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◈ Reincarnated as the Villain's Heir
Chapter 52: The Truth of Mirei's Research Institute Is Completely Unhinged
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We handed the man captured at the fortress over to the stagehands.
His mana was depleted, and since we had stripped off his clothes, he effectively could not do anything.
As for that incident, we made him wash thoroughly in a nearby river, so there should probably be no problem.
Even so, the stagehands, who usually moved quickly with a rustle, seemed slightly sluggish, so I felt a little bad.
Had he still smelled a little after all?
They handled corpses all the time, so how sloppy of them.
That man would probably be interrogated at the House Balfont mansion until he thought death would be better. Rest in peace.
"Brother Vaid, is Sister Mirei here?"
"She was excited, saying she had thought up a slime sofa, so she should be."
After leaving the fortress cleanup to the stagehands, we visited Sister Mirei's Magic Research Institute.
If we told her about summoning magic and had her research it, it would become a weapon for House Balfont.
If we sold it to the royal family as a bargaining chip, the system of control would become even more solid.
The Magic Research Institute was in a forest away from the royal capital.
When we finally arrived, I pulled back.
"Forest Chuuu!"
"Yeah, yeah."
I lightly dodged my own sister as she fell upside down from a tree.
It was a complete horror scene.
If it had not been me, my heart would have stopped.
"Agyan! Oww... I hit my head. What if I got hurt?"
"Normally, if you fall headfirst, you die."
The fact she was unharmed despite that foolish stunt was thanks to her absurd mana reinforcement.
With this sister, she could probably defeat something like Epsilon, the Demon Flame Beast, with mana reinforcement alone.
"M-Mirei! Again?"
"Luchel-chan, are you ready for one too?"
"For what!?"
She would probably be teased for life because of that reaction.
I would not touch that one.
"Still, I should have made a little better use of the terrain advantage."
"Enough of your awful review meeting. There is magic I want you to research."
"Magic? Is it worth more than a slime sofa?"
"It is."
The trick was to ignore her to some degree and keep the conversation moving, because otherwise I could not deal with her.
When Sister Mirei led us into the Magic Research Institute, the corridor split right in front of us.
And the corridor split again farther in, giving off the overwhelming stench of a terrible dungeon.
Yes, Sister Mirei had arbitrarily remodeled the Magic Research Institute into a dungeon.
Inside, magical creatures swarmed everywhere, and if you entered normally, they would attack with all their strength.
You might wonder why she would do that, but if I started questioning that, I would have to question everything this sister did.
In other words, thinking about it was pointless.
As for what the other researchers did, one came over normally.
"Director Mirei, who are your guests?"
"My younger brother, who loves me to death, a stalker angel, and a muscle-type magical creature."
"Hey."
"Hey."
"Hey."
I did not want the researcher to take that vulgar introduction seriously, so we introduced ourselves properly.
Leaving me aside, Sister Mirei was probably the only person in the world who could mock Brother Vaid this much.
Even the World King would show a little more respect.
"I see. Director Mirei is indebted to you, then. Please follow me."
Sister Mirei and the researcher walked off briskly.
There were needlessly branching paths and rows of doors. She had really remodeled the place beyond recognition.
And what was amazing was that the researcher knew the route.
"Oops, a level two is coming."
What the researcher called a level two was a magical creature.
The magical creatures wandering this institute were created by Sister Mirei.
Apparently, she had created them because she said the place was dangerous and security needed to be strengthened, but most of it was a hobby.
I had never seen anyone mock life this badly.
"Hah!"
The wind magic released by the researcher split the demi-human-like magical creature in one blow.
As his white coat fluttered, the researcher pushed up his glasses with one finger and gave off a strangely strong aura.
Yes, even the researchers here had been remodeled by Sister Mirei.
"As expected of Sister Mirei. To make ordinary people this strong."
"If all you want is to become strong, that is easy. You only need a little foundation and some liquid."
She was definitely making them drink something strange.
A unit made from this institute's researchers would be far more useful than the current knight order, but I would not touch that.
The researcher advanced steadily and was about to open a door when his hand stopped suddenly.
"Ah, I was mistaken. This is the monster room... I nearly died."
"A room mistake being life-threatening is pretty bad."
Even in such a situation, the researcher did not change expression.
His senses had probably bugged out while being trained by Sister Mirei.
Whether that was happiness or not, I could not say.
"Hey, from your perspective, what is my sister like?"
"I am grateful to her. In the past, I would probably have been killed just by encountering that level two from earlier. But thanks to Director Mirei, I now have the strength to protect what matters to me."
"Yes, that is my good point."
Do not say it yourself.
It ruined everything.
Looking at the researcher, he did not seem to be flattering her because Sister Mirei was there.
If anything, he was talking to my sister happily.
"Then, when I went home, goblins attacked me, so I killed them all at once."
"You're coming along. At this point, you might be able to defeat up to level four."
"No, level four would be impossible."
It was a terrible dungeon that felt like something a middle schooler would think up, but surprisingly, the researchers' private rooms were fully furnished.
The researchers seemed free to go home too.
At first glance, everything my sister did was ridiculous, but all of it helped someone.
She herself was doing it on a whim, though.
"Now, we are here. This is the research room."
Inside, many researchers were busy with some kind of work.
Near what appeared to be a prototype slime sofa, captured slimes wriggled behind a transparent wall.
Using actual slimes as material was fairly serious. Completely insane, though.
"Director Mirei, thank you for your work."
"Everyone, we can do a new experiment today. My younger brother and older brother will do it for us."
"Oh! How reliable!"
Hold on.
Why was a project we knew nothing about moving forward?
This was not a matter of being reliable.
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