Volume 6 - Chapter 33 – Unexpected Ambush (2/2)
“…Does liking mean… Not minding getting married?”
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(Getting married…With Jin-kun?)
Elsa looked hard at the Jin next to her.
(Marriage…Living like father and mother do? And then giving birth to, and raising children?…)
While thinking so, she again stared at Jin,
(No, that’s not it.)
Her intuition told her so. Being together with Jin was fun. He knew mysterious things and was reliable. But, she couldn’t imagine raising her children with Jin.
That’s why in the bathroom she didn’t respond to Beana’s question.
“Elsa?”
A voice brought Elsa back to her senses. Her suddenly becoming silent puzzled Jin and turned his attention to her.
“Did something happen between you and Beana? When I mentioned her, you suddenly went silent.”
Jin asked.
“No, it’s nothing. Just, apparently Earl Kuzuma officially proposed to Beana.”
Without hesitation she made an outrageous revelation.
“I-is that so. It was eventual.”
Jin was flustered.
“Jin-kun, what do you think about it?”,
Elsa asked him, but some people interrupted them.
The one who spoke was Stearina. Dominique was with her too. As for Reinhardt, he had been set free and could be seen appeasing his thirst with fruit juice.
“Excuse me, Miss. We also have something we’d like to talk to Jin-kun about.”
“Is Jin-kun the one who made that lovely Automata girl?”
She was talking about Reiko. Seems that as she went around fighting to such an extent, whether Jin liked it or not she caught notice.
“Yeah, I am.”
“I thought so! It was amazing, to defeat the golems so easily with a build like hers, I wonder just how was she constructed?
When she shot the question, for a moment a it seemed like there was a glint in Stearina’s eyes.
“That’s a secret, as a Magi Craftsman I can’t reveal my secret techniques just like that.”
As you’d expect, Jin gently refused to answer. Next Dominique who was behind him said,
“I wonder if that girl too was protected from the [Subordination Rewriting Magic] like Schwarz Ritter was?”
Jin guessed that Reinhardt had told her that.
“Yeah, of course.”
He replied. To which Dominique said,
“Aha, I knew it!”
She raised her voice,
“Hey, could I meet that girl, please?”
She brought down her body, looked at Jin with upturned eyes from below, and took his hand as she pleaded.
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“S-sure. I’ll go call her here, so please wait.”
He said, shaked and untangled from her hand and left the room for a moment, and after a brief while returned.
When he came back, Reiko was following him.
“This is my Reiko. Reiko, this is Stearina-san, and this is Dominique-san. Introduce yourself.”
Jin said and Reiko pinched the hem of her skirt a little,
“Nice to meet you, I am Reiko.”,
She introduced herself.
Seeing that, it was as if Dominique couldn’t stop herself and she clung to Reiko and hugged her tight.
“Squee! So cute! I want this girl!”
She said and rubbed her cheek on Reiko’s. Reiko stayed as she was. However, you could see disgust in her expression.
As you’d expect, Stearing couldn’t just sit back and watch,
“Dominique, what are you doing with other people’s children. Stop it, shape up.”
She said, but Dominique said with a voice much lower than until now,
“That’s right. If I want her, I should just make her my own.”
While saying so, she took a glittering green gemstone from her pocket.
“!? C-could it be, that’s, Elradrite?”
Stearina yelled, and at the same time Dominique cast her Craft Magic.
“[Erase], [Write-in]!”
It was amplified [Subordination Rewriting Magic] from zero distance.
Immediately after that, Reiko’s facial expression disappeared.