After Meine's condition has stabilized, Sally gives her another sip of the remaining recovery medicine.

This time she was able to give him the whole dose without spilling it.

"Well, I guess she's all right now. We'll just have to wait and see.

Now Meine is breathing calmly.

"She seems to be mentally damaged, so it will be a while before she wakes up.

Sally said,

"Doctor, can you keep Meane in the hospital for a while?

Jin asked.

Then Sally said

"Well, this is a healing center, so I don't mind. But I am also a healer, and I would like to ask you about the medicine you just gave me.

He made an exchange of terms with me. The content of the exchange was, well, natural,

"Yes, I understand. I made that recovery medicine myself.

Jin replies honestly. Somehow he thought that he could trust this healer named Sally. She is a woman, but she has an air similar to himself and Reinhardt.

"You made it?　You are an alchemist?"

Sally looks surprised.

"No, I am a magecraftsman. I heard from a certain source how to make a recovery potion, so I thought I'd give it a try.

"What?　You heard how to make it?　You heard about a manufacturing method that is more important than life for alchemists?"

Sally was even more surprised. Jin thought this was a bad idea and decided to correct it.

"No, the person I asked was an automaton. It was a guy from the time of the Magic War.

"What?

Sally is often surprised. I thought she was calm and collected, but maybe she is more excited than I thought.

"It was an old automata, and it stopped working after I heard it, that's all I could hear. And the information was incomplete."

Jin then told us that he had made the automata by putting healing magic into a serum obtained by precipitating the blood of a demon with magical powers. I omitted the centrifugation part because it would have been troublesome.

"Hmmm, I didn't know it could be made that way.

However, Sally seemed to have some feelings about it and was mumbling and ruminating about the process.

"I can't get demon blood,...... but maybe it's not limited to demons,...... all you need is the magic power contained in it,...... then you can make it. ......"

"Sir, sir."

The actual "I'm not a fan of the way you do it," he said, "but I'm not a fan of the way you do it. He was worried about Erza as well as Meine.

"Hmm!　What is it?

"So, Meine is already all right?"

"Yes. I'm sure she'll be fine as long as she continues to recover.

Hearing that, Jin made up his mind.

"I'm sorry, but can you take care of her here until she gets better?"

"Hmm?　I don't mind, but there must be a reason.

Jin told him the story of Elsa and Meane.

"Hmmm, they took the young lady to escape. And on the way, they were attacked?

"Yes. That's the only explanation.

So she can't go back to the main house?

They will be punished.

Sally thought about it for a while,

"Okay. I'll take care of him until he gets better. I've got the information about the recovery medicine.

He agreed to take care of her.

Jin bowed his head,

"Thank you, doctor. So, here is the money for the time being.

He offered three gold coins, or 30,000 dollars.

"This is too much, but ......."

Sally was about to say so, but when she realized that the money included the hush money, she took it without saying more.

* * * *

Jin, who no longer had to worry about Meene for the time being, hurried back to the inn. It was already late in the evening, but Reinhardt had not returned yet. He decides to ask for a message.

"<>I'll tell him that, won't I?"

He asks Claude, the butler, to leave a message, leaves Anne in the room, and sets off under the darkening sky to look for Erza.

Time is running out. He wished he had a golem horse frame, but it did not pass through the warp gate. I had no choice but to remove the golem horse from the carriage and mount it. Without a saddle, the horse is unsteady, but we put up with it, saying that time is of the essence here.

Our destination is upstream on the Torres River.

Jin decides to call in the Air Force as backup in case of emergency.

Sky 71 to 75 will be ordered by Jin to stay in the air with Raptors 1 to 5. They'll be 2,000 kilometers away by the time Jin gets there.

"Ah, but the problem is that it's hard to land.

Jin has now realized the drawback.

"I remember there is a VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing Aircraft), isn't there? I'll try to build one when I get back home. ......"

Thinking of this, Jin walks through the darkness of the night. While he is worried about Erza, his head is full of thoughts as he is just rocked on the back of the golem horse.

"Reiko has been strengthened, but I'm not very good at it myself. I need to get my personal equipment up to speed.

Night-vision goggles to see in the dark, or a power suit that stops halfway through. And so on... Jin's ideas continue to flow.

"Oh, I wish Reiko could fly, too.

When he comes up with such ideas, there is no one who can stop him.

In a sense, this is a reaction to his (supposed) restraint.

Jin is not a pacifist. He is not a quarrelsome person. He is basically soft on his people and merciless to his enemies. Well, most people are like that.

It's not that Jin liked Meane. He complained about everything and was not a fan of her.

But that doesn't mean he was so heartless that he would just let that kind of treatment go on. Especially now that I know that she is Erza's real mother.

He would find Erza and make sure that whoever did this to Meene would pay for it. That's what Jin thought.

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"I'm tired of ......."

Jin was exhausted from being rocked on the back of the golem horse, which had no saddle.

"Oh, it would have been so much easier if I had a bike. Or a bicycle. I'll build one later."

Jin's hoop, the hoop of his own weight, seemed to fly off to another dimension.

"Father, are you all right?　Do you need me to carry you?

Reiko asked, concerned, but Jin refused Reiko's offer, thinking it was too pathetic to be carried by a 130cm tall girl.

"Is that so?　If you're tired, you can always say so, right?"

"Yes."

Jin answered, but it was highly unlikely that he would whine to Reiko about it. It's a father's dignity.

Besides, it's not that he's too tired to walk, he's just tired from being rocked by a horse without a saddle, so there's nothing wrong with walking.

And he is not particularly fast. At the moment, we cannot increase our speed because the covert task force (SP) is advancing while keeping a watchful eye on the direction we are going.

The closer we get to the enemy base, the slower the speed will be due to the precaution.

Jin is also concerned about Erza's safety, but he suppresses his impetuousness, judging that if Jin is found, there is a high possibility that Erza will be in even greater danger.

The destination should be near by now. We have to make sure they don't notice us.

Lao Tzu reported that the destination Sky and the others had seen from the sky was a fortress in the forest, and that they had taken the side road along the river so far, but that they would have to follow the roadless path ahead.

"Father, why don't we let the covert task force (SP) clear the way to avoid wasting time?"

It takes a lot of strength to go through the bushes. That is why we propose to have the covert task force (SP) perform maintenance work such as mowing. Of course, quietness and secrecy come first.

"Yes, let's do that.

So, < and of the Covert Maneuver Unit (SP) show up and lead the way. The other members were on the perimeter. Reiko was closest to Jin, protecting him as she went.

After about 15 minutes, Dahlia, who was leading the group, stopped moving.

"Chief, there is a building".

Dahlia reported, and I looked hard into the darkness and sure enough, there was a fort-like structure.

"I can certainly feel the magic of the brooch your father made."

Reiko said. The brooch she had given to Erza was covered with fine magi crystals, and it contained Jin's magic power as well.

That's why Reiko can sense its presence at this distance.

"Well, now it's time to infiltrate," Jin says.

Jin says,

"You don't have to do it yourself, father. We have a covert task force (SP) for such a situation. All you have to do is give us an order.

Reiko rebuked me.

I felt somewhat ashamed of this, but it was true that Jin's physical ability was low.

"Okay, then, I give you an order. First, find Erza. Don't let her find you."

"Yes, Chief."

The Secret Service Personnel (SP) disappears into the fort without making a sound. Jin thinks as he watches them.

（It would be interesting to make a magic doll that moves by my will.)

(It would be interesting to make a magic doll that moves by my will. Jin thinks it is inappropriate, but even at a time like this, he is connected to making things.