Tsuki – Chapter 385: You there with the fake glasses

There’s actually a lot of times when I would get surprised over again.

It is natural that the Couple Company would be overwhelmingly superior to us in the know-hows of goods circulation, and it seems like she did have the idea of managing the schedules of the cargo and people with a time table. 

Something that I muttered unconsciously might have stimulated that slight idea of hers inside her mind, and ended up taking form. 

I am reflecting about this from the bottom of my heart.

“Fuuh…” (Makoto)

When I close the door and exit, I sigh.

I am currently at the stairs of the meeting room used for businesses in the Kuzunoha Company. It is technically my homeground.

But the meeting room today has Capli-san and a number of executives of her company, and she was instructing them in front of a white board.

When thinking about the person that fit the bill the most in regards to transportation and the time tables from Asora, the one who came to mind was Shiki.

He is the very person that strengthened the foundations of the goods management in the Kuzunoha Company. Moreover, even now, he is managing the exchanges between Asora and our store.

I say that, but our style is mostly just using the teleportation to bring the stuff to the Kuzunoha Company.

I personally don’t know the specific schedules for that and the fact that there were dias.

I didn’t know until a few days ago that the name dias is a shortening of diagrams.

For me, the time charts that I know are mostly the ones that I found in the train stations for what time the trains will be coming.

I have no memories of diagrams that have closely packed lines, and have symbols and numbers mixed in too.

There might be time charts that have things like that in thick books, but I don’t remember them.

Shiki said that he would go talk to her, and it seems like they steadily got heated up in their discussion. Their words were fluid yet were accelerating, and for some reason the terms like differentials, integrals, and trigonometric functions were flying about too. I gave up at that point.

Anyways, the Couple Company asked us to please give them a lecture at least once, and that brings us to today.

“I didn’t think enough about it.” (Makoto)

It is not about Shiki getting fervent about it.

It is about the fact that there’s the need for a decent amount of knowledge in order to make it look like we are actually using the proper procedures to transport our goods.

In the beginning, the Kuzunoha Company did deal with most of the transportations with teleportation, but now we have made teams to send things to depopulated areas and remote regions.

They need knowledge in the locations of settlements to receive the goods, and the knowledge to know what routes to take, and that knowledge came from the experience they accumulated from the very beginning.

It is the truth that my ability and imagination was lacking. Throwing it everything to Shiki and the others assuming they are geniuses was clearly my mistake.

That part of me reminded me of the obstacles that would call me a monster when they got the chance and I ended up killing. 

It is nigh impossible to understand all the specialized terms that are packed in the documents I get before I sign them, but if I were to widen the things I understand, I think I wouldn’t have needed to call Shiki from Rotsgard.

The thing is that, when Shiki summarized the maths, and gave out actual examples as he wrote the diagram in the whiteboard, the people of the Couple Company let out voices in wonder and amazement. 

In other words, they are somewhat understanding the contents and the meaning.

“In the vertical axis, there’s the cities, stop locations, and storehouses; in the horizontal axis there’s the time and…” 

“If we could share the precise times for the base points and the stop locations…” 

“So the movements of the wagons are mostly oblique lines, huh.” 

“At present, the one that seems to have the chance of having the biggest flow is the Golden Highway to the storehouse district. The storehouse to the old walls…no, should we include Koran in the calculations too?” 

“No, the storehouse district to Koran would increase the information we have to handle way too much. Even if we were to utilize this and the clock, it isn’t something we can manage.” 

“Then, the idea of ramification with the companies as the central point, could we use the dias for that as well, Shiki-dono?” 

“For the relay points, the confluencing points, and the waiting time that would be happening naturally, it would depend on the use of the marks and the time management on the horizontal axis…” 

…

The voices that could be heard in the room have long passed what I could understand.

It looks like they are really capable people, taking into account that the representative and executives are specialized in that area and are at the top of the companies when it comes to this.

This will most likely be categorized as the number 18th specialty of the goods circulation in the Couple Company, but…there’s the chance that a new type of specialized job will be born from this.

They do say that there’s not a single person in the Couple Company who can’t repair a wagon and look after horses.

But from here on, they will be divided between people who can do the specialized stuff, and those who can’t.

“…I don’t know if this is a good thing or not. I feel conflicted about this.” (Makoto)

It feels like it is the sadness of having them deviate from their original intention, but there’s the fun of seeing them going further and further ahead from their starting point and evolving. 

Shiki who is giving them the lecture was definitely having fun here.

