Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation - A Journey of Two Lifetimes by Rifujin na Magonote

Author:Rifujin na Magonote [Magonote, Rifujin na]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2024-09-05T00:00:00+00:00

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Some small figurines of Zanoba’s were what set all this off.

“Hmm…” When I went to see him, he was staring at a collection of little figurines and grumbling, with a big scowl on his face. That was a rare sight, him looking at a figurine with a face like that. Usually, he wore a creepy smirk.

“What’s up?” I asked.

“Oh, if it isn’t you, Master. In truth, I made quite the lucky find with these figurines. Behold.” He showed me a stone figurine, like a miniaturized chess piece. It was made with its center of mass in its feet, so it could stand up by itself. I guess they were similar to board game pieces in this world, only these were even smaller, and there were more types. The sizes didn’t quite match, either. Some were shaped like people, but others were shaped like monsters. Sometimes, there were a few of the same model; sometimes there weren’t. There was no regularity.

“What are these?”

“They were previously used in war room meetings. That being said, however, much about them remains enigmatic.”

War room meetings? He had to mean the thing where you had a big map that you put tokens in different colors on so that you could easily visualize the state of the battle. It was true, they seemed too non-uniform for a war room. In the first place, with figures as small as these, if you put them on a map, then people sitting on the edges at the meeting would struggle to see them.

“It is my conjecture that these were used for some different purpose, but there’s the puzzle! I have no clue whatsoever as to what that purpose may have been.”

“Then I guess they must be from a game or something?”

“Oh! Very good, Master! What makes you think that?”

“No reason. When I first saw them, I thought they looked like the pieces from a board game I played once. Plus, they’re just the right size for people gathered around a dining room table to look at.”

“That is true. But if they are for that sort of game, it is strange that they should be so lacking in uniformity!”

Was it strange? Okay, compared to the world of my past life, this world had less variety in its entertainment. When it came to game pieces, they were usually round coin-type things like you’d get in Othello, rather than pieces that are easy to tell apart, like with chess—more tokens than pieces. It wasn’t standard to use figurines that fit in the palm of your hand in games. Were these ornamental, then? But that didn’t seem right either. Ornamental figurines weren’t this bland.

“Maybe, in the past, there was a really spectacular battle, and they tried to make a lifelike record of it by reconstructing it using figurines.”

The diorama theory. “Oho,” said Zanoba, with a look that said he was intrigued. “You advance the most fascinating theories, Master. I believe there was an artist who made such things from stone.”

“Forgetting my theories for the moment, did you ask Lord Badi?”

“But of course.

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