Leave a Comment / Reincarnation into a barrier master / By IX
Since the public questioning event, Mei had not returned to the mansion in the imperial capital, staying confined in the medical research laboratory at the Imperial University. It was twelve days later when she finally came back to the mansion.
Mei appeared completely worn out, as if she had been conducting non-stop experiments without sleep. Her face looked haggard, her eyes were bloodshot, and dark circles had formed beneath them. Roni, who had also been transferred with Mei, was in the same state – both of them were in terrible condition.
Upon their return to the mansion, Rico suggested that they take a bath. Naturally, I objected, thinking they should be put straight to bed. However, Rico insisted, and the two of them dragged their tired bodies towards the bath. As expected, they ended up drowning in the bath.
“Taking a bath after an all-nighter can be dangerous. Once you get into the hot water, the sense of relief and comfort can easily make you fall asleep. It’s fine if the bathtub is small, but ours is spacious. It’s no wonder they nearly drowned. The iron rule is to avoid taking a bath after an all-nighter,” I muttered with a smug look while taking care of Mei, who had been pulled out of the bathtub. But Rico was busy attending to Roni. This attitude of Rico’s was the same one she displayed when feeling guilty. Later, when she feels guilty, she becomes very adorable.
In a past life, I once experienced working for three consecutive days and nights without sleep and returned home in a daze. At that time, my seniors warned me, “Don’t get into the bath.” But I didn’t pay attention to such advice and ended up taking a bath. It was an incredibly pleasant sensation, as if I was ascending to the heavens, and I still remember it vividly. Then… my memory stopped, and when I came to, five hours had passed. The bathtub had turned into a pool, and I had a terrible experience. One of my seniors even nearly drowned in the bathtub and came close to meeting the grim reaper. Taking a bath after an all-nighter is dangerous.
Mei and Roni slept like logs. They kept sleeping, drowsy and lethargic, for a whole day. As we were having breakfast, Mei suddenly rushed into the dining room.
“Good morning, Mei.”
“I’m sorry, what day is it today?”
“It’s the morning of September 14th, Mei.”
“Oh… thank goodness… I had a dream that the deadline had passed…”
Mei slumped on the spot, looking exhausted. Roni was still asleep. We made Mei sit down and had breakfast together.
“Before that, where’s Aliria… Aliria…”
“She’s right here.”
Rico brought Aliria, and Mei happily hugged her, then she proceeded to breastfeed her, exposing her chest.
“Uh… Ah… My breasts got swollen during the experiment…”
“Mei, you shouldn’t force yourself. It must have been painful with your breasts so swollen.”
“I did try to express milk feed, but… thank you, Rico-sama, for taking care of Aliria.”
Mei endured the pain while breastfeeding. Aliria seemed to be hungry, as she eagerly drank Mei’s breast milk. Finally, when the feeding was over, and Aliria fell asleep, Mei started eating breakfast.
“Ah… delicious. It’s delicious. Thank you, Peyris-chan…”
With a genuinely delighted expression, Mei enjoyed her breakfast. Although we had been delivering lunch to them daily at the research laboratory, it seemed they sometimes skipped meals or barely ate due to their intense focus on replicating the experiment. As for bathing, they did have a bathtub, but they used it mainly to refresh themselves from sleepiness, nearly consumed by the experiment.
“So, how did the replication experiment go?”
Mei stopped eating and stared downward.
“Everything… has failed.”
“Failed? What do you mean?”
At that moment, the dining room door opened, and Roni appeared.
“Good morning, Ro.”
“The smell… my stomach… my stomach…”
It seemed that she was on the verge of starving. Anticipating this, I had prepared plenty of bread, soup, fried chicken, and salad for Roni. She started devouring them one after another.
“Roni, it’s okay to eat while talking. Mei just told me that the replication experiment failed, right?”
While eating, Roni nodded vigorously.
“Crimeana attempted the experiment where humans, beast people, and ogres, each afflicted with their respective diseases, were kept together. According to their claims, symptoms should have manifested within a day or two, but we saw no signs of infection whatsoever. To be sure, we kept them together for five days, but none of the beast people showed any signs of contagion.”
Roni paused, gulping down the food in her mouth.
“In short… Ah, more fried chicken, please? Sorry. And… more bread too…”
Roni raised her hand while stuffing her mouth with bread.
