Automatic Doll Automaton

Guild management employee Maron, who was protecting VIPs on the street, accidentally found Carrot passing by. The outfit was different, but I couldn’t avoid his eyes as he belonged to the special forces until last year.

Maron leaned into the guild master’s ear and muttered in a low voice.

“… Automaton Carrot found, rear 6 o’clock. Walking on the sidewalk.”

In the capital, Marvin Guild Master, who was explaining the city to the visiting guests for the purpose of sightseeing under the guise of the Bronze Gate Test Team, turns a keen eye.

Turning around splendidly, he held out his hand enthusiastically.

“And everyone! look! That spinning music box doll, Carrot, over there!”

“Oops! Where!”

“I am a fan!”

Because they pretended to be part of the warp gate test team, ladies, ladies, and gentlemen dressed in high-end travel clothes instead of flashy dresses turned their heads.

“ok? me?”

“You are now looking at the legendary automaton that is in the top five of the Argon Adventurers Guild! Let me introduce you. Automaton Carrot!”

“Oh oh! Is it real? But why children’s clothes?”

“Oh, how cute-!”

Carrot was taken aback, but ran after seeing a familiar face.

“Wow! Guild Master! What are you doing? See you on the street!”

“Today, I came out as a guide for distinguished guests. Say hello. It’s the Bronze Gate Test Team from the capital. This is the leader, Count Moronite.”

The old gentleman, lean and upright, took off his hat and held it to his chest, nodding his head at the small automaton to his surprise. Impressed by the Count’s courtesy toward him, Carrot put both hands on his stomach and bowed down to show his belly button bow.

“Nice to meet you. Count Moronite, leader of the Bronze Gate Test Troop. I am Carrot, the combat automaton of Adventurer Crank.”

“Heh heh, what a cute automaton.”

“Thank you for the compliment.”

The old gentleman, noticing the party’s lack of safety, sneaked back, and the ladies stepped forward. They were regular readers of adventure stories and had heard Carrot’s story at least once.

“So I am very happy to meet such an imaginary person in real life. I heard that Master Crank modified you.”

“yes! I robbed the owner of all his savings!”

The honored guests were delighted with Carrot’s humorous answer.

“From what I’ve heard, your talk is good.”

“But the outfit is too simple. Is it because it’s in the village?”

Carrot, who was examining her own outfit, took off the handkerchief she was wearing on her head and slightly lifted her hair.

Half of the face was human, but the other half had black automaton frames and eye beads.

People who witnessed it as it is make a fuss.

“Oh my God!”

“What happened!”

Carrot laughed hahahaha as she put the handkerchief back on her face.

“I went to subjugate the other day and made a mistake and got burned by fire magic. All of my combat uniforms are burned, so I have to go like this for a while until I make a new one.”

“Wow, it really was an automaton. It looks so human, I was mistaken just a moment ago.”

At the words of a young lady, Carrot turned her head and smiled. It was a very bewitching laugh. The lady and some of the young ladies felt their hearts pounding at that smile.

“So, Carrot’s owner is repairing his combat uniform at the workshop right now?”

“yes! However, he said that the damaged combat uniforms would be repaired, turned into spares, and made new. And my body too.”

The guild master intervened.

“Are you doing a full overhaul?”

“yes! Change your hair to a new one! I’m thrilled! I don’t have a heart! ha ha ha!”

People thought the automaton’s laughter sounded so cool.

“If I get a chance, I want to enjoy tea time with you. Like that story.”

“and! It’s about the Dragon Rare Expedition, right? Did you see that too?”

“Of course, at least I watched all your stories.”

“Wow! steamed fan! nice to meet you! lol,”

Carrot’s behavior was so cute that the distinguished guests talked with Carrot for quite some time.

“I would also like to meet Master Crank. He is said to be over two meters tall,”

Everyone’s eyes twinkled at the lady’s suggestion, but the head of the operation, Count Moronite, shook his head.

“That’s not right. It is not polite to suddenly visit without contacting them. And now we can’t afford that much. Marvin Guild Master, proceed with the schedule.”

The guild master thanked the count and greeted Carrot with his eyes, and Carrot winked and raised his thumb.

“Then everyone! Please bring only good memories from Argon! wow! While we’re talking, there’s a soldier-class adventurer, Mr. Romani! Automaton Ulpado!”

“What!?”

The Count Moronite and several gentlemen quickly turn their heads. Then, with a quick but graceful gait, she headed towards him.

Carrot, who was amused by seeing the frantic Romani shaking hands with the aristocratic gentlemen who suddenly rushed in and the vigilant Ulpa, tilted his head.

“I heard that Mr. Romani is middle-aged, but why is he so popular with men?”

“huh? Didn’t you see that story?”

“yes. no! Before that, I knew a while ago that our story was being distributed as a children’s book!”

“Uh heh heh heh! Your story helps the guild a lot!”

The ladies were amused by the ridiculous chemistry between Carrot and Marvin, the guild master.

A young lady explained.

“You will know when you see it. Does reading his story warm your heart?”

