Volume 10 - Chapter 6 – Present (2/2)
“Since commoners probably don’t carry swords, something like a knife.”
“A knife, mh-hm, that’s alright.”
Elsa seemed to understand. Then Hannah who had been running around in front of the mirror until now came.
“Onii-chan and onee-chan, what are you doing?”
“Hmm, I was thinking I’d make a present for Elsa this time.”
Jin replied. Hearing that, Hannah looked very interested.
“Well, just watch. Elsa too, watch carefully.”
Jin said and prepared the Light Silver.
“[Forming]. [Forming]. [Forming].”
He used [Forming] repeatedly. What Jin made was a so-called folding knife.
In his work he had used an electrician’s knife and sometimes used a Japanese style folding knife.
As is there was no locking mechanism for it so he added a simple one.
“It looks interesting.”
Apparently this world had no folding knives like this one. Most of them were the sheath knife type which were kept in a sheath for safekeeping.
A Light Silver blade and a handle. Since just that was unexciting, he decorated it with a Sham Dragon’s horn and embedded small Magi Crystals in it.
These Magi Crystals too should work as markers for the Magi Radar.
“Alright, it’s done.”
After opening and closing the knife multiple times to confirm it works,
“Elsa, here’s another present.”
Jin said and handed it to Elsa. Although it was a bladed tool since they were now siblings, albeit adoptive ones, there shouldn’t be a problem.
“Thanks, Jin-nii.”
As she had been watching it get made, Elsa immediately tried opening and closing it. She then smiled sweetly and told Jin her impressions.
“This is interesting. Convenient.”
“Haha, as long as it pleases you.”
Jin smiled too.
“Elsa onee-chan got a present from onii-chan too, we’re the same!”
Hannah was in a good mood as always.
And like that the outside got darker. This was because Kunlun Island was a about an hour ahead of Kaina Village.
“Well then, how about we have a meal?”
Jin said and left the workshop. He washed his hands in the washroom where Hannah and Elsa followed his lead and washed their hands too.
In the dining hall, Peridot and Topaz had done the dinner preparations.
“Wah, what’s this?”
Jin had given directions for tonight’s menu in advance.
Ground mountain deer meat had been mixed with wheat flour into a paste and fried. Topopoes had been boiled, mashed, mixed with corn and a little bit of meat, covered with wheat flour in beaten eggs, and breadcrumbs sprinkled on top of it before frying it in oil.
In other words, hamburger meat and croquettes.
Since there was no Worcestershire sauce they gave a shot at a homemade version, and in the end now was its first unveiling after finally making something acceptable. (Although the one who went through the trouble of making it wasn’t Jin but Peridot on Hourai Island.)
“Wow, it’s delicious!”
“Mm, this, could it be made out of Topopoes?”
Hannah enjoyed the hamburger meat and Elsa who had a refined palate saw through the croquettes’ ingredients.
“I didn’t know that Topopoes can be this sweet.”
She was eating them in a manner from which it wasn’t at all apparent that she was afraid of Topopoes.
After the meal they spent the time talking with Hannah about the journey Jin and Elsa had made.
“And then, Jin-nii made kites and flew it with the children.”
“Huuh, I wish you’d make one now.”
“Ah, alright. I suppose kite-flying could be popularized in Kaina Village too.”
That night Hannah and Elsa were in the same room.
“Wow, the tatami smells nice.”
Since Hannah too seemed to be fond of the smell of the tatami, or rather the smell of soft rush, Jin was wondering if it couldn’t be cultivated in Kaina Village too.
“Well then, good night.”
“Good night, onii-chan.”
“Good night, Jin-nii.”
They ended up going to bed relatively late, but Hannah was so hyped it seemed she couldn’t fall asleep.
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“We couldn’t leave today either…”
“That is unfortunate.”
Tonight too, Laojun heard Reinhardt’s regular report on behalf of Jin.