“Kirislei, Gaisha, and Luroans couldn’t prove Crimeana’s theory that they would be infected through the bodily fluids of beast people. None of the beast people or ogres used as test subjects got infected. Oh, fried potato… I’m perfectly fine. I can eat it… Uh, yeah. Also, there was no effective cure for those who got infected. Despite not wanting to do it, we made an experimental cure… and administered it to the infected humans, but we couldn’t confirm that the pathogens were eliminated or that the symptoms improved.”
“So, Crimeana was just spreading false information?”
“We can’t say for sure yet. Maybe Crimeana succeeded, or maybe other countries succeeded…”
Mei answered with a worried expression. Roni swallowed the food she had been chewing.
“Don’t worry, Mei-sama. You did your best. We conducted so many experiments. We did everything we could possibly do. Our experiments were flawless. What doesn’t exist, doesn’t exist, and what doesn’t happen, doesn’t happen.”
“That’s right, Mei. Believe in yourself. Sanctuary is not absolute. After all, humans are the ones creating it, right? Mistakes are bound to happen. I’m more scared when mistakes are considered correct. If our experiments were wrong, we can try again. It’s okay, have confidence!”
“Alright… I understand.”
Mei’s eyes seemed to be filled with determination. I nodded in silence.
“So, I apologize for this, but I have a favor to ask of you, Linos-sama.”
Roni spoke to me with a sandwich in her hand. Seriously, she’s still eating? This girl…
“If it’s something I can help with, I’ll do anything.”
“We have amassed a massive amount of data from the experiments of the past few days… I’m sorry, but could you set up a transference barrier and store it in your mansion?”
“What? That’s not a problem at all.”
After waiting for Roni to finish her sandwich, I teleported with her to the medical research laboratory at the Imperial University. There, we found Chiwang, who was diligently cleaning up the experimental equipment. He got angry as soon as he saw us.
“So slooow! What were you doing?!”
Roni quickly lowered her head.
“I’m sorry! I took a bath at Linos-sama’s mansion and then passed out!”
“Roni! Your role was just to bring Mei-sama there! Leaving the laboratory empty for a whole day is unacceptable! Fix it! I told you, use it, clean up after yourself, how many times do I have to say it?”
“I’m sorry!”
“Chi… Chiwang… Don’t be so angry. Well, Roni was tired, so it can’t be helped. Yesterday, you spent the whole day cleaning up, right? I’m sorry. Everything is neatly arranged… Now, I came to retrieve the experimental results at Roni’s request… where are they?”
Chiwang glared at her, but quickly returned to his usual self.
“Linos-sama, thank you for taking the trouble to come. Here are the experimental results.”
He said and opened the door to the adjacent room.
“What the heck is this!!”
The room was filled with thick volumes, so many that we couldn’t even count them.
“A-Are all of these the experimental results?”
“Yes, that’s right. We wanted to continue a little more, but the beast people’s strength ran out…”
Chiwan apologized with a sorry expression.
Suddenly, I noticed that all the beast people locked in the cells were kneeling, bowing their heads with their hands trembling. They were all crying and repeatedly chanting apologies to us.
“No… it’s fine. However, these experimental results… we can’t transport them without a transference barrier, right? Ah, I have an infinite storage, so I’ll put them in there and carry them for you.”
“That would be very helpful.”
I stored dozens of volumes of experimental results into my infinite storage.
“Chiwang, did you get any sleep?”
“Yes, I did. About two hours three days ago.”
“Huh? What are you saying?”
“Well, actually, I’m a little sleepy.”
“Use the beds in the mansion. Take a good rest. I’ll prepare some food. Eat to your heart’s content.”
“That would be very helpful.”
Chiwang happily teleported to the mansion and headed to the bedroom.
“Roni, what kind of body does Chiwan have? Is he okay?”
“That person is perfectly fine even if he doesn’t sleep for about three days. Thanks to him, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been forced to stay up all night…”
Roni sighed with a frustrated expression.
“But Chiwang-san really helped us. I’m grateful.”
Mei spoke with a relieved smile. At that moment, Luala entered the dining room.
“Oh, Luala, did Chiwang go to the bedroom? I hope he didn’t collapse on the way.”
“No, he’s fine. But he smelled really bad, so I heated up the bath. He’s in there now.”
