We'll be heading south of Mismede,
past the Sea of Trees to the Burning Kingdom of Sandora,
and then to the Rabbi Desert southeast of there!
I heard that long ago, there were six stone pillars
embedded with spell stones lying within ancient ruins in that desert!
Though apparently those ruins have now been swallowed up by the desert.
Good for you.
What's with that completely disinterested reaction?
You're not thinking you can just go poke your head in,
take a look, and come right back home, are you?
How did you know?
Naughty underwear.
I set it. okay?!
Underwear?
What is she talking about?
It's nothing! Nothing at all!
I just hope it's the Library. Right?
I don't think we need to work that hard to find it...
But I am curious about the extermination
of an ancient civilization at the hands of the Phrase.
It's all well and good if I'm just overthinking it,
but there's a chance we may need the power of Babylon if the worst comes to pass,
and I refuse to regret not acting before it's too late.
Master, look at that!
A Phrase?!
What do we do?
We can't just leave them be.
Gather up your tears
And release your unhindered light
That shines like a diamond
Don't worry, don't care
Follow your heart
Every time I spoke of my dreams, they felt closed off
Even that bird and that sky seemed monochrome to me
Yet you were there in my path, your eyes brimming with strength
Time then stopped, and deep within my heart something began to stir
Don't be afraid, and run forth
If we only have one life to live
Then be true to yourself, so you don't regret it
Gather up your tears
And release your unhindered light
That shines like a diamond
Don't worry, don't care
Follow your heart
"Chapter 2 The Stranded and the Workshop"
This way, while you can!
Hide behind here.
Wh-Who are you?
To uya-dono!
Send me above it with Gate!
Got it!
Prepare yourself!
It didn't work?
Ya e?!
Touya-dono! Use Gate!
MY apologies.
Everyone, spread out!
You've got to be kidding me!
We'd be goners if we took a blow from that.
I wondered who it was. It's you, Touya?
Ende?!
Hey, long time no see.
I sensed the Phrase and came out here,
but I didn't expect to run into you.
You know about the Phrase?
I do.
Though I'm surprised a Standard Phrase has made it this far.
I guess the World Barrier is already at its limit.
Huh?
Anyway, hang on a sec.
I'll take care of that first.
Hup.
What?!
What the heck did you do?
Nothing.
I just destroyed it by hitting it with magic attuned to its natural frequency.
Ende...
You just mentioned a "World Barrier," right?
What is that?
It's basically a net that keeps foreign things out of this world.
Though it looks like it's starting to fray.
This thing probably slipped through it, too.
Though it's just a minion that only acts to achieve its goal.
Goal?
To find the Phrase's sleeping king.
It's the same goal I have.
I need to get going now.
Farewell, Touya. I hope we meet again.
Hey!
The Phrase's king?
That hits the spot.
Touya, you have my gratitude.
You saved us.
I'm Rebecca, an adventurer.
An adventurer?
You all seem awfully lightly armed for adventurers.
Those girls aren't adventurers.
The things around their necks are Enslavement Collars.
Enslavement Collars?
Once it's on you, that's it.
It's a magic item that makes you unable to defy orders,
even when you're treated as property.
Attempting to remove it will inflict intense pain
that can lead to death at its worst.
That's awful.
Yeah, it's truly cruel.
Only the person who placed it on them can remove it,
but that person is already dead.
Once we heard about their situation,
we decided to help them flee the country.
We thought we might be able to find a way to remove the collars somewhere else.
Anyway, pathetic as it is, we got lost and stranded,
and then that monster attacked us, too.
Hey, Touya.
I think I might be able to remove those collars.
What?!
APPort.
Th-The collar is off!
APPQrt! Apport! AppQrt! APPQrt! Apport! AppQrt!
What are you going to do now?
Removing the collars still doesn't wipe their records.
Staying in Sandora would bring them nothing but trouble.
So we're still planning to take them to some other nation...
In that case, would you like to go to Belfast?
--Huh? --Who are you?
Nice to meet you.
I am Yumina Urnea Belfast, daughter of Tristwyn Urnes Belfast,
king of the Kingdom of Belfast.
Huh?!
I heard everything about your situation.
My country would be able to take you in...
Would you like to come?
U-Um, p-please, if we can!
Then let's send everyone to Belfast.
Touya, if you would?
There.
Rebecca-san and the others can live in my house for a while,
and figure out what their future looks like later.
Now, shall we continue on to the ruins?
Before we do that...
Who was that boy earlier?
What's your relationship?
O-Oh, right.
Uh, his name is Ende,
and I met him when I went to buy everyone's engagement rings.
He was trying to buy some things
with a strange coin he claimed he used to be able to use,
but the shopkeeper rejected the coin, so I paid for him.
He said he wanted to work since he'd be in trouble without money,
so I led him to the guild.
