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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Chaos
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Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Even though I had plenty of free time thanks to the four consecutive days off, I was still incredibly busy.
I had to work on the room renovation, research Fix’s CPU, upgrade the suit, and research and develop another version of the suit I would wear later, the ‘Doom Suit.’
For these reasons, I didn’t have time to make separate air conditioners.
Word about the air conditioner had already spread like wildfire, and orders were pouring in like waves, but I had no time to spare.
“Father.”
“Khahahaha! My proud son!”
So, I entrusted James with full authority over the air conditioner business.
I explained the principles and technical know-how of the air conditioner and instructed him on how to mass-produce it.
“Don’t worry! We’ll be rich, son! Khahaha!”
James burst out laughing, making his typical dad jokes.
I was fortunate to have such a cheerful and lively man around.
With a reliable blacksmith I could trust 100%, I could confidently entrust him with such a lucrative business without a shred of doubt.
“Then, this dad will go to the Blacksmith District! Don’t worry about the contracts!”
So, James headed to the Blacksmith District.
To outsource the parts needed for the air conditioner for mass production.
Since James was sociable and friendly, I was confident he would smoothly establish a mass production network.
However, given his personality, there was a chance he might give away money to his partners, so I made sure to warn him clearly.
To only pay them what they deserved for simple labor.
“Hmm. Now that the air conditioner issue is resolved-”
It was time to focus on research and development.
The money would come rolling in on its own, so there was no need to worry about that.
I immediately turned around and headed to the lab.
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“E, Enya?”
Saturday, 9 PM.
When I returned to the lab, Enya was waiting for me with a tearful face.
She pointed to her soaked clothes and said,
“Save me…”
Save her? What was going on?
I asked her what had happened, and she said the water supply in the women’s dormitory was cut off.
So, she hadn’t been able to shower all day and was on the verge of dying from the heat.
Since Enya was particularly sensitive to heat, she must have had a hellish day.
“I heard about it. That ‘Graham’s North Wind’ you made… they say it’s incredibly cool…”
Enya, with half-closed eyes, mentioned the air conditioner.
I nodded and placed my palm on the user recognition device of the lab.
Then, the spell engraved on the user recognition device activated, and the door opened.
It recognized me as the owner of the lab.
‘Sometimes I wonder if this is really the Middle Ages.’
A lab door with a security system in a medieval setting.
When I saw things like this, I often thought how unbalanced the technology of this world was.
A world where outdated medieval technology and modern security technology coexisted.
Was it thanks to the setting of spells and mana in this world?
When I saw nobles riding in state-of-the-art carriages instead of cars, it made me ponder about many things.
“Come in. It’s really cool inside the lab.”
Anyway, I cleared my head and led Enya into the lab.
The lab’s interior was cool, thanks to the air conditioner that had been running all day.
Enya’s expression changed dramatically.
It was an expression of deep emotion, as if she had met the Messiah.
“E, Ed…! T, this place… is truly… heaven.”
Enya spread her arms wide, basking in the cool air like a prisoner savoring the freedom of escape after 27 years.
How much had she suffered today to react so exaggeratedly?
Then again, even I praise the greatness of Willis Haviland Carrier every summer. Considering how long and hot summers are, it’s no wonder Enya, who is even more sensitive to heat, would react this way.
From her perspective, I must seem like someone as great as Carrier.
“Um, Enya. But your clothes…”
However, Enya’s clothes were so soaked that I didn’t know where to look.
How hot must it have been for her clothes to cling to her body as if she had been splashed with water, revealing her skin underneath?
“Oh. I, I sweat a lot…haha…”
Realizing her state, Enya hurriedly covered her chest and gave an awkward smile.
I cleared my throat and handed her a blanket to cover herself with from the table, saying,
“Let’s wash up first. You’ll catch a cold if you stay in those wet clothes in the cool air.”
“Oh? Uh…”
Enya carefully took the blanket I handed her and wrapped it around her shoulders, covering her chest.
I immediately led Enya out of the lab and headed to the backyard of the men’s dormitory.
