Chapter 581: Shes a Wonderful and Thoughtful Lover (1/2)

The 2nd day of the second Fire Month. I was at Alice’s grocery store as usual, when Alice spoke to me with a really smug look on her face.

[Look at this, Kaito-san! Look at all these new products I’ve created!]

As she said this, Alice laid out on the counter a number of magic tools that seemed to be around 20 in number. Since she said they’re new products, that should mean all of them are magic tools that have never been used before.

Thinking about it again, being able to make 20 new products sounds like an awful lot to me……

[Heehhh…… That’s quite a lot. Since when have you been making those large numbers of new items?]

[Fufufu, don’t underestimate Alice-chan. Since I was able to use all the materials I could at the Six Kings Festival, I made some items for myself!]

[……I don’t know if I should be impressed or be astounded……]

[That’s how I was able to create new products that I had only been planning to make because their materials were too rare and difficult to make!]

I’m not sure if I should say she’s shrewd or she’s greedy, but well, that’s just like Alice.

Even though I said that, I’m also interested in the new products that Alice has created. I have a feeling that some of them might be joke products but……

[……So, what items are they?]

[Well then, let’s start with this one! Kaito-san, do you have any guess what item this could be?]

[H- Hmmm…… It kinda looks like contact lenses so……]

[That’s correct. To be precise though, they’re like the colored contact lenses in Kaito-san’s world……]

The first thing Alice showed to me were colored contact lenses…… Is this the new product? Could it be that it has some kind of function that’s unlike the usual contact lenses?

[Fufufu, these may look like they’re just another fashion item, but these contact lenses actually have an amazing function!]

[Fumu fumu.]

[Surprise, surprise…… It actually “glows when you hold your hand over it” like this!!!]

[Ohhh…… Unnn?]

[Like I said, when you hold your hand over it like this, it gives off a strong flash of light!]

[……U- Unnn…… And?]

[Eh?]

The colored contacts certainly emit a rather strong light when Alice holds her hand over it but…… what’s the point?

[Errr…… It just glows?]

[It just glows?]

[……What happens after it glows?]

[Isn’t it cool when it glows!?]

[……………….]

What should I do? From the very first item, it’s already a joke product. What kind of reaction am I supposed to have to this mysterious item?

[Errr, what’s your target audience?]

[…… 14-year-olds who want to have the Tyr*nt’s Eye?]

[What’s with that oddly specific target audience!?]

[No, no, this is still making use of an earth-shattering technology! I needed terrific technology to imbue the magic circle in this thin lens. The intensity of the light is adjustable, and you can even choose the color!]

M- My head is starting to hurt. I feel like I’m seeing someone putting effort in the wrong direction.

[……What a waste of technology. I mean, wouldn’t it be more expensive if it took that much effort?]

[Well, a set would roughly cost one silver coin!]

[……It will never sell.]

Who would pay 100,000 yen for a toy like this…… Seriously, what’s on her mind when she decided to make this…… She should have just stopped at the planning stage.

[T- Then, how about this?]

[……It looks like a “firecracker”, but I have a bad feeling about that.]

[These are great because as soon as you pull the string, the contents would break apart and disperse it over a very wide area!]

[……………….]

[I- Incidentally, it has a maximum range of “2 kilometers”!]

[……This is a weapon, you know?]

Now, I know. What she created weren’t “new products to sell in stores”. They’re “joke goods that she came up with but didn’t make because of the cost”.

At this rate, the other products will most probably be of very limited use. Eh? In other words, am I going to have to sit through her presentation of stupid joke goods for a while? ……Would she mind if I go home already?

[Hmmm. I think it would bring lots of fun at a party or something…… Speaking of parties, when is your birthday, Kaito-san?]

[What? That came out of the blue……]

[Well, not only just because I’m your best friend and lover, I was just thinking that I would like to know that information…… It’s fine if it’s in the calendar of your world, Kaito-san, so just tell me.]

[Putting aside how you’re shamelessly brandishing your position as usual…… It’s on July 2.]

[Heehhh…… Then, that would mean it’s on the “2nd day of the second Fire month” in this world…… Eh? Eeeehhhhh!? W- Wait! Kaito-san, doesn’t that mean today is your birthday!?]

[……Now that you mentioned it, indeed……]

Since the New Year transitions between Heaven month and Fire month, if I consider the Heaven month as December and Fire month as January……That would certainly make today my birthday. However, if I were to be asked if I think it actually was my birthday today, I would have to say no since I was caught up in the Hero summoning in summer……

(T/N: Kaito is summoned around June to August, while 6 months have passed since then, so he never thought it would be his birthday.)