"Fang... Fang Li?"
Watching Fang Li pick up the notebook and open it directly, Megumin, worried it might be something dangerous, immediately swallowed hard.
But Fang Li could tell.
"This is just an ordinary diary, isn't it?"
After casually flipping through it, Fang Li began reading its contents.
"X month, X day. Oh no, this facility has been exposed. Fortunately, they don't seem to know what I made. If they find out I used the nation's research funding to make Game Consoles and toys, how will they punish me?"
The first entry Fang Li saw made the corner of his mouth twitch violently.
"Wh... what is it?"
"...Nothing."
Megumin asked uneasily from beside him, and Fang Li answered without expression.
Forcibly suppressing the urge to tear up the diary in his hands, Fang Li continued reading.
"X month, X day. The nobles who entered my paradise asked what these game consoles were for. There was no way I could honestly tell them they were toys, so I seriously lied, 'These are weapons that could potentially destroy the world.' My female colleague nervously turned on a game console, then jumped at its startup sound. She's normally so overbearing, so why did a game console scare her shitless?"
The urge to tear up the diary reared its head again.
In other words—
Those so-called "weapons that could destroy the world" were the Game Consoles all around them?
People of later generations had simply been duped?
Fang Li endured the urge to rip the diary apart and kept reading.
"X month, X day. They gave me a bigger research budget and asked me to make weapons to fight the Demon Lord's Army. Sigh, even if you say that, what am I supposed to do? Haven't I already made all sorts of things with