Volume 9 - Chapter 50 – Each One, Afterwards (2/2)

He hadn’t realized it when applying the method that came from the analysis of the Artifact Magic Screen, but he had carelessly named the device a ManaCom. In truth, it should’ve been called EtherCom. Although Jin was thinking that it sounds bad so he’d keep using the current name.

This is a digression, but the usage of kanji played a large part in the miniaturization. Even the power words of Magi Language had a result several times better when written with logograms instead of phonetically.

Back to the main subject.

Leaving the support of the Unifiers to Laojin, what was left was giving aid to the nations.

This wasn’t something Jin was particularly worried about, but because there had been victims and damage because of his late intervention he wanted to give them some kind of aid.

“It may be hypocritical but it’s better than not to…”

And so, he decided to first give Egelia Kingdom –which was deemed to have suffered the most– ingots of the materials made out of the molten golems.

In total, there was about 200 tons of steel, 200 tons of bronze, and 50 tons of Light Silver. And little bit of Adamantite and Mithril. The market value was approximately 150 billion Torr.

Similarly he planned to donate half that amount to Cline Kingdom’s Tetrada.

In addition, he decided to return the seized pieces of Elradrite which had the countries’ seals carved on them to the respective countries. 15 pieces to Egelia Kingdom and ten pieces to Cline Kingdom.

There were no seals of Celuroa, Frantz, or Elias Kingdom.

This was all from the molten golems so it didn’t hurt Hourai Island’s pocket. The only cost was time.

Jin had 41 pieces of Elradrite without any carved seals on them left at hand. That was plenty.

He planned to carry in the materials in the middle of the night using a number of Pelicans with the [Stealth] function added.

Jin couldn’t restrain his laughter as he thought about the surprised faces of the material storehouse administrators come morning.

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“…Just when can we leave.”

Reinhardt and Fritz who were returning to their home country induced to stay even longer because of the internal troubles of Celuroa Kingdom among other things.

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“My Lord, about the response of the nations’ governing bodies regarding the Unifiers’ puppets we told them about.”

Jin was listening to Laojin’s reports. This was the newest information the Quinta sent this morning.

“Cline Kingdom and Egelia Kingdom have, for now, dismissed the people thought to be puppeteered. Celuroa Kingdom seems to still be in a dispute over it.”

Since Celuroa Kingdom was the country where the Unifiers had taken root in the most, this was no wonder.

“The dispatched armies have all withdrawn to their respective countries. The borders appear to have gone back to normal.”

Even so, the truth that they had invaded didn’t just vanish. Jin left the apologies and reparations to be argued between the countries. What he was interested in were the common people.

“What does the damage on the commoners look like?”

“It seems insignificant. As they had begun evacuation beforehand, no commoners died. There are 24 severely injured and 249 lightly injured people.”

“I’d like to stealthily administer restorative medicine to the severely wounded.”

“Yes, that is possible. I shall issue instructions to the Quinta tonight.”

“Mh-hm, please do.”

Now Jin too felt rather at ease.

“Really, I’m also wondering how my acquaintances are doing.”

Jin muttered and Laojin immediately replied.

“Yes, My Lord. This is as much as we know. Lithia Fahlheit from Cline Kingdom is staying in Tetrada. She is working hard with the relief knight troops.”

Lithia, really? Jin thought. She must’ve found what she wanted to do.

“With regards to Beana-san and Earl Kuzuma, although the Earl had gone along with the dispatched troops, he seems to be heading back to Blue Land since the dispute came to an end.”

They’d probably have the wedding ceremony soon, Jin thought.

“Elias Kingdom where Port Rock is seems to have been indifferent to the strife.”

Marcia was probably doing her best, huh, Jin thought as he reminisced about the days he spent in Port Rock.

“Egelia Kingdom’s capital Asunto appears to still be in a state of disarray, but they seem to have begun heading towards normalcy.”

Talking with Prince Ernest and Laila was really fun, Jin thought as he recalled the times and smiled.

“That is all. Furthermore, Tellurs in Celuroa Kingdom seems to be under blockade; no one can come or go.”

Speaking of Tellurs, what was the healer Sally doing, Jin wondered.

“Come to think of it, I wonder if Schiede’s family is still there.”

“Ah, they seem to have returned to their home country before the conflict began. Capella-3 of the Quinta caught sight of them in Desir, you see.”

“That’s good then.”

There still were a lot of things in his mind, but now that he had taken the measures he could take Jin relaxed.

Then Reiko brought him Citran juice.

“Father, please take a breather.”

“Yeah, thanks.”

Now that peace seemed to have finally come, Jin thought about what to do after this while drinking the chilled juice.