The Second Dragonoid's Tale

Chapter 18: Visit Ends

Writing a religion and going to work gets boring. Toiling ideas in the brain all day on how to spell out certain ideas so that they came across right was taxing. It reminded of collage and writing papers in that way. Those were always annoying, but I always got them done. Work, well, there was nothing really exciting about it. There was another monster incident at the mines that I ran over to help with, but nothing of interest. The elves at the bar were a nice break from things, but I often found my mind going astray with them. Memories replaced the thoughts of my work, not homesick memories, but ones about movies and shows I used to watch.

Out of boredom, I asked the owner of the bar if it was alright to play some music one day. They had seen before that I could create images, but they had not expected music from me. Using [Mind Library], I materialized a record player and listened as it started to play one of the songs I once heard in a game. They rather liked the music. The songs themselves weren't modern by Earth standards but here they were likely heard as brand new.

"Erebus, can you keep a secret?" I asked him one late evening in our room as I stared boringly at the wall.

"Of course," Erebus replied without hesitation, "Whatever it is, I swear on my life to never speak of it to anyone else."

"Okay, no need to go that far," I continued a second later, "I'll show you."

[Mind Library] allows me to materialize memories, that on its own is pretty useful. It's made even better when you realize that every movie and TV show I ever watched is now available to watch whenever and wherever I am. I'm a walking live show service. Why did I ask Erebus to keep it a secret? Because I'm not sharing my entertainment with everyone. I could easily see Rimuru, Benimaru, Shion, just about everyone wanting to watch something or bugging me to show them a new film. I can only materialize a memory or piece of knowledge, not everything all at once.

A book can contain a lot of information, but it was still only one book with a limited amount of pages. A projector can show images without sound and a record player could play sound without images, so what could do both? Television. One of those bigger, older televisions with the built in speakers at the bottom. I had originally made the discovery one restless night when I told Erebus to go out and get some air. I messed around with the skill and eventually asked, is there a way to watch anime outside of my head? Yes, yes there is.

"Amazing!" Erebus was too loud and excited.

"Erebus, the other guests?" I reminded him of where we were, at an inn.

"Right, sorry," He apologized, his tail slowed down, "I've simply never seen anything like this before, these are shows from your world?"

"They're good, aren't they?" I smirked. "Maybe this will help drive off the boredom."

From then now it became routine to watch a show every evening together after that, making the stay in Dwargon more enjoyable for a little longer. Now, I could show other things besides movies and shows, but I didn't allow Erebus to see any of my personal memories. It wasn't that I didn't trust him to see them, it was that I didn't want to see them myself. And since he never asked, I didn't have to tell him they were off limits. Other than that, it was a good time.

My daily life consisted of reading books during my breaks, going to the bar once work was finished, and heading back to the inn to watch something with Erebus. On days off I'd go to the outskirt of Dwargon to practice magic until it was time to return to the inn. Other days I'd work on the religion for hours before taking breaks to walk around. It was all going well until it became boring again.

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Papers with writings and drawings decorated the walls and floor of the office. Had I been in someone else's home, I would think it was the room of a man going slowly mad with meticulous thoughts. The papers on several of the walls covered the rough ideas of equality and the draft of Veldora's story, dedicating the entire walls to the Tenets of True Dragons. The floor, however, was the fun part. It was the combination of my reexamined knowledge in relation to using it for magic and the developed theories for using the advance parts of elemental magic.