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Episode 27: Karin Yamada's Crafting Skill

While Karin prepared the sofa materials inside the dungeon, a monster approached. She shot a shard of bone from a monster she'd already slain and destroyed the new one's head from a distance, then smiled smugly.

"This way, I can work safely in the dungeon without damaging the materials I'm processing. However, the dungeon absorbs dead monsters, so the bodies I keep at my feet disappear rather quickly. Now and then, I let a monster come closer—and do this, desu wa!"

"GRUAAAAAAH!?"

SPLAT!

A dungeon boar's head vanished. Its otherwise intact body collapsed on the spot.

"There. The trick is to kill one nearby every so often to replenish your bones." (She pulled a bone from the boar's body and crushed it in her hand.)

Her ammunition replenished, Karin flicked another bone shard with her thumb and smashed an approaching monster's head from afar. All the while, she continued preparing the materials she'd gathered.

【Fwah lmaoooo】

【Brute force much lol】

【She's got better ranged attacks than plenty of people with magic skills lol】

【Well, we knew that from the Dungeon Boar Cannon...】

【Don't say 'the trick is' like you're making an ordinary tutorial! Nobody can do that!】

【'Bones' of the technique, you mean...】

【↑ Guillotine, desu wa】

【What a barbarian...】

【She's muscle-brained beyond muscle-brained】

【A-as expected of Karin ojou-sama!】

【S-so Elegant...】

【The viewer ojou-samas are horrified lmao】

【That's brute force beyond brute force lmaooo】

【What even IS this ojou-sama(?)!?】

With chat accelerating, Karin kept working. Occasionally exterminating a monster, she deftly removed the poison from the <Sheep's Killer Fleece> and peeled the skin from the <Spring Hopper Tail>, among other preparations before using her crafting skill.

As she worked—

【@Attorney Mitsurugi: Purely out of curiosity, how did Karin ojou-sama discover the trick that 'minors may use and remove completely processed dungeon materials if it's for personal use'...?】

【@Attorney Mitsurugi: Excuse me, but that's quite a difficult loophole for an ordinary person to find. Do you know a dungeon-law specialist?】

【Karin-sama isn't an ordinary person...】

【She's extraordinary in the worst way...】

【Still, I agree there's no way Karin ojou-sama thought this up alone】

The viewer ojou-samas all wondered the same thing. Karin answered with a hint of pride as she worked.

"You see, I have a reliable best friend. She told me that even as a minor, I could put my crafting skills to use if I did it this way!"

【Ah, she has a strategist...】

【Best friend is brilliant!】

【Brilliant. But there's no way she's a normal person...】

【Birds of a feather, desu wa...】

【What kind of ordinary person knows this much dungeon law AND suggests it to Karin ojou-sama...?】

【@Attorney Mitsurugi: Who IS this person...? If she's Karin-sama's best friend, she must be a student, right? I'd honestly love to have her at my firm...】

【Lmao. Karin ojou-sama's being courted by every clan around, and now her friend might get job offers too】

"My, hearing you praise my friend makes me happy! We've been friends since middle school, and it's thanks to Ma—her that I, who know so little about machines or the internet, managed to start streaming at all. She's helped me many other times too—"

【Oho~】

【Oh, I like where this is going~】

Chat went wild, sensing a yuri vibe as Karin cheerfully recounted her experiences with Mafuyu while preparing materials—without revealing anything that could identify her friend.

Before long—

"—There, that's the preparation done."

【Wait, already!?】

【I was so busy listening to Karin-sama brag about her friend that I missed it!?】

【Karin-sama's moving ridiculously fast, but she's genuinely skilled with her hands too...】

【I thought it when I saw her Setsuna-sama cosplay, but she's seriously good at this!?】

She'd finished preparing the enormous pile of drops in no time.

"Now I'll use my crafting skill to finish it all at once, desu wa!"