“Bath?… No way…”
I hurriedly peeked into the bath and found Chiwang lying face-up in the bathtub. Although he had already lost consciousness, he had a blissful expression as if he was drowning while enjoying it…
Leave a Comment / Reincarnation into a barrier master / By IX
Since the public questioning event, Mei had not returned to the mansion in the imperial capital, staying confined in the medical research laboratory at the Imperial University. It was twelve days later when she finally came back to the mansion.
Mei appeared completely worn out, as if she had been conducting non-stop experiments without sleep. Her face looked haggard, her eyes were bloodshot, and dark circles had formed beneath them. Roni, who had also been transferred with Mei, was in the same state – both of them were in terrible condition.
Upon their return to the mansion, Rico suggested that they take a bath. Naturally, I objected, thinking they should be put straight to bed. However, Rico insisted, and the two of them dragged their tired bodies towards the bath. As expected, they ended up drowning in the bath.
“Taking a bath after an all-nighter can be dangerous. Once you get into the hot water, the sense of relief and comfort can easily make you fall asleep. It’s fine if the bathtub is small, but ours is spacious. It’s no wonder they nearly drowned. The iron rule is to avoid taking a bath after an all-nighter,” I muttered with a smug look while taking care of Mei, who had been pulled out of the bathtub. But Rico was busy attending to Roni. This attitude of Rico’s was the same one she displayed when feeling guilty. Later, when she feels guilty, she becomes very adorable.
In a past life, I once experienced working for three consecutive days and nights without sleep and returned home in a daze. At that time, my seniors warned me, “Don’t get into the bath.” But I didn’t pay attention to such advice and ended up taking a bath. It was an incredibly pleasant sensation, as if I was ascending to the heavens, and I still remember it vividly. Then… my memory stopped, and when I came to, five hours had passed. The bathtub had turned into a pool, and I had a terrible experience. One of my seniors even nearly drowned in the bathtub and came close to meeting the grim reaper. Taking a bath after an all-nighter is dangerous.
Mei and Roni slept like logs. They kept sleeping, drowsy and lethargic, for a whole day. As we were having breakfast, Mei suddenly rushed into the dining room.
“Good morning, Mei.”
“I’m sorry, what day is it today?”
“It’s the morning of September 14th, Mei.”
“Oh… thank goodness… I had a dream that the deadline had passed…”
Mei slumped on the spot, looking exhausted. Roni was still asleep. We made Mei sit down and had breakfast together.
“Before that, where’s Aliria… Aliria…”
“She’s right here.”
Rico brought Aliria, and Mei happily hugged her, then she proceeded to breastfeed her, exposing her chest.
“Uh… Ah… My breasts got swollen during the experiment…”
“Mei, you shouldn’t force yourself. It must have been painful with your breasts so swollen.”
“I did try to express milk feed, but… thank you, Rico-sama, for taking care of Aliria.”
Mei endured the pain while breastfeeding. Aliria seemed to be hungry, as she eagerly drank Mei’s breast milk. Finally, when the feeding was over, and Aliria fell asleep, Mei started eating breakfast.
“Ah… delicious. It’s delicious. Thank you, Peyris-chan…”
With a genuinely delighted expression, Mei enjoyed her breakfast. Although we had been delivering lunch to them daily at the research laboratory, it seemed they sometimes skipped meals or barely ate due to their intense focus on replicating the experiment. As for bathing, they did have a bathtub, but they used it mainly to refresh themselves from sleepiness, nearly consumed by the experiment.
“So, how did the replication experiment go?”
Mei stopped eating and stared downward.
“Everything… has failed.”
“Failed? What do you mean?”
At that moment, the dining room door opened, and Roni appeared.
“Good morning, Ro.”
“The smell… my stomach… my stomach…”
It seemed that she was on the verge of starving. Anticipating this, I had prepared plenty of bread, soup, fried chicken, and salad for Roni. She started devouring them one after another.
“Roni, it’s okay to eat while talking. Mei just told me that the replication experiment failed, right?”
While eating, Roni nodded vigorously.
“Crimeana attempted the experiment where humans, beast people, and ogres, each afflicted with their respective diseases, were kept together. According to their claims, symptoms should have manifested within a day or two, but we saw no signs of infection whatsoever. To be sure, we kept them together for five days, but none of the beast people showed any signs of contagion.”
Roni paused, gulping down the food in her mouth.
“In short… Ah, more fried chicken, please? Sorry. And… more bread too…”
Roni raised her hand while stuffing her mouth with bread.
