My Reincarnation Skills Are “Playing With Dolls” and “Playing With Clay”, but What Am I Supposed to Do With These? C195

Episode 195 Geraldson hypothesis about the world

We looked at "Miphrudates III" as it became smaller on the horizon, and waved again at the end, even though we shouldn't be able to see it. 

"He's gone."

"They were noisy girls, but I feel a little sad when they're gone."

Returning to town on horseback, we shared some steamed buns from a food stall to fill our empty stomachs, and then headed to the inn where Dr. Thomas Geraldson, who I had heard about yesterday, was staying. 

Unlike our commoners' inn, it's in a corner of an upscale district where the magistrate's mansion is located. 

At the reception desk of the inn, an elderly man who looked like a butler was standing, and when I told him about my business, a boy who looked like a maid trotted off and disappeared into the back hallway. 

After a while, Thomas came out, looking like he had just woken up, wearing what looked like pajamas, and with messy hair. 

“Oh, now that I think about it, did you promise?”

Hey, I guess that's what you said, come over because I want to talk. 

For some reason, I guess you could say that I don't really know anything other than technology, or that I don't have any common sense. This old man has been living safely in this world for 20 years. 

The room Thomas was taken to was, as expected, a VIP room, with a large reception room in addition to the bedroom. 

“Do you have any orders?”

It seemed that Thomas was going to have breakfast, so he seated us on the sofa, asked the female inn employee for his own breakfast, and then handed her the menu. 

“I just had a quick snack, so let’s have four of these fruit juices.”

"...Also, may I ask for two of the same items as Mr. Thomas..."

Nolte was looking up at me, glancing at my complexion. 

Of course, that's fine... 

He was underestimating Nolte and Carmilla's appetite. I even ate breakfast at the inn before going to see them off. 

"Oh yeah, I remembered. What I wanted to ask is, what year did you come here?"

It seems like he finally remembered the requirements after calling someone. What Thomas brought up seems to be about the time axis gap that he talked about with Gen-san earlier. 

It seems like Thomas came here about 30 years before me. 

In other words, will it be from the same era as Canalilla's Babrika? But the destination they flew to was about 200 years off. 

As expected, he seems to have a lot of theories in the technical field, and he talked about things like parallel worlds and space-time distortions, but I couldn't understand them at all. 

However, the next line woke me up. 

"Why do you think this world exists?"

"Eh...why does it exist?"

Why is there a world of swords and magic like this in an RPG? 

I've noticed from the beginning that this world feels strangely like an RPG, but when asked again, "Why is it like that?", it's true that people don't get it. 

However, Thomas was basically a guy who didn't want to ask people anything, but wanted people to hear his own theory. I gradually came to understand. 

Besides, you can't talk about what's going on in this world unless you're a reincarnated person. 

"I have a hypothesis that this world is a world created by the consciousness collective of us reincarnated people..."

 teeth? What do you mean by consciousness? 

“Um, something like the “I think, therefore I am” philosophy?”

"No, that's stupid."

　Don't get mad, what's going on? 

"It's the way it is because we think it is, if you put it that way."

I don't understand even more. 

“That is to say. You, me, and all the other reincarnated people as far as we know, there is something about these underdeveloped science and technology that makes it worth taking on new challenges, to put it in your words, “RPG-like swords.” "The world of magic"? He had some kind of strong interest in that kind of world. 

 yeah? Well, it's true that Gen and I both love fantasy RPGs like this. 

Hatori said that he also wanted to become a ninja, and the ninja world in his head is not really the real one of the Sengoku period, but a fantasy world of ninja comics. 

And Thomas didn't want swords and magic, but he wanted to develop a world with underdeveloped science and technology... 

"This world was formed as the 'greatest common denominator world' that so many people desired, or those who desired it were reincarnated into the world that was formed...for example."

I couldn't understand what Thomas was saying, but I couldn't refute it right away either. 

I don't think it's true that "this world was created because we were interested in this kind of world," but this kind of world existed, and those of us who were interested in it were drawn to it. , Isn't it possible that God Sama chose him as his place of reincarnation? 

But wait a minute. 

“Then, there are only a few of us who are reincarnated, right? What about the people who originally existed in this world, Lucien, Nolte, and Carmilla?”

"I think you have the answer to that yourself. You like RPGs, don't you? Characters that originally exist in the in-game world that you can't control, NPCs. They're like that, they're like employees of this world. It might be something...”

"What!? You're not kidding! Are you saying that Nolte and the others are mob characters in a game? Don't be silly."

I couldn't help but get angry and screamed. 

All three of them are my important partners. Is it okay to be a standard mob character prepared by the system? Daiichi, there's no way you'd say something like that in front of them, right? 

However, I also felt that something was falling into place deep inside my head as I cried out. 

Lucien, Nolte, and even Carmilla were staring at Thomas' face, silently thinking about something. 

Thomas really didn't mean any harm, he was just more clumsy with people than I was, and he repeatedly apologized to the three of them, saying, "It was my fault, my fault," in his own apologetic manner. 

