Volume 4 Chapter 4 Part1 (1/2)

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Minasan oideyasu. This is Yukkuri demasu!

Juna’s chapter!

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guarantee that my translation is 100% correct. Please correct me if I was

wrong.

Author:

Dozeumaru(どぜう丸)

Translator:

Yukkuri Oniisan

Editor:

So-Chintzy

Enlightenment Arc

Chapter 4 FDF A

――― One day on the middle of the Second

Month of 1547 CE (Continent Era)

「Oh! Your

Majesty, I bid you welcome!」(Moltov)

After pa.s.sing through the doors

of the recording studio, of the Royal Voice Broadcast, that was constructed inside

the castle, I was greeted with an exaggerated gesture from a nice looking middle-aged

n.o.bleman. He was the father of Ivan Juniro ――the person behind Friedonia's

first tokusatsu hero 『Silvan』――,

Moltov Juniro.

「Hi, Moltov.

How goes the program production?」(Souma)

「I am

producing it by seeing Your Majesty's example.」(Moltov)

Actually several days ago, his son

Ivan, as Silvan, had become popular, so I took a momentous decision to appoint Moltov

as the production director of the broadcast program. I wanted to create a

system where we could still produce the programs even when I was busy with other

work. I thought that since Moltov himself had the same special effects ability

like Ivan, wouldn’t he be remarkably cut out for this task? Moltov put his

hands on his beard while speaking.

「My, producing

this program is a profound task. What the citizens want to see, what they don’t

want to see, what we want to show to the public, what we don’t want to show……

balancing these aspects is very difficult.」(Moltov)

He seemed to be seriously thinking

about this, so I felt relieved.

「……Do

you want to quit?」(Souma)

「Not

at all!  This is something worth doing!」(Moltov)

Moltov smiled lively as he said

this. Somehow I felt that he had a better expression than when he was pressing his

daughter Siena to be my consort. Siena herself had appeared in the tokusatsu program alongside her older

brother Ivan as Silvan’s support heroine (a position similar to Electro-Wave

Human Tackle in Kamen Rider Stronger, or Diana in Spielban).[1]

『I

think I had found my life’s calling. The n.o.bles’ path of advancement is

limited. It will be either through increasing merits in military or domestic

affairs, or through becoming a relative of the Royal Family. Because there were

no other ways, they ended up trying their utmost best on that path. But His Majesty

has taught a new way to my father. A joy to produce broadcast programs that can

delight the citizens. I am truly grateful.』

She said this while smiling

softly. Geez, what a praiseworthy girl. I couldn’t believe that she shares the

same blood as that noisy pair of father and son. Let’s get back to the topic. Just

like what Siena had said, Moltov was rigorously working on the program’s production.

I extended my hand out to Moltov.

「I'm

expecting much from you, Moltov. If you continue to learning diligently at this

pace, perhaps one day I might be able to entrust you with one of the orbs.」(Souma)

「It can’t

be! An orb!?」(Moltov)

「Yes.

And then, it will not just be public broadcasting, but I'd like for you to open

an independent broadcast station.」(Souma)

In other words, I want him to establish

a 『commercial broadcasting station』. If

we only perform public broadcasting indefinitely, the number of programs that we

could produce would be limited. Well, in order to implement this, we would have

to wait for more technological advancements and legislations related to broadcasting,

so it wouldn’t be something that was going to happen soon. However, I expected

it to happen in the next five to ten years, so we should still prepare for it. Moltov

smiled cheerfully.

「So I

will be entrusted with an independent broadcast station?! My dreams spread out even

more!」(Moltov)

「Yes,

so please do your best.」(Souma)

「Please

leave it to me!」(Moltov)

Moltov hit his chest.[2]

「By

the way, Your Majesty, why are you here today?」(Moltov)

「Oh,

yes, that’s right. I thought that Juna-san might be here……」(Souma)

「Juna

Dohma-dono is it? Right now she is in the middle of the 『Educational

Program』 broadcast.」(Moltov)

Mortov pointed at the studio.

Right now was the time for Juna-san’s 「Educational Program」 live broadcast. The song that Juna-san was currently

singing and dancing was the 『West Breeze One After Another』[3]. It was my favorite song in the NHK’s Educational TV children’s

music program 「Singing Odoronpa!」[4]. The appearance of Juna-san dancing with flowing

scarves attached to her sleeves, fluttering and trailing behind her as she moved,

was truly like that of a celestial maiden(Tennyo).[5]

I instinctively thought of the poem: 「The

pathways of the clouds, seal up!」[6]

When the broadcast was eventually

finished, Juna-san ran towards me while still in her costume.

「What's

the matter, Your Majesty? You shouldn’t have any appoinments in your schedule to

visit here today, right?」(Juna)

「No,

I’m not. Just, there is something that I wanted to ask Juna-san for a bit.」(Souma)

「Me?」(Juna)

Juna-san asked and I nodded.

「For three

days starting from tomorrow, I will depart from the capital to meet with a

certain person, so I'd like Juna-san to come with me as my companion.」(Souma)

「I

don’t mind, but…… That means you will be absent from the Capital for three days?」(Juna)

Juna-san slightly tilted her head.

「With

all due respect, but wouldn’t the government affairs be stalled in Your Majesty’s

absence?」(Juna)

「Ah, it

wouldn’t be a problem, since the thing that I asked Ginya to make had been completed.」(Souma)

I asked Ginya Maxwell, the self-proclaimed

『Over

Scientist』 and the fiancée of the Royal Knights Commander Ludwin,

to construct “a certain thing”.

My ability, the 【Living

Poltergeist】, is an ability to split my own consciousness and to transfer

it into objects to make them float and manipulate them from a bird's-eye perspective,

but the effective range was only about 100 meters. Hence, when I made the pens work

in the office, I must stay within the 100 meter radius from the office at all

times. For that reason, I was so busy with my work that I couldn’t go outside

the Capital for more than a day excluding emergency situations.

It became obvious afterward that

the effective range of this ability can be disregarded when the object that my consciousness

was transferred into was a doll, but unfortunately, I couldn’t write that well

with dolls. Even though I could write well when manipulating the pen directly,

but it was extremely difficult to make the doll hold the pen and write. It was as

if you were using a remote control to operate a robotic arm holding a pen. Even

when I concentrated intently, I could only write earthworm-like letters.

I mustn’t leave such a messy

handwriting in important doc.u.ments. There were many doc.u.ments where any

misreadings can become serious problem, after all. To conclude, even if using the

doll could disregard the ability’s limited range, it didn’t change the current situation

where I couldn’t leave the Kingdom for a prolonged period of time. So I thought

like this: “I wish I had 『a doll that can write letters』”.

That way I can work even if I am in a faraway place, and thus I could leave the

Capital completely rea.s.sured.

Then, Ginya appeared on the stage.

With the dragon bones as the basis, combined with various metals and biological

materials, she was able to construct the mechanical dragon 『Mechadra』. Then,

I discovered that my ability could move it just like a real dragon. So I wondered

if she could make a doll that was able to perform a human-like hand movement. I

asked her to construct it, and she finished it just a few days ago, the 『Kobo

Arm Mark I』[7].

「This

is…… How should I say it……?」(Juna)

After waiting for Juna-san to have

a change of clothes, we went to the government affair office room to show her the

object in question, and Juna-san was at a loss for words. It was unusual for

Juna-san to be this dismayed, but this wasn’t that surprising, since 『Kobo

Arm Mark I』 was remarkably “disgusting”. There was a single weirdly

life-like arm attached to the L-shaped base. To put it into simple terms, it

was like an artificial arm manipulator, but…… Ginya… Why did you make it in