Day 431-440/Day 436

Day 436
After training early in the morning, and eating our meal, I took Benitama out from the item box and turned to face Opushii.
In front of red gigantic jewels placed down in the backyard of the inn, Opushii opened her mouth a little out of surprise.
Her eyes were pure, just staring at the clear flawless red jewel.
Auro, Argento, and Oniwaka had similar reactions to Opushii, but it seems that the adult group such as Blacksmith-san that also had the [Merchant] skill had a similar reaction, but it seems they were calculating its value as quickly as possible.
I have not overlooked that spark of greed in Miss Craith's eyes when she witnessed it with the others.
After all, she is the granddaughter of the current chairman of the big business [Barbatoss], even while in training to inherit her family's business, it seems she could not miss an item of possibly high value.
However, she seemed to be aware that I was looking at her, and must have been a little discomforted, enough that she diverted her face.
Well, Miss Craith's reaction is quite natural.
Before becoming one of the giant jewels, selling it would promise a big payday, that money calculation is normal.
Blacksmith-san was doing the same thing, even I was.
For Auro, like the rest of us, found it to be large and beautiful, it would take a rare person to not care about something like that.
Anyway, with Benitama as the material, Opushii created another jewel vassal.
Benitama changed into a 15 meter class jewel beast deforming while crouching with a "Guignagina", eventually mixing the three colors red, blue, and yellow. It seems to be modeled like a wolf with two heads, one a lion, the other a tiger.
Basically, it is overwhelmingly big compared to Opushii and the two other gemstone animals, while resembling the two in shape only. Would it be okay to say that Benitama is a gemstone huge beast type?
The Benitama type gemstones moves without being ordered - Benitama seems to be troublesome - exceeding the specifications of any gemstone animal so far by a large margin.
It also has a larger form than any others, but until now, it seems that Opushii was not able to master the higher specifications of the gemstone animal before because she was too immature.
I think that the result of letting Benitama have free will lead to a substantial strengthening of our military power.
Anyway, if you ask Benitama's opinion of Opushii, it seems to think she should be able to find ways to improvement her control.
Since I can not teach her anything about forming gemstone animals, I wonder if a good teacher was just made.
In the future you can expect more from Opushii.
By the way, I fulfilled my promise with Benitama and provided a freely movable body, and it even went out for a walk with Opushii and children.
Benitama went hunting in the «Imaginary Forest Biggs · Foretos» outside the giant kingdom «Colossus · Titan» to check out its new moving body and successively puts the big beasts under its claws.
The sharp tusks rotated at high speed like a drill gouging into meat, each one of the tail hairs becomes like a thin and sharp blade sweeping away others, the whole body is deformed into a big sword shape, swinging fast enough to cut opponents in two.
It translations to the beast's death rapidly approaching, the freedom of to the change shape built up the corpses of the damned beasts and by the time they returned that night some rumors spread at the bars.
A beautiful beast with its entire body made of jewels happily slurping up the big beasts.
Before being attacked, it would be rush to take the initiative.
Because it is as conspicuous as flowing water, it seems that it was only natural to disguise it as a big pet using a split clone body as extra coating immediately.
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“四百三十六日目”
　早朝訓練を終え、飯を食った後、アイテムボックスからベニタマを取り出し、オプシーと対面させる。
　宿の裏庭にドンと置かれた赤い巨大宝石を前に、オプシーは少し口を開けて驚いていた。
　その目は純粋で、ただただ傷一つなく澄んだ赤色の宝石を見つめている。
　オーロとアルジェント、それから鬼若もオプシーと似たような反応だが、鍛冶師さんなどの大人組は【行商人】でもあったからかその価値をいち早く計算していたような感じである。
　また一緒に目撃したクレイス嬢の目が一瞬金を現すマークになったのも俺は見逃していない。
　やはり大商会【バルバトス】の現商会長が溺愛する孫娘であり、家業を受け継ごうと思って修行中の身であるだけに、価値の高い品を見逃す事はないらしい。
　もっとも、俺が見ている事に気が付いたらしく、ちょっと気まずそうにして顔を逸らした。
　まあ、クレイス嬢の反応はごくごく自然な事である。
　売れば大金が約束されるだろう巨大宝石を前に、金銭の計算は普通する。
　鍛冶師さん達も同じ事をやっていたし、俺だってそうだった。
　オーロ達のように、大きくて綺麗だなぁ、くらいにしか関心していない方が珍しいだろう。
　ともあれ、ベニタマを材料に、オプシーは宝石冥獣を作った。
　十五メートル級の宝石から造られたベニタマはグニャグニャと蠢きながら、ゆっくりと変形し、最終的には赤と青と黄の三色が混ざり、二頭を持つ狼とも獅子とも虎とも思えるような造形となる。
　基本的には既にいる二頭の宝石冥獣と似た造形ながら、オプシーや既にいる二頭の宝石冥獣と比べると圧倒的に大きいそれは、ベニタマ式宝石冥巨獣とでも言えばいいのだろうか。
　命令されずともベニタマとしての意思によって動くベニタマ式宝石冥巨獣――面倒なのでベニタマとする――は、これまでの宝石冥獣のスペックを大幅に超えていた。
　巨体である事も大きいが、今までは宝石冥獣の高いスペックをオプシーが未熟だった為に使いこなす事が出来ていなかったのだろう。
　それをベニタマが自身の意思で使いこなした結果が戦力の大幅強化に繋がったのではないだろうか。
　ともあれ、ベニタマ自身の意見をオプシーに伝えれば、そこから改善点も見出せる筈である。
　流石にこればっかりは教える事は出来ないので、いい先生ができたと思えばいいだろうか。
　オプシーの今後はさらに期待できるだろう。
　さて、取り合えずベニタマとの約束を果たし、自由に動ける身体を手に入れたベニタマはオプシーや子供達を乗せて散策に出かけた。
　巨人王都≪クロニュソス・ティタン≫の外にある≪≫にて、動く身体を確認するように狩るベニタマは次々と巨獣をその爪牙にかける。
　鋭い牙はまるでドリルのように高速回転して肉を抉り、毛の一つ一つがまるで細く鋭い刃のようになった尻尾が撫で斬りにし、身体全体を一振りの巨剣のように変形させて真っ二つにする。
　獣の俊敏性と、形状変化による変幻自在さで巨獣の屍を築き上げて夜に戻ってきた訳だが、その日から酒場ではとある噂が広まった。
　全身を宝石で造ったような美しい獣が、巨獣達を嬉々として屠っていると。
　襲われる前に、仕留めれば一攫千金になるだろう、と。
　流石に目立つので、即座に分体コーティングで巨獣のペットのように隠蔽したのは自然な事だったのではないだろうか。
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