Volume 8 - Chapter 17 – Shocking Confession (1/2)
08-17 Shocking Confession
Putting aside the matter with Mine for a moment, Jin returned back to the hotel they were staying in to meet with Reinhardt.
“Jin!”
He arrived at Reinhardt’s room and before the butler Claude could say anything Reinhardt himself butted in.
“What in the world happened? Why haven’t I heard anything from you until now? Is it something you can’t tell about even to me?”
He gripped Jin’s shoulder and talked on and on. Jin quickly said,
“Calm down. I plan to explain everything soon. Just calm down for now, and let’s go to my carriage.”
As a result, as you’d expect from Reinhardt,
“Hm, you don’t want people to overhear? Got it, let’s go! …Claude, I’ll be going out for a bit. Don’t be worried even if I’m late in coming back!”
He loudly told Claude and,
“Come on, Jin, let’s go!”
He said and gave a pat on Jin’s shoulder.
Jin returned to his own room and called out to Ann.
“Yes, master?”
“You come along too.”
And so, Jin entered the carriage together with Reinhardt and Ann.
“Now Jin, please explain!”
Reinhardt urged and,
“Well, just wait. Reinhardt, to tell you the truth, in this carriage there’s a secret that I haven’t told you about. If you do this here…”
Jin said and opened the door behind the back seats that was pretending to be for storing luggage.
“A Warp Gate is installed here.”
Reinhardt was amazed by the statement.
“What’s that you say! So that means, so that means… You can go to Kunlun Island from here!?”
“Well, you’ll know where it goes after we go through it. How about it, are you coming?”
Jin asked and,
“Of course I’ll come too! How exciting!”
Reinhardt said, seemingly ready to crawl in there any time now. Jin smiled and said,
“In that case, I’ll go in first and after that you come through holding Ann’s hand.”
This Warp Gate too let people through only if it recognized Jin’s Magic Energy Pattern.
Once Reinhardt had confirmed that Jin had warped, he took Ann’s hand and plunged into the Warp Gate.
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Reinhardt came out of a different Warp Gate into a wide room.
At a glance there were no less than 50 Warp Gates side-by-side. Each one looked operational.
“Ji-Jin, where is this? It looks different from the cellar from earlier?”
Reinhardt asked after seeing the room that was not at all similar to the room of the Warp Gate in Kunlun Island.
“Oh, right. Reinhardt, welcome to Hourai Island.”
“Hourai Island you say?”
“Yeah. Well, I’ll explain it all in detail. But first come over here, please.”
For now, Jin took the somewhat excited Reinhardt out of the research laboratory where the Warp Gates were. Outside it was already evening.
“Eh? Wasn’t it just past noon when we were in Tellurs?”
“Yeah, there’s a time difference of about three and a half hours between here and Tellurs.”
“?”
Reinhardt didn’t seem to understand yet. But as Jin would explain it all soon, he showed Reinhardt in the mansion.
“Oh, please take off your shoes.”
He said, and Reinhardt who had already become familiar with this at Kunlun Island complied, nodding and taking off his shoes before entering the mansion.
“There’s someone I’d like you to meet, Reinhardt.”
Jin said and Reinhardt tilted his head in confusion,
“Someone you’d like me to meet? …Jin, could it be?”
Without letting Reinhardt finish what he was saying, he opened the sliding screen to Elsa’s room.
“Elsa, I brought Reinhardt.”
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“Elsa! You’re okay! You idiot, I was so worried!”
“Rai-nii, sorry. I was foolish.”
The cousins joined hands rejoicing their reunion.
Once the two had calmed down, Jin ordered dinner from Soleil and Luna. The preparations had been entrusted to Laozi and the golem maids and so the two only had to carry the food.
“Come, let’s celebrate our reunion.”
Jin said and raised a glass of wine. Having wine on a low table in a tatami-matted room while sitting on a cushion was the only choice as there wasn’t any good sake.
“Cheers.”