Chapter 357 (1/2)

After hearing that question about her eyes from Jin, Saki smiled and nodded.

“Ohoho, you found out, huh? You noticed my habit of frowning. I’ve always been able to see nearby things clearly, but for a long time far away things seem to get blurry.”

It was just as Jin had thought.

“Reinhart, are there eyeglasses in the Shouro Empire?”

“Eyeglasses? What do you mean by ‘eyeglasses’?”

From that answer, it appeared that there were no such things as glasses to correct vision impairments in this world.

That was a surprising fact, especially knowing that on Earth, even lenses are said to have been used as early as before the Christian era.

Jin had read somewhere that Aristotle, or Archimedes, had used a giant lens to burn down an army of assaulting enemies, and that monocles had been used as eyeglasses since as early as the Middle Ages.

However, this magical world does not seem to follow the same way of development as the Earth. Jin also remembered that people here did not know what a microscope was.

“Umm, I think it’s best if I show you rather than just explaining. Saki, could I use some of your raw materials?”

Before Saki could reply, Jin was already walking towards the raw materials rack from before and took some transparent crystal, silver, and copper.

“Separation. Forming. Separation. Forming. Alloying. Forming. Finish.”

Once again, he began to use Engineering magic in succession.

The materials began shining faintly as they transformed. The crystal became two lenses, and the silver and copper had alloyed into 925 silver, which then transformed into a thin frame.

Since he was unable to create screws, he could not make the frame foldable, so something like hanging them from a shirt’s collar when not in use would not be possible. So he made them in such a way that they could be kept in place with a pin. Furthermore, he added pieces of previously prepared natural rubber to the nose pad to prevent slipping.

“These are eyeglasses.”

The silver-framed eyeglasses with round lenses were completed. They had an antique-ish design, however, that was not intentional. It was Jin’s sense of design that had determined the level of style for the eyeglasses.

“What do you mean? Let me see if I get this straight. Are those for seeing things?”

Saki said this looking at the eyeglasses in Jin’s hands.

“That’s right. Please try them on.”

As he said that, he had Saki put on the eyeglasses. He then used alteration magic to adjust them to fit her ears, nose, and face size.

“Well, how are they? I didn’t make them too powerful, though.”

Since there was no eyesight testing involved, both crystals had the same corrective power, and they were not that strong, to begin with. They were made like that because when people who are not used to wear eyeglasses suddenly put on eyeglasses that are too strong, they tend to experience headaches or dizziness.

“First, close one eye… Ah, yes, just like that… Can you read the cover on that book’s back on that shelf?”

“Huh? Yeah, for some reason, I can…”

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Then, Jin asked her to do the same thing with her other eye closed. She could read that just as well. So it would appear that both eyes needed the same degree of correction.