Enya nervously looked around, wondering if this was okay, but I reassured her, telling her there was no need to worry, as no one would know.
“Mana will flow through your body. Just accept it without resisting.”
I said that and knocked three times on the brick to activate the spell.
Then, a bright light enveloped Enya and me, transporting us to the rooftop of the men’s dormitory.
Enya scanned my room with dazed eyes and said,
“Wow… it’s so stylish.”
With Fix’s help, the rooftop room had been transformed into a modern space.
Fascinated by the modern design of modern architecture, which combined both functionality and aesthetics, Enya admired the exterior of the room for a while with dazed eyes.
Seeing her expression as if she was looking at something breathtaking, I felt a sense of reward for the 16 days of hard work I had spent renovating this attic.
“Let’s go in.”
“Oh? Okay.”
Finally, I welcomed my first guest into my home.
As soon as Enya entered, she looked around the house with wide eyes, and I pointed to the location of the shower room with my hand and said,
“See that glass door? That’s the shower room. And for clothes to change into, wait a minute.”
I hurried to my room and brought a white shirt and shorts.
The shorts had a drawstring to adjust the waist size, so Enya could wear them too.
“You can change into these.”
“U-uh. Thank you.”
Enya, blushing slightly, took the clothes I handed her.
A moment of silence passed.
Only the sound of the air conditioner filled the room.
“Ahem. Then, wash up and come out. I’ll be waiting in my room.”
“Okay.”
In the awkward silence, I felt my gaze drawn to Enya’s chest, so I hurried back to my room.
Soon, the sound of water pouring from the shower room could be heard, and just that sound stimulated various fantasies of the flesh that was visible through Enya’s wet clothes.
“Ugh. Why is it so hot?”
I felt strangely hot, so I lowered the temperature of the air conditioner.
Still, because of the indecent thoughts that kept dominating my mind, I had to take out the ‘Study Journal’ I had put in the drawer and clear my head.
I thought that by stimulating my ‘Engineering Mind’ while looking at this, Enya’s suggestive expression would be erased from my mind.
“Hmm… task scheduling algorithm…”
And this method was definitely effective.
As I was devising the complicated algorithm for the CPU, I had no time for such indecent thoughts.
“Um, Ed…”
How long had I been looking through the Study Journal?
Enya, who had changed into the shirt and shorts I had given her, called me with a slightly flushed face.
Even though she had used the same shampoo as I always did, the scent of the shampoo emanating from Enya seemed particularly fragrant.
“Th-thank you. Thanks to you, I was able to wash up comfortably. Oh, and I really like the clothes, they’re so clean.”
“Uh… well, we’re friends. It’s only natural.”
I answered as I sat up from the bed.
But like a buffering video, we stuttered, unable to continue the conversation in the suffocating silence.
I tried to think of a topic to break the awkward atmosphere, but it was as if a fog had settled in my mind, and no suitable opening came to me.
Meanwhile, Enya, who finally found something to talk about, opened her mouth.
“…Can I… sleep here tonight?”
“……?”
But her words weren’t an opening for conversation, but a bomb.
Enya, perhaps belatedly realizing this, began to blush furiously.
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Enya was in despair.
How could she have uttered such absurd words?
Asking if she could sleep over in the men’s dormitory.
Originally, she hadn’t meant to say that.
She had planned to cool off in Ed’s lab with the ‘Graham’s North Wind.’
And she also intended to probe about what had happened with Isabella during the last sleep management class.
She was too concerned about their relationship.
It felt like only Ed wasn’t wary of Bella.
Everyone called Bella a witch and avoided her, but why did Ed treat Bella like a child?
And why did he name the incredible invention that cooled the room ‘Graham’s North Wind’?
Had their relationship become closer without her knowing?
Such thoughts bothered her so much that she couldn’t concentrate on her training.
So, Enya decided to visit Ed, using the excuse of the broken water supply in the women’s dormitory.
She even went so far as to deliberately move vigorously and drench herself in sweat to make it easier for Ed to let her in.
But it seemed she had overdone it.
Her clothes were so wet that they became see-through, and she ended up following Ed to his room.
