Volume 6 - Chapter 36 – Each One, Afterwards (1/2)
06-36 Each One, Afterwards
The greatly delighted Prince left with Lotte, so Jin took a breather and began tidying up the disorderly workshop.
“Oh, let me help.”
The Royal Secret Maid Laila said and began to he…
“Hey, watch out!”
The remaining materials were scattered on the floor,
“Eek!”
She stumbled on a tool and knocked over a shelf,
“I-I’m so sorry!”
She accidentally kicked away all the ingredients Jin had already put in place.
…Everything returned to being as disorderly as it was before. Jin couldn’t let it pass,
“Please don’t help…”
He said and called for Reiko. She undid her [Stealth] and appeared, and before Jin said anything began cleaning up.
“Aww, I’m…useless, aren’t it?”
Laila said and felt down.
“Well, different people are cut for different things, so.”
Jin had nothing else he could say.
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“…Beana’s been avoiding me.”
Earl Kuzuma was whining at Reinhardt who was visiting his room.
“Last night, you proposed to her, right?”
“Mhm. …Since then, she hasn’t shown me her face.”
He said, gripped the wine bottle in front of him, and drank straight from the it.
“Whoa there, don’t overdo it.”
Reinhardt rebuked him, but the Earl didn’t listen and uncorked a second bottle.
“…He’s got a real problem.”
Reinhardt sighed and shook his head as if giving up,
“I’m going for a bit.”
He told Earl Kuzuma and left the room.
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“…Woah.”
“We’re finally about halfway done cleaning up, don’t you think?”
The hall where the golem party was held had become a mess of debris and broken golems.
In every direction maids, servants, and magi knights troops were cleaning it up. Several of the Royal Secret Maids were also helping.
The reason why the magi knight troops were participating was that they were securing the recyclable Magi Crystals and such from the broken golems.
Therefore the work was allotted so that the ones who put away the debris were the male servants, maids cleaned up after that, and finally the magi knights gathered everything that looked usable or expensive from among the debris.
“Ah, looks like this can be used.”
One of the Magi Knights picked up a red Magi Crystal.
“There’s one over here too.”
This time it was a green Magi Crystal.
The work was uninteresting, so without a treasure hunt like this it seemed the wouldn’t have been able to go on.
During it,
“Ooh, this one’s a fragment of a crystal golem.”
There was a Magi Crystal embedded in transparent crystal. It was no doubt a part of Ceres.
“Oh my, thank you for finding it.”
“Eh?”
Turning to look towards the voice, there stood Stearina.
“I’ll have that.”
With those words she left.
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“They were suppressed faster than I expected.”
“Yes, looks like there was an unexpectedly strong golem.”
“Nevertheless, we surely achieved our objective?”
“Yes. First of all, the amplification limit of Elradrite. It’s about 10,000 times. There’s no way to supply Magic Energy above that. In addition, the Elradrite that functioned as the final amplifier happened to overload and break apart.”
“Hmm, so that means for the second series 400-times amplification is adequate.”
“That is so.”
“And second?”
“Yes. We very clearly secured the detailed information of the golems of Egelia Kingdom and nations friendly to it. Analysis is underway.”
“Hmm, so this means that our noble goal is one step closer.”
“That is so. Let alone one step, I would say we’ve advanced two or three steps.”
“Most excellent.”
“Please leave the rest to me. Oh, and one more thing, there’s some interesting news.”
“What’s that?”
“There’s talk that the Magi Craftsman called Jin is rather good.”
“Oh, very interesting. And his affiliation?”
“The same as Shouro Empire’s Magi Craftsman Reinhart Randol’s, or something like that.”
“Reinhardt, huh. He’s also a talented person we want. Alright, keep on gathering information.
“Very well.”
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“…”
Beana was by herself, sitting next to a window gazing out. Although outside it was already dark, with the planted trees almost nothing could’ve been seen anyway.
“…Sigh.”
She then let out a single sigh. She was like that for a while until she suddenly looked over her shoulder, and,
“Hey, Lisa.”
She called out for the Royal Secret Maid, Lisa, who was behind her.