My Refrigerator Turned Into A Dungeon

Chapter 473

Mail Order 2

Hmm, but that is amazing. There are all kinds of fake products in the world, but now they even sell something like an artificial fairy cultivation kit.

"Tomo..."

"...What is it, Jung-shi?"

"How much did that cost?"

"...32,000 yen."

"No way, seriously! That's way too expensive! That's enough to buy a game console, Jung!?"

And besides, that thing.... No matter how you look at it, it's just an acrylic flowerpot, right? Well, what's inside does look like crystal coarse sugar.

So I looked down again and read what seemed to be the instruction sheet for the artificial fairy cultivation kit. Maybe having resigned himself to it, Tomo stopped trying to hold the pot back.

"Hmm... Artificial fairies will make your dreams come true. A Destroyer that destroys your enemies. A Defender that protects you from enemies. A Supporter that supports you devotedly... huh. Wow, that is quite a lineup. So what did Tomo buy?""Y-yeah. A, a supporter..."

When I asked him that, Tomo answered while looking painfully reluctant to say it.

"Hmm, a supporter. Let’s see. A supporter that supports you devotedly. Depending on how it is raised, it can grow into an excellent butler, or into a gentle maid who looks after you kindly. It gives your life richness and elegance... huh"

"......"

When I finished reading the explanation, I fixed my gaze on Tomo again.

"Tomo..."

"W-what is it, Jung-shi?"

"To put it bluntly! What you want is not a butler or a maid, but one of those really intense, beautiful S-type female secretaries, isn't it!!"

"Guhah! ...H-how did you know that!?"

"Hah hah! As if I wouldn't know! Don't underestimate a friend you go to buy eroge with!"

"Aaah! Y-yeah, now that you mention it, that's right, indeed!!"

Besides, it's only fair, since you go and get me thin little books I like too.

"So, when is this artificial fairy supposed to be born?"

"Umm, well, about that... In the morning and evening you give it magic power, and at night you let it bathe in moonlight for about an hour."

"Oh... That sounds very convincing. Ah, it says the same thing here too."

"It says that if you do that, it'll be born in about two weeks, but it still hasn't been born..."

"Hmm, so that means more than two weeks have already passed."

"Y-yeah..."

Saying that, Tomo dropped his gaze to the pot in his hands, his shoulders sagged, and he let out a sigh. Well, even if he works at a good place and has money, it would still hurt to think he threw away 30,000 yen down the drain.

"All right, got it. Then show it to me. I'll use psychometry and see whether it's the real thing."

"Eh! Jung-shi, you can do that too!?"

"Of course. I am a dungeon ability user!"

"Y-yes! Then check what's going on!"

When I took the pot that he handed me, I could definitely sense magical power coming from it, surprisingly enough. And it was quite substantial, too.

"Huh...? I thought it was fake, but it looks like it's the real thing after all. I can definitely feel magical power coming from it."

"R-really!?"

"Hmm... but I can't tell anything beyond that. Tomo, what on earth is buried inside this?"

"I don't know. It was sent exactly as it was from the start. So I only took off the packing plastic, and I haven't checked it."

"I see. Then shall we check what is buried inside?"

"I-is it okay?"

"Well, since it's buried in crystal coarse sugar like this, it should be fine as long as we don't take it out from there. Let's remove only the crystal on the surface."

"Yeah... this is kind of exciting."

So, so that I would not affect whatever was buried inside, I split a brand-new pair of disposable chopsticks, and used them to gradually move the crystal sugar aside. If I used the salt chopsticks I created with my skill, the magical power would be too strong and might affect something, and things like this probably dislike the ki of metal. So rather than metal tweezers, wooden disposable chopsticks would be best.

As I carefully moved the crystal sugar aside, a tiny blue stone came into view, buried there.

（Huh! This blue stone... could it be!?）

The color was similar, so maybe I was wrong, but this looked like a blue magic stone that only drops from powerful boss-class monsters. If so, it might be worth more than 30,000 yen....

"Tomo, this might actually have been a pretty good purchase!"

"Really!?"

"Yeah. But the reason the fairy hasn't sprouted or hatched is probably because not enough magical power was poured into it."

"Th-then maybe it can still work out!"

"That's right. All right, I'll back you up, so pour all the magical power you can into this thing."

"Y-yeah! I'll give it a try!!"

After that, I let Tomo carefully refine his energy for about an hour with skill meditation, and once his magical power had risen, I had him take action.

"Awaken, Pokutan's female secretary! Heeey!!"

Tomo wrapped the acrylic pot with both hands and poured in magical power.

"Good, that's it! Nice! Keep it up!"

And then I put my hand on Tomo's back and helped him refine his magical power, in the same way as aura therapy.

（Heh, but an artificial fairy, huh... I wonder what kind of thing will be born. I can't wait.）

"...I-it's suffocating!"

But since Tomo had been skipping training, he was already running out of gas.

"What are you doing! Look, the reaction is getting a lot stronger. Just a little more!"

"Guu...! I-I can't do any more than this... Jung-shi!"

"Damn it, at this rate I don't know what will happen if the artificial fairy doesn't get born! No choice, take this!!"

"Gyaaaah!!"

So I poured my magical power into Tomo's body and made him channel it into the pot. Then the acrylic pot shone brilliantly, and was blown to pieces in an instant.

[Kyuwawawawawa... Baaaan!]

That explosion filled the room with smoke, and everything went pure white so nothing could be seen. Then both of us were swallowed up by the smoke, and we couldn't stop coughing or crying.

""Gohh! Gohh! Goehff...!!""

But as we suffered like that, the smoke gradually cleared.

"A-are you okay, Tomo!?"

"Cough...! Ugh, that was awful, Jung-shi~!"

But once all that suffocating smoke finally disappeared, there, floating in midair, was a tiny robot face with a somewhat translucent, Shotaro Ishinomori-ish vibe.

"Eh! What is that!?"

"Hmm... it looks like that's the artificial fairy."

"No way! It's not a beauty, not a secretary, and it isn't even a person!?"

An artificial fairy floating in midair, bobbing as though it were being rocked by waves, looking like a mask sold at a festival stall.

Hmm... It seems I must have overwritten Tomo's image. I was watching a compilation of opening themes from classic special-effects heroes before going to sleep yesterday, after all... I guess the magical power I poured in at the end was the problem, but I'd better not tell Tomo that.