Volume 8 - Chapter 2 – Restorative Medicines (1/2)
08-02 Restorative Medicines
“Last time I saw you your height was only to my chest or so, you’ve grown bigger. And you’ve become prettier.”
The talker was a large man with hair the same platinum blonde color and light blue eyes as Elsa. Next he turned to Reinhardt.
“Reinhardt, sorry for having you babysit my sister.”
Reinhardt didn’t seem to mind his somewhat haughty tone and spoke to him amiably.
“It’s been a while, Fritz. So you’re a major now.”
“Uh-uh, I was promoted this year. It seems you’ve been somewhat busy lately too. The rumors about Schwarz Ritter have reached my ears.”
“I’m honored to hear that.”
As befitting for childhood friends, the two spoke without honorifics.
“Oh. Today I came all the way here to Egelia Kingdom’s edge as border security. And just across this hotel I recognized that a certain carriage had been parked. So I thought that just maybe, and right after found it was as I expected.”
Then the man called Fritz once more turned towards Elsa and,
“I wanted to have a good talk with you, but I’m still on duty. I’ll come again this evening.”
He said, saluted and briskly left the dining room. He didn’t seem to have paid attention to Jin from the beginning to the end.
When Fritz left Reinhardt scratched his head while he turned to Jin and,
“He surprised you, right? He was Elsa’s brother, the second son of Randol Family, Fritz Randol von Grosch. He works as the company commander for the troops garrisoned outside the country.”
He introduced the man. Although he wasn’t here anymore.
“Fritz-niisama is a soldier. He’s a bit simple though.”
Elsa explained her brother’s temperament.
“I see, a muscle-brain, huh.”
Jin carelessly said what he thought.
“Muscle-brain?”
“What the, Jin, what’s a muscle-brain?”
Sure enough, it turned out that Elsa and Reinhardt needed clarification. Jin helplessly explained.
“Let’s see, muscle-brain is a figurative expression meaning having even the brain be made out of muscles, so it’s a word to describe someone whose strong point is in moving their body rather than thinking…I guess.”
He explained mixing in some a little indirect expressions. There was no way Jin could call Elsa’s real brother “foolhardy”, “a simpleton”, “empty-headed”, or something like that.
And yet, it seemed to go over well,
“Even the brains are muscle…Fritz-niisama…Pfft…”
Curiously Elsa seemed to be bursting into laughter. Seeing her holding in laughter was rather fresh.
“Ahahaha, what an interesting expression, Jin! Look, Elsa’s face. That’s something rare. …Anyway, I’m off to handle the formalities. Elsa, what are you going to do?”
After Reinhardt’s question, Elsa who was still quivering finally managed to raise her face and,
“Mine said that she’ll show me around town today.”
She replied.
“Is that so, so Mine was from around here originally. Alright. Take care. And you, Jin?”
“Umm, I’ll casually look around town.”
“Is that so. Well then, see you in the evening. …Claude, let’s go.”
“Yes.”
In the end Reinhardt put on his serious diplomat mode face and left the dining room along with the butler Claude.
“In that case, Jin-kun, see you later.”
Elsa left too. The left behind Jin faced Reiko who was hidden using [Stealth] and,
“Well then, Reiko, shall we go too?”
He said and left behind the dining room.
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Jin returned to Hourai Island with Reiko.
The reason being that a lot of things he wanted to do had piled up. Incidentally, he left Ann in the hotel room. If anyone asked, she had the instructions to reply that Jin had gone to the town.
And now, speaking of the things he wanted to do, first on the list.
“Reiko, it’s a day late but happy birthday.”
“Eh? Father?”
Two days after the day Jin had arrived in this world. The third of April was the day he had restored Reiko. Today was the fourth. The reason for the delay was that he couldn’t make this in time without Reiko noticing.
“It’s new clothes. Wear these from now on.”
The clothes Reiko had worn until now were revealed to be a little worn out during the check-up after the fight with Gigantes, and so Jin had made her new ones.
The material was the same but this time the color was jet black. Together with Reiko’s hair and eyes she was rather mysterious. As a matter of fact, this black dye had the highest anti-magic ability.
“Thank you very much, Father.”
Reiko immediately changed clothes on the spot. She carefully folded the old clothes, and put them in the equipment storage for Reiko.
“Mh-hm, it fits you well. You look a little more adult-like.”
Jin said and Reiko smiled happily.
Next was checking the information received from Ann.
Parts of it seemed to be damaged or missing, but according to Laozi by supplementing it a fair amount of information could be extracted.
“Laozi, how is it?”
Jin asked about the status of repairing the information from Ann.
“Yes. The restoration percentage of the information is 85 percent. The remaining 15 percent is greatly damaged, and regretfully it could not be restored.”