The Roxy figure was placed on the ground.
Zanoba sat down with a plunk in front of that.
I wonder if he didn't think his clean clothes would get dirty.
It doesn't seem like he does his own laundry.
"This magic race figure was discovered and purchased from the market five years ago..."
Zanoba carefully looked over the doll with affectionate eyes.
It's something I understood when I was on missionary trip to spread the Ruijerd figure, but thanks to the Milis Church's influence, Magic Race dolls are a contraband.
After all I wonder if he's going to lay blame for something like that.
Though he doesn't seem to be angry.
"It was something my little brother discovered, it looks really similar to our Royal Court magician Roxy, it was something that he bought from the peddler himself."
Hmm.
"She 'was' the Royal Court magician at the 'time'?"
"Yeah? That's right. It doesn't seem that you know, but Roxy Migurdia is already no longer in this country. She couldn't handle anymore of my little brother's sexual harassment so she ran away."
No, for the most part I did hear from Pax.
I see, she was escaping from the sexual harassment, huh.
"Concretely speaking what kind of sexual harassment was it?"
"Sexual? Like stealing her underwear or peeking on her in the bath."
Seriously?
That's unforgivable.
A person such as that deserves a strict punishment.
That's right, for example destroying his computer with a bat.
Or being forced to live under the same roof with a young lady who will punch you to within the edge of your life for every little thing.
Or being stripped nude and thrown into a prison then having cold water poured on you.
He needs some of that kind of punishment.
Since that's the case, it's fine if I personally use a thick [Earth Lance] to launch him into tomorrow morning as well.
He'll become something like an average traffic cone.
Really.
For him to steal Roxy's panties, I wonder if he thought such a thing was fine to do.
No, there isn't.
There’s no excuse.
It's an unforgivable action.
Even if he is a prince, there's things you can and cannot do.
It's natural that Roxy would run away.
...Huh?
If I follow that logic, could it be that the reason why Roxy stopped being my home teacher is my fault?
"Rather than that, let's talk about this doll."
While saying that Zanoba patted the shoulder area of the Roxy doll.
That's right, it's better to change those kinds of gloomy topics.
While thinking that, I nodded with a serious face.
"I don't have eyes for dolls. I've been collecting dolls from all over the world, but..."
Starting with the preface, he started to tell me.
That's right, he should speak.
"Only this doll, both the producer and the place of production are unknown. I can understand it was created by shaving down a stone, but it's heavier and harder than what the skilled Dwarves can make with their stone craftsmanship. In order to shave down such a solid and hard stone, such carving techniques don't exist right now... For example... look at this staff piece. It would probably be impossible for even the most skilled dwarves to shave down such a hard stone this thin."
Zanoba held up the staff the doll was holding in his fingers while saying that.
The thin parts like the staff break easily.
In order to compensate for that flaw, I had to make a considerable number of trial attempts and mistakes.
In return for all those attempts, it gained a high hardness and rigidity.
It's made of the same material as the grip part of Ruijerd doll's spear, but this part took a considerable amount of magic power, concentration, and time in order to create.
If I were to put it into detail, it took about 1 day to create 1 cm.
Even though I say that, you could call it the crystallization of my production technique.
It ended up becoming something that won't break or bend.
It's one of the parts that has a bit of a scheming to it.
It makes me happy to be praised.
"This sort of splendid item was being sold for only 5 Asura Gold coins. If it were me I'd have paid 100 Asura Gold coins for it. Those who live in the town really have no eye for quality, I'm troubled by how spineless they are. Although, I'm sure they took into account the fact that it was a Magic Race figure when the price was made this cheap. If the Milis Church Temple Knights were to find out you were holding such a figure, even a prince of Shirone would be put through a heresy interrogation, and probably end up being killed as a follower of a Demon God cult. If you were to go in for bargaining, then there's many number of reasons you could use."
While holding his head, Zanoba sighed and shrugged his shoulders.
Would they kill you?
It seems like the Temple Knight Group are all fanatics.
"However, I still decided to try looking for the producer of this figure. I don't really want to get involved with someone related to a Demon God cult, but I wanted to talk to the person who created this figure. During that time, Lilia suddenly appeared in my room. It was the next day after Roxy had left."
Hmmm.
It ended up with them crossing paths without realizing it by coincidence, huh.
"Lilia was captured by the soldiers, a variety of things happened and it ended up that Pax was managing her, but among Lilia's belonging there was this sort of thing."
While saying that Zanoba took a small box out from the bag.
It was a box about the size of a fist that I had no recollection of.
"I found it mysterious as to why she was carrying around something like this as an important item, but well, take a good look."
Zanoba opened the box enough for me the see well inside of it.
He took out a soft looking cloth that had been wrapped up and placed inside of it, Zanoba then carefully opened the cloth.
The thing that was wrapped inside of it was a pendant carved of wood.
I have a feeling like I've seen it somewhere before...
Naturally it was handmade, and it conveys a feeling of the clumsiness of the producer.
"That pendant... What about it?"
"Hmm, this pendant doesn't matter at all."
While saying that Zanoba placed the pendant on top of the bag.
All of his movements are one of carefulness.
You can sense his favorable impression.
However, I wonder what it means for the things inside of the box to not matter at all.
Then I saw it there.
I recognized the cloth that the pendant had been wrapped in.
"Well, it's these panties."
Zanoba said that while spreading the cloth.
There's no mistake.
That is...