It is because he is doing a completely different type of lecture from what he usually does in Rotsgard, with students that are burning with passion in a completely different branch.

I had Shiki steer clear from the orphanage matters and had him concentrate mainly in Rotsgard, so him being in Tsige in a long while might be a contributing factor too.

Shiki seemed to have his eyes shine slightly at the prospect of teaching in the orphanage, but I am having mainly Tomoe as the head there.

In the first place, even if he told me that he is simply sleeping at night because he feels like it and there’s no real need for him to actually sleep, so he can open up  time to do more things…whether it is the orphanage or the students at Rotsgard, I have no intention of having the children get lectures at night.

I think that when you are below 10, the best thing to do is to enjoy your days at full and sleep tightly at night.

I’ve got no backing for that statement though! 

I am the father of no child after all! 

And well, from there on it is about their own lifestyles being heavily affected by work. I know it is difficult to keep your old lifestyle forever, so I have no intention of speaking out about that.

“What has to be taken note of here are the adventurers…” 

“Oh my.” 

“Not only the active ones, but also the former adventurers huh.” 

“True. There are tons of them to spare, and it would be a lot better than them becoming rogues.”

“But will we be keeping them from going back to the countryside by paying them high salaries?” 

“There’s no need to force them to stay if they want to go. There should be a lot of adventurers who want to stay in this city even after retirement.” 

“Also, people will be flowing into Tsige from here on. That was the prediction of the Rembrandt Company’s boss, you know?” 

“They must have already been making their moves to claim the useful talents among the adventurers a long time ago.” 

“Looks like this will turn into a rough competition, hahahaha…” 

“It is a happy thing to have many choices after retiring.” 

“Seeing the orphans and adventurers as a trove of human resources came about from the flexible thinking of the Representative Raidou from our Kuzunoha Company. You could say this was a gospel that was brought to this city and the Rembrandt Company.” (Shiki)

Pfft! 

Shiki?! 

Can you please not lie so nonchalantly and raise the expectations on me even more?! 

“Raidou-kun, huh. He already had a revolutionary way of thinking since employing demi-humans after all.” (Capli)

“I would like you to call that progressive, Representative Capli.” (Shiki)

“No no, that’s not progress or a hidden technique, it is certainly revolutionary. To the point that in the beginning I even thought he would be setback by it for making do with demi-human employees.” 

“Yeah, to think he would take the route of not employing any hyumans. That can’t even be called foolhardy.” 

“He did employ Lime Latte after though.” 

“I heard that they were in a pretty dicey relationship with him before. He really does surprise me every time.” 

It is true that thinking about the state of affairs in a hyuman settlement, that was quite the reckless thing to do even in Tsige.

I think Akua and Eris have done a really good job. 

Tomoe must have thought about the personnel selection a whole lot before reaching a decision.

“By the way, we are also experimenting with employing hyuman students under conditions in Rotsgard, so it is a bit wrong to say that we employ zero hyumans.” (Shiki)

Aah, Jin and Amelia who are working part-time, huh.

Now that I think about it, aside from daily labourers in Tsige, is there a system for part-time jobs? 

“This is the first time I heard about this ‘employment under conditions’. I am interested in it.” (Capli)

“It is called a part-time job. If put simply, it would be employing people with daily wages or hourly wages every month or year.” (Shiki)

“? Even though you are employing them as a company, if you were to finish the contract in a month or a year, wouldn’t the time just end really quick from just teaching them the job?” (Capli)

“It is not an official employment. For example; it could be a student, a housewife, or even the retired adventurers that were mentioned before -is how Raidou thinks. Of course, in the case when they have grown into talents that would be a shame to let go, you could employ them officially. It is more difficult since you have to maintain them for a period of time instead of day labourers that you can simply hire in the busy times, but in the cases when you want to keep people for a long time, I think this method would be better.” (Shiki)

“…In other words, it is like requests for adventurers where you have them work for a set period of time? It is in between daily labourers and official employment?” (Capli)

“I think that’s close. It depends on the job contents, but it can also serve as a way to maintain company secrets. But well, it can also work the other way in that it could leak info though. Especially in jobs that require you to place your trust like leaving luggage in the care of someone. You would need the highest of wariness in that regard.” (Shiki)

“I see. With that form of employment, there’s no need to look at the minute details of the payments and agreements.” 

“By simply spicing up the payment a bit, you can gather people, and even in sudden situations, it can increase the task force to a certain degree. Ma’am! Ah, Representative! It would make employing people drastically ‘lighter’.” 