I managed to register, thanks to your help.
Thank you, Touya.
I hope we meet again somewhere.
I never thought we'd meet again in the middle of the desert, though.
The currency from here is still being used?
Cesca, you recognize this money?
I'm shocked.
That is a Partheno silver coin.
It was first minted 5,284 years ago.
Huh?!
It doesn't look like such a long time has passed for this coin...
So he possessed a 5,000-year-old coin,
and defeated a monster we couldn't scratch in a single blow.
He also knew about that monster in detail,
and wore a muffler even in this heat.
He's just bursting with suspiciousness.
I don't think that last one has much to do with anything,
but I guess the fact remains that he is suspicious.
Ende...
Just who is he, then?
Hey, that crystalline monster...
He called it a Phrase, right?
What exactly was that?
You know something, don't you, Touya?
Actually, I received a message from the professor.
The same Professor Regina Babylon that created this Garden and Cesca.
Apparently, the professor was using a device to look into the future,
and observing our lives from the past.
But then,
one day, the Phrase suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and Partheno collapsed.
The professor said she was able to predict the events
leading to the world's destruction by the Phrase,
but for some reason, the world wasn't destroyed.
She had no idea why, but at a certain point, the Phrase just disappeared from this world.
What?
Why did you keep something that important from us?
Well, I was planning to tell all of you about it eventually...
An invasion of thousands of Phrases...
So that's what wiped out the ancient civilization.
Though, despite there being so many of them 5,000 years ago,
there's hardly any eyewitness information about them in this era.
Yet now they have begun appearing again.
What exactly is going on?
Ende did say that
the barrier that keeps foreign things from entering this world was fraying,
and that the Phrase from earlier had probably slipped through there.
Cesca.
Did mankind not fight the Phrase 5,000 years ago?
No, the battles were rather dire, but they did fight back.
The professor even developed decisive weapons for use against the Phrase,
but by the time they were complete, there wasn't a single Phrase left.
Decisive weapons?
The professor created Frame Gears, pilot able humanoid oombat weapons.
Pilotable humanoid combat weapons?!
The professor created things like that, too?!
What happened to them after that?
If I recall correctly, they were stored in the Hangar of Babylon.
Whi<:h means that if the ruins we're heading toward teleport us to the Hangar,
we'll be able to obtain them?!
Yes.
Huh? Oh, man!
I'm getting a little... no, really excited!
Master, we've arrived at our destination.
There's nothing here...
Whirl forth, Wind! A Tempestuous Whirlwind, Cyclone Storm!
It was buried in a place like this?
How do we get this open?
TO Llya!
Whoa!
Gate.
Huh? My magic isn't activating?
Am I trapped in here?
Are you okay, Master?!
Kohaku?
Yeah, I'm fine. It was harmless.
There's a teleportation circle inside.
I'm going to try going in, so tell everyone not to worry about me.
All right. Be careful.
I guess I can't get out unless I use the teleportation circle.
Okay.
I hope it's the Hangar.
Stop right there!
Welcome to the Workshop of Babylon.
I am the administration terminal for this place, High Rosetta.
I would be grateful if you would call me Rosetta.
The Workshop, huh?
The hub of the Workshop is up ahead.
Currently, entry is forbidden to all but the compatible one.
Well, I have been deemed compatible by Cesca.
Cesca?
You mean Francesca?
I see. So you have already obtained the Garden.
That will make this much quicker.
I will now test you to determine if you are qualified to be the compatible one!
Test me? What are you going to do?
Guess the color of my panties without moving a step from there!
You moron!
Seriously, what was that professor thinking?!
Hey, what did I tell you? You can't move from there.
What, then? Are you telling me to flip up your skirt?
You moron!
If you can pull it off without moving from there, that would also be fine!
However, you can only answer once!
Your time limit is five minutes!
Why are you so into this?!
Go on, what color are they?
I hate playing into your hands like this, but I'll do it!
Blow forth, Wind! Rising Whirlwind, Cool Wind!
Wh-What?!
This skirt turns away Wind magic.
In that case...
Burn forth, Fire! Breath of Flame, Fire Breath!
What?!
It also turns away Fire magic, just as it does Wind.
What's with that ultimate skirt?!
It's uselessly high-sped
Don't go getting cocky, though.
If you make me get serious, I can peek at your panties whenever I want!
At this point, I'll just send my vision under her skirt and peek at them directly!
Long Sense!
Now, what color are they?
Colorless... Transparent...
That's correct!
I now recognize you as compatible,
and as of this moment, Unit #27, code name "High Rosetta,"
will be transferred to your command!
Master, are you all right?
Y-Yeah...
Is that so? Moving on, then.
Huh?
Registration complete.
Genetic information recorded.
Ownership of the Workshop is now transferred to Master.
Oh, for crying out loud... I'll get her for this.
Are you truly all right now?
