Volume 3 - Chapter 12 – One Piece (1/2)

Translated by Falinmer

I’m really sorry for this chapter being a day late, I’ll try not to let it happen again. As I was rushing to get it finished today, there are probably some errors, if you notice any, please let me know as a response to my comment at the bottom.

Falinmer

03-12 One Piece

「Hey, Jin！」

Marcia’s voice sounded through the deserted fishermen’s harbor.

「Not there, a little more to the other side.」

It’s moved according to the directions.

A small 2 seater boat was moored at the pier that was becoming misty.

「Okay, that’s it, you can get in now.」

Marcia was saying from the shore, so Jin untied the rope and boarded the ship followed by Reiko, too. Because it was used to help with fishing ,it smelled of young dried fish.

「You go first, and I’ll go slowly later.」

Jin calls out to Marcia,

「《Deodorant》」

The smell was killed by 1 and <> of engineering magic. (TLFalin: I would have thought it would be craftsman magic, but the dictionaries I looked at said engineering)

Then Jin processed a lump of bronze which he gave to Reiko.

「|Transformation 《Forming》, 《Hardening》」

He then began forming the bronze by hand as though he were kneading clay.

He had completed 2 water wheels and a crank like steering wheel.

「Later, a bearing huh?」

Because the ball bearing was impossible now, it was completed immediately with a plain bearing.

「Ok, attach this, and, tto.」 (TLFalin: For those unfamiliar with it, tto is basically a grunt made when lifting or moving something.)

In brief, Jin made a side-wheel steamer. He attached the waterwheels to both sides of the hull. The steering wheels operate the right and left separately.

It’s been driven by Jin of course, so far Reiko hadn’t though.

「Ok, Reiko, please turn this and move the ship.」

Jin then explains to Reiko, the reason the waterwheels on the right and left were made independent was to omit the rudder. The ship can be controlled at will by changing the rotary speed of the waterwheels.

Unfortunately, it is too inefficient for an ordinary golem, but they’re able to do this because it’s Reiko. It’s because it’s natural for the power of the legs to be stronger than the power of the arm for a golem.

「Yes, leave it to me.」

However, it can get enough thrust by hand thanks to Reiko who is a super golem. It is an advantage that the direction can be changed without a rudder.

First, she familiarizes herself with it. She starts slow and gradually gets faster. Reiko handled the small boat freely and went out to the shore.

There were several areas of the sea for practice, and Marcia and others were to the east of the harbor.

During this season, the local sea is calm. This is why the competition is carried out now.

On the sea which had calmed down, several ships were sailing around. One ship was the Cygnus.

「Oh, Jin came…. what’s that?」

Marcia saw the side-wheel steamer and asked in surprise.

「Yes, this is better than an oar. To row it, the legs have worse efficiency, but Reiko can handle it.」

When Jin says so, Marcia frowned,

「You know, it may be Jin and an unnecessary thing, but even if Reiko is an assistant and can use physical reinforcement magic, how can you be praised for something that is so hard to drive?」

「Eh?」

Jin didn’t understand what she said for an instant, but understood what she was saying shortly after.

「Is that so? What were you saying Marcia?」

「What？」

「Reiko is a golem I made.」

「Eh?」

It was Marcia’s turn to be astonished this time.

「When we just met, I decided to stay silent, but I must confess. We’re teammates.」

「…………」

「Marcia？」

「Slow down, idiot!」

She appeared to somehow get angry.

「I’m sorry, but when we just met it seemed too complex of a thing to talk about.」