Chapter 423 (1/2)
12-61 Magi Craft Meister
“What the heck happened?”
Jin decided to take Elsa to the waiting room so she could calm down, so she could explain the situation.
For the most part, he heard the report from the SP to Laojun via Reiko, but he wanted to hear her side of the story. There might be something overlooked, and would be uncovered by hearing the story from Elsa’s perspective.
“… You know ….”
Sitting in a chair, Elsa beginning to explain what happened to her father, as well as Marcus’ mysterious words.
“… Measure the abilities of humans, he said?”
“… Yeah.”
Jin speculated that Marcus was probably a demon or their minion.
But regarding Marcus, there was nothing else Jin could do except waiting for the report from the pursuing Regulus 50. Moreover, he was more concerned about Elsa’s father.
“Did he suddenly collapse?”
“Yeah.”
Jin thought of several conditions that could display such symptoms.Brain or heart damage.
Brain or heart damage.
For the brain, it could be a cerebral infarction, subarachnoid hemorrhage, etc. For the heart, it would most likely be angina pectoris or myocardial infarction. Those were the diseases that he was familiar with.
“Was he taken by his subordinates?”
“Yeah.”
Although Jin was concerned about Elsa’s father, his utmost worry was toward Elsa.
Trying to console the anxious Elsa, Jin turned to and reassured her that her father’s life would not be in danger for the time being, since there were healing magic users among his subordinates.
“But once you’ve calmed down, let’s go and check out his condition.”
“… Yeah.”
Reinhardt joined them in the waiting room.
“Yo, Jin. Oh, Elsa, you’re here too.”
He followed the Viscount and confirmed his condition. As expected of Reinhardt, he was very attentive to others’ concerns.
“For now, there seems to be no danger to his life. However, he’s still unconscious. … This had happened once before.”
“Before?”
“Yeah. I think it was about two years ago. He lost consicousness once. That time, he came to soon after and was acting like nothing happened the next day. So this time he’ll probably be fine.”
“… Now that you mention it, I think I heard something like that. But I was on a journey and didn’t witness it first-hand.”
“Hmm ….”
Somehow, it piqued Jin’s curiosity. But since there was nothing they could do to improve the situation, he switched the subject and focused on Marcus’ last words.
“I’m a little curious as to why he told you to send his regards to the Marquess.”
“… The only Marquess who has a connection with my father is that person.”
“Marquess Gueren Theodoric.”
“That’s right.”
Jin concluded that it would be best to ask the Marquess himself about this later.
In any case, confirming it with the Marquess would have to be after the technology expo had ended.
“Well, apart from this uproar, there was no major trouble overall. I think the commendation will start soon.”
“Oh, I see.”
As participants, they had no choice but to attend the commendation. Jin, Elsa, and Reinhardt left the waiting room and headed for the great hall.
“Hi, Jin. You’ve brought Elsa back. That’s great. I’m glad.”
Saki, who just came out of the alchemists’ waiting room, joined them.
“Yeah, it was resolved somehow.”
“Somehow, eh? Well, it’s Jin we’re talking about. So there’s no need to be worried.”
“Haha. I’d like to live up to that expectation.”
* * *
“Finally, it’s time for us to give commendations to the best performers before ending this technology expo.”
At the end of the final day of the technology expo, a stage was specially set up for the commendations of the outstanding participants.
Elsa had also calmed down and was sitting with Jin and Reinhardt.
“From the Magical Technology section: an Excellence Award for Elsa Randol Von Razura.”
Amazing, Elsa’s name was mentioned here.
“This is to highly value her skills in developing ‘Recording’ technology and creating a jewel box for magic tools called ‘Music Box’.”
“Elsa, go on.”
“… Okay.”
A lot of people stared, while Elsa went up the stage. A commemorative medal was awarded by the Executive Committee member, Christoph in the presence of Her Majesty the Empress, the Prime Minister, and the Minister of Magical Technology.
A proud expression could be seen on Elsa’s face while wearing the silver medal around her neck.