Chapter 410 (2/2)
“In the unlikely event that there is a hole where the light gas escapes, it may crash, the gasbag … inside this bag is divided into several compartments that were designed to prevent the gas to escape all at once.”
At the moment, Steward had the airship secured to the mooring column by a rope, but if it were to be unraveled, it would fly up into the sky as it is.
“Well then, is there anyone here who would like to travel the sky with me? Besides me and my assistant, one more person can ride along.”
“I would.”
The first person to speak out was a woman. The audience was astonished upon discovering the owner of the voice.
“… Your Majesty ….”
It was because Empress Shouro who volunteered for a ride.
“Your Majesty! You should not!”
The people around were trying to stop her. Jin was quite astonished as well since he did not expect the empress to volunteer for the ride.
“U-um, is there any other person?”
“Then, let me try it.”
The one volunteering was a face that Jin knows very well. It was Saki Eschenbach.
“Please, be my guest.”
Jin beckoned Saki to come forward.
Reinhardt seemed to be vexed that she beat him by a touch. He was surprised that Her Majesty the Emperor volunteered. Taking advantage of his delayed reaction, she beat him to it.
Saki, who arrived at the center of the arena, gave Jin a mischievous smile.
“Hee hee, I was wondering what you would do, Jin. But to fly in the sky — I’m amazed.”
Jin gave a supplementary explanation to the audience.
“Recently, I heard that an organization called the Unifiers arrived at the battlefield by a vehicle called ‘Hot Flying Ball’. On the other hand, this is called ‘airship’. This can fly faster and longer than a Hot Flying Ball.”
Some audience could be heard murmuring in awe after hearing his explanation. They were assuming that Jin must have seen a Hot Flying Ball.
Meanwhile, Jin boarded the basket. Reiko and Saki followed.
At the arena, Elsa, Reinhardt, and Berthie were watching with envious expressions.
“Right then, let’s go. … Steward, let go.”
When Steward released the rope, the moored airship floated and completely took off the ground.
“Oh, they’re floating!”
The audience roared in their seats.
Jin grabbed the control stick and jetted out the Magi Propulsion Device downward. The recoil increased the ascending speed of the airship.
“Woah ….”
“A-amazing!”
“… They’re really flying ….”
The airship soared into the sky as the audience watched in amazement.
“Wow, Jin, this is amazing! It feels good!”
Saki was so excited, like a kid in a candy store. It was the first time for Jin to ride on an airship as well.
The basket was not airtightly closed, and the muscovite windshield was only covering the front. So they could experience the wind. It felt very comfortable.
“All right, we’re going forward.”
When the Magi Propulsion Device was engaged, the airship moved forward in reaction to the vigorously blown wind.
“Yeah, this is good! I never expected to feel this good having a bird’s eye view of the ground!”
Saki was elated. Jin left the control details of the airship to Reiko.
In fact, Jin did not know the specific details of an airship either. So the details in this airship were his original idea.
The use of Magi Device, which was inserted in the gasbag, would allow the increase or decrease in buoyancy.
Heating up the inside of the gasbag would inflate it, and buoyancy would increase as well. On the contrary, cooling it down would decrease the volume and buoyancy.
Actual airships were not capable of doing that, but that was where Jin’s outstanding Magical Technology covered it.
“Wow, a-amazing!”
“They’re flying ….”
“I also want a ride ….”
“So do I ….”
“It’s going pretty fast. Is it faster than a carriage?”
“As expected of Jin ….”
“Hee hee, Jin is amazing after all.”
The audience was looking up from below: some were surprised, some were admiring, and some others were thinking about its practicality.