“Even when considering the risks…it is overflowing with potential to solve all the problems we have right now.” 

“That boy really thinks impressive stuff. Then, could it be that the trigger for the Rembrandt Company singing about the increase in the production power of the manufacturing industry was also the Kuzunoha Company? That’s just unfair, geez.” (Capli)

“If it is about the line, then it is true that Waka-sa—I mean the Representative and I discussed it to a certain degree.” (Shiki)

…No, I didn’t really think too deeply about it. 

…Rather than calling it discussing, it was more like I was told about it. 

“Could it be that the showcase that’s in the store was also Raidou-kun?” (Capli)

“No, that was the result of the free thoughts inside the company, and the desire to show to the world the abilities of the skilled people we met in our duties. It was in a sense the idea of our representative, but what’s inside is packed with ideas from others.” (Shiki)

“I personally was very interested in the city miniature. That’s the same for the people here.” (Capli)

“…Hooh.” (Shiki)

“I thought that the design as if compressing the functions of the city was splendid. An easy to live in city that I have never seen before. At the same time, I felt like something was lacking.” (Capli)

“Lacking? As in…?” (Shiki)

“How to say it…not lacking, but…missing. As if something was taken away from the completed work.” (Capli)

I thought there were people interested in the model, but there were also people who were interested in what was in the model, huh.

What was taken out from it was only the train and the railways though. Did it give out a feeling of something missing? 

“Taken away… Aah, so that’s what you mean. As expected of the skilled woman that rules over the goods circulation of Tsige. To think that you would notice the shadows of the railroads and the trains. That’s impressive.” (Shiki)

“So you people really did take out something from it intentionally.” (Capli)

The Capli Representative confirms in a teasing tone as if reprimanding a prank.

On the other hand, there’s the executives who were making noise in surprise. 

“I ended up saying something unnecessary in the surprise, but well, let’s just leave it at that. Now then, let’s continue the lecture.” (Shiki)

“Then, teacher, the model for that work was the Mist Town?” (Capli)

“That question was pretty out of target, Capli-kun. That was simply the playing of a dwarf.” (Shiki)

“Oh my, then how does the Mist Town look?” (Capli)

“How about putting out a request for that to the adventurers? ‘Please bring me to the Mist Town’. The people around will most likely withdraw, and I don’t think there will be any adventurer who would take Capli-san even in the guild. Hahaha.” (Shiki)

“You are a lot more of a bully than Raidou-kun. I can tell why he left the care of Rotsgard to you.” (Capli)

“I am honored at your evaluation.” (Shiki)

Shiki used his index finger to readjust his fake glasses that he prepared for lectures, then bowed elegantly once as he responded.

At the time when he showed me those round glasses, he said ‘this is to look the part’ and I thought he was joking, but…it really does look good on him.

I did make a number of them while making some for the gorgons. 

As expected of Shiki.

Alright, I may have come back, but there’s no way for me to overcome the expectations that have been carried to the heavens.

I should just leave this to the teacher and just go work.

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91 thoughts on “Tsuki – Chapter 385: You there with the fake glasses”

  1. As a fan of development type stories this has been my favorite "quiet" arc so far. Not only is Patrick a futurist but he's also gone beyond salvation. While Makoto just has to nod and move to another busy place.

  2. Just how many Chapters about “Development of Tsige” are we going to get? I get it already, city is progressing. Let’s focus on beating up Tomoki.

  4. Among the things you should not introduce from Earth, I would say some kind of train system is not one of those. I am getting worried about the guns that the ruiner of things, Lily, is making however. It always felt like Makoto dismissed that part of that empire way to quickly

    2. I feel like a train is to soon for the city and I think that Makoto just want someone in the city to come up with the idea of their own. He don’t feel right to just give invention idea from another world too much and don’t want to deal with more stuff since from the chapter itself is already clear that Makoto have a busy schedule.

      The guns only have a treat to someone who don’t know how to fight. They have magic and combat training is common thing that in some place is actually really required to survive. Like in Demon territory and wasteland.
      The guns can only become a treat if Lily get help from Makoto and his people.
      They need to make ‘magic gun’, ‘sci-fi gun’, and the combination of both(like Hajime from Arifureta weapons) for the ‘gun’ to become a treat for everyone.

    3. I think the world already knows about guns, I remember someone from Hibiki’s party having it but I might be wrong. The train though, that is inevitable if the steam engine catches traction but I think its good. Trains and the steam engine would reduce the need for slaves, after all the reason why nations started to get the idea that slavery was wrong was because they realized how inefficient it is.

