Volume 9 - Chapter 7 – Farewell for Now (1/2)
09-07 Farewell for Now
In the end, Reinhardt spent the night on Hourai Island.
The next morning the two started working immediately after breakfast.
“I want to use Lorelei’s movements in a golem with a skeleton.”
“Hmm, in that case if you did this then…”
Reinhardt gave Jin advice,
“If you mix chromium and nickel to iron you can make an alloy like this.”
“Hmm, so this is chrome and this is nickel. I’ve seen them every once in a while but everyone always throws them away.”
And Jin gave Reinhardt advice.
“Alright, do it this way.”
“And this like that.”
As a result of the fast work, the morning wasn’t over yet when Schwarz Ritter’s repairs were done and Jin had also finished building a dedicated underwater golem ‘Mermaid’.
“Hmm, the mermaid type means that she’s not going to be any help at all on land, huh.”
“My apologies, My Master.”
Mermaid-1 lowered her head, but Jin put her at ease,
“No, I didn’t mean it that way. I’d like to ask you guys to cooperate with the Navy from now on with sea development, exploration, and such.”
“Understood, I’ll do our best.”
Upper half of the body was that of an adult female type, and the lower half was fish. After this more Mermaid golems would be built until they numbered a hundred, and they would play an active role in the surrounding ocean areas of Hourai Island.
On the other hand, Schwarz Ritter’s state.
“How do you feel, ‘Noir’?”
Reinhardt had also finished the final adjustments.
“Yes, very good. It’s just that the output balancing has changed so some practice is necessary.”
18/12 stainless steel was of heavy use as a material, and because the [Hardening] magic had been applied to it on top of that, the strength had doubled compared to the steel from earlier.
The power output too also became, thanks to Hourai Island’s top quality Magical Muscle material of a Sea Dragon’s leather, comparable to the power output of Jin’s Army golems.
In addition, because the Jin-style shielded casing was used as a countermeasure against the [Subordination Rewriting Magic], you could say he was totally reborn.
Finally, as the Control Core had also gone through a complete remodeling he even became able to speak fluently, Reinhardt decided to name this reborn Schwarz Ritter ‘Noir’ meaning the color black.
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They decided to have lunch together with Elsa and Mine on Kunlun Island.
As Jin had properly contacted them in advance, portions for four people had been prepared. Reinhardt had also heard Jin explain that the reason why Mine’s character had become so extreme was because she had been under the effects of the [Seduce] spell. That was for sure why at first their meeting was awkward but soon they opened up and again became able to talk like normal.
“Is that so, Elsa’s also calmed down, huh.”
“Mm. Now Mother teaches me all sorts of things every day. Like cooking, or sewing.”
“This soup was made by Elsa, right?”
Jin could roughly tell from the seasoning whether or not it was made by Elsa or Mine.
“Mm. Jin-nii, you can tell?”
“Well yes, what with you treating me every day and all.”
Jin said, and Elsa smiled happily. Seeing Elsa so happy, Reinhardt thought that it was good that he entrusted her to Jin.
After eating, Jin said to Reinhardt,
“Reinhardt, hand that over.”
Reinhardt guessed what Jin meant and took it out of the luggage Reiko had carried for him.
“Here, Elsa. You forgot this.”
“Ah, Non…”
The Japanese doll Non Jin had made. She had left it behind and Reinhardt had brought it with him. Elsa then,
“Thanks, Rai-nii. I’m very happy.”
She said and accepted it as some tears formed in her eyes.
“Thank you very much, Reinhardt-sama.”
Even Elsa’s mother Mine bowed.
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Finally Jin and Reinhardt could take some time to properly talk about what to do from now on.
“Anyhow, you better be careful, Reinhardt. Even your guards got killed.”
“Mh-hm, I’ve thoroughly assessed what happened. Even Schwarz Ritter got defeated, overconfidence kills.”
For the time there was also his exclusive SP following him.
“There was a new report some time ago, and apparently Celuroa Kingdom and Frantz Kingdom both seem to be overpowering their opponent countries.”
Jin just got the report from Laojin.
“Hmm, I’ll have to ask the details of just how you get information like this later. Leaving that for now, I am Shouro Empire’s diplomat after all, so I can’t sneakily run away. It’ll affect the reputation of my country too.”