After checking Hale, Jin returned to Horai Island.

"Now, what should I do next?"

Jin wanted to do something now. The old man knew it too.

"To Daikie and Cocona's place?"

I'm curious about the "confusion".

"What happened?"

was small in the Shoro Kingdom, it was not entirely absent. So, there seems to be some trouble in the educational institutions.

"Should I go?"

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Jin was intrigued by the old man's pompous way of talking.

"What do you mean?"

>

"Uh, Gimnas is a descendant of the researchers who took refuge in the shelter below Mount Suhonto before the , right?"

<

"Lance was the chief of the Golem automata created there, wasn't he?

<

Degauze, the Minister of Magical Technology at the time, corresponded daily with Lance and learned some of his techniques.

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"...... I was sent away, wasn't I?"

In other words,<> Jin does not know what happened to Gimnas and Lance after that, or how they were treated.

"In other words, this mess in the Shoro Kingdom has something to do with Gimnas and Lance, doesn't it?

Now he could understand why the old man was so sure.

"In that case, let's go there.

So Jin departed in the .

The pilot was Hope, as usual, accompanied by Reiko.

On the way, the old man explained a little more about what happened to Gimnas and the others.

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"Ah, I knew it."

Jin recalls those days. Lance's loyalty and arrogance would make him do it.

Gimnas would have been 17 or 8 by then, and would not have been underestimated in terms of appearance and age, Jin imagined.

"That's an exceptional treatment."

You would have to be very trustworthy to do that, Jin. But he realizes that Lance must have spent more than a year arranging for this to happen.

<<

The old man said that he used to be a "shut-in" and did not like to go out much.

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"I see."

Jin could imagine that he was not good at socializing since he had been cooped up in such a place.

<>.

"I suppose so."

Such a steady education is not something to be fooled with.

Ideals that are drilled into us from an early age are still burned into our minds even after we have grown up.

Jin thinks that militarism and other forms of militarism are using this to give a distorted education to young children. ......

.

That's how much they valued his achievements, Jin thought.

"I was interacting with him 400 years ago, wasn't I?"

"Of course."

At this point Jin asked the old man what had happened to Lance.

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"I think I can understand that."

. Jin imagined that this had also happened to Lance, his faithful automata.

"Are there any descendants of Gimnas?"

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"I see. ......"

I am very sorry to hear that, but there is nothing I can do about it. It is in the past.

"I didn't do anything back then?"

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"Elsa was ......"

Jin let out a small sigh.

Neither myself nor Erza were very enthusiastic in that direction.

"...... that's a bit of a shame."

<, with the policy of passing on what they learned from Gimnas to future generations and sublimating it into new technology.32 It has continued to this day, 32 years later.

"Ah, so there are people like that."

.

Jin was somewhat pleased to hear this, even though he was a stranger to the situation.

The idea of passing on the technology and the will to improve it. He liked it very much.

* * * * * *

He came to the capital of Shoro, Leusat, after a long time.

Jin had some thoughts about air traffic control.

"It would be nice if they could develop a method of communication that is equivalent to radio.

For now, they use wind magic to send their voices to distant places.

Jin refused to park the plane on the roof of the house instead of at the airport, and was allowed to do so.

Hope lands the on the roof of the compound without a hitch.

<, so it was doable.

"Master Jin, you are welcome."

The owners of the house, Daiki-Nido and Cocona-Nido, greet Jin, having been informed of his arrival beforehand.

"It's been a while. I'll be back to take care of you.

"No, no, we are the ones who have been entrusted with the house by Jin-sama, so you are welcome to stay with us as long as you like.

"Thank you."

The conscientious Mr. and Mrs. Daiki-Kokona had prepared a welcome for Jin.

It was now time for lunch,

"It's a good thing we asked about your preferences, Jin-sama,"

Cocona said.

The meal was a little light for lunch.

The menu was a little light since it was lunchtime: rice porridge, miso soup, pickled plums, buckwheat noodles, pickles, tsukudani (food boiled in soy sauce and soy sauce) with small fish, etc., which made me think that they had done a lot of research.

And the food tasted good, too,

"This is delicious!

Jin praised the taste of the dishes, saying, "It was worth the practice.

"It was worth all the practice," said Cocona smiling.

Cocona smiled.