      The steam engine changed the world, Im still coping from the fact that previous chapters, Makoto dismissed it as nothing. He nonchalantly introduced it but so stupid as to not realize that the steam engine literally changed the world.

    1. She said it herself that the name Couple (Kapuru) is a typo from her real name Capli (Kapuri).
      And since it is japaness Capri or Capli is correct, but in english it would be too far off for a typo if it change from Capri to Couple (i think)

        1. Yes i know, but having filler for over 50+ chapter and without main story really weird like?
          Like we don’t know anything about goddess & Hero who the most exciting plot
          We just see MC “rebuild kingdom” story

          1. I don’t get how this is not part of the main story. But the plot has been he and his company assisting in the gaining of independence of their city and turn it into a country. This is fleshing that out.

    3. But it’s not filler though.
      A filler is something that doesn’t progress the plot.
      But this is a story about kingdom building, if you haven’t realized yet. All the administrative and functional details are just as vitally important to progressing the plot as explaining every single skill and move in a fight in a story centered on battles.

        2. No, it doesn’t serve purpose to the parts of the plot that you care about. This arc is about Tsige becoming independent. This chapter is literally about the actions they’re needing to take as an independent nation run by merchants. Them being merchants is exactly why we have these stories.

  10. If they had kept the trains in Rembrandt would have had Makoto explain it in detail all the way through the night interrupting Mio’s and Tomoe’s nightly dosage of vitamin D

  13. thanks for chap
    ‘but i am not the father of a child’ oh boy u set up a flag there mc
    and lmao the city model was asora huh.

    and this development and city planning is going overboard by now,when will the story start moving?

  18. Thanks for the chapter desu~

    I think Capli-San misunderstood something regarding the railways and trains, as if thinking removing it meant that it would soon be made in real life…

    Or perhaps I’m the one that’s overthinking this.

  21. “I am the father of no child after all!”

    Can’t say for sure Makoto! Bedding Tomoe and Mio nightly is bound to have an effect soon… probably.

  22. I am the father of no child after all!

    Is that a flag I see? Yes, indeed! Ships ahoy, mates!

    Komoe is probably seen as his unofficial child with Tomoe by outsiders lol. Or at the very least little sister.

    Shiki spreading the gospel and converting people. Shadow leader Rembrant in charge of Makoto’s fanclub. Just build the monorail or high-speed trains already. Tsige is like demon’s struggle for survival, but they did it with more finesse and more unity among races. High risk, but higher returns.

  25. Thank you for the chapter Reigokai!
    It seems like most of you agree on my point of view regarding these hyumans, and that is that they are dumb to a certain regard, and are malevolent in their thinking just like a certain godess which patrons over them.
    I kinda get the fact that people are pissed over the lack of action in this novel, but I love it’s pace. It frames up the `journey` of Makoto in all regards, not only in his time when he fights, but his actions around the world, his love interests, his `gifts` to this world regarding his knowledge. And I love every aspect of it. The author is really keen on presenting us all facets of the isekai genre.

  26. Interesting.
    So engines, builder golems, airships and then finally trains.
    Neo-Tsige is probably only place in that world, where they could actually build them reliably.

  30. lmao, give it up Makoto.
    just build trains in tsige, begin the industrial revolution!

    thank you for the translations~
    stay safe and healthy everyone!

  32. I think its unfair.
    The top merchants of Tsige is benefiting to the knowledge of Kuzonoha more than they benefit from it.
    Though, MC said that it resolve the burden from them when they are the only company that can do it anyway.
    But the technology of trains and mass transport should be Kuzonoha exclusive. Thats how i want it that way, and the transportation of goods and product will be as is to Couples company.

    For the mass transport, Kuzonoha will maintain the technology and the roads, plus tax, tariffs and regulated prices of transport fee.

    Giving knowledge without Royalty, i think it is not fit for me.
    All MC can do is to grab their favor in the future by giving these knowledge…

    1. If he monopolizes the ideas he’ll end up in the same situation as Grittonia, where they can’t advance any of their technology, without their trash hero or princess there to give them the plans.

  33. Thanks for the ch!

    “I am the father of no child afterall!”

    Is that a flag, i wonder?

    And Shiki, being sly w ‘accidentally’ slipping the details about the rail system! He really wanna propagate the idea out there…

  34. what the…. father of no child !?
    TEEMEEEEE !!! how dare you dismiss Komoe-chan , your firstborn of your magic power combination !!

