Volume 6 - Chapter 39 – Dagger and Brooch (1/2)
06-39 Dagger and Brooch
After Reinhardt had left, Jin took a break from his thoughts and made his way to the place where the debris was stored. He thought he needed a change of pace, and also had to make the birthday present for Elsa.
He intended to make use of the serviceable fragments of the broken golems as material.
By all rights all the materials from the broken golems ought to have been collected and recycled by now, but collecting for example Mithril used as plating would take a lot of time compared to the tiny amount that could be gathered by doing it, and it would’ve been impractical. Therefore there was a mountain of stored debris.
But an individual could ignore the efficiency factor. And so, Jin went rummaging through the debris. Of course, he gave notice to the manager of the debris pile.
“Hmm, most of the metal is bronze, huh.”
That was obvious, as the valuable materials had been collected by the mobilized magi knights and magi.
Even so, seek and ye shall find,
“Oh, this bronze is coated with Mithril.”
“Yes! It’s a piece of Mithril!”
Little by little, he gathered up Mithril.
However, it wasn’t quite enough to make a blade.
“Oh my, Jin-kun, what are you up to?”
Jin raised his head to look at the speaker, and there stood Celuroa Kingdom’s Magi Craftsman Stearina.
“Oh, Stearina-san.”
“Material-hunting?”
“Yeah, you could say so.”
“But why at this hour?”
Stearina’s question was natural. The time was past five, and it was starting to get darker.
“Ah, there’s something I want to make that’s a little urgent.”
Jin responded.
“Hmm, what a problem.”
Stearina said, and continued,
“You’re a Magi Craftsman, right? Why don’t you just turn it all into a single lump and separate the components?”
She said.
“I-I see…I could be doing that, huh.”
Jin appreciated the help. That method was certainly reliable.
Stearina looked at Jin and,
“…As if. Who could do such-”
She began to talk, but,
“[Fusion]!”
At full throttle, Jin fused the pile of debris together in one go right in front of her.
“Eh?”
“[Extraction], copper. [Extraction], iron. [Extraction], tin. [Extraction], zinc. [Extraction], Mithril. [Extraction], aluminium…”
“Eeh? Eeeeeh?”
Stearina couldn’t understand what was going on as in front of her eyes lumps of copper, iron, zinc, tin, and then Mithril etc. were made.
“…Woah.”
As you’d expect, Jin looked a little worn out. All the debris in front them must’ve weighed ten-odd tons. Melding it all together at once with [Fusion] and taking the ingredients out with [Extraction] one by one. Finishing all that in a short period of time, getting tired was natural.
“Y-y-y-you, do you even know what you’ve done?”
“Yes?”
Why are you surprised when I only did what you said, Jin thought and stared puzzledly at Stearina.
“You did in a moment what would take days for a normal Magi Craftsman to do…”
“Eh?”
Jin, who had taken seriously Stearina’s joke, wondered if he just blew it but now was too late to worry. However, then a good idea occurred to him.
“Excuse me, Stearina-san?”
Jin timidly asked her.
“…What, Jin-kun?”
Stearina replied while stepping back from him. She must’ve thought he was going to silence her.
“I used this thing.”
Jin displayed the object he had in his hand.