Volume 8 - Chapter 17 – Shocking Confession (2/2)
And so the three started eating dinner. While eating, Reinhardt was itching for answers and Elsa also needed them, and then after thinking about it Jin decided on explaining.
First,
“Reinhardt, putting aside your country there’s something I want to tell you as just a friend.”
Jin prefaced. Reinhardt deeply nodded.
Then Jin finally confessed.
“I wasn’t originally born in this world.”
“What do you mean?”
He wasn’t understood in one go, Jin thought.
“Basically, I was born in a different world, then I was… Well, transferred into this world.”
“…”
The two pondered and gauged the significance of that for quite a while, but before long Reinhardt spoke.
“I see, so your outrageous knowledge is from that world.”
“Yeah. In the world I was originally from there was no magic. In exchange the advance of science supported people’s lives.”
“But then how did you get in this world?”
It was the obvious question.
“In the other world, I was about to die and just in the nick of time Reiko summoned me. Well, at that time she wasn’t the current Reiko though.”
“Summoned!?”
“About to, die?”
The parts they were surprised about were different, but the matter was sensational indeed.
“Su-summoned… And from a parallel world at that? Sigh, I’d laugh down that story if it wasn’t from you, Jin.”
“It’s unbelievable that Jin-nii was about to die.”
Jin smiled bitterly and kept on speaking.
“Well, I suppose. Reiko…The Automata that was Reiko’s basis apparently spent 1000 years looking before it found me.”
“1000 years!? W-wait a moment. A thousand years?”
After hearing of the time span of 1000 years Reinhardt seemed to no longer be in control of himself.
“Yeah. The name of the person who made that Automata was Adrianna Balbora Ceci. My predecessor.”
“Eeeeh?”
Reinhardt’s amazement reached its peak.
“So, that means, Jin-nii, you met Adrianna Balbora Ceci?”
Jin shook his head in reply to Elsa.
“No, I remember only what was recorded of her. After being summoned, because of the predecessor’s magic I inherited the magic knowledge she had left behind.”
“……”
For a moment there was only silence.
This time the first one to speak was Elsa.
“I understand the reason why Jin-nii isn’t normal. Are we the first ones you’ve told?”
Jin nodded.
“Yeah, something like this isn’t really a topic to go around telling the public about. I’ll say no thanks to getting weird people to have their eyes on me.”
He said, but,
“…That’s impossible.”
Elsa blurted out.
“By now the Unifilers are eyeing you. Even in Elias Kingdom and Egelia Kingdom Jin-nii stood out.”
“Right.”
Jin too was aware of that.
“If I had just secluded myself on this island that wouldn’t have happened, but honestly being alone is a little, you know.”
That’s to say, having only golems around you gets lonely.
After Jin said that, Elsa visibly relaxed and nodded,
“I’m glad. Even Jin-nii’s got a proper disposition.”
She said something of the like. As usual, she was apparently worried that Jin might be into puppets.
“By the way Elsa, what’s up with the ‘Jin-nii’?”
Reinhardt who had kept quiet for a while spoke up.
“I’ve already abandoned the Randol house. And as such I asked Jin-nii to consider me a sister. That’s why he’s Jin-nii.”
Hearing that, Reinhardt folded his arms.
“Hmm, so that’s why. He did think of her that way…”
Reinhardt grumbled and looked to be pondering a little.
Then once more he looked Elsa straight in the eyes and,
“So you really have no intention of going back any more?”
He asked her with a serious look on his face.