Then, if you have a chance to go to the duchy capital Gallipoli or the Marquis of Foot, please visit the Marquis, and he gave me a handwritten letter of introduction. 

The Marquis of Foote is a generous nobleman who fully supports Thomas in this world to devote himself to inventing as much as he wants, and he says that if he tells him that he is a reincarnated person, he will be of great help. . 

To be honest, I don't really feel like having anything to do with a stupid person, and I don't really want them to help me in any way, but I understand that Thomas meant it as an apology, so I just accept it. . 

Soon, a carriage bearing the emblem of the Duchy of Garis came to pick up Thomas. 

It seems like they have plans to test another mobile ship and analyze flight data from a balloon today, so they have to leave now. 

I think you should wake up a little earlier, but it seems like last night you were working on ideas for a new invention until the wee hours of the morning. 

Thomas seemed to be having so much fun in this world right now. 

Then, just as he was about to leave, he suddenly seemed to remember something and turned towards me.　

"I forgot something important! There is another topic at hand."

　What's the matter? I'm about to get to the main topic, and I forgot. 

"You must have some interesting skills, and you're an alchemist. That's why I would like you to help me develop my technology."

"Huh? No, we're on a trip and we were thinking of leaving soon, so why do we have to go to the trouble of cooperating in the first place?"

"What are you talking about? Even if it's just a small contribution to human progress, it's possible!"

This guy is a weirdo after all. 

Even though you've just treated my girls as mob characters, what kind of nerve do you have that you're just forcing your own convenience on them? 

Or rather, the reincarnated people I've met in this world have only been weirdos so far, haven't they? 

Rather, Shiro's hypothesis seems to hold true: ``Only people who are strange are reincarnated in this world.''

(I agree, including you)

Wow, self-destruct! ? Lina, I don't think so. Get hold of this man who is an example of decency and tolerance. 

Perhaps if I had cooperated with Thomas at this time, things might have turned out differently after that, but I'll ignore that flag. 

Thomas, who seemed reluctant to leave anything behind, kept sticking his head out the window even after getting into the carriage. 

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After parting ways with Thomas, we visited the adventurer's guild in Terzante. 

Maggie and the others' research quest has already ended, so there's no need to gather information related to demons, but it's customary for adventurers to show up at the guild when they visit another country. 

Besides, I'm going to be a freelance adventurer again from now on, so if I get a good job, I'll take it. 

I'm also curious about what the war situation will be like after that. 

It seems that Terzante's population exceeds 100,000 people, including those involved in the adjacent military port, but the adventurer's guild is smaller than I expected, about the same size as the guilds of Douras and Munica. 

In the Principality of Garis, which is undergoing rapid economic growth and increasing its military power, recruitment of soldiers is booming, and it seems that those with skills become soldiers rather than adventurers, and there is a chronic shortage of adventurers. . 

That's why I heard at the guild that it's not large enough to warrant a military presence, and that the number of thieves and monsters on the roads is increasing, and the public order is only getting worse. 

And since the Garis army stopped recruiting demi-humans for a long time, there were a few demi-humans among the few adventurers. 

There was a cat person like Butch at the guild reception, and among the adventurers who were looking at the quest bulletin board and in the guild, there were three dog people and two frog people. 

However, when I spoke to the frog-people duo, they said that the country in Garis has become rapidly uncomfortable over the past few years, and that they are thinking of moving their base to another country soon. 

When we told him about how we met a frogman merchant on the ship going to Parthea, he seemed happy, and the bond among frogmen, or rather the sense of kinship, seemed to be quite strong. 

Looking at the quest bulletin board, in addition to the usual missions such as guarding and gathering medicinal herbs, there are also monster subjugation requests that are quite old. 

It's probably because the security situation is so bad that there aren't enough adventurers. 

However, there were no quests that particularly caught my eye. 

Also, detailed information about the war doesn't seem to be included in this guild. 

Well, it's not really the capital, and there's a military base nearby, but that might be why general adventurers don't get any information. 

Since it's a small guild, there doesn't seem to be any way to obtain information like magic communication. 

That said, I'm curious. 

Considering that even Algol is participating in the war, and that discrimination against demi-humans is becoming stronger even here in Garis, I wonder if the war will still spread? 

"I think so too. If possible, I'd like to go to the duchy capital Gallipoli as soon as possible. It seems like there's more information there. Also, there might be less discrimination against demi-humans in the duchy capital than in local cities."

Lucien also agreed, so we decided to leave the next morning. 

Of the two horses that Maggie and Butch were riding, they decided to sell one and take the other with them as a draft horse and replacement horse. By combining everyone's backpacks and loading them onto the packhorse, you'll gain some mobility. 

　

In the afternoon, I toured the town and the commercial port, looking for souvenirs, but to be honest, there wasn't much that caught my eye. Meurone is better as a tourist destination. 

　

In this way, we left the port town of Terzante at dawn the next day and headed overland for the capital city of Gallipoli.