Volume 5 - Chapter 14 – Apologies and Dolls (1/2)

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Here’s the much delayed chapter from me. I’ll be getting out at least 2 more chapters during this next week (as long as life doesn’t get in the way, but I will say this in advance, I may be called in by my unit to set up our new arms room sometime during the week and have to delay 1 chapter a little further).

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Translated by Falinmer

05-14　Apologies and Dolls

Jin and Reinhardt had forgotten to eat lunch while they were making the distiller.

Unable to overlook this, Reiko dragged two people into the dining room.

The two who finished making the lunch in a hurry ran back to the workshop, and…

「By doing this here,」

「Yeah, shall we try this?」

They were still working on producing a distiller, working to give it as much efficiency as possible so they could produce more water in less time.

「Reiko, could you get some copper?」

「Yes, Father.」

「Reiko is so excellent, I’m jealous of you JIn.」

Reinhardt is impressed with how good of an assistant Reiko is and gets more raucous.

Because of Jin and Reinhardt’s natural inquisitiveness, they continued experimenting without compromise to make a breakthrough.

They had made two prototypes, then three, but all of them were rejected.

Neither Jin nor Reinhardt had gone into town that day, but a high-performance distiller was made as compensation.

「…………」

Later in the afternoon, Elsa who had been looking forward to going around the city of Borgia was really angry.

「E-Elsa, I’m sorry!」

「What do you mean?」

「Grrrr」

Elsa’s iron elbow beautifully entered the pit of Reinhardt’s stomach.

「……Are you okay?」

Jin who was watching and was worried asked Reinhardt.

＊　　　＊

With his body bent like the く character, Reinhardt who let greasy sweat run down his pale face didn’t respond.

Jin was about to cast [cure] when Reinhardt finally came to and started breathing.

「G-ugh,…… that’s just like Elsa.」

As he said that, he quickly turned around to see Jin while Elsa was gone.

「Reinhardt, I think we messed up.」

「Yeah….. I guess. Whatever the reason, we’re the ones who broke the promise.」

「Let’s go apologize and-」

As Jin was saying so, Reinhardt…

「Y-yeah.」

He gave a crisp but awkward reply. When Jin asked why he was behaving strange, Reinhardt finally spoke up about the reason.

「When Elsa get’s angry, she won’t lend an ear to listen….」

He said.

As Reinhardt told Jin, the answer would be similar to what he saw earlier.

「Whenever she was angry in the past, she was out of control.」

Although Jin thinks it’s bad to break a promise, but he’s doubtful whether he or Reinhardt would stop the production of the distiller.

「But, I don’t know what’ll happen if Jin goes.」

「Why me?」

Reinhardt and Jin were slightly different in their understanding, and when Reinhardt noticed that he returned with

「Even if I go, what should I say to apologize?」

Jin thinks that Reinhardt is a bit of a pain.

Although he isn’t sure of Elsa’s age, when he was in the orphanage, he had to break a promise with a young girl and when he apologized…

「Alright, let’s do it. Reinhardt, please prepare some clean cloth, some thread, and some hardwood.」

「Eh?　Oh, got it.」

After saying so, Reinhardt asked a maid and a butler of Marquis Firentsiano’s house to prepare the materials that Jin had asked for.

「Are you going to make something with these?」

「Well, just watch.」

Then, Jin used his engineering magic.

First, he prepared a mold from the wood with [Shaping]. Those were connected by [joint] and the shape was arranged.

The color was bleached by [safe treatment] and it was smoothly arranged.