw ores converted by universal tools and then smelted.
Things like gold and silver, in the Dimensional City, are not valuable at all. You can get as much as you want. Takumi smelts them as production materials. It's just that he doesn't smelt them on a large scale and doesn't sell them, so it's not so common.
Otherwise, Takumi can even plate the entire Dimensional City with gold.
Well, it's just a metaphor. It's definitely not going to be truly gold-plated. That would be too tacky.
"!!!"
But Megumin, who didn't know this, was shocked and looked straight at the bag of gold and silver jewelry on the table.
For her who has not yet adapted to the values of the Dimensional City, money is still very attractive.
"Consider this a deposit. You can take it back with you."
"This! Is this really okay?!"
Hearing Takumi's heroic speech, Megumin said she was almost stunned.
At the same time, she felt more and more that the decision to join the Dimensional City was really the right one!
This is such a lucrative career!
"Not to mention, is this a procurement task? It's not for free. We need to bring back magic props or technology. The focus is on magic storage-related technology. Do you understand?"
"Clear! Procurement, right? If you need magic storage technology, it's all up to me!"
Megumin reacted and quickly made a guarantee.
Then she tentatively reached out to grab the bag containing gold, silver, and jewelry.
"Then go ahead and I will arrange for someone to go with you to avoid any problems and come back early."
When Takumi saw this, he took out another mission document, pushed it to Megumin along with the two bags, and said to Lia beside him:
"Lia, please ask someone who is free to come and accompany her."
"Okay."
Lia responded and went out to call someone.
Megumin took the bag and wrapped it tightly in her arms, as if she was afraid that Takumi would regret it and take it back.
This left Takumi speechless, but he didn't say anything.
After a while, Lia brought back an elf girl.
Megumin quickly packed her things and the task book and set off with the people. She showed the task book at the door and passed the security check smoothly. With excitement, she stepped into the Dimensional Gate leading to the Konosuba World.