Volume 1 - Chapter 7 – STOVE (1/2)
Lately Jin has been thinking about something. That is a stove. In Kaina Village… no, in this world, firewood is typically used for cooking.
However for firewood, you need to cut a tree down, clear away the branches, cut it short, dry it, and then after that you can use the wood. Cutting down a tree and carrying it is hard labour, it also takes about half a year to dry it. A tree that’s not dried is hard to burn and it creates a lot of smoke. The concept of using charcoal did not exist in this world and to the general populace, firewood was a source of heat.
「A 《Magic Crystal》 as I thought… no, it’s a 《Magic Stone》 I need」
There was a lot of it underneath the laboratory which Jin regretted. Well, a lot of the goods stored in the laboratory were all over the place though.
（It can’t be helped, what’s done is done. Hmm, from my hypothesis, the substance of magic power is a particle made up of neutrons and protons that form a nucleus. It should have a similar position to a 《Radioisotope》）
Even if it’s the same element, the nucleus needs the substance of magic power to take on magic power, which is the hypothesis Jin made up. Deducing it with the knowledge and magic of the 《Magi Craft Meister》 and the knowledge of a high school level graduate. No one has ever thought of such a thing in this world.
（That is to say, it has a similar concentration to uranium, however there is no materials or equipment for it）
If it was the laboratory, Jin could make a magic element concentration device, but this was Kaina Village so it couldn’t be helped.
「Onii-chan, can we go play?」
Jin was invited by Hanna.
「Ah, yeah, that’s right. Where should we go?」
「It’s hot so let’s go swim!」
To the south of the village is the Erume River, a big river that supposedly runs to the capital. However, there are several waterfalls along the way so it wasn’t used for transportation by water, was what he heard from Roland.
「Alright, let’s go」
So the two changed into their swimwear and headed to the river. Well the swimwear wasn’t much different from underwear though. Incidentally, Hanna didn’t have a problem with only wearing the bottom so Jin didn’t worry about it either.
In the river were other children that came to swim, mixed among them was the village chief’s niece, Barbara. As one would expect, Barbara had wrapped cloth around her chest.
「Ah! It’s Jin-niichan! Hanna too!」
Kurt let out his voice when he saw the two. Mario and Jessie also waved at the two.
「It isn’t good to suddenly enter the river. You should splash a little water on your body and slowly enter.」
「Okay」
He warned Hanna and Jin slowly entered the river. The place to swim was a deep area with gentle flow. Well it’s not really that deep, the width is 20 metres and the deep areas are only about 3 metre in depth.
「Kyahaaa, it feels good」
「Yeah… it really does」
Leisurely floating on the water, Jin rested his head, and then water was poured on his face.
「Pua!」
「Hehe, Jin-niichan, what are you doing lazing around? Let’s play!」
The mischievous Kurt came and squirted some water.
「You sure did it!」
「You can’t catch me~」
「Oh, a game of tag? I’ll also play!」
「Me too! Me too!」
Before he noticed it, the children had gathered and it became a game of underwater tag. Barbara looked at the scene with a smile from a shallow area.
「Caught you Hanna-chan!」
「Caught you Jessie!」
「The only one left is… Kurt?」
「Ah, there he is! He dove underwater!」
「Alright!」
Kurt dived deeper to escape, Jin and Mario chased after him.
Kurt was caught near the bottom by Mario who was skilled at swimming. At that time, Kurt was flailing about, and the sand at the bottom rolled up. Seeing that, an idea flashed in Jin’s head.
「Ahhh, that was really fun~」
The children who finished playing got out of the water. Because it was nearly time for lunch, everyone returned home.
「You guys, quickly take a hot bath at the onsen and then go back home」
「Okay~」
Worrying that they may get sick if they remained with a cold body, Jin called out to them. Well, the children of this village aren’t so weak though.