Volume 6 - Chapter 40 – Misunderstanding (1/2)
06-40 Misunderstanding
After dinner, Jin once more went to the place where the debris was stored.
When he told the manager he had separated the materials to their constituent parts, the manager was astonished and with great haste went apparently to tell it to their superiors, as soon the Minister of Magic Kelhidore and another important-looking noble came.
“Oh, you must be Jin-dono. I heard from the one who’s in charge of this place that you separated these?”
The noble whose name Jin didn’t know said to him. The noble looked about 40 years old, his hair was thinning and in a swept-back style, he was a skinny and a tall person. He faced Jin and,
“I am this country’s Minister of Domestic Affairs, my name is William.”
He introduced himself.
“Hm, alright. I have to first explain to minister Kelhidore something about this matter.”
“What is it?”
Jin then took the Elradrite out of his pocket,
“This is the Elradrite I picked up from Dominique. To tell you the truth, I was just helped by this thing with the whole separating incident.”
Thereupon the two’s slightly frowning faces right away returned to normal.
“I see, so this stunt was carried out with Craft Magic amplified with an Elradrite.”
It looked like they misunderstood the meaning of Jin’s words quite well.
“So, I’ll return this.”
Jin said and handed the Elradrite over to Kelhidore.
“Hmm, I’ll certainly have it. It’s a little late, but looking at this mountain of separated materials I don’t see a problem, do you, Minister?”
“Not at all. Instead of wasting the materials they can be recycled. With this the Minister of Finances should be happy too. Jin-dono, you were after some materials, right?”
The Minister of Internal Affairs asked about Jin’s motive. Jin honestly told the minister that he needed Mithril and a bit of some other materials.
“Hmm, if that’s the case then take anything you need from here. Because after this, I’ll have the materials carried out.”
The minister gave his permission so Jin went to gathering the materials with high spirits.
Mithril. Enough to make the dagger and the brooch.
Some aluminum, copper, zinc, and tin.
Splinters of variously colored Magi Crystals.
If a Magi Crystal broke into pieces it became worthless. Because even if repaired using the Craft Magic [Fusion] it wouldn’t produce any Magic Energy.
You can think of them as magnets. Magnets have north pole and a south pole, and opposites attract each other.
Magi Crystals also emit lines of Magic Energy much like lines of magnetic force, but the crystals don’t emit a lot of Magic Energy in itself. That’s why if you gather a lot of pieces of broken Magi Crystals, the orientation of the lines of Magic Energy become random and they interfere with and cancel each other out, and the resulting Magic Energy output becomes weak.
(This doesn’t happen with magnets).
“Hmm, are you fine with just that? If there’s anything more you need please tell me. His Highness Prince Ernest also told me to accommodate for your wishes, you see.”
“Eh. His Highness did?”
Seems he was pleased with Lotte’s matter.
“Thank you very much. But this much should be enough.”
“Is that so. Then I’ll have the remaining materials carried out.”
“Alright, thank you very much.”
Jin gave his thanks and left the scene. The materials were heavy, but when he had gone out of sight of the two ministers he had Reiko dispel her [Stealth] and take over for Jin in carrying them.
“Alright then.”
After piling up the materials in his own room, when he was about to finally begin manufacture, there was a knock on the door.
“Yes, who is it?”
Instead of Jin, Reiko went to open the door and,
“Good evening, is Jin-kun around?”
It was Stearina.
“Ah, Stearina-san.”
Jin also got up and greeted her.
“Is now a good time?”
“Yeah, go ahead.”
“Well then, I’ll take a bit of your time.”
After getting his permission Stearina stepped in the room.