Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne?

Another 9~ more mediocre chapters then things start to move forward pretty fast. Chapter sizes are shooting up in length again. At least this is one of the last few gun focused chapters...

Year 7447, Month 3, Day 4

Late last night after we arrived in the teleport room of the 8th floor we took a full 8 hours of sleep per person and recovered our stamina before stepping foot on the 9th floor. Of course starting with the net gun we left on the 8th floor we brought along as much Treant lumber as we had the leeway to hold.

And then just past noon after defeating the mino guardians of the 9th floor we had a slightly late lunch.

"Today after this are we going to the 10th floor?"

Bel asked me. The last time we took a bit of a look around the 10th floor on the first day. However, without hesitation I said,"No, let's not today. I want to do it when we can spend a full day starting tomorrow.", before pulling out the iron ores from the bottom of Giberuti's bags.

"Ah, starting with the guns huh?"

"Yeah. Thinking about those {Lesser Yowie} and I thought I should make a proper gun first."

"You were going to make a gun that can fire consecutively right?"

"That's right. I want to get a good outlook of the gunpowder and bullets today."

I brought along some brass and copper ores. Of course, I haven't forgotten the cotton and I've already resupplied on yellow dye. Also I intend on trying to use the Treant lumber to make the gunstock and hand-guard this time. Last time I made the gunstock out of walnut wood but I think it was a pretty decent job for the first time. Although, I've made a number of wooden guns in the past so I can't say it's completely the first one.

First off is producing the gunpowder and bullets I guess. Since we're already pretty used to these we can proceed up to the washing process right away. Since we've already reached the point where there's almost no problem with the amount of gunpowder in the bullets there shouldn't be any problem with making the thickness of the barrel a bit thinner.

During the start when there was too much gunpowder the cartridges couldn't withstand the explosion within the cylinder and would expand(there was also expansion from the temperature of the explosion but it was mainly expansion from the blast wave), then I couldn't get the empty cartridges out and in worst case there was no choice other than to break it. Since I didn't add something like an ejector rod after all. I made this possible by somewhat increasing the thickness of that portion of the cartridges to increase the strength. Though because of that the cartridges ended up a bit longer. If possible I didn't want to sacrifice the power.

It's no good if we don't replenish the bullet-heads and shell cases as well. The primer too. Recently the cartridges we've made have a proper thickness and are reusable so I guess it's fine to make a bit less huh?

Now then, while they're washing the acids out from the cotton, it's finally time to work on producing the gun during the spare time.

This time what I'm going to make is a bolt action rifle..is what I'd like to say but as expected that's getting too complex all of a sudden. I intend on making a revolving rifle which is like a revolver made into a rifle. While I'm at it I also abandoned the {top break} form and made it a {solid frame}. Different from the average modern day revolver the revolving cylinder doesn't {sling out}. It's necessary to take out the empty cartridges from the loading gates on the sides one at a time before loading new bullets but for that portion the structure can be made a lot simpler. Additionally for the portion it's made simpler I can raise the durability.

I made the firing mechanism only {single action} as well. Of course it's because I can make the form of the parts simpler. The number of parts I have isn't many. After all, it's only two springs, the trigger, the hammer, the hand which rotates the cartirdges pulling the hammer back, and the latch which holds the cartridges in place when they stop rotating. {Double action} is something similar but the structure gets a bit more complex and the number increases by one or two. That's up next. Pin? Ah, it's fine as long as you directly hit the primer so it shouldn't necessary for the time being.

Of course there's no way there would be something like a {gas sealer} so when a bullet is being fired the firing flames leak out through the guns in the cylinder and barrel which makes a long glove required for your left hand. Though if you're fine with being burnt there's no need for even that.

I made the parts for the first gun in about 1 hour. Once again this time I made the rifling within the barrel using chrome. I'll use the tungsten after I've built up a bit of confidence and got the proper form down. I carved down the treant lumber while roughly estimating the gunstock and barrel and putting them into place. If I match them up other than the receiver and revolving cylinder it should have the shape of a rifle from a while back. I used an exclusive jig to hold the barrel in place while carving out the pipe and shaved it down to almost the same shape as outer circumference of the barrel.

"Shave down the fine places and adjust it for yourself."

I said that while handing over the skin of a fish similar to kawahagi that works as sandpaper.

It should be about time for the bullets to enter the selection process. I need to head over.

Just like this our first day on the 9th floor ended. Tomorrow a short while after we eat breakfast we'll defeat the respawned mino and then continue off from today. The 10th floor is put off until after the day after tomorrow.

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