Chapter 440 (1/2)
427 Magi Craft Meister
13 Stronghold Enhancement Arc
13-15 Nurse
“What a coincidence. I also have a lot of questions to ask you, Jin.”
After hearing Sally’s response, Jin guided her to the dining hall inside Nidou Castle.
“Oh, this is a unique menu. … I ate roundly shaped food yesterday. It was delicious. What’s it called?”
The only thing that came to Jin’s mind was rice balls.
“It’s called rice. When cooked like this, we call it ‘steamed rice’ in my hometown. Sometimes we call it a meal, too.”
“Hmm. Does it mean that this food called ‘rice’ is so popular that people are calling it a meal? It’s indeed delicious.”
The menu that morning was white rice, pickled vegetables, grilled fish, and sweet omelet.
However, Jin had always been craving miso soup.
Leaving Jin’s craving, Sally seemed to enjoy the rice very much.
“I’ve eaten stewed wheat before, but this is incomparable to that. You are indeed amazing, Jin.”
“Haha, maybe so.”
“And you’re so skillful. What are those … wooden sticks?”
Sally was using a spoon, while Jin was using “chopsticks”. Sally was impressed seeing him using it so skillfully.
“These are chopsticks, and I use them when I eat rice in my hometown.”
“There are many ways to use them, such as pinching, piercing, and tearing food.”
After finishing breakfast while chitchatting, they moved to the conference room on the third floor.
Belle served tea and went downstairs.
“Hmm, your castle is, well, in a nutshell, it’s wonderful.”
Sally commented as an icebreaker while she was looking around the room.
“S-so, what would you like to ask me about?”
“Oh, first of all, there’s no mistake that this is Klein Kingdom, correct?”
“Eh? Yes, this is part of the Klein Kingdom. I’m leasing the land.”
Upon hearing that, Sally nodded and continued to ask her next question.
“What is the immigration procedure like?”
“What?”
“Well, you see, I basically crossed the border into this kingdom. So I was wondering how the immigration work in this case.”
“….”
Jin was stumped. He had never thought about that. It was probably similar to the worries he had when entering Shouro Empire from Celuroa Kingdom.
“… Well, that’s fine. It’s not a crime anyway.”
Immigration control was also lenient in this world, where a family registry system did not exist. If you were not a noble, royal family, big merchant, or celebrity, freely crossing borders was virtually not a crime.
In fact, peddlers and merchants sometimes cross borders without permission.
Jin was thinking of consulting regarding this with each country.
“And I’d like to ask something about you. You mentioned Warp Gate, didn’t you? How did such an Artifact come to your possession? Who are you really?”
Someone else finally asked those questions. Jin explained to Reinhardt and the others,
regarding the fact that he was an orphan. He learned everything from his master. He lived on an isolated island. There were Artifacts there, and so on.
“I see. I got the big picture. Well, I think there are still things you haven’t told me, but I’m not going to snoop that far. … So, what did you wanted to talk to me about?”
“Yes. Doctor, would you be willing to settle in this village?”
“… Oh, that.”
Sally nodded because she was expecting such a request from Jin.
“Yes, that’s right. Apparently, another baby is going to be born.”
“Huh?”
Sally’s remark took Jin by surprise. Sally stared at him with a bitter smile.
“Haha, even if you own an Artifact, but you’re pretty slow in this. According to my observation, there will be 4 more people giving birth by the end of this year.”
“Uh ….”
“Hasn’t the living condition in this village improved since last year? That would most likely be the reason.”
Speaking of which, Jin came last year and improved the village in various aspects. Jin thought it was great that the number of children increased because of his improvement to the village’s living condition.
“So, will you stay?”
“Yeah, sure. I have just arrived, but this is a cozy little village. In addition ….”
“In addition?”
“… I’m curious about those books on the shelf there.”
She pointed at the books that were created by Laojun and were put on the shelf as decoration to the conference room. “Old Book of Demolition” was written on the back cover of one of them.
(What’s with naming it “old”?)
It was probably a deliberate pun created by Laojun* (a peculiar sense of humor he inherited from Jin).
“May I see them?”
“Oh, yes, please.”
Jin had no other choice but to let her. Sally took the aforementioned book off the shelf and flipped through it.
“Hmm, this is amazing! The human skeleton, muscles, internal organs are fully illustrated! … Let’s see the publication information. ‘2446 First Edition, 3434 Reprint’. What?!”