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“Phew… that takes care of all of them!”

There was a veritable mountain of books. Looking at them now, it seemed incredible that I had fixed all of them. Likely excited after seeing some tomes restored, the librarians and soldiers who’d come to help only quickened their pace, so we ended up with this huge amount.

“This far exceeds the number of books We were planning to ask you to restore…” the king mused.
“O-Our apologies. We thought we’d ask her to fix all of them, since we had the opportunity,” a librarian replied timidly. “Mostly since it appeared that the process of restoring them didn’t take all that long.”
“You fool! What we witnessed wasn’t the part that took the most time. She had to prepare all this liquid before coming here. Am I assuming correctly?”
“Y-Yes, this is correct.”

These people likely knew that I could produce items in a limitless quantity. Maybe they were just trying to show off in front of me, given they were my fans. Oh, whatever.

“Still, this really was a great help. Every last one of them looks brand new.”
“Even the books that were old and tattered when we obtained them are now pristine.”
“Eh-heh-heh.”

It felt good to somehow contribute to the study of history, as if I was part of their cycle.

“We’re thinking of reopening the investigation of the diary right away!” the scholar said.
“Oh, that reminds me!”

This might be perceived as meddling, but I did have a proposal for them. Or rather, I had the perfect item for their research. It was something I’d been relying on even before I reached my current strength. Well, I still did for studying.

“Is something wrong, Alim?”
“Do you need tools for speed-reading? I could lend them to you!”
“We already have seven articles that allow you to read at ten times the normal speed, so We should be good.”
“Well, the ones I’m talking about are-”

I’d since made several improvements to my speed-reading glasses.

First, you could freely adjust the reading speed from normal up to a thousandfold increase. Furthermore, they automatically interpreted and understood the contents of books and would tell the user of important commonalities when reading other books using the same pair of glasses. At this point, they were an exceptional tool.

It was incredible that they could do all this at legend grade.

“Hah… How were you even able to make something like that, Alim…? In that case, We would like to borrow several pairs. We assume that you can create more of them, is that correct?”
“Of course!”
“If possible, We would take a pair that you used previously, Alim… No, don’t look at Us like that! It was a joke!”

In any case, I let them borrow five of the improved speed-reading glasses.

“This should help Our investigation… All of you, We are counting on you.”
“Yes!”
“Thank you for your hard work, soldiers and librarians. You may return to your posts… You do have work to do, don’t you…? Will you leave Us already?!”

Contrasting with those who left immediately to work on their research, the other librarians and soldiers kept looking at me with a hint of regret. Mika and I decided to work together to get them back to their work.

“Everyone!”
“Would you please…”
“”…go back to your work?””

We winked while holding hands.
Ah, Mika’s so cute I might faint.

“Hah, we’re going~…”
“Whatever you shay… eh-heh-heh…”

It looked as if they had sudden bouts of weakness, as they made their way back to their workplace with entranced expressions. We did it!

“So, King Rama, is there anything else you need from-”
“Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh…”

Oh, no, I completely forgot that our biggest fan was still here. He stood there looking happy with his mouth standing open and blood dripping from his nose. It was unfortunate to see him in such a sorry state, which how handsome he normally looked… It reminded me of a certain someone from Earth. Another déjà vu.

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“Our apologies, the two of you looked simply so cute, We ended up losing Our composure.”
“Ha-ha-ha.”

This went way beyond “losing your composure”! Even after ten minutes, he hadn’t come back to his senses. Our charm was a scary thing.

“In any case, that should do it for this matter.”
“We have work tomorrow, so we’ll be going home, Your Majesty.”
“When we visit again, we’ll make proper time, so Alim and I can go on a date,” Mika added.
“We see, feel free to do so.”

There was a smack… or rather, a heavy thump as the king placed a pile of large gold coins onto the parlor’s table. This was probably my pay.

“Once more, you have Our thanks.”
“Of course! This should be it for us.”
“Once We have the results of the investigation, We’ll contact you. With the seals of several evil gods breaking in succession, it likely would be better for you to stay informed.”
“We won’t say no, in that case.”

I guess all that remains is to contact Kanata to bring us back. Hang on, I’m forgetting something… Right, that matter about the backstreet alley. Not good, I should keep better track of these things.

“My apologies, but there is another matter we wanted to talk to you about.”
“Hrm, what might that be?”
“It concerns this country’s public safety…”
“Ah, that. We presume you perceived it as poor.”

It sounded like the king was aware of the issue.

“Yes. We were targeted by some ruffians… although we were in disguise at that point.”
“What? Do you remember their faces? We shall capture them right away and put them to death!”
“Th-That’s going a bit far. Was that another joke, Your Majesty?”
“…I was serious. This country’s biggest issues are the caste system and poor public safety. If only there was something we could do.”

Now, how far should I go to help with this?

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