【Oh, she's really going to use a crafting skill...】

【Videos showing crafting skills are rare. I'm looking forward to it】

【What's it going to look like?】

Karin gathered the materials in one place, took a little hammer-like object out of her dress, and channeled an immense amount of mana into both hands.

Then—

"Desu wa! Desu wa!"

TAP TAP CLANG!

"Desu wa! Desu wa!"

TAP TAP CLANG!

Karin moved her hands in rhythm—and POOF!

A comical cloud of smoke engulfed the drops. In their place stood a luxurious leather sofa.

"It's finished, desu wa! Just the sofa I imagined!"

【Huh?】

【What?】

【A huge sofa just appeared out of nowhere!?!?!?】

【Is this a crafting scene from a game!?】

【Was that magic!?】

【No way it works like that!?】

【Apparently it does!?】

【Even 'apparently it does' guy sounds unsure lmao】

【Don't just go 'tap tap clang'!?】

【Those aren't the tools OR sounds for making a sofa!】

【W-wait, Karin ojou-sama, what happened!?】

【Even with a crafting skill, shouldn't there be more of a process!?】

"Hm? But... that is how crafting skills work, isn't it?"

Karin rubbed her cheek against the new sofa, tilting her head at chat's reaction.

"It is a little strange that the item I imagined appears before I know it... But people can defeat monsters with their bare bodies now. Compared to dungeons and levels themselves, isn't this perfectly ordinary?"

【W-well, when you put it that way...】

【Maybe...? I guess...?】

【Come to think of it, top explorers practically ignore the laws of physics. Maybe prepared materials suddenly turning into a sofa isn't a big deal...?】

【Everyone, get a grip!】

【No, wait! I have a crafting skill too, and there's normally an actual process to making things!?】

【The master at our workshop skips steps sometimes, but nothing on THIS otherworldly level!】

【Explorers with crafting skills have spoken!】

【Karin ojou-sama!? Even our expert ojou-samas say otherwise!?】

"Ah, when I started out, even making one piece of furniture was rather difficult. The crafting itself took as long as the preparation, and I needed a great many tools."

Karin's eyes softened with nostalgia at their comments.

"But as I kept making things, I grew faster, until I ended up like this. So I'm sure you with crafting skills will be able to do the same if you raise your levels a little more!"

【No no no no!】

【If only it were that easy!?】

【Wait, does that mean her crafting skill isn't just 'good enough to make furniture,' but actually leagues ahead of even an ordinary workshop master...?】

【Oh! This must be a dream!】

【Yeah... A dream... Otherwise she'd have the power to beat a deep-layer monster barehanded without a scratch AND a crafting skill that breaks the scale...】

【All right! Just a little more sleep and I'll wake up!】

【Oh no, the explorer crowd's losing its mind at the possibility Karin ojou-sama's off the charts in BOTH combat and crafting】

【Is it that impressive?】

【We don't know enough about how skills are acquired and leveled for a perfect analogy... But it'd be like Shohei Ohtani maintaining his season's baseball performance while beating Sota Fujii at shogi, desu wa】

【lol】

【What a monster lmao】

【Is she an invincible hybrid monster a kid dreamed up? lol】

【As expected of Karin ojou-sama! (brain off)】

【All this crazy Karin ojou-sama stuff's trending AGAIN lol】

Chat erupted. Karin's feats were apparently spreading across social media once again; without her noticing, her concurrent viewers had passed a hundred and twenty thousand.

"Mm, it's comfortable to sit on, too. I think it's finished. What a fine sofa, desu wa! Now I just need to take it home."

Karin was delighted with the furniture. The stream had already drawn more viewers than any of her streams over the past week. Despite the confusion, her crafting-skill demonstration looked set to end in great success.

Then—

【Hm? Wait. You're taking this enormous sofa home...? If you're doing something that conspicuous, why hasn't anyone noticed your other furniture before?】

That simple question in chat would spark yet more confusion.