Fifty minutes had already passed since the clay sculpture competition with Megiddo-san had started.
It seemed that our workbenches were designed in a way that the people outside can’t see what we’re making, so neither Megiddo-san and I can see what the other is making.
In the arena, perhaps to pass the time, several performances were shown and the crowd was very excited.
The clay sculpture I’m working on now…… The theme is about “living creatures”, so I chose a “dog” as my subject.
To be honest, I think that if an amateur tries to make something too elaborate, they would obviously fail. So, I chose a subject that was as simple as possible, and spent my time improving the sculpture’s quality.
I think it’s a good decision I made back then.
With only 10 minutes left, I looked at my sculpture, which was nearing completion, and one thought came to my mind.
……What the f*ck is this? This…… “creepy creature”……
“Skin as lumpy as crags”, “legs that looked like a squashed fruit”, “face that is so close to the ground for some reason”, “a tail…… that doesn’t look like a tail at all, looking more like a weird stick stuck on clay”…… What the heck am I even making? No matter how I look at it objectively, it looks like a creature that doesn’t live on Earth.
Unnn. Well, I knew it…… I’m really no good at making three-dimensional objects. I don’t know what the heck I was thinking when I created this thing…… this sorrowful monster.
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I guess it really was a bad idea to “lump more clay over my work” so that I could adjust the shape huh. It was about 20 centimeters at the beginning, but now, it had swollen to about “5 times” its size…… Adding up too much unnecessary stuff also ends up in failure. Well, I feel like a typical amateur but…… If I knew what I was doing while I was making it, I wouldn’t have had any trouble.
The end result of my actions…… is “some kind of weird rock-like creature”. Let’s declare it now. Unless the eyes of all the judges are rotten, there’s no way I can win with this.
Alice, who had returned back from Kuro’s severe scolding before I knew it, told us how much time we had left. Apparently, Kuro is keeping an eye on them in the back, which is very reassuring.
However, unnn…… 5 more minutes huh…… I don’t think there’s anything I can do about this anymore. No matter what I do, I can only see a future where this thing would look worse than it already is. Isn’t there any way I can win this match?
As I waited, thinking about this, I heard the sound of a bell announcing that the time of making the sculpture has ended.
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……I already lost this match, so can we just go to the next one without having to show this monstrosity to the public?
[Ohh!]
Hearing the announcement of the Live commentator Alice, Megiddo-san removed the boards that were hiding his work. Thereupon, what appeared from there was……
Megiddo-san created a dragon about 30 centimeters long…… As if every single scale had been carefully polished, its entire body seemed to glow a dull shine, and the sculpture’s intensity was so great that even I, who had never seen the original creature, felt overwhelmed.
Well, this is no good. His sculpture is just too great…… Even with all the muscles loaded in your hands, you did such delicate work!? Seriously, Megiddo-san’s amazing. I knew it, there’s no way I can win in this situation.
[What do you think, Kaito!? I’m pretty confident with what I made today!]
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[I- It’s amazing……]
No, no, you can’t even consider this a match, you know!? It’s like putting you’re putting a kindergartener’s school project next to a master’s work of art, you know!? I knew I really shouldn’t exhibit my work……
I kinda don’t really want to though. Showing this monstrosity before the eyes of everyone in this place…… However, now that it’s been declared, I can’t not publish it.
As my hands trembled, I fearfully removed the blinds covering my work…… and revealed to everyone this tragic, or perhaps, this laughable creature.
The voice of the live commentator sounded bewildered…… Unnn, just go kill me already.
Feeling an inexplicable sense of shame, I fearfully looked at my opponent, Megiddo-san…… and saw him staring at me with his eyes opened wide.
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Is he astonished at how badly I did it? Just as I was thinking that, Megiddo-san fell on his knees for some reason and put his hands on the ground.
[……It’s…… my “loss”.]
……Huh? Why?
[M- Megiddo-sama!? T- The judges still haven’t……]
For some reason, Megiddo-san declared his defeat and several Demons who seemed to be judges rushed over to him. Unnn, what they’re asking is right. I mean, I don’t know what’s going on either.
[You idiots! Look at it, Kaito’s work!]
[……Eh? T- That is…… could it be!?]
[……Rough outer shell that looks like a rock, its distinctive “long neck”……]
[I- I can’t be mistaken! This is definitely……!]
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