‘Well, I guess it’s even better.’
But inwardly, Enya was happy.
Wasn’t she the only guest who had ever set foot in his house?
Moreover, the space he lived in was beyond her imagination.
Aesthetic, neat, stylish, and clean.
It matched exactly the image she had of Ed.
They said that beautiful people have beautiful living spaces, and Ed’s room was proof of that.
‘He’s so handsome…’
So, when she came to his room after showering.
Enya thought everything was harmonious.
The temperature and humidity that gave her peace of mind.
The lighting that created the right atmosphere in the room.
The clean and tidy bed.
And the handsome, black-haired young man lying on the bed, reading a book.
It was like a painting.
Enya blinked, as if a camera lens was clicking and captured this harmonious and beautiful scene in her eyes.
She took a picture of Ed with her eyes and saved it in her heart.
“Um, Ed…”
Therefore, Enya felt a strong desire to possess this man for herself.
There was no reason not to like him; he was capable, kind, principled, and handsome.
Besides, their hobby of quickdraw matched well.
“Th-thank you. Thanks to you, I was able to wash up comfortably. Oh, and I really like the clothes, they’re so clean.”
So, Enya expressed her gratitude and started a conversation to achieve her purpose for visiting him.
Now, all that was left was to exchange a few words and bring up Bella’s story to find out about their relationship.
And if there was nothing between them, she thought it wouldn’t be bad to confess her feelings here…
“…Can I… sleep here tonight?”
But she blurted out something without thinking.
While she was pondering what to say in the sudden silence, she had uttered her desire to spend the night with Ed without any filtering.
Of course, this wasn’t meant to be a suggestive proposal.
She had simply said it because she liked Ed’s living space so much that she wanted to stay there for even just one day.
Above all, his space was comfortable and cool.
She didn’t want to fall asleep in the sweltering heat outside.
“Ah…no, no!”
However, regardless of her intentions, she had said something that could be easily misunderstood.
Ed was tilting his head and staring at her.
“E, Ed! I, I mean…”
But she tried to explain herself in a hurry and her voice cracked.
“Kheung. I mean-?”
And flustered by the voice crack, she tried to speak again in a hurry, and her voice cracked once more.
On top of that, she had also made a strange pig-like squeal, “Kheung.”
“I…I didn’t, I didn’t mean it like that…”
Countless thoughts crossed her mind.
Would Ed think of her strangely?
Was she completely finished as a woman?
Why did she make that weird, pig-like squeal?!
Enya, were you always this timid?
And so on.
All sorts of thoughts flashed through her mind, and she felt like she was about to cry.
She was a haughty and aloof princess, known as a genius swordsman, but in front of the person she liked, she was just a shy girl who couldn’t even convey her feelings properly.
“I know what you mean. Your room is too hot, right?”
But at that moment.
Ed smiled gently and concisely summarized what she wanted to say.
And he added,
“I don’t misunderstand. You just want to sleep while enjoying this pleasant air cond…the ‘Graham’s North Wind.'”
“……”
Ed smoothly diffused the tension..
Enya nodded with a tearful expression.
She was so grateful for Ed’s calm and composed manner, which had defused the awkward atmosphere created by her mistake.
“Sleep here. I noticed you’re quite sensitive to heat.”
“Huh? I-Is that okay?”
“Of course. More importantly, do you want something to drink? You were sweating a lot. Aren’t you thirsty?”
“A, a little…?”
“Then let’s have a beer.”
Ed said that and poured Enya a glass of beer.
Enya took a sip of the beer Ed handed her and realized that this was truly heaven.
The beer she drank after a cold shower, while enjoying the cool air from the air conditioner, was so refreshing and intense that she forgot all about her previous embarrassment and despair.
“Um, Ed.”
Feeling calmer, Enya sat down in the chair by the bed’s table and called out to Ed.
It was to ask him something she had been curious about.
“During the sleep management class last time… it looked like you were hugging Isabella from behind, why was that?”
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[T/N: There’s an illustration available for this chapter. Check Discord for it.]
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