Discipline
The next morning.
After the Magic Tower's inspection ended, Lee Dam was summoned before Beldora. Pointing at the opposite side's back view, she yelled.
“That bastard did it! That fucking bastard is pure evil!”
“…….”
“Coming straight at me while I'm building figures so nicely, some crazy bastard is waving around a huge club!”
“Back view?”
Beldora, arms crossed, gave the back view a suspicious look.
The back view panicked and answered.
“Ah, no! Not a club!”
“Exactly! For a club, it's got zero cool factor.”
Deliberately glancing at the lower half of the body and clicking her tongue, Lee Dam. The back view felt ashamed and covered his crotch with his hand, shouting.
“W-wait! This seems like the conversation is continuing with a completely different meaning! I'm-!”
“I know, so pull your hand off, back view. A big guy like you doing that is pathetic.”
Beldora clicked her tongue. In her gaze from inside the Magic Tower, disdain was clear.
Inside the Magic Tower, Beldora's disdain was something Lee Dam had often heard called “reward,” but the moment back view heard it, his spirit broke.
“Yes, yes.”
“Don’t even need to hide it, you little shit. Tiny thing like that.”
Scratching her ear and mocking.
The back view wanted to swing his staff at her right then and there to challenge her to a duel, but.
Unfortunately, his staff ended up as part of Lee Dam's giant hammer.
‘This one isn’t a woman anymore.’
She had thought of it as a woman for a moment, but now she decided to treat it as a beast.
It was obvious the god had spilled too much female essence into the body, ruining both character and personality.
“Sigh, internal tower rules allow some leeway. We’re a meritocracy, after all. And it makes it easier for me to manage.”
Beldora honestly confessed.
“But if it turns into actual violence, that’s a different story. Lee Dam and back view will each receive separate punishment.”
“I was in self-defense.”
Lee Dam raised her hand to voice her opinion.
Back view had nothing to say about that. After all, he had been the one to approach and start the fight, swinging first, then getting beaten.
“I know. But I can’t not punish you. Violence is strictly forbidden in the Magic Tower.”
“What, even if he hit me first, I’m supposed to take it?”
“You are. Please. Just take it. Don’t escalate things.”
“……This is seriously fucked up.”
Only three days had passed.
But as the new Tower Master, Beldora had already figured out Lee Dam.
Lee Dam had three options: cause an incident, cause a big one, or cause an absolute monster one. This case fell under the second category.
Beldora clicked her tongue and spoke to Lee Dam.
“Too harsh a punishment isn’t necessary. In fact, it’s not even a punishment.”
“…….”
“So don’t worry.”
Beldora sent back view away with a wave. When only Lee Dam remained, she pulled out a candy from her pocket, popped it in her mouth, and got to the point.
“That thing you have.”
“Huh, this?”
Lee Dam asked, lightly supporting her lower breast.
Beldora looked at her with a dumbfounded expression and let out a sigh.
“Not that.”
“Then what?”
“Project.”
“What project.”
“……You know it.”
“Ah, gotta explain it first.”
With a sly smile, Lee Dam answered, and Beldora crunched the candy in her mouth and split it in half.
“Project. I was seriously thinking of a name yesterday.”
“Hmm.” She coughed and started with an energetic schoolgirl-like expression.
“This is going to be used by the knights, right? Of course, later it won’t just be for knights but for everyone to use universally. Anyway, initially it’s knight armor, right?”
“Mhm.”
“So, combining knight and armor… Knight Armor! How is it? Pretty cool, right?!”
Beldora’s eyes sparkled.
Expecting an answer, she showed anticipation mixed with anxiety.
“That was mentioned yesterday, wasn’t it?”
“……Eh?”
It was plagiarism.
* * *
The world’s greatest collection of advanced technology.
If someone asked right now, “Humanity is in the middle of a technology marathon, where are we?”
Everyone’s fingertips would point to the Magic Tower.
That place was the collection of technological power humanity could reach, and the place where intelligent beings discussed day and night.
But humans, when their heads got too big, didn’t they want rights?
Among them, some even wanted to understand the differences between each gender.
There was even a club that asked to respect gender differences.
Their name was Familism.
It meant respecting gender differences, harmonizing together, and living like family.
Their greatest achievement, and one of the almost only ones, was.
The male and female restrooms.
Using separate restrooms.
A truly grand achievement, praised by males and females.
Now, Magic Tower members no longer had to worry about the other gender’s genitals facing them in the restroom.
Some grumbled that the accidental blossoming of romantic love within such encounters had vanished.
But whether accidentally meeting while horny was romantic was debatable.
Entering the restroom created by humanity’s technological power, wearing a mop on her shoulder.
“Ah, what is this restroom cleaning.”
