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"...Kim Yuna."
[Huh? What is it?]
"Report it to the academic community."
[Huh??]
"...Tell them a cure for insomnia has been invented."
I stared, open-mouthed, at the enormous black bra I had draped over my face.
What the hell was this coziness, this perfect softness?
This was a fucking miracle....
If I’d had this sleep mask during graduate school, I would never have suffered from insomnia.
My poor youth.
To be honest, its appearance and cushioning were nothing special. The real point was the faint scent of Dolores that had seeped into it.
Just having it brush against my nose made everything go dark before my eyes.
I’d lived a life where inputting Dolores’s scent immediately output sleep... so it felt hard to resist.
What was I going to do later if I kept this up?
Thanks to that, I’d gotten a wonderful night’s sleep, so now I should make the source of that fragrance fertile and abundant again.
By then, I only had the final batch of spirit thread extraction left.
Creak, creak.
The last thread was drawn out, spread across the anvil, then tuned with my hammer.
"Done."
I set down Dawn Bringer and stretched out my stiff waist.
Then... when I turned my head.
"...Holy shit."
In one corner of the workshop, pristine white spirit thread was piled up like a mountain.
I hadn’t really considered the quantity when I began, so it hadn’t sunk in while I was making it bundle by bundle.
...But after doing this for two whole days, I’d accumulated a fuckton of it.
"......"
My sense of accomplishment was short-lived.
The moment I realized I now had to weave all that, my body shuddered.
The real blessing was that I didn’t have to do it all by hand this time.
Rumble....
After all, I had a knitting machine and a loom.
"Ugh, it’s heavy."
I dragged the cart carrying the machines—scrape, scrape, scrape—into the middle of the workshop.
Thanks, Isabella.
These were the tools Isabella had left behind when she fled after getting chewed out by Dolores a few months ago.
I was simply grateful that she had prepared them for me in her own way.
I should at least thank her when I saw her later.
Of course, all I really needed was the knitting machine. The loom was completely unnecessary. Underwear needed to stretch softly along the body.
A knitting machine, which looped threads together to preserve elasticity, was better suited for the job.
Naturally, I had absolutely no intention of running everything through the machine.
I wouldn’t do that even with a blade at my throat.
I’d use the knitting machine only for the base fabric.
I would separate out the upper part over the breasts and the finishing work, which required delicate adjustments, and weave those by hand.
"Good."
I’d drawn up the blueprint....
"Now project a hologram based on what’s in my head."
Let’s start laying out the composition.
My goal, first and foremost, was an elegant, refined design.
[I’ll make an underwear hologram tailored to your perverted tastes~]
Bzzz....
A blue hologram appeared before my eyes.
Seeing it, I nodded.
"Oh, nice."
A newly designed white garter belt, the bottoms connected to it...
And a bra that matched it perfectly....
As expected, Yuna had great taste. It reflected my preferences perfectly....
Flinch.
Then I checked the middle of the bottoms, and... huh?
Wait a second, though.
"Um... Yuna."
[Yeah?]
"This... um, it looks like there’s a hole in the middle of the bottoms?"
[Wasn’t that what you liked?]
"Absolutely not? Could you close the hole? And the zipper... what the hell?"
A zipper???
Why the hell was there a zipper on it?
It wasn’t a motorcycle suit.
"Take off the zipper too... I don’t like stuff like this."
[Lol]
Don’t laugh. Seriously.
[Dolores might like it though, lol.]
She was a grand duchess. As if she’d like something like that.
She was such a refined woman of high standing.
Anyway, the hologram was remade at my request.
The middle was filled in, and the zipper disappeared.
It was far less revealing, and overall, it was now almost like a corset.
Hmm, not bad.
The key was for it to be not sexy, but dignified and classically elegant.
You could say I was aiming for a design that suited Dolores as a grand duchess as much as possible.
The rough prototype was good enough, so let’s get started.
"She even bought a good one."
I knew a little about the brands of tools humans used.
The knitting machine Isabella had left behind as a gift was from a brand that supplied the Imperial Family.
Click.
I separated the spirit thread by strength and mounted it on the knitting machine.
Soft thread to cover the upper breasts, and sturdier thread to support the underside of the breasts and the waist.
Once I set each thread in its proper place and turned the handle—
Whirr, whirr, whirr....
The countless needles fitted into the machine rotated, weaving the threads.
It was hard to explain the principle, but think of the loops of the needles connecting, intertwining the threads to create a single fabric.
Scrape.
Fabric emerged from beneath the knitting machine.
This would be the basic material.
"Blueprint."
[Okay.]
Now I would cut this fabric according to the blueprint, weaving only the upper parts that required delicate adjustment and the finishing touches by hand.
After repeating that process several times.
Before long—
Tap.
The first piece of underwear... was complete.
Shhhh....
Perhaps because it was night, the emblem of a Skilled Blacksmith was engraved on the lower left of the underwear.
"......"
It looked fine, naturally.
