Chapter 11— Manufacturing

"It will be a problem since there are so many bricks. I wish these were plates, at least."

　This was when I made a lot of bricks in the name of a magical experiment and had trouble disposing of them.

　Looking at the pile of bricks, my mother said, "Oh, oh," with her hands on her cheeks.

　I see.

　I made bricks to make a building since I couldn't think of it in itself, so I developed magic just to make bricks.

　However, if you can make bricks from soil, you can make dishes.

　When I heard those words from my mother, I started working on that project.

　The magical power kneaded from my body is poured into the soil while I create an image in my head.

　It is unavoidable that the result of that was the rice bowl that was used every day in my previous life.

　However, in this life, there is no rice, and bean soup is the staple food.

　The first thoughts of my mother who saw the bowl were "Doesn’t that look a little strange?"

　I guess it is, since it is a difficult form to use for soup.

　So I changed it to make something more realistic.

　I don't need any more bricks, so I can make as many dishes as I did bricks.

　I made plates, cups, and water bottles of various shapes and sizes, and asked my mother to use them to check the usability.

　However, after a few days, a sufficient amount of tableware will be available, and no more will be needed.

　If so, it may be natural for me to focus on quality rather than quantity.

　At the very beginning, I was only making things that looked like they were made by heating the soil as it was.

　Just like kneading soil and turning it with a potter's wheel, the dishes were made by heating it with high heat, so to speak, it was like real earthenware.

　However, with that, I could only imagine the ones with brown colors, so I immediately tried to make other ones. (TLN: He needs to be able to think of different colors to have different colors. Get it?)

　The next thing I thought about was tableware like a bone china tea cup that goes well with black tea.

　That had been exchanged at a high price with nobles and other valuable things in the history of my previous life.

　It must have been made by mixing bone meal with the soil rather than simply using the soil.

　It was characterized by a beautiful white color that had never been seen before, and it was thinner than before, but it seems to have the advantage of being hard to break despite its thinness.

　I drew a cup and a plate in my head as I imagined drinking tea elegantly, and succeeded in creating the cup magically.

　Even though it is made from just soil, it has a nice color.

　I felt that the limits for raw materials were lower than I expected in the case of using magic.

　This white tableware pleased my mother very much.

　Until now, we have lived using wooden vessels and brown earthen vessels.

　The joy was more than I expected, and I was surprised that she would be so happy.

　But why?

　I decided to modify this tableware to make my mother even more happy.

　However, I knew that there was a serious problem with it.

　That is "plainness".

　White porcelain is sometimes said to have a beautiful white color, but another major feature is that the white porcelain itself can be used like a canvas to draw a design on it.

　If you think about it, it's natural that people would draw on it.

　No matter how beautiful it is, it wouldn't be appreciated if there were many similar white dishes.

　On the contrary, if there are pictures and patterns such as flowers and grass on the dishes, the impression given to the user will change greatly, even if the same type of plate is used.

　So I tried to make tableware with illustrations.

　However, no matter how much I tried to make it, when I saw the finished product, I could only say that it looked as if it was drawn by an amateur.

　Even though my mother was pleased, I wasn’t satisfied.

　I want to please my mother very much.

　At that time, I may have been a bit crazy.

　However, I can't use the previous method because my aesthetic sense is not good enough.

　Then I wondered if there was any other way.

　If you can't make a difference by patterning white porcelain, you have to make a change by other methods.

　Originally, I was creating something like earthenware, and then I made white porcelain.

　Now, I’ve decided to make tableware other than white porcelain.

　What came to my mind first was glass tableware.

　Clear glass tableware will give off a completely different impression than the white porcelain.

　If I succeed, Mother will surely be pleased.

　There is a question as to whether glass can be made, but I feel like I've heard about making glass from the sea’s sand somewhere before.

　Obviously, that wasn't enough raw material, but white porcelain could also be made from soil.

　I can try it.

　When thinking of a glass container, it was easy for me to have the thought of a cup surface in my mind.

　The cup is an elongated, cylindrical, and transparent glass.

　In my life on Earth, I used to pour cold tea taken out of my refrigerator into a glass every day and drink it.

　I activate the magic while firmly remembering the familiar transparent glass.

　My magical power mixed into that strange soil was an incomprehensible principle, but as usual, it changed the soil.

　This is how I succeeded in making glass.