Otherworld Dagashi Shop Yahagi

Chapter 112: The Thing that Emerged from the Ground

From the next day, Mani 4WD started appearing on the shelves of Dagashi Yahagi.

Product name: Mani 4WD

Description: An automobile-type toy that uses mana to drive.

Price: 1200 rims

Just like Mobile Force, this is also something customers assemble, but with a more complicated structure.

It doesn’t require any adhesives, but you have to do a lot of stuff to assemble it, such as assembling the shaft and applying grease.

It takes about an hour to assemble if you aren’t used to it, but adults and children alike were absorbed in the process of assembling it.

[Oiiii, everyone? Don’t you have to go to work?]

[I’ve taken today off, so it’s fine. That aside, Yahagi-san, teach me how to insert this part!]

It seems that Guile and the others have decided to take a special day off.

In a place with little entertainment, their level of enthusiasm and dedication tends to be off the charts.

The price of the item isn’t cheap, but many people are spending all their money to buy them.

[Go, my Avanteira!]

Merle, who was one of the first to complete the assembly, was driving her Mani 4WD.

It seems to be running smoothly.

However————

[Uwahh! It’s gone off course!?]

It had too much speed and didn’t make it around the curve.

[Ahhh, why?]

[When your energy pack is fully charged, it may have had too much energy. You might want to try running it dry for a while before you try again.]

I remember doing something similar to that when I was a kid……

The energy pack they’re using is a mana orb that Michelle created.

It’s easy to use, one just needs to feed it with their own mana between their two fingers.

It also just takes less than 30 seconds to fully charge.

Mani 4WD apparently requires less mana than Mobile Force.

The young rookies would fill their machines with mana over and over again to get them running.

[You did a great job building up 50 energy packs in one night, Michelle.]

[Ufufu, that was for Yuusuke’s sake. If everyone buys those Mani 4WD, we would save up that much for our wedding, right?]

[However, wasn’t making them difficult? I’m worried you’d be lacking sleep.]

[Don’t worry. Besides, the energy packs are relatively easy to make; I just need to refine powdered mana crystals using a specific method. The power required for a Mani 4WD is also small, so it’s easy to stabilize the mana orbs.]

[As expected of Michelle, who was reputed as a talented woman.]

She’s too good a girlfriend for me.

[This much is no big deal…… (My oh my oh my ? Yuusuke, you flirt~~ Calling me a witch gifted with both intelligence and beauty, you’re praising me too much! Ahhh, I have to work even harder and make 70 of those tomorrow. Ah, but tonight, Yuusuke might make love more aggressively with me tonight…… Unnn, Yuusuke’s gaze on me is much hotter than usual. It seems like tonight will be a hot one. It will be a sleepless night tonight huh. I’ve got to get started on the production!)]

For some reason, Michelle sat down on the spot and started manufacturing energy packs.

Meanwhile, Mani-san was watching her closely.

[Hmmm, Michelle’s energy packs are well-made. What’s the maximum output of this one?]

[At the moment, it’s 248 migamatts. I’m hoping to get it up to 746 migas by the end of the year.]

Hearing her words, Mani-san thoughtfully scratched his head.

[In that case, 1.21 gigomatts would be impossible huh?]

[1.21 gigomatts!? Of course, an amount that large is impossible! That amount of mana is enough for 120 Maximum Magic shots, you know!?]

[I see, that’s unfortunate……]

Mani-san’s shoulders slumped in disappointment.

[Mani-san, why do you look so disappointed?]

[I was hoping Michelle’s energy pack would get “that” working again. This is because I forgot how to make energy packs……]

[What’s “that”?]

[A mechanical creature I created about 2000 years ago. Umu, I’ll show it to you.]

Mani-san lightly stamped his right foot, and the earth cracked open.

[Whoa!? What’s that?]

[Everybody, watch out.]

The sudden rumbling of the earth brought confusion to the area in front of the dungeon, but the moment people saw the thing that emerged from the ground, they were momentarily speechless.

I mean, that’s understandable. What emerged from the ground before my eyes was a huge mechanical creature.

[I- IT’S A DRAGOOOOOOOON!!!]

[RUUUUUUUUUN!!!]

Amidst the people who were stunned, I couldn’t believe my own eyes.

After all, I knew of something that looked a lot like that.

Well, the one I saw in my previous life was 1/72 version of that. Moreover, it was a toy……

[Mani-san, what’s that?]

[My masterpiece, the mechanical creature Zord.]

[Oi!]

I couldn’t help giving a 120-point tsukkomi to the God.

After all, no matter how I look at it, that’s totally a……

Mani-san, however, seemed unconcerned as he looked at it with a smile.

[23 meters long, 13.7 meters high. I thought that if this Genos Breaker could move, it would be convenient for your land reclamation. It also has its Focused Particle Cannon……]

No, we don’t need any of those armaments at all!

However, when Michelle heard that, she was quick to react.

[If we could get it to work, would you lend it to us?]

[I’m not so stingy as to lend it to you. I’ll give it to you. Hohoho!]

Thereupon, Michelle nodded at me.

[Yuusuke, I’ll do this. I’ll increase the power output!]

[However……]

Well, with something like that, the development of the frontier would certainly go through the roof.

The land clearing and logging would be as we please.

[How do we increase the output though? Mani-san might know something if we ask.]

With that in mind, we looked at Mani-san. However, Mani-san looked surprised, pointing at the Zord.

[What is this enormous thing!?]

[You’re the one who created that!]

Hmmm, he’s still as senile as before.

Is there anything we can do to jog his memory?

We sighed as we thought about that.

<Translator’s Notes>

Avanteira: based on Avante.

Zord: based on Zoid. Genos Breaker: based on Geno Breaker.