Yggdrasil-san is stacking upside-down wooden cups, then nesting them back together, over and over again.
「Fuwaa……」
「So, Alec――Alec?」
She quickly stacks the cups, then nests them back into one again. She repeats that motion over and over.
Stacking them, nesting them, stacking them, nesting them, again and again at high speed……
「Fuwaa…… huh? Ah, sorry. I got completely absorbed watching」
「Hmm」
What Yggdrasil-san is doing right now is a game called cup stacking.
You lift upside-down nested cups with your hands and stack them into a pyramid shape. Then you collapse the pyramid and nest the cups again. That is the game.
Yggdrasil-san keeps rapidly building and clearing two-tier pyramids with three cups, and three-tier pyramids with six cups.
The speed at which she completes a pyramid in a fraction of a second made me stare without realizing it.
Pyramids appearing and disappearing right in front of my eyes completely captivated me.
「That is amazing, Yggdrasil-san. I feel like I could watch this forever」
「Hmm. Watch closely」
「Yes. Thank you」
Answering with a slightly proud tone, Yggdrasil-san instantly built a four-tier pyramid with ten cups, then instantly made it disappear.
The fact that she can keep doing it while talking is also impressive.
「These cups you made are quite good. They are very well made」
「Thank you very much. I actually struggled quite a bit」
The cups Yggdrasil-san is using are not just ordinary wooden cups.
They are something I made specifically for this game.
The Woodworking Series Part 46, Cup Stacking Cups.
「If I recall, it was Varnish Coating, was it not?」
「Yes. They were made almost entirely with Varnish Coating」
In my memories from my previous life, plastic cups were used for this game. So, I tried to make something similar to plastic cups.
I aimed to make them as light and as thin as possible.
As a result, they ended up being made almost entirely with Varnish Coating.
In short, they are basically just wood shavings stuck together with Varnish Coating.
The shavings that come off when planing wood, thin film-like shavings. I cut those into cup shapes and glued them together with Varnish Coating.
「Varnish, hm…… yet they are not sticky at all. They feel rather smooth instead」
「Well, that part can be adjusted freely」
「Varnish Coating truly is impressive」
If the cups stuck to each other, it would be a problem, so I chose a varnish with that kind of texture.
Honestly, I sometimes wonder if this can even be called varnish anymore.
「Also, there seems to be a hole in the bottom of the cups noja?」
「If the air cannot escape, you cannot stack the cups quickly」
「I see」
Thinking about stacking speed, I made holes in the bottoms of the cups.
Of course, because of those holes, if you pour any kind of drink into them, everything flows right out.
At that point, I cannot help but wonder if they can really be called cups anymore.
Anyway, for that reason, I made about twelve of these cup stacking cups.
After a fair amount of trial and error, I managed to make twelve cups of the same shape and size.
I then gave them to Yggdrasil-san, and she seems to be enjoying them quite a lot.
As for me, being able to watch her elegant cup handling has been very satisfying.
「Ah, by the way, were you not about to say something to me?」
「Hmm. It is about the dungeon. About dungeon 4-1. Are children still not allowed to enter?」
「Yes, that is correct. It seems that large field-type areas take quite a while to check……」
It has already been a month since Nana-san and I created the 4-1 area.
Even so, child elves are still prohibited from entering.
As usual, new areas cannot be entered right after they are made. Right now, adult elves are conducting safety checks.
As usual, Diana-chan has been complaining, saying 「Unfair, unfairー」.
「Well, we expected that from the start, so I do not really mind……」
「Did something happen?」
「It seems that a rather difficult problem has come up……」
「Hm?」
Since I am still not allowed to enter, this is something I only heard from others. From what the adult elves and Nana-san have said, at least.
Which reminds me. Why is Nana-san allowed to enter anyway. Is that not unfair. She is only two years old…….
…Well, whatever. In any case, from what I hear, everyone seems to be enjoying themselves quite a bit.
Fishing, swimming, enjoying the 4-1 area however they like.
They are enjoying it, but――
「It seems women still cannot really swim」
「Well, that is……」
The male elves apparently swim around splashing happily, wearing their usual clothes on the bottom and nothing on top.
The female elves, however, cannot do the same.
The women elves, who possess quite strong ideas of modesty, apparently feel uncomfortable exposing their skin in public.
Naturally, they cannot just undress. And even if they tried swimming with their clothes on, that would end up looking rather suggestive in its own way.
「Since we went through all this trouble, I would like the women to enjoy it as well……」
「Hmm. Even so……」
「I did come up with a countermeasure, at least in my own way」
「Oh?」
Over the past month, I had thought about it quite a bit and taken some action.
「I thought we could――make swimsuits」
「Swimsuits?」
I figured making swimsuits would solve it. If they wore clothing made specifically for swimming, it would not feel embarrassing. That was my reasoning.
「Clothing worn when swimming. There were such things in my previous life」
「Oh. Swimsuits, hmm」
「So I worked together with Jered-papa-san and started making them」
「Jered-papa. That would be the weapon shop owner, yes?」
「That is right」
…Well, when I think about it, that is not actually his name. But calling him Jered-papa is fine, I guess.
「You made them with the weapon shop owner?」
「Since we were using monster materials, I thought Jered-papa-san would be the right choice」
Jered-papa is also skilled at making armor.
If you are making clothes from monster materials, he is the obvious person to ask.
「And we started making them――or rather, we already made them」
「Hm? They are finished already?」
「Yes. They are finished, but……」
「But?」
「Jered-papa-san……was completely put off」
I thought I had made a perfectly normal women’s swimsuit, but from Jered-papa’s point of view, it was apparently far too provocative.
It seems the design was too cutting-edge. Too far ahead of its time.
Jered-papa had been completely put off ever since we started making it, and even after it was finished, he was still completely put off.
「Completely put off…… What exactly did you make, child?」
「I thought it was just a normal swimsuit……」
「Do you still have it?」
「Eh? Well, yes」
Jered-papa had said, 『There’s no way I can keep something like this…… Take it back……』 so I ended up storing it myself.
「Hmm. I would like to see it」
「Eh」
「Will you show it to me?」
「I do not really mind, but……」
If Yggdrasil-san insists that much, I cannot really refuse.
But is this going to be okay. I can only imagine her being put off as well……
I can only imagine her looking at me like, this guy is dangerous…….
Feeling a bit anxious, I walked over to the magic bag I had left in the room.
Then I rummaged through it――and pulled out a vividly green bikini set.
「This is it……」
「Hmm? That is it?」
「Yes. Um…… this part is the top, and this is the bottom」
「Ah, eh……?」
It seems she could not understand what the bikini was just by looking at it.
So I held it up and explained that one piece is worn on top and the other on the bottom.
「This is women’s swimwear……」
「Uah」
Yggdrasil-san let out a small groan and dropped the cup stacking cups she was holding.
The cup pyramid collapsed with a clattering sound.
I knew it……
She is completely put off too…….
next chapter: Boomerang Pants
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