The punishment for the incident was one week of restroom cleaning.
By the way, back view was banned from participating in the project for a month and wore a mana-suppression bracelet, receiving daily punishment of running around the Magic Tower.
It felt childish, but understanding that it was Beldora’s punishment made it feel right.
Anyway, the new Tower Master who sneaked candy from her pocket wasn’t it.
“Ah, this is annoying.”
Grumbling, she started mopping the floor with the mop.
“What, what?!”
A male magician suddenly appeared from a stall and looked at Lee Dam in surprise.
“This is the male restroom!”
“Eh?”
Lee Dam looked at him with a what-are-you-doing face. Three seconds later, she realized what was wrong.
“Ah, I’m a woman.”
‘The new apprentice said she was crazy.’
This wasn’t just crazy, it was half her brain split level.
“No, I used the male restroom for the first time since I came here, so I did it in my old memory.”
“…….”
“But what does that matter. Usually ladies do restroom cleaning anyway.”
“…….”
“After I do my business and wipe properly, I’m out, you little shit!”
Her explosive outburst made the magician look dumbfounded.
However, Lee Dam had already started cleaning the floor with the mop.
“Sigh, look at this mess. Aim properly.”
“…….”
“What’s with standing there blankly. Step aside.”
Scrub scrub scrub.
“This is spit?!”
The magician, entranced by something, came out.
“Hello, Master Theodore!”
“Wow, you’re always so cool today!”
“Master Theodore, have you heard the rumor? This time the new apprentice is super pretty-!”
Standing blankly in front of the restroom, Lee Dam was staring blankly.
Other male magicians flocked in.
Theodore reached out and blocked them from naturally entering the restroom.
“There’s a beast inside.”
* * *
Two days later.
Scritch scritch.
Only the sound of flipping pages came from Beldora’s office.
They were all letters that Beldora had made into a “letter box for Tower Masters” with the message “Please tell the Tower Master.”
In terms of the army, they were like love letters from the heart.
In terms of books, the amount was about ten pages.
This amount had piled up in just two days, and all of them were aimed at a single woman.
Reading one toward Lee Dam standing with her back to the group.
“While doing my business inside, someone came in saying they were cleaning, which was too much.”
“To clean, you have to come inside. That was ordered by the Tower Master.”
“……I obviously ordered it knowing there was no one inside.”
“While working, if you get caught up in everything, you can’t even start. Just throw it away first.”
This didn’t seem like it was about that kind of issue.
Anyway, this was the weakest one.
“While doing my business, I glanced at them and muttered ‘Those bastards are quite something.’”
“Hmm, they were quite something, weren’t they.”
“They blocked the entrance with the mop so I couldn’t go in.”
“I just cleaned, but you’re planning to shit.”
“They even melted the lock on the stall door so I couldn’t open it.”
“Everyone’s magicians, I guess. They just smashed in without hesitation.”
“This seems written by back view. Back view can’t use mana right now.”
“Ah.”
Then what, how did it happen?
“Silent prayer.”
Lee Dam prayed for back view to have a nice shit.
Lee Dam, who became the enemy of the public and achieved harmony in the male and female restrooms.
Beldora eventually couldn’t hold back and stood up abruptly, throwing a bundle of papers at her.
“Hey! The restroom cleaning-! Sigh, even if I just ordered that one, I can’t even do it properly?!”
“No, I’m busy too. My head is spinning because I’m making the project.”
“Knight Armor! I decided to call it Knight Armor!”
“Completely lost the sense. And that’s plagiarism on top of…”
“Chuckle! Anyway! Knight Armor can’t be started yet! After your punishment ends, we were going to start planning together-!”
“I’m already getting the basics ready, though?”
“……Eh?”
Beldora was surprised.
Lee Dam smiled slyly and said.
“There’s plenty of leftover material. So I’m just hammering it out piece by piece. Want to go see?”
No separate lab was given, and no magic lessons were taught.
What exactly did they make?
Her anger had already vanished, and Beldora, as a magician, felt deep interest.
When leaving a once-in-a-generation genius alone, she wondered what kind of result they would produce.
“First, pick up some papers. Sort them and then we’ll go.”
“Exactly why did you throw them.”
Grumbling, the two picked up the scattered papers from the floor.
Then Beldora saw the content and crumpled the paper with a laugh.
[Please keep making Lee Dam magic clean the restroom. Please. I beg you. Every time I go to the restroom, it makes me so excited and nervous. Honestly, even closing my eyes in the bathroom, it keeps coming to mind. And when I go to the restroom, my heart flutters-!]
“Sigh.”
Beldora tried to suppress her anger, but.
“That bastard, let me check the authorship.”
In the end, she couldn’t hold back.