Rokukos State and the Speaker Golem

Ah, come to think of it, I didnt tell Rokuko about me becoming the village chief huh.

I headed to Rokukos room, entering inside as I knocked.

Ufufufufu.

Rokuko was fiddling with and gazing at the red ring on her left hands ring finger with a big grin on her face. Its a spectacle Ive gotten mostly used to seeing recently I heard an auditory illusion of Haku-sans footsteps, so I almost instinctively turned around and prostrated. Todays mental rehearsal went perfectly today as well please at least spare my life.

I called out for her since she hadnt noticed me after a few seconds.

Ooi, Rokuko?

Huh!? W-wai, you should knock on the door before you come in you know! You should wait for a response first you know! This is a maidens room you know!?

Rokuko hid her left hand behind her in a panic. You didnt answer me even though I knocked come to think of it.

Ah, my bad my bad. I wanted to talk about something.

Eh, about what? Wait, let me prepare my heart.

Alright, but its just normal business stuff? I dont know what youre thinking about. Definitely not. Well, Im the village chief now.

I decided to quickly report my business to Rokuko whod started blushing and rush back to my room.

Howd this happen?

I dont particularly recall raising a flag with Rokuko.

At best, I just drove those bandits from the dungeon, expanded the dungeon, and built the inn.

Was it something to do with buying those melon rolls?

Maybe dungeon cores just have a tendency to fall for their dungeon masters by themselves or something

Wait, Kehma. Village chief?

Ah. She stopped me.

Yeah, thereve been more people around here recently right? Thats why everyone decided for the village to be a proper one, Id become the village chief.

Nn, in other words, that means Kehma is the most awesome of the humans, then? Well, obviously, my dungeons here.

As for me, I just want to push all of the troublesome things onto other people if possible though thinking about it properly, the village chief is the one in the position of pushing troublesome things onto others.

The ones to push troublesome things onto heroes were village chiefs.

Although they were also at the position where troublesome things would come flying towards them, since I cant leave from here as the dungeon master, the eternal formula is that the villages problems are my problems. Lets give up quietly about it.

Nn? But since youre the village chief now, what about the inn?

Nothing will really change from how it is now is what I want to say, however, where I live is a problem The village chief renting a room from the inn because he doesnt have a house is weird in a lot of ways.

Aah, then Ill also move when Kehma builds a house.

Eh? Rokuko, this inn is a house though?

Eh?

Rather, even if I built a basic house, since the village is entirely within the dungeons area, even if its called a house its like a room. The dungeons functions are really practical here.

Oh, thats right huh.

Yeah, maybe Ill add on a lodge to the inn since moving would be troublesome? Having to walk to the inn every day sounds troublesome too.

That sounds great. Like a dormitory?

Yeah, like that.

Externally, were going with the pretense that I got permission to build an annex onto the inn from its owner. Itll become both the village chiefs residence and a lodge. How about we promptly go and ask for Narikins help?

There probably wont be any complaints from that party of leaders, but lets just push it through with the village chiefs authority if therere any complaints. Even if Im just a figurehead, I am the village head after all.

Ah, make my room in in the village chiefs residence area too! Itll be a piece of cake for Kehma right?

Well alright, you sure?

The village chiefs residence huh, should I make it a little big? Theres still a lot of grounds left to use.

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Well then, I thought of something concerning magic practice. I wondered about whether or not golems could be used for that as well.

I presume itll be used as a record player.

I mean, even though itd be great if I could just buy something like a voice recorder with DP, for some reason it looks like I cant buy any kind of gadget that a computer would contain with DP. Maybe its the transistors? Transistors are no good then I guess.

Still though, theres a record player that isnt a computer in the catalog. But its an incredible 1,000,000 DP. Thats why I decided to make one myself.

The structure of a record player isnt something that complicated. Engraving sounds as grooves from the oscillations in them, the speaker would just vibrate according to the grooves to reproduce the sounds.

Then how would I do that with golems?

Its easy, Id make the speaker itself into a golem, the golem would just need to memorize the vibrations.

Then how would I make the speaker?

That was even easier. Using paper and hide as a film, it could mimic sounds by vibrating at the precise frequencies. Even a paper cup telephone could be a splendid speaker. In other words, I could simply use 5 DP for twelve paper cups and turn them into golems to be some speakers, then they would be able to become record players.

Alright, how about we experiment a bit?

I used [Create Golem] on a paper cup. After it easily turned into a golem, I held the cup like it was a telephone.

Record the following vibrations Nn, ahem. Testing, testing. What fine weather were having today Stop recording. Now, reproduce the recorded vibrations.

[Nn, ahem. Testing, testing. What fine weather were having today.]

A quiet version of my voice came from the paper cup. Success! It recorded it all.

When I made it reproduce the vibrations louder, it turned into almost the same volume as my original voice. Also a success.

Then, next up is looking into exactly to what extent it can memorize.

Right now is the first vibration set. Next is the second

For the results, the paper cup-type speaker golem was able to record twenty seconds in total. When I tried to record any more than that, it would forget the first one This was much, much more difficult order than the usual ones.

Well, if its twenty seconds, it should be able to record magic incantations huh.

Since saying record and the like each time was also troublesome, I also drew on record and replay buttons. It would record when the record button was touched or replay the recorded sound when the replay button was touched. Doing that limited the recordings duration to eighteen seconds.

There really is a memory limit for orders huh Up till now Ive just been using simple orders like [Dig here] so I didnt know. This was also a good result to the experiment.

Well, next lets try recording a magics incantation. First up is water.

Oh water, become a small globe. [Water].

Since a sphere of water appeared in the air above the golem, I stopped the recording and caught it in the paper cup golem I was holding in my hand so it wouldnt fall on the floor.

I swallowed it.

[Oh water, become a small globe. [Water].]

Ah, guess it was able to play it back despite being wet.

This paper cup golem can be used both as a speaker and as a cup. What a useful fellow.

At any rate, looks like it still cant use magic huh

Lets hand this golem with the [Water] incantation memorized to Ichika for now. Nerune should already know it.

If she reviews it herself, she should be able to recreate the magics incantation while its playing Ah, I just thought of something. Lets divide the receiver and speaker to make it like a telephone. It should be easier to use like that.

What was that magic Nerune couldnt remember, again?