Volume 8 - Chapter 1 – Brother and Sister (1/2)

08-01 Brother and Sister

On the 2nd of April when spring was in full swing, the Jin-Reinhardt group left Yada Village, and spent a night in the town of Coorz.

The next day they continued east without returning to the main road, finally arriving in the provincial city of Ikasanaato on the border of Celuroa Kingdom.

People who wanted to go from Egelia Kingdom to Celuroa Kingdom, or vice versa, went through here, and this immigration control was picky.

This was because the other party was Celuroa Kingdom; the border of Elias Kingdom wasn’t controlled as strictly as this.

“It may take up to three days.”

“Well, it may be good to rest our bodies.”

Moving on a carriage in itself was tiring. Without having breaks every few days, one’s body couldn’t endure it.

And so, Jin decided to take this opportunity to repair the Automata Ann that was found in the ancient ruins of Keuwan.

On the night of the day they arrived in Ikasanaato, Jin had Ann deactivate temporarily, and with Reiko carrying her they warped to Hourai Island.

He was thinking he might tell the truth already if Reinhardt asked where he repaired her.

“Welcome home, My Lord. Oh my, who is this lady?”

In the research laboratory Laozi greeted him. Then, he saw the Automata Reiko had carried in and raised his voice in curiosity.

“Ah, this is an Automata I found in the ruins of something called Keuwan, her name is Ann. She was pretty hurt so I thought I’d repair her. Please make the preparations.”

“As you wish.”

And then because of Jin, Ann’s repairs begun.

The first thing to do was to mend the Control Core. Jin transferred all the information Ann had to the prepared all-attribute Magi Crystals.

“[Transfer Info].”

By [Transfer Info] Jin made an exact copy. It was an especially close call, as after copying, the original Control Core broke into four pieces.

“Woah, just in time. If it’s like this then I think there’s the possibility that some of the information contains bugs.”

That was Jin’s analysis.

“If you’ve got a minute, Laozi, transfer the minimum information about Hourai Island to her, please. At the same time, also copy the information Ann has.”

“Understood.”

In this way, Laozi happened to gain information of things during the Great Magic War. They decided to simultaneously give Ann the minimum information for working under Jin from now on.

“My Lord, around 20 percent of the information is incomplete.”

Laozi reported after copying Ann’s information. It was as Jin had expected.

“Is that right, I thought so. Please restore as much of it as possible. It’s fine even if it takes a while.”

“I understand.”

Leaving the matters of the information to Laozi, Jinn continued Ann’s repairs.

“Next let’s think the reproduction process and upgrading the materials through.”

From a steel skeleton to a Light Silver one, from the tattered muscle tissue to the same Magical Fibers Reiko used. The skin was prepared out of a Sham Dragon’s wing membrane.

And, after going this far, Jin noticed a material he had never seen before on a shelf.

“Reiko, what’s this?”

“Yes, it is something harvested from a Sea Dragon.”

“Oh, the thing I heard from earlier. I see… I can use this.”

To bring Ann’s repairs to an end for now, Jin resumed the repairs.

Eyes from sapphire crystals. An Ether Converter, a Mana Driver, and shielding. He installed a Mana Tank, and made the hair out of Ground Spider’s silk dyed blue.

After finishing installing the muscle tissue, next was to be the coating, howeever.

“Making her exactly the same as before is a little…”

Jin was troubled. To tell you the truth, there was something Ann had had installed that Reiko hadn’t.

“I wonder if she was also used for ‘that sort of thing’…”

During the war, within the troops that had had no female presence there had been female-type Automata. The reason can be easily guessed.

“I better not, after all.”

Jin couldn’t see any of his Automata that way. To the very end they were his daughters, and he loved them and that being the case he didn’t think of them as sexual objects.

Finally, the clothes. He had her wear the same clothes as the five-colored golem maids. The color was black and there was no maid headdress.

“Alright, it’s complete. [Activate].”

“Yes, master.”

Ann got up.

“How is it, the state of your body?”

The activated Ann walked around and raised and lowered her hands to check her motions.

“It is very good. Thank you very much.”

“Alright, stay there on standby. Next, Reiko, come here.”

“Yes, Father.”

Jin called out to Reiko.

“Alright, Reiko, earlier you had a hard fight with Gigantes, right? I’ll check your whole body, but how about after that I strengthen you so that something like that won’t happen again?”

“Yes, I couldn’t ask for more. Please do.”

She shot back with a reply immediately. Jin nodded and,

“Alright, got it.”

First Jin had Reiko deactivate, and checked all the parts. And then.

“This is…”

Jin frowned. The reason was that a few places had been damaged.

The skeleton of the right foot looked a little deformed, and the Magical Muscles on both arms too looked to have snapped apart a bit.

There were no abnormalities in the chest cavity, but both the Ether Converter and Mana Driver had deteriorated a bit.

As expected running at 200 percent output appeared to have worked them too hard.

“This needs a complete reinforcement, huh. That and I need to give a warning to Reiko.”

Jin muttered and started working on Reiko’s improvements.

First was revising the whole body. He included things he had realized while inspecting Ann’s structure.