Volume 8 - Chapter 1 – Brother and Sister (2/2)
An Adamantite skeleton. Hollow, with the core having a spongelike structure. With this both lightness and strength could coexist.
For the muscles he used a composite of the fibers of a Sea Dragon’s leather and the existing Magical Fibers.
By just rotating Magic Energy through Sea Dragon’s leather it wouldn’t deteriorate, and on top of that its high-power output was three times that of Magical Fibers. But controlling it was somewhat difficult, so he made it into a composite material.
For the skin he used a Sea Dragon’s wing membrane. It seemed to be twice as robust as a Sham Dragon’s membrane.
The result of using these materials was that somehow Reiko’s weight lightened by 15 percent. Dragon-type materials should be feared.
“Hm, it’s as I hoped. Like this the output can be increased.”
Jin said, and added a second Ether Converter and a Mana Driver to Reiko. In other words, she could double her output.
“Even with this, against Gigantes I’d be little unsure.”
Jin then started working on the final points of improvement he had thought about after that fight.
That was boosting the output.
It would be different if he had Elradrite, but to work without it Jin thought of something called a ‘capacitor’.
Jin wasn’t very well-versed in electronic circuitry, but he was aware that a capacfitor was something that temporarily stored electric power.
In other words, normally unused output was temporarily stored and released as necessary, that was the theory.
For that purpose, he planned to install an ultra high performance version of a Mana Tank to Reiko. It would surely be useful when going south to where there was little Ether too.
Theoretically, it could be expected to have a momentary output of 1000 percent. He couldn’t think of a use for it though.
“This thing will take all the weight I reduced earlier, though.”
After finishing up, Reiko’s weight became precisely 30 kilograms. The reform took back the weight gained in the previous remodeling.
“Alright, Reiko, [Activate].”
Jin told the details of the improvements to Reiko who stood up.
“Understood. From now on, I’ll limit myself to 3 percent output in normal use.”
“Mh-hm. So, how’re you feeling?”
“Very light. Thank you very much.”
“Alright, in that case I’ve got something to say to you. Sit down ofer there.”
“Yes?”
Jin had Reiko sit down. After thinking he then scolded her.
“Reiko, I’m happy that you fight for my sake. However, just taking the brute force approach is irresponsible so stop it. Okay?”
“Eh? The purpose behind Father repeatedly enhancing me, was it not so that I could use that force?”
“What the…”
Jin was greatly perplexed and silenced. It appeared that the enhancements he had given to Reiko in good faith had just made her more devoted to strength.
“That’s wrong. I only enhanced you because I didn’t want you to be broken even in the worst case scenario. Put more thought into fighting from now on.”
“Yes, I understand.”
Then Jin, Reiko, and Ann were about to return, when Laozi called out to Jin.
“My Lord, I have a proposal to make.”
“Hm? That’s unusual. What is it?”
“Yes. Now that the amount of subordinates My Lord has has increased, there’s a possibility that by some accident or such they fall into someone else’s hands.”
What Laozi said was reasonable. When Jin heard that something popped into his mind, but he first motioned Laozi to continue.
“And so, I propose that just in case, we install a function for information erasure.”
“I see.”
What Jin had thought of in the spur of the moment was a self-destruct mechanism, but this was a much gentler idea than that. In the first place, even though it was Jin’s idea, he didn’t want to install something like a self-destruct mechanism to the golems that could be said to be his children.
Even the safety measure installed in Laozi was a destruction device only Jin could activate, so it wasn’t a self-destruct mechanism.
Those golems of Jin that did not use rare materials couldn’t possibly bring out the same performance as those that did. Currently just imitating Lotte was difficult.
On the other hand, concealing as much information about Hourai Island as possible was necessary.
“Alright, with Laozi as the guide enact that plan.”
“Understood.”
And like that, after this Laozi would add security measures to each one of the subordinate golems.
This time Jin returned to Ikasaato. He had stayed quite a while in Hourai Island, and when so he dozed off for a bit, or at least thought so, morning had come.
“Good morning.”
While rubbing his sleepy eyes Jin went to the dining room for breakfast.
“Good morning, Jin.”
Reinhardt gave morning greetings to Jin, then looked at his face and,
“Did you not sleep well? Your eyes are red.”
He said. Jin nodded, and replied that he missed sleep while thinking about various things.
“Good morning, Jin-kun.”
“Good morning.”
Elsa also greeted him.
The three went to eat.
“What are today’s plans?”
Jin asked Reinhardt.
“We’ll go handle the formalities. I can handle that alone, so Jin and Elsa, you two can do as you like.”
At that moment, the door of the dining room opened, and a military-ish man came in.
That man looked around restlessly, but finally walked towards Jin’s group. Then,
“Elsa, it’s been a while!”
No sooner had he said that than he hugged Elsa who had just finished her meal.
“Brother!?”
Elsa was surprised.
“Yeah, that’s right. Has it been two years? You’ve become prettier, Elsa. But best of all you look healthy.”