Adriana made five spoons out of the stainless steel that was still left over.

One for each of the four members of the chief's family and one for the guests.

They were immediately used at dinner.

"Wow, they are so easy to use!　Thank you, Ad!"

"Really. And they are so shiny and clean.

Krull and Marle seem to like their new spoons and forks.

Seeing their smiles, Adriana is glad she made them.

(......I'll keep trying to make them smile like this. ......)

This will also be a driving force for Adriana in the future.

* * * *

After dinner, Adriana bowed to Mehto, the patriarch of the family, his wife Baisse, their eldest daughter Marle, and their second daughter Krull.

"Thank you for all your help over the years. I will leave tomorrow."

Krull and Marle reacted to this statement with great excitement.

"Why?　Ado, don't go!

"Ado, what's wrong with you?　"Ad, did something happen that you don't like?　That was... ......"

"No, that's not it."

Adriana stopped Marle's desperate attempts to explain and smiled.

"I have something to do, something I have to do. I have things to do, things I have to do, and for that I have to go further north.

"Up north ......?"

Yes, north. That's where I'll find what I want.

Adriana's face looked more mature than Krull and Marle had ever seen it before.

"What does Ad want ......?"

Krull barely managed to get the question out.

"What I want is knowledge.

"What do you want ...... for?"

This time the question comes from Marle.

"For me to fulfill the dream my father kept asking for."

After a pause, Adriana continues.

"That is why I will not stop. I'm going to walk on, aiming far and high. That is my purpose."

"......"

"......Yes, I get it."

"Sis!"

Marle said with a soft smile that was just like her mother's.

"Ado has his own dreams, doesn't he? But I hope you won't forget about us.

"Of course not!　I'll never forget the days I spent in this house, playing with Krull and Marle. How could I forget?

...... is fine.

"Sis!"

Krull stops his sister, who is about to complain about his understanding,

"Krull, let's support our friend's dream, okay?"

"Sis! ......"

Maruru caresses Krull's head as her sister is about to start crying.

"Maruru......Krull......"

Adriana also had tears in her eyes as she watched the two interact.

"......Yeah, Sis. I understand. ......Ad, good luck ......."

In a muffled voice at the end, Krull also said that he would support Adriana.

That night Adriana slept with Krull and Marle.

Adriana went to bed that night with Krull and Marle.

"Ad, please come back again.

Ad, take care of yourself.

Ad, we will always be friends!

"Ado, I'll never forget you!"

"I've had a lot of fun with you, sweetheart."

The chief of the village and his family and the master of the blacksmith's shop had come to see Adriana off from the coast.

Other villagers and strangers had also come to see Adriana off, some of whom she had just passed on the street.

"Thank you, Falk.

"Be careful!"

"Thank you very much!　Take care of yourselves!

Adriana waves from the boat.

Slowly the boat turns towards the sea.

But what a girl you are!

"I wonder who she is..."

Krull declares loudly to the villagers who are muttering these words.

Ado is our friend!

Marulu watches from a little distance as the ship's shadow shrinks in size.

"May Ado's dreams come true. ......"

The sea that day was clear blue and the waves were calm.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

"......," he said.

After reading the first diary, Jin looks up and looks around the group.

"The previous generation went north, didn't they?"

"...... probably the continent where the demon tribe is."

Saki and Erza guessed.

"I guess so."

Jin agreed that was probably the right answer.

"You must have been lonely, Adriana.

Hannah muttered with a little sadness in her eyes.