Volume 10 Chapter 9 (2/2)

”Mhm, she can't miss with this”

Rorono really has no confidence on Raphael's aim, does she?

”Actually, this too was supposed to be a protective tool for master. However, I deemed it a failure and shelved it.”

Rorono then pulled out the pin and threw the grenade.

After about two seconds, it exploded.

The air shook from the powerful blast.

”This grenade has a directional explosion. That means that its fragments will scatter on only one direction. If the fragments scattered in a forward direction and at point-blank range, it's not possible to evade all of the fragments.”

”But if it's just about frontal attacks, shotguns would do just as well, Rorono-chan! And if you make it a rapid-firing shotgun, all the better”

”But with Raph's slender arms, she wouldn't be able to endure the recoil of a shotgun and thus making her aim worse than it already is. Moreover, her Physical Strength stat isn't as high as yours, Kuina. The grenade's blast will deal more damage than a single shot from a shotgun. Of course, there will be a feature to allow her to store magic power beforehand to increase the grenade's damage, but that's beside the point for now.”

Rorono's points made perfects sense, but there was one thing I was wondering about.

”You said something about making the fragments scattering forward… will Raphael be able to pull that off each time?”

Raphael tripped herself down multiple times in the short while we have known her. I was worried she might blow herself up.

”Mhm, I've already thought of that. This grenade will respond to the owner's magic power by adjusting its position. In theory, no matter how the grenade is thrown, it will correct itself before exploding.”

”This will be the case even for Raphael?”

”…I'm absolutely certain it will be fine. I believe in her S+ Luck.”

As though she lacked confidence in what she was saying, Rorono turned her head away as she answered.

If it did work as intended, Raphael would have a means to react to enemies who have been able to close the distance. I wanted to trust Rorono's design and Raphael's S+ Luck, but my uneasiness on it all wasn't completely gone, so it might be best to do some tests with some that had reduced power.

”I still think we should do some tests later, but moving on, the next concern will be whether we can prepare a large number of this grenade, won't it?”

”We're all good in that regard as well. The structure of the grenade is quite simple and thus is easy to reproduce. I could make a batch of them about once a month. If anything, I see making too many more of an issue. But since they're easy to use, we could just distribute the surplus to others.”

”I see. I'll leave it up to you then. Just don't forget to reserve a few of them for me.”

”Understood.”

Like that, Raphael's equipment was determined.

I for one looked forward to the prototypes being completed.

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Then came the day to move.

The girls have already carried their belongings to the room downstairs where the Transfer arrays were in.

We have lived in this estate for a long time, so our belongings have increased since moving in.

Kuina's belongings were particularly plenty. Some of her stuffed toys and her clothes were even peeking out of their boxes.

In contrast, Rorono's belongings were very few. But then again, it could just be that a lot of her important things were in her workshop.

”Time to move ♪”

”I look forward to getting a bigger room”

”I'm so thankful you listened to our every demand for our new home, Rorono-chan. Our daily life going to be even lovelier.”

”Gaugau!”

My three girls and their pet were in a good mood.

As for my own belongings, they were already packed. I've entrusted the packing to the Mythological Foxes serving as maids though.

Our new home was going to be located in the [Recovery] room, but this estate would still be known as the lord of Avalon's home. Guests as well as paperworks would still be received here.

Now, going back and forth between our new home in the [Recovery] room and this estate in the city would be quite tiring without Transfer, so I decided to make the Abyss Howls always be posted in either location.

Of course, I could Transfer anywhere in my dungeon by myself through my powers as a Demon Lord, but Kuina and the others couldn't.

”Alright, let's go to our new home, shall we?”

”Yay ♪”

”Mhm”

”Let's go”

”Gau!”

And so, the Abyss Howls on standby began transporting us.

Right after the Transfer was finished, all of us went outside.

We immediately noticed the transplanted golden apple tree towering magnificently. Its refreshing golden Qi wrapped around my body and made me feel comfortable.

Not far from the tree was our new home. Even from afar, the building looked splendid and majestic.

And it really was splendid and majestic. Rorono and Aura both did the best they could to grant the house protection against physical and magical attacks. If for some reason an adventurer has made it all the way here, we should still hold a defensive battle.

By the way, the [Recovery] room was the very last dungeon room before my crystal room. In other words, this house was our final line of defense. So, making this house be able to defend against threats wasn't just out of fancy.

Additionally, because Rorono had accepted and incorporated requests from everyone, the comfort of living in the new house should be far beyond from what we already had before.

It was all so exciting.

But that's enough fun for now. After moving a few boxes inside, I should head to the [Mine] with Rorono. This might be long overdue, but that's all the more reason I should fulfill my role as a father.

…if we do find a metal that exceeded even orichalcum, Avalon should grow even stronger.