  35. Simple sum up for this chapter.
    Skiki: “These are the plan of Wak- Representive!”
    Couple Company: “Sasuka, Kuzunoha Representative!”
    Makoto: “Eh? There’re plan?”

  36. yeah, in this revolution race, it’s makoto win (without his intention at that haha)

    Gritonia will self destruct with their modern military revolution, that’s the goal of that princess afterall, and trashmoki are a slave of his own dick without brain for himself, their fate are already sealed in stone

    Limia will decline or even fall, to make a revolution from monarchy, you do it from down and to the top, not top down, when hibiki slash their head, the one in the base won’t be able to take the helm, they are lacking in everything, in human resource, education, and infrastructure, they will only fall like headless chicken, and hibiki simply have no experience to do anything from the base, she’s originally from priviledge class, and now she want to take that priviledge, it’ll be like her shooting her own foot

    Aion are literally a big empty shell by now

    maybe only lorel that will profit from this, they manage to somehow still have relation to tsige through those mercenaries and Rebrandt

    And Tsige will be the big metropolis for all race, with talent, business and all meritocracies, and capitalism and what not, and with that kind of improved lifestyle, people from surrounding destroyed country will only flock to them in time, consolidating their base even more, it, won’t be all sunshine off course, it’s meritocracy afterall

  42. Wow, calling the ennemies you killed so far as mere obstacles, that’s quite cold of you, Makoto.

    By the way, I was suprised by the mathematical part of the chapter. It wasn’t babbling nonsense like one would expect from a web novel.
    It even reminded me of my university math classes.
    For example, Shiki is obviously creating a graph where distance is plotted time, therefore, it makes sense that Makoto heard about differentials since that’s what would be used to find the speed over time graph, which is an important information in this context.
    (Sorry to my fellow math students if I used the wrong terms, my classes weren’t in english.)

    1. what, you didn’t notice from the 10 other chapters where makoto kills people or calmly says ‘if they came to the battlefield, they’re prepared to die’ that makoto doesn’t give any fucks?

    2. Assuming y is the time it takes for the (Train?) to get to each station, and x is the number of stops it gets to, then assuming it takes 3 minutes for x and it starts at 9 A.M. then Y=3x+9

  44. Thank for the chapter ^^

    “I am the father of no child after all! ” Makoto

    Is…is that a flag?! please! lets it be a flag XD

  47. Thanks for the chapter.

    I have seen some comments that show disappointment and boredom for these last chapters.

    What did you expect, this story is not a shonen.

    What if I was shocked, was how these hyumans are showing they have brains.

    The same makoto was shocked, something like:

    wait, they were able to understand?

    Makoto shows more openly that he doesn’t expect anything from hyumans society. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ALL THIS HISTORY
    in the previous chapter a feeling of arrogance and disinterest was felt when expressing an issue.

    And now

    Shiki can’t hide her excitement at seeing that there are promising hyumans in that world.

    I wonder if hyumans appear that use Kuzunoha’s knowledge for evil. Something like the nuclear bomb that was born from the studies of nuclear energy. Who knows, maybe some hyumans want to create rockets out of interest in railways and then missiles appear.

    1. Shiki just likes teaching, it’s why he broke into long villain monologuing the first time they met him. As for Makoto, he’s surprised they can follow all the higher level math terms Shiki is throwing out there, they’ve never studied any of this, but they grasp it so easily at Couple.

    2. Of course these chapters are not shounen (or seinen or comedy or slice of life or drama or…); at best they are exposition, closer to padding, really.

      Nothing is developing (plot, relationships, characters), they are forgettable, repetitive and worst of all, they are boring (I could ignore all the other issues if they were interesting of fun).

      All chapters after the war can be summed up with: “Tsige is developing because everyone is hanging to mako-chan’s every word and whisper”.

      1. Yeah, and, for myself, practically the chapters begin to lost interest practically after the battle with Haruka, i mean, after the hiatus, i don´t know why, probably because I was kinda expecting somenthing else, and in this new arc, i don´t see anything that would be relevant for the story as a whole, the most irritating part its that Makoto leave Tomoki alone, I mean he get enough reason to beat the crap of him, and he just leave him…. even the battle with the apostle of the goodness was boring

    3. well, they have been a touch dry; true it’s not a battle wn, but there’s usually more humor in the world-building chapters… there hasn’t really been much conflict since the apostle, even a minor non-combat one.

      It’s good the author started producing again, but the rate of releases (slightly faster than reigo’s) might be part of it… unless he just went a year of writing without posting…

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