Chapter 80

A Childlike Holiday

On vacation.

When I woke up in the morning, Ada was lying next to me.

Ah, thatโ€™s right. I think I held her last night.

As soon as I woke up, Ada woke up too.

โ€œFaaโ€ฆ Good morning, Lord Exus โ™ก,โ€ she greeted me and then gave me a gentle kiss.

Sheโ€™s truly adorable.

Sheโ€™s my precious little guinea pig and the culmination of all my experiments.

Thinking about it rationally, letting her, whoโ€™s basically a collection of classified experimental data, stay by my side without disposing of or restraining her shows Iโ€™m letting my personal feelings get in the way.

I was raised well, so I usually make sure to โ€œclean upโ€ after using any โ€œtools,โ€ you know?

Lately, Iโ€™ve been using bandits and assassins sent after me for my experiments, and I always clean up afterward. I mean, I wouldnโ€™t want to deal with something like a revenge-seeking experiment subject getting away. Thatโ€™d be like something out of Frankenstein, wouldnโ€™t it?

But with Ada, Iโ€™ve kept her alive, let her stay by my side, and even continued modifying her. Thanks to that, sheโ€™s become quite powerful.

At the very least, as a result of the experiments, Ada doesnโ€™t age, heals quickly from injuries or sickness, and is almost entirely immune to poisons.

Oh, that time when she was drugged with a sleeping pill?

Apparently, she just naturally took a nap. Sheโ€™s an idiot, but thatโ€™s part of her charm!

Anyway, itโ€™s the kidsโ€™ break timeโ€ฆ

What was I doing at that age in my past life?

I think I was playing around by building massive computers using only transistors instead of ICs or creating my own programming languages.

Of course, I did things like play games like everyone else, joined the Boy Scouts for outdoor activities, rode horses, read booksโ€ฆ I did a lot, but those things stand out the most.

As an adult, I built industrial systems, operating systems, firewallsโ€ฆ

โ€ฆNow that I think about it, my hobbies are pretty much just the same things I do at work.

This makes it sound like I donโ€™t have any hobbies at all.

People who are good at their jobs also know how to manage their private lives. That was especially true in America.

In Japan, salarymen who do inefficient overtime are useless. You have to streamline work as much as possible, use the free time for family, networking, and parties. Thatโ€™s how itโ€™s done abroad.

And well, at the company where I commuted, the workload and quality were insane. It wasnโ€™t something you could deal with by just working overtime. You had to automate tasks and effectively utilize other team members to get things done. Time alone couldnโ€™t fix it. If you couldnโ€™t get the job done, there was no conversation.

You couldnโ€™t just say โ€œyesโ€ to everything you were told; you had to propose improvements yourself. Otherwise, the work would never get finished!

โ€ฆThinking about all that, itโ€™s about time I start training my kids seriously.

Iโ€™ve already secretly modified their bodies while they were sleeping, but now I need to update their software as well.

Theyโ€™re still only thirteen? Fourteen? Theyโ€™re not even in high school yet, so Iโ€™ll go easy on them for now. But if they canโ€™t handle being project leaders by the time theyโ€™re twenty, Iโ€™ll have to let them go.

โ€œLord Exus? Breakfast is readyโ€ฆโ€

โ€œHm? Ah, sorry. I was lost in thought.โ€

โ€œAbout everyone?โ€

โ€œYeah, Iโ€™m thinking about the next project and want them to gain more experienceโ€ฆโ€

โ€œEnough of work! Letโ€™s enjoy breakfast and your vacation, okay?โ€

โ€œโ€ฆYouโ€™re right. A businessman who canโ€™t take care of his family is third-rate.โ€

With that, I took a bite of the cereal Ada had made.

โ€œOh, this is good! The texture is better.โ€

โ€œEhehe, I changed the oil when I baked it! That made it crispier!โ€

โ€œNice. Itโ€™d probably go well with ice cream.โ€

โ€œReally? Maybe I should try selling it at the shopping mall next time?โ€

Meals are an important time for communication with my โ€œfamily.โ€

For Ada and the other girlsโ€™ mental health, I engage in casual conversation with them.

Now that I think about it, these girls are still just kids.

Theyโ€™ve done well, being away from their parents. Good job, good job.

โ€ฆMaintaining regular communication like this is the key to good relationships.

Itโ€™s normal for competent people to make friends and lovers.

But truly capable people can maintain those relationships for a long time.

After breakfast, we washed and dried the dishes together, then fed the dogs.

Oh right, I have some dogs.

Theyโ€™re cute ones, with dark skin or pale skinโ€”lots of different kinds.

I got a female dog from Proxia a while back, and since then, Iโ€™ve been obsessed with training dogs and keeping them aroundโ€ฆ

โ€œWoof woof, Master, thank you for the food, woof. Marie is so happy to have been bought by such a kind Master, woof.โ€

After petting the cute dog, I went outside.

Itโ€™s time to check on the kids from the slums.

Looks like Ada is coming along, too.

โ€œGood morning, Lord Exus,โ€ said Alan and Betty as they approached.

โ€œHow are the new recruits?โ€

Oh yeah, about the Proxia Republic we took down recentlyโ€ฆ

The government collapsed, but the city itself still functions as a port town, like a free trade city.

The shopping mall, which had turned into an NGO, has been reverted to a paid service.

I only made everything free as a form of harassment against my enemies. Now that theyโ€™re all gone, thereโ€™s no reason to keep running the place for free.

Naturally, the locals, who had grown accustomed to free food and drink, resisted fiercely, but I told them, โ€œThen die,โ€ and had the homunculi take care of about half of them.

I told them, โ€œStop whining and start working!โ€ Working is a given, right?

Eventually, the remaining residents realized that resisting would only get them killed, so they reluctantly started working.

That said, the shopping mall still offers everything at low prices, so theyโ€™re struggling to create jobs. But thatโ€™s not my problem.

โ€œThe new recruitsโ€ฆ you mean the kids from Proxia, right?โ€

โ€œYes.โ€

โ€œTheyโ€™re doing well. Theyโ€™re not quite up to leadership level, thoughโ€ฆโ€

I see.

โ€œAnd the ones who arenโ€™t doing well?โ€

โ€œIf they show no promise, weโ€™ll cast them out.โ€

Hmm, sounds about right.


Programmer Reincarnation: Magic in This World Seems Like Programming

Programmer Reincarnation: Magic in This World Seems Like Programming

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Status: Ongoing Type: Author: Released: 2023 Native Language: Japanese

A story in which the heroine begs for the enemy's life

Reincarnated into another world! A programmer who died on Earth wakes up to find himself a baby in a fantasy world! Though it may seem like a fantasy world, magic is processed in a computer-program-like manner for some reason! Being an Earth programmer, he can manipulate spells to wield powerful magic! It's cheating! Totally OP! I see, it's a common setup. ...But there's one problem. This guy is fatally unsuited to be the protagonist.

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