The first floor of Tennesin.
　He watched with Cell as the construction of the Dungeon Village progressed smoothly.

'It's like sim*tty!'
Never heard of it. What's it about?
Yes, ...... it's like that one.

　I pointed to a model of the village design that stood far away from me.

　There is a pedestal and on it is a model of the village that has been scaled down to a few hundredth of its size.
　When I was a student, I used to see my architecture classmates make such models, so this made me feel nostalgic.

It would be much easier to make such a model. It's quite interesting to watch them being built in real time.
That's my girl, Satou-sama. He knows a lot of things I don't.
That's fine, though: ......

　I approached the model with a troubled look on my face and took away my statue, a figure-sized statue of me sitting in the middle of the village.

'Let's do without this one,'
Why? It is only because of Sato-sama's efforts that we were able to build a village here. It is imperative that you know that.
You don't have to know.
There's a village named after you, Lord Sato, and I don't want to hear about statues anymore.
That would be fine in a normal village.

　I looked at the cell with a straight face.

'This is a pre-requisite for the Floor Master to leave the village, and even now, he's still not allowed to leave for a year. If they're going to build one, they should build a statue of the floormaster in charge, not a statue of me.
Mmm.

　Cell grunts.
　He has a dissatisfied look on his face, saying he's not happy about not being able to put my statue there.
　But that's where Cell doesn't try to force an opinion.

...... is exactly what Mr. Sato said. It's a good idea to make sure that all of the statues are on display in my mansion.
You've already made it!

　It was tweaked, but it was also typical of him that he built the statue ahead of time.

　Once again, I look at the construction.

It's going well.
The construction itself.
What's the matter with you?

　I asked him back, curious. It's rare for Cell to say things like this with things stuck in his back teeth.

'There's a story about how the floormaster won't get out until after a year, so that one's fine,'
"?　...... Yeah, normal time in and out.

　Cell nodded.

　Like most dungeons, the stairs to get to the next floor in Tennysin were in different places on each floor.

　The stairs are far apart from each other.
　You can't go up and down in one fell swoop.

　The floor master is in and out of the building once a year, which is fine, but for the rest of us, it's just an inconvenience.
　The higher up you go, the more so.

　It's not easy to get the mail order for the floor master on the top floor.

It's like a TV station.
What's that?
'Hmmm, isn't the cell mansion or something like that structured?　I'm spreading the stairs all over the place, not just one, to give the riffraff more time to get in.

　Cell nodded.
　I knew that's how you end up making it when you get to a certain point.

　I only found out about that sort of thing because I saw it online in the original world.
　They said that TV stations dare to scatter the stairs around to make it harder to understand in order to prevent terrorists.

　That, not surprisingly, is the same situation we're in now with Tennysin.
　And Tennessee doesn't have to do that. So it's just an inconvenience, says Sell.

'If the stairs were solidified in one place, we could just build a village there.
I guess so: ......

　　　　　★

Hi.

　He used the transporter room and came to Tennysin's place.

.......

　Tennysin is astonished.
　The corners of her eyes widened in surprise as she looked like she was about to tear them open.

'You, how did you get here?'
Yeah?　Was this a place where humans were never allowed to come?
There's no such thing as a "Hey, man, you can't do that," but ...... is not something to be complimented.
Okay, fine.

　It's enough to know that it's not that they can never come.

　In other words, it's the same as the previous spirits.
　Even humans have a very low chance of coming.
　I'm a drop S. I'm a sure thing, and since I own the transfer room, I can come more normally.

　Tennesin is surprised, but I decide to go through with it.

'Oops, you were eating watermelon.

　Placed in front of the tenetsin is a black ball watermelon cut in half.
　It feels like only the middle of that watermelon has been gouged out with a spoon, and only one bite has been eaten.
　There are multiple of them - seven in total.

　I'm a little huffy.
　It's the one I taught Tennysin about when I was here before.

"What do you think, it tastes better if you only eat the inside of the watermelon with a spoon?

　My mother used to do that when I was a child.
　Whenever she cut up a watermelon, she would eat the sweetest part of it first with a spoon and then cut it into pieces.

　Whenever I, as a child, appealed to her to eat it too, she would say something incomprehensible that only adults were allowed to do this.

　I was happy to see that Tennesin had tried it and liked it so much that he kept trying it, even though I had taught him.

Hmph. Not a bad idea for a human.
Yeah. But that's a waste of time. Let's eat the rest of them too.

　I said, and reached for the watermelon, but Tennysin made it disappear before I could get to it.

'Huh?'　No?
'Mmm ......, f*ck you!　You're embarrassing me.
Shame?
'Yes!　It's a disgrace for a spirit to be able to eat what I eat here and for a human to eat what I eat. You're over here.

　Strongly, Tennysin held up his hand and held out a watermelon.

　A black ball watermelon cut in half, with the fattest part of the cavity still intact - ten in total.

　Graciously, they're all served with a spoon.

"Are you sure?
Hmm, just eat up!
That's nice, but it's a lot.
Oh, make more, or that nasty piece of shit will be coming after me too.

　Tenesin says so and turns away.
　But as I look closer, I see him glancing my way.

　I've only known him a short time, but I've gotten to know him a little better, so I scooped up all of the spoonfuls of watermelon from each of the ten black jade watermelons and ate them.

　When I did that, Tennesin looked secretly satisfied.

'Thanks for the food, it was really good,'
Hmm, of course. A little too much of a taste for humans.

　While saying that, Tennesin doesn't seem to be going crazy.

　I'll be able to do this, I said, and I told him the reason I came.

Hey, I need to ask you for a favor.
You want me to do it for you?　Don't be silly, don't get all puffed up on me.
No?
Go to ...... and tell me, it's not too late for you to get your shit together.
Would you mind consolidating the stairs?
Stairs?
Yeah. Now the stairs are separated from the next one. That's not very convenient, you know. It would be nice to have a single staircase - and it would make it easier for people to come.
It's easy for people to come to ......

　He added that at the end.
　It should have been an effective word for Tenesin.

　Tenesin started to think about it, but then quickly huffed.

'Don't be silly!　If we do that, the humans will only get more upset.
No?
'Of course!　Get the hell out of here!

　Tennesin said, and dismissed me.

　On the contrary, I glanced at him.
　We hadn't met long, but here's where Tennesin said, "Huh, hmm!　I stopped and glanced at him because I thought it was something he would do with "I'll just have to do it, so I'll do it," but he stopped and glanced at me.

"What are you doing, turn it back!

　Contrary to my expectations, Tennysin tried to get rid of me without a second thought.

　Hmm, I guess I misread it.

　I thought Tenesin's reaction so far would work, though.
　It's no use, we'll find another way.

　With that thought, I backed away.

　　　　　☆

　The next day.
　The next day, Cell came to the mansion in person.

'We've done it, Master Satou. There's been a change in the Tennesin staircase.
"Oh?
We can now go directly from the ground floor to the top floor!

　I chuckle at Cell's report.
　He did it after all, I thought.