“and! really!? Guild Master! Please release that storybook in Argon too!”

“It is true. You’re faster than that. There will be no more Romani, junior warrior-class adventurers left.”

“Seeing that Ulpa in real life!”

“Your hair is really orange! Be pretty.”

Carrot smiled and saw off the guests.

On the way back, Carrot stopped by Mr. Roll’s bakery again. It was to buy snacks for Tuna and Ariete.

“Here you go.”

“hmm···.”

Carrot, who was looking up at Emilia with a solemn expression, asked earnestly as she took the bread basket.

“Does Emilia have a boyfriend?”

“yes? Oh no.”

“Oh, yes?”

Suddenly, the bakery owner, Lol, sticks out his head from the kitchen.

“To take our Emilia, we must fight and defeat Crank!”

“hey! You’re the uncle’s daughter! I have to fight my uncle and win! Of course Crank will leave without saying a word!”

“Uh heh heh! Your body is made of the bread I made! So, wouldn’t it be the same as my children!”

“What is that! Convincing!”

Carrot, who smiled at Roll, looked at Emilia again. He still looks young, but he will soon become an adult. Carrot pointed to her face and said.

“Did you hear the rumor? Sell your hair to Crank’s automaton and you’ll get a boyfriend.”

“Huh?! I really am!”

“Your uncle is a little out of it!”

Carrot saw a roll sticking out from the kitchen. It was chestnut hair mixed with gray hair, and his daughter Emilia, who was standing with her head turned, also had soft chestnut hair.

“So let’s grow some hair. maybe not? Will there be really good people?”

“This guy is openly doing business with my daughter!”

“no way! It’s short right now, so I can’t. someday! In the distant future!”

Emilia, who took off her hat and touched her hair, smiled brightly.

“Yes, I will raise it. Come someday when the time is right.”

“and! really?! So, did you spit on it?”

Carrot jumped up and down while holding Emilia’s hand, waved and left the bakery. Roll, who had been looking out the window at Carrot, who was moving away, looked back.

“Is that okay?”

“Hair is growing back. And Uncle Crank helped us a lot.”

“It is, but is it true? If you cut your hair, you’ll get a boyfriend…!”

“Dad too!”

“It happened before.”

“The Bronze Gate Test Team. Are you going to open it soon?”

Crank muttered that, but his gaze was alternately examining Ariete and the limbs of the automaton on the workbench.

“Mmm! This, this taste?!”

Tuna, who was eating a cinnamon roll from the basket, widened her eyes. Carrot, who had been putting a piece of bread in Ariete’s mouth, turned her head back.

“delicious?”

“hmm! Uh, where did you get it from?”

“Uncle Roll’s Bakery on 8th Street. It’s in front of you.”

“Come on, let’s go together.”

“Do you have Tuna money?”

Tuna, with a contemplative smile, glanced at the crank and said,

“Papa, I have money to buy bread. He, and got into bed. Wow, I made a bathroom too. Yes, your master is very talented.”

“Hoo-oh?”

Looking around the studio, Carrot noticed that the arrangement of the furniture had changed slightly and that there was a cubicle toilet in the distance next to the boiler.

“Today has been a busy day.”

“I will be busy tomorrow too. I.”

“What do I do?”

Crank, who had sat Ariete on the workbench and looked at the arm of the automaton while contemplating something, was scribbling on a piece of paper.

“Take Tuna to the market and buy some clothes. Because I can’t send it out like that.”

“What about Ariete?”

Ariete was still wearing a borrowed top from Crank, without underwear.

“I don’t need it yet. Let’s think after attaching the limbs. I think this will suffice for now. After all, it’s just women.”

“Are you a man?”

Crank looked at Ariete.

“Do you see me as a man?”

“Uh…”

Crank turned his head and said.

“We are currently a temporary family. Let’s not be ashamed of something insignificant.”

Ariete’s face flushed and Carrot laughed.

As in any other family home, daily routines such as gathering together, talking, making dinner, and eating were repeated for several days. In the meantime, Tuna wasn’t enough to just buy clothes, so she bought more necessities and put them in the studio, and Carrot couldn’t stop them from running errands for Crank.

Ariete’s expression gradually brightened as she repeated tasks such as combining the automaton and parts she had, cutting, attaching, and correcting them several times.

“Today we will test the movement of the arm.”

“Are you moving now?”

“Um, only arms.”

Carrot, who was stir-frying vegetables by shaking the pot, looked back. Sitting at the workbench, a fatigued-looking crank explained the concept he had finally completed.

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Of course, things aren’t quite finished yet.

“With my skills, I couldn’t make a prosthetic hand that could move independently. The control system is a problem, and the power is also a problem. So, in the end, we decided to remodel an entire automaton.”

The automaton is disassembled, the parts that form the chest, stomach, and pelvis are moved elsewhere, Ariete is inserted there, and the automaton that receives the command moves its arms and legs instead.

“In short, it’s in the form of an exoskeleton suit. It is a so-called wearable automaton.”

“what? Explain again.”