Volume 7 - Chapter 20 – Safety Factor (1/2)
07-20 Safety Factor
“Reiko”
Jin’s cry echoed.
Reiko had fallen down a cliff with a sharp drop. The height difference was over 100 meters.
Gigantes slowly approached Jin and Reinhardt.
“I can’t believe that Reiko couldn’t win.”
Reinhardt’s face was pale.
“This bastard, to my Reiko…”
At the moment when was about to fire off a maximum-power [Laser].
“I’m sorry, Father. I got careless.”
Reiko had jumped up the cliff and come back.
Jin stopped casting magic and,
“Reiko! Are you okay?”
He asked worriedly. Reiko waved both her hands and,
“Yes, nothing has broken.”
She said and gave Jin peace of mind.
“Father, won’t you leave that to me?”
Said Reiko standing in front of Jin, she seemed angry.
“Even if it was for a moment, I caused Father worry. It’s my duty to fix that.”
She said and ran off without even waiting for Jin’s reply. Jin looked at her back and,
“Reiko! Do what you want to do! But this time don’t lose!”
He called out to her.
After hearing Jin’s yell, Reiko increased her Ether Converter’s output to 40 percent.
It was as if she turned into a small bullet as she rammed Gigantes with her body. Even Gigantes was felled by that shock.
“Oh, did she do it?”
Reinhardt let out a small shout of joy, but, Gigantes grasped Reiko tightly with both its arms.
In comparison to her body, Gigantes’s hands were thick and large. In proportion to the hands’ size, it held down Reiko with ease.
Then while Gigantes sucked Magic Energy from Reiko to strengthen its own body, it tightened its grip on Reiko trying to destroy her.
Creaking and grating sounds came out from either Reiko or from Gigantes.
“Reiko!”
At Jin’s shout Reiko turned to face him just once, and showed a sweet smile. Like saying there was nothing to worry about.
Then Reiko increased her Ether Converter’s output to 80 percent.
“Wh-what?”
Reinhardt let out a bewildered voice.
That was only natural, as he saw something like a thin light shining around Gigantes. It was a side effect of when an enormous amount of Ether transforms into Mana.
Gigantes’s special characteristic was taking in Mana from the outside, and converting it to Magic Energy with its Mana Driver, making the energy its own.
Of course there was an upper limit. That was decided by the Mana Driver’s capacity.
Right now, Reiko’s Ether Converter had enterd full operation to supply Mana to both Reiko and Gigantes.
“So you’ve still got some leeway. …How about this!”
Reiko finally increased her Ether Converter’s output to 100 percent.
Gigantes pressed on Reiko even harter.
“You can stand even this, huh. In that case!”
Reiko increased her Ether Converter’s output to 110 percent, then 120 percent.
It was a drastic move she made because she had complete faith in Jin and Jin’s craftsmanship.
130 percent, 140 percent.
Machines’ structures have something called a safety factor or a factor of safety.
An example of a safety factor is a truck with load capacity of 10 tons being able to handle a load of 12 tons without breaking.
And so designs with no leeway have a low safety factor, and designs with leeway have a larger safety factor. There’s also the balance with costs.
So, how do you think Reiko is?
Jin’s beloved daughter Reiko to whom he poured his heart’s blood making her utilized world’s top-class materials and manufacturing processes, and the basis of her design was by the previous generation Magi Craft Meister, Adrianna Balbora Ceci.
The opposing Gigantes was an urgently constructed mass-produced trial product in a war against the devil race. There was no way Reiko would fall behind it in the degree of perfection, durability, or reliability.
There was no way a Magi Craft Meister’s beloved daughter would lose against a faulty mass-produced product.
At least, that’s how Reiko believed.
150 percent, 160 percent.
The rock comprising Gigantes’s body was tinged with heat. The reason was that the Mana Driver had passed its permissible limits.