Volume 9 - Chapter 5 – Opened Hostilities (2/2)
That evening. Eight in the afternoon on Hourai Island. Reinhardt got in contact as usual.
“Jin, I’ve finally been set free from the annoying explanations and procedures and whatnot.”
“Sorry for the trouble, Reinhardt. By the way, did you know that war has begun?”
“Yeah. I heard about it some time ago. Celuroa Kingdom declared war on Egelia Kingdom, right?”
“Not only that. Frantz Kingdom has also declared war on Cline Kingdom.”
“Huuh?”
Reinhardt was surprised. No wonder.
“There’s something I’d like to consult you about, so I wonder if you could come over here?”
“By over there you mean Hourai Island, right? It’d be my pleasure!”
“Alright, I’ll come meet you after this.”
After the conversation was concluded, Jin warped from Hourai Island to Jiron’s outskirts to the Warp Gate on Falcon-1 which had already arrived there. Accompanying him were Reiko and the SP unit.
“Is that the town of Jiron?”
Falcon-1 landed on the river beach around two kilometers away from Jiron. Jin who had come out of the Warp Gate on board idly stared at the street lights with the night sky as their background.
“Alright Reiko, let’s go meet Reinhardt.”
“Yes, Father.”
Jin’s golem horse Koma was on Falcon-1, along with another golem horse.
Jin mounted Koma and Reiko mounted the other horse and they headed for Jiron. Jin was of course wearing the reinforced clothing. The SP unit followed them by running.
Moving like that it took them merely three minutes to get to Jiron. Strangely this was not a walled city, instead a wide canal enclosed the city.
Its width was about 20 meters, not something a normal human could leap over. Also, the moat’s walls were nearly vertical in addition to the drop to the the surface of the water being over five meters high, so even if you used a boat it would be difficult to get on and off it.
Nearly all of the many bridges were drawbridges with had been raised for the night. Only in two spots were the bridges crossable, but they were guarded by sentinels apparently to not let anything suspicious pass.
“Now then, how are we going to get Reinhardt out?”
Jin was pondering it but,
“Father, I shall jump over and bring Reinhardt-san back with me.”
Reiko proposed.
“Hmm, I wonder if that’ll work.”
That seemed to be the best option in such a short period of time, so Jin decided to go with it.
“Listen, use a [Barrier] and don’t go anywhere, please. And SP, you protect Father well.”
“Yes, Sister.”
Reiko who was prone to worrying looked like she wanted to say something more, but as she was urged on by Jin she at last headed to the town.
First she chose a place where there were no people and jumped over the canal. It was a trivial matter for Reiko.
“Reinhardt-san said he was in an inn called ‘Forest Badger Inn’.”
She had also heard its rough location so she soon found it. There Reinhardt was waiting in the entrance hall of the in.
“Reinhardt-san.”
“Oh, Reiko-chan. Where’s Jin?”
“Father is waiting on the other side of the canal.”
“Is that so. Well then, let’s go there at once.”
After a simple exchange, Reinhardt went outside with Reiko. Something was in his somewhat large baggage which he took with him.
They soon arrived at the canal.
“Err, how are we going to cross this from here, I wonder?”
Reiko approached Reinhardt who looked doubtful. She then extended her arms.
“Eh? Uhh, don’t tell me, don’t tell me you’re going to?”
Reinhardt turned somewhat pale. But Reiko looked like she wanted to get it over with as he held Reinhardt in her arms. The scene of 130-centimeter Reiko carrying the 185-centimeter Reinhardt was surreal.
“Let’s go.”
“Eh, hold–, ah, aaaaaaaahhh!”
While carrying Reinhardt Reiko effortlessly jumped over the 20 meter canal and ran to Jin where Jin was without a pause. While still carrying Reinhardt.
“Father, I’ve brought Reinhardt.”
Reiko appeared in front of Jin while carrying Reinhardt and said.
“…He– hey there, Jin.”
“Hey there, Reinhardt.”
Their reunion was somewhat awkward.
After that Reinhardt got on the golem horse while Reiko rode together with Jin on Koma, and they headed for Falcon-1. As an aside, Reiko seemed happy to ride together with Jin.
From there they arrived at Hourai Island in an instant using a Warp Gate.