I Own A Brothel In Another World (Ch. 1-196)

Chapter 41 - A Forge Full of Passion ❤❤❤

After just a few minutes, Sirgia pretty much forgets that I'm watching her and completely immerses herself in the stone tablet again. I smile a little. This doesn't make me feel neglected or anything, quite the opposite, I'm happy that she still can wholeheartedly focus on her passion. I was getting worried that I might have stirred up her life a bit too much, getting her too attached to myself. While that might still hold true, she at least isn't pushing her dreams totally aside and placing her love for me above everything else.

To not stand on the side like some old log, I move closer and examine what she is creating. From just a glance, I can guess that it's most likely the communication artifact we have discussed previously. It's like a stone tablet with two rows of five squares on the bottom. I bet those will be numbered from 0 to 9 later. There are various rough inscriptions on the surface and she is currently carving deeper lines here and there.

Sirgia stops after a few more minutes, blows onto the slate to clean the dust and checks her work carefully from many angles. One of them makes her notice me again, standing almost by her side this time. She jumps a little and looks up at me.

"Ah... I'm sorry for ignoring you, Master... I got lost in thought..." She drops her gaze to the ground while hugging the stone device to her chest.

I quickly place my hand on her head and start patting it. "Don't apologize, I'm a guest here so it's natural that I should wait until you have some time. Want me to help you? I don't know much about this stuff, but with your guidance I should be of some use, right?"

She smiles faintly, clutching the carving even closer to her body. "I'd be really happy to work with you, Master. But... didn't you come here to—"

"Shhh." I place a finger on her cute lips and shush her down. "It doesn't matter why I came here but what you want to do. Personally, I want to spend some more time with my adorable little dwarf. In any form."

Her smile grows into a bit bigger one and she nods cheerfully. I start following Sirgia around while she explains to me what she managed to already achieve, showing me each part of the artifact-making process. She has finished designing mana circuits which will give life to the device, with some help from Cornelia.

She shows me the schematics of the plate's front panel. They are decent, but with my otherworldly knowledge of many old phones and such things, I suggest a few tweaks here and there to make it more user friendly. Sirgia carefully notes down my ideas and then we draw some of them together, with her sitting on my lap, closely snuggled to my chest. The way she looks up at me for confirmation if she correctly imagined a specific part is just so damn cute that I can't hold myself back from giving her a peck on the forehead.

After agreeing on the final version, we walk to the counter with many drills and various tools used to carve stuff in things and modify the previous slate she has been working on. I mostly pass Sirgia the correct utensils and hold and rotate the object while she diligently works on it. She turns so mature when she is completely focusing on work. You can discern years of experience in just her expression and eyes, let alone hand movements.

Sirgia notices my fascinated gaze and blushes a little. I chuckle and move a small, mischievous lock of her brown hair away from her face so that it doesn't impede on her artisanry. She thanks me quietly and focuses on carving again. After half an hour, we are done with all the lines, trenches, holes and whatever was necessary.

Sirgia has already taken care of the magical ores she needed for the core functions of the device and all that is left is to smelt them and shape up the parts she needs to fit into the stone frame. Since the object is much bigger than just a simple tube-like dildo, we need to use a more sizable kiln to achieve the expected results.