Yeah.
Then I shall show you the Workshop.
Is this whole building just an assembly of tiny cubes?
What is this?
This is the Workshop.
It is an all-purpose factory that can create any manufacturing apparatus you imagine,
and any workspaces needed to support production.
I see.
So it can manipulate the minuscule blocks that compose this very building
into any manner of tool or device?
The only ones able to manipulate the Workshop are myself and you, Master.
Also, if you have a product to serve as the original,
it's possible to reproduce it here.
Provided that you have all the component materials, of course.
I wouldn't have much need of this place since I can make things with Modeling,
but it's a different story if it can mass-produce what I make.
Can you reproduce this?
For the materials...
Use mythril.
Of course.
Scan.
COPY"
It's fast!
You can also do this...
to freely alter the design.
Blade Mode.
I guess it can't copy Program along with it.
Well, that just means I need to reinstate Program on it.
If you will a certain number to be copied,
it will continue production automatically.
I see. That's convenient.
This can earn money.
Though this makes it more of a factory than a workshop.
Oh, yeah! Rosetta,
there was something created to fight the Phrase, right? Cesca mentioned it.
You mean the Frame Gears, yes?
Those certainly were created here.
I helped the professor build them.
I knew it.
So they were developed in the Workshop,
and the completed ones were later stored in the Hangar?
She could have just left them here...
Rosetta, can you create those Frame Gears?
That's impossible for me.
Huh?
At present, the most I can create is their equipment.
I don't have their blueprints.
Though the blueprints might be in the Storehouse.
I see.
Then we either need to find the Hangar,
or find the Storehouse and have Rosetta build them.
Either way, there's nothing we can do at present.
I guess I'll get everyone here for now.
Cesca probably wants to see you, too.
Great! I'm looking forward to it!
And there!
The Workshop, huh?
That makes me kind of irritated.
This is far more useful than the Garden, which serves no purpose on its own.
Excuse me.
My Garden has been Master's mental support
by being a healing garden that provides peace of mind and a space to refresh.
Your misconception is severe.
Setting that aside!
Is it possible to rejoin the Garden and the Workshop?
Yes. Now that ownership has been transferred to Master,
I believe that would be for the best.
I've lowered the strength of the barrier, so it will be possible to link with the Garden.
We can control the Garden from here as well.
What shall we do, Master?
Have the Garden return to Belfast.
Then have the Workshop head to Belfast as well.
We'll do the docking there.
Docking...
Huh?
Sounds naughty.
Just go do it already!
My sincere apologies!
I was unaware you were engaged to the princess! Please have mercy upon me!
Hey, stop, stop! You're taking it too far!
No, no, no!
Cecile has told me what a wonderful man you are.
Cecile-san, you said something you shouldn't have, didn't you?
At any rate, please don't worry about it so much.
Also, I'm not exactly a noble,
so you don't have to force yourself to speak so politely, okay?
Really?
Then I'll take you up on that.
Hey, now, are you sure?
He said so himself. It should be fine.
So what will you all do from now on?
I imagine the three of you can earn a living working for the guild, but...
You mean the girls, right?
They don't have any special skills,
and they can't exactly fight, either.
Would you be willing to let them stay here
until they find work in this city?
Sure, that part is fine.
But work, huh?
Could I have them mass-produce something at the Workshop?
No, I want to keep the Workshop a se<:ret,
and it would be better to ask a professional if I'm trading something.
So they need some other kind of work...
What should I do, I wonder?
Every day is bittersweet
(Bubbly bubbly)
I might still blush when your eyes are dose up
Our love affair goes around with the 1, 2, 3 beat of I, My, Me, Mine
But “Look solely at me“
ls something I can't say; I want you to notice my jealousy
My hero glimpsed through a lens
I want you to take everything, even your flawed kindness
And fill me up with goodness even more
(even more)
Until I burst
My heart races and aches deep within because I love you
My love is rapidly rising, but, but, but, but
I can't help that we're in another world
Let's sing about this joyous occasion illuminated by the brilliant sun!
"Together forever!"
I may not be much, but I want you to hug me from time to time,
English Translator: John Pickett Translation Editor: Tara "tylnnec" Campbell Translation Checker: Becky Cottrill I may not be much, but I want you to hug me from time to time,
English Translator: John Pickett Translation Editor: Tara "tylnnec" Campbell Translation Checker: Becky Cottrill
English Translator: John Pickett Translation Editor: Tara "tylnnec" Campbell Translation Checker: Becky Cottrill And if you're far away, that's okey-dokey
English Translator: John Pickett Translation Editor: Tara "tylnnec" Campbell Translation Checker: Becky Cottrill
English Translator: John Pickett Translation Editor: Tara "tylnnec" Campbell Translation Checker: Becky Cottrill We'll live happily ever after!
We'll live happily ever after!