Chapter 41
A yarn ball with a huge amount of thread wound around it.
I see the giant insect energetically eating leaves.
As I watch, it stops eating and stares at me.
"Thank you."
There isn't just one yarn ball wound with thread; there are 200 in total.
Even for such a giant insect, where did it get all this thread?
It's strange, but it looks healthy, so I suppose it's fine.
I look at the rock figures assigned to winding thread.
I made 50 rods for winding thread around.
The other 150 balls were... Ah, the original rock figures must have wound them.
It seems they've started interacting with each other at some point.
...I suppose the three-eyed ones and the one-eyed ones will do.
The three-eyed ones are staring at me.
I think they're asking for the next step.
But no matter how hard I try, all I can picture is a tangled mess of thread.
What should I do?
I take off the T-shirt I'm wearing and hold it up to examine it.
One of the three-eyed figures comes over and examines it with me.
Does it have a thoughtful look on its face?
I look at the one-eyed and three-eyed figures in the thread room.
They seem to have expressions, somehow.
Strange. They're figures, right?
But they definitely look troubled now.
The T-shirt passes from my hand into the hands of one of the three-eyed figures.
Oh, it turned the T-shirt inside out.
After about ten minutes, the T-shirt comes back into my hands.
Then the one-eyed and three-eyed figures get to work.
...Even though I haven't given them any orders...
What should I do? I have no idea what's about to begin.
Can rock figures grow?
I look at Boss-san and the baby spiders nearby.
None of them seem particularly flustered, either...?
For some reason, they seem to be staring intently at the rock figures.
A rock figure based on a famous blue robot.
They've evolved day by day and finally seem to have become independent.
I'll just trust that everything's okay, somehow.
...
I move to the first floor and end up stopping at the kitchen entrance.
The kitchen had nothing but a stone table in it.
It was still a long way from the kitchen I was aiming for.
Huh?
What's going on?
In the kitchen before me are the wooden table and chairs I'd envisioned.
The cooking counter is still the original stone one, but everything else is made of wood.
Or rather, the cooking and dining areas are separated.
The eight one-eyed figures are still working.
Two of them were in the thread room.
Uh... how did things end up like this?
I believe I mentioned wanting to make a dining area in the kitchen about two days ago.
I was talking to Core, but one of the one-eyed figures was definitely beside Core.
Come to think of it, why was one of them there then...?
Well, it seems to be working out, so I guess it's fine.
Even so, this is amazing. It looks like the dining area I've envisioned is almost complete.
Come to think of it, why are Core and the others in the corner?