“Kirislei, Gaisha, and Luroans couldn’t prove Crimeana’s theory that they would be infected through the bodily fluids of beast people. None of the beast people or ogres used as test subjects got infected. Oh, fried potato… I’m perfectly fine. I can eat it… Uh, yeah. Also, there was no effective cure for those who got infected. Despite not wanting to do it, we made an experimental cure… and administered it to the infected humans, but we couldn’t confirm that the pathogens were eliminated or that the symptoms improved.”
“So, Crimeana was just spreading false information?”
“We can’t say for sure yet. Maybe Crimeana succeeded, or maybe other countries succeeded…”
Mei answered with a worried expression. Roni swallowed the food she had been chewing.
“Don’t worry, Mei-sama. You did your best. We conducted so many experiments. We did everything we could possibly do. Our experiments were flawless. What doesn’t exist, doesn’t exist, and what doesn’t happen, doesn’t happen.”
“That’s right, Mei. Believe in yourself. Sanctuary is not absolute. After all, humans are the ones creating it, right? Mistakes are bound to happen. I’m more scared when mistakes are considered correct. If our experiments were wrong, we can try again. It’s okay, have confidence!”
“Alright… I understand.”
Mei’s eyes seemed to be filled with determination. I nodded in silence.
“So, I apologize for this, but I have a favor to ask of you, Linos-sama.”
Roni spoke to me with a sandwich in her hand. Seriously, she’s still eating? This girl…
“If it’s something I can help with, I’ll do anything.”
“We have amassed a massive amount of data from the experiments of the past few days… I’m sorry, but could you set up a transference barrier and store it in your mansion?”
“What? That’s not a problem at all.”
After waiting for Roni to finish her sandwich, I teleported with her to the medical research laboratory at the Imperial University. There, we found Chiwang, who was diligently cleaning up the experimental equipment. He got angry as soon as he saw us.
“So slooow! What were you doing?!”
Roni quickly lowered her head.
“I’m sorry! I took a bath at Linos-sama’s mansion and then passed out!”
“Roni! Your role was just to bring Mei-sama there! Leaving the laboratory empty for a whole day is unacceptable! Fix it! I told you, use it, clean up after yourself, how many times do I have to say it?”
“I’m sorry!”
“Chi… Chiwang… Don’t be so angry. Well, Roni was tired, so it can’t be helped. Yesterday, you spent the whole day cleaning up, right? I’m sorry. Everything is neatly arranged… Now, I came to retrieve the experimental results at Roni’s request… where are they?”
Chiwang glared at her, but quickly returned to his usual self.
“Linos-sama, thank you for taking the trouble to come. Here are the experimental results.”
He said and opened the door to the adjacent room.
“What the heck is this!!”
The room was filled with thick volumes, so many that we couldn’t even count them.
“A-Are all of these the experimental results?”
“Yes, that’s right. We wanted to continue a little more, but the beast people’s strength ran out…”
Chiwan apologized with a sorry expression.
Suddenly, I noticed that all the beast people locked in the cells were kneeling, bowing their heads with their hands trembling. They were all crying and repeatedly chanting apologies to us.
“No… it’s fine. However, these experimental results… we can’t transport them without a transference barrier, right? Ah, I have an infinite storage, so I’ll put them in there and carry them for you.”
“That would be very helpful.”
I stored dozens of volumes of experimental results into my infinite storage.
“Chiwang, did you get any sleep?”
“Yes, I did. About two hours three days ago.”
“Huh? What are you saying?”
“Well, actually, I’m a little sleepy.”
“Use the beds in the mansion. Take a good rest. I’ll prepare some food. Eat to your heart’s content.”
“That would be very helpful.”
Chiwang happily teleported to the mansion and headed to the bedroom.
“Roni, what kind of body does Chiwan have? Is he okay?”
“That person is perfectly fine even if he doesn’t sleep for about three days. Thanks to him, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been forced to stay up all night…”
Roni sighed with a frustrated expression.
“But Chiwang-san really helped us. I’m grateful.”
Mei spoke with a relieved smile. At that moment, Luala entered the dining room.
“Oh, Luala, did Chiwang go to the bedroom? I hope he didn’t collapse on the way.”
“No, he’s fine. But he smelled really bad, so I heated up the bath. He’s in there now.”
“Bath?… No way…”
I hurriedly peeked into the bath and found Chiwang lying face-up in the bathtub. Although he had already lost consciousness, he had a blissful expression as if he was drowning while enjoying it…
