Jin's doppelganger and Reiko walk through a supposedly abandoned enemy laboratory.

"...... looks a little bit like Avalon, doesn't it?"

Golbert Markitas had studied at Avalon for about three years, Jin decided, so that must be the influence.

"There are no traps, are there?"

"Yes, father. I have checked inside the walls, under the ceiling, and under the floor, and there is no danger.

"Then that's good."

Based on Avalon, the structure is a combination of concentric and radial corridors. At the center of the corridor are often important facilities such as a command center and a magical brain room.

However, since the first priority of Jin's doppelganger and Reiko is to find the fifth column (quinta), they are aiming at the basement room where Reiko found them.

Structurally, the stairs or elevator is located near the center.

"This way. The elevator's not running, so we'll take the stairs down."

"Okay."

The power system is mostly dead, with only a dimly lit emergency light using ethereal luminescent material (AL).

Since ether luminescence (AL) continues to emit light until the free magic element (ether) runs out or the AL itself is destroyed, it is used for some emergency lights and nightlights.

The ether luminescent (AL) lamps here were as bright as 5 to 8W incandescent lamps called <>.

You were on the second basement floor, right?

"Yes."

They had just landed on the first basement floor, so one floor down was the destination floor.

This way, sir.

<

"It should be in this room."

Reiko stopped in front of a room not far from the stairs.

"...... is locked, isn't it?"

This was a sliding door, but when Reiko put some force into it, it opened easily, crumpling.

"This is .......

"This must be a laboratory or workshop."

The room was as large as four high school classrooms.

"<>"

Since it was dark, Jin's doppelganger turned on the light to make it easier to find what he was looking for.

The room was cluttered with workbenches and shelves. Some of the shelves had fallen over and their contents were scattered on the floor, giving the room a messy impression.

Jin's doppelganger and Reiko go to the workbench at the back of the room.

"......!"

On it lay a fifth row of Spica-type (quinta) without arms and legs, and a fifth row of Mira-type (quinta) with its thorax dismembered.

"Is this and ?"

Jin's doppelganger confirms to Reiko,

"Yes. Spica5<> and Mira2,<> are correct.

"I see. I see. ...... d*mn you, you poor thing. You did this to me."

While being angry, Jin's doppelganger observes and checks on the two.

"I can't find the control core. ...... wait?"

Jin thinks. <

"Then the answer is ...... that!

A container that shields magic. There is only one that looks like it.

Reiko, open it. Be very careful.

Yes, Father.

Reiko carefully pried open the container ......, a jar-shaped vessel the size of a large pickle barrel.

Fortunately, there were no traps such as explosions or gas emissions, and what was inside was revealed.

"Oh, so the control core is in here after all.

The control core, the Magi Reactor, and the Magi Devices were all contained within the control core.

Jin, who was piloting the machine, was relieved to see that the machine could be restored to its original state.

At this point, Jin casually and jokingly uttered a line from the doppelganger's mouth.

"Let's see if there are any traps.

Then he applied <> to the control core.

"<>...... what the hell is this?

"What is it, father?"

"Is it a trap ......?　There seems to be some kind of magic formula (MagiFormula) mixed in. Let's not fix it here, let's go to Horai Island and analyze it first."

"Understood."

So Jin's doppelganger and Reiko gathered up the two broken dolls and their parts, and left the laboratory for the moment.

"Well, what are we going to do now?"

Jin loaded the two bodies into Pegasus 2, which was waiting on the ground, and thought for a while.

Should we go back to Horai Island, or should we investigate this facility further?

"Okay. Old man, dispatch <> and <>."

"Yes, sir."

In the end, Jin gave the old man instructions to send a survey team to the site.

He felt that it was not Jin's place to take care of this place and confront the League of Magic.

I'll be ready for that, though."

The transporter sends 5 <> and 5 <> right in front of Jin.

At the same time, <> is in the sky.

Jin ordered Hope to leave the island to them, and they took off from Uchuto Island in Pegasus 2.

* * * *

After returning to Horai Island without any problems, Jin left the analysis of the control core to Lao-kun and decided to repair the two fifth row quintas himself.

"That's terrible, this guy is ......."

The "quinta" were torn off by force due to the inexperience of magical engineering.

"I guess we have to replace the whole magical skin. ...... Reiko, please get me the materials."

Yes, Father.

Helping Jin in the workshop seems to bring back the old days, and Reiko is very happy.

Thanks in part to this, the work proceeds at a brisk pace.

The distorted skeleton was corrected, the deteriorated muscles were replaced, and the damaged parts were newly made. Of course, the magi certifiers (magi certifiers) were also installed.

In no time at all, the two bodies regain their original appearance. All that remains is the control core.

"How are they doing, old man?

<

What happened?

<

<> is a concept brought by Jin. I don't mean the cause of the disease, but a computer virus.

Jin thinks that he could probably create one if he wanted to. For example, a subsystem that starts up and then erases itself after a few days, or a control system that seems to be working properly but makes errors at critical points.

For Jin, it just doesn't make sense, so he doesn't make it.

"Did someone develop such a thing? ......"

<

"That guy again ......"

Jin felt a certain madness in the way the mage, who was apparently nearly 150 years old, was still trying to haunt the place.

Since he was worried about the possibility of just removing the <, he decided to prepare a new control core and write in only the necessary information.

Since the control core was originally created by Jin, it is easy to reproduce.

If the information including his past experience is added to the control core, it can be reproduced without any problem.

Jin then built and set the two control cores as he had done before.

"Okay, <>"

Yes, chief.

"Yes, Chief."

Two of them are up.

"<>, <>, how are you feeling?　Are you remembering things the same way?"

Yes, exactly the same as before.

Yes, everything is back to normal, including my memory.

"Well, that's good."

When Jin finished the control core, he added the information about the rescue of Jin and Reiko, but there seems to be no contradiction between the two.

"Keep up the good work."

Yes, Chief.

"Yes, Chief."

Jin was satisfied to see the two bodies restored to their original state.