I hadn’t expected to succeed on the first try in the first place. That was why I’d extracted so much thread.
I lifted the underwear and inspected it.
"It’s wholesome and nice."
At this level, even some noblewoman could wear it.
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[Windless Zone][★★★☆☆]
[Compatibility][- /60]
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An underwear set made from the spirit thread of a high-grade wind spirit.
The wind held within the spirit thread assists the wearer’s movements, increasing agility.
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『Dignified... so dignified and luxurious. D-did you perhaps make it for me...?』
- Queen of the Distant Wind Spirits -
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It was three-star equipment for now. Not bad. I just needed to raise the quality a little more from here, right?
But....
"?"
Huh, who was that?
Who was this Queen of the Distant Wind Spirits?
Unfortunately, I hadn’t considered any Queen of the Distant Wind Spirits or anything of the sort.
I tilted my head and held up the underwear.
What truly mattered was its compatibility with Dolores.
I opened Dolores’s interface... and placed it in the underwear slot I had unlocked for her last time.
That slot was open because... I’d seen her bare skin directly before.
And the compatibility was....
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[Windless Zone][★★★☆☆]
[Compatibility][11/60]
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The warmth of the Sun Engraving slightly suppresses yin energy.
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『The creator’s desire and intent embodied in the Sun Engraving are at odds with one another, preventing the engraving’s power from fully manifesting.』
『The equipment’s form differs greatly from the wearer’s preferences.』
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It wasn’t very good.
Ah, what was this?
The Sun Engraving did slightly suppress yin energy.
But its performance was pretty poor....
Besides, this was wording I’d never seen before. What did it mean, my desires and intentions were different?
[Lol]
"......"
Fine.
I’d restrained myself... while making it, so fair enough. Honestly, my desires hadn’t really been reflected in it.
But what did it mean that it differed from the wearer’s preferences?
Taking it at face value....
It meant it was also far from Dolores’s preferences....
"...Fine, it’s an experiment. Part of the process."
Let’s increase the exposure.
I made the next underwear closer to a standard style than a corset.
I exposed a little of the torso and sides, and changed the bottoms... from snug boxer-style shorts to more of a triangle shape.
About as revealing as a sports bra.
Once the second piece was complete.
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[Window Where the Morning Breeze Blows][★★★☆☆]
[Compatibility][- /60]
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An underwear set made from the spirit thread of a high-grade wind spirit.
The wind held within the spirit thread assists the wearer’s movements, increasing agility.
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『Th-this is beautiful too...! It does show a little bare skin, but... I like this too. Thank you....』
- Queen of the Distant Wind Spirits -
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But the problem was that its compatibility was, once again—
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[Compatibility][13/60]
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Low.
Still, it had gone up a little, so that meant I was headed in the right direction.
"...Increase the exposure more."
This time, I left the bottoms alone and exposed more cleavage.
I also changed the material to be slightly half-transparent—semi-sheer.
So the skin would show through.
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[Hill Where the Wind Blows][★★★☆☆]
[Compatibility][- /60]
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An underwear set made from the spirit thread of a high-grade wind spirit.
The wind held within the spirit thread assists the wearer’s movements, increasing agility.
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『Th-this is too provocative, too provocative... uuuugh....』
- Queen of the Distant Wind Spirits -
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I had no idea why the Spirit Queen kept acting like that.
Anyway, this time too—
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[Compatibility][26/60]
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"...Ha."
It was shooting right up.
Was my desire really that intense?
This was driving me insane.
Fine. Let’s do this properly.
I steeled myself and went truly bold this time.
I used a sheer material and narrowed the garter belt so it clung tightly to the hips.
For the bottoms, I changed them into a string thong, leaving only the bare minimum of fabric to cover the front and back.
The very limit of what could still be called underwear.
The sort of underwear too embarrassing to look at.
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[Land of Storms][★★★☆☆]
[Compatibility][- /60]
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An underwear set made from the spirit thread of a high-grade wind spirit.
The wind held within the spirit thread assists the wearer’s movements, increasing agility.
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『No!! It’s too sexy!!! I can’t wear this!!!』
- Queen of the Distant Wind Spirits -
『Mmm... Then I’ll wear it. What do you think, little one?』
- Goddess of Lust Lustia -
『Huh...? No, you can’t... You can’t have it... I’ll wear it!!!!』
- Queen of the Distant Wind Spirits -
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I had no idea why they were making such a fuss among themselves.
I had no intention of giving it to anyone in the first place.
And finally.
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[Land of Storms][★★★☆☆]
[Compatibility][45/60]
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[The warmth of the Sun Engraving opens 3 of the 9 meridians of the Nine Yin Severed Meridians.]
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『Because the creator’s desire and intent are transparent, the Sun Engraving displays its full power.』
『The equipment’s form matches the wearer’s preferences, amplifying its effects.』
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Fuck.
In the end, I...
Had successfully found a level of exposure that perfectly reflected both my desires... and Dolores’s preferences.
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