Shizuku left the room.

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Sunday, January 13th. Tatsuya was going to FLT. The CAD Development Center, in other words the Third Division, wasn't particularly different from usual despite today being a holiday.

Even though as its name suggests, this place is mainly about CAD Development, Tatsuya wasn't currently working on developing a CAD nor a software related to CADs.

He was working on his Stellar Furnace, the energy providing resource, the design for the model plant of non-military Magic usage.

The company wasn't aware that Tatsuya started making such a thing. Mainly because he didn't report about it. After all, Tatsuya wasn't exactly an employee of FLT, he was a researcher currently under contract. Meaning, aside from confidentiality clauses he had to respect, he had quite a bit of freedom.

Due to his position, Tatsuya benefitted from a private room at his disposition in the Third Division, so if he really wanted to do things secretly it was doable. Even Ushiyama, who is considered the second half of Taurus Silver, wasn't aware of it yet.

Nevertheless, the other members' attitudes never changed. "Ah, good morning Young Master."

"Young Master, good morning."

While heading towards his private room, many people greeted Tatsuya. They were already aware of his identity as a member of the Yotsuba Family. That was because Tatsuya had already gathered all of them and publicly made that revelation known earlier this year.

Still, their attitude didn't change and they addressed him as usual “Young Master”. It seems like positions in the Third Division attracted people who turned their backs on authority, so it's not surprising that learning he was part of the Yotsuba Family didn't trigger any reaction beyond the “What of it”. Thanks to that, he could concentrate on his plans for his own project.

The non-military Magic Usage Project (Extract both useful and harmful Substances from the Coastal Area of the Pacific using Electricity generated by the Stellar-generator), construction plan ‘ESCAPES’. It was the ‘means of escape’ for Magicians from their fate as living weapons.

At first, this Project was made as a means to ‘escape’ from the Yotsuba Family’s influence and provide him with the means of living afterwards. Even though his motives were now slightly different as a part of the head family of the Yotsuba, it didn't change the fact that it would be a large advancement for the non-military applications of magic. With the nuclear fusion reactor operated by magic, stable electricity and fuel can be produced. Moreover an important position in the industrial society can be secured just with the by-product of supplying mineral resources from the Sea. As a result, Magicians will be able to provide for themselves without being forced into the Military. That was the baseline thinking behind his project.

The current sources of electrical power were natural energy such as the heat from sunlight, the force of the wind, the biomass. ——As a result of increased reliance on such renewable energy, modern industries had become extremely dependent on weather conditions.

Of course, this was much preferable to a society dependent on fossil energy and nuclear fission energy. Especially for long-term development, it was crucial for mankind to actively protect the environment. However, it was undeniable that this provoked an unstable fuel delivery situation. The system behind orbital satellites equipped with photovoltaic solar panels was also one of the projects destined to lower this reliance on weather conditions for energy supply.

The rough outline of Tatsuya's Stellar Furnace was composed of four crucial points: The furnace itself produces Electricity. It then uses this electrical power and from its high temperatures creates hydrogen gas by electrolysis. Thus again using the electrical power of the furnace, fresh water is produced using reverse osmosis on sea water. The leftovers from the previous operation are thus highly concentrated sea water, in which useful resources as well as toxic substances can be extracted.

Although, Tatsuya's knowledge of industrial technology stayed at a High School Student level. It wouldn't do any good to not cooperate with specialists for matters other than the Stellar Furnace itself. Even though the manufacturing of hydrogen gas and collection of all usable resources in sea water could be done directly with Magic, the responsibilities of Magicians would be too consequent. Using Magicians as part of the engineering process itself would be mistaking the means for the end, moreover it wasn't what Tatsuya desired.

(The ones who should approach the non-Magic Community should be the Magic Community itself. It will be easier to find partners if the Yotsuba name is used, moreover the opposition from the Magic Association will be avoided. So the problem will lie in making concrete arrangements.)

The groundwork was already completed. The conceptual plans for the Stellar Furnace should be ready within 3 months, the baseline design could be expected within half a year. From then on, even Tatsuya had to admit that he would need cooperation.

(It might be a little too fast considering I'm still only a High School Student..)

He wouldn’t be able to find anyone willing to participate due to his young age. That was Tatsuya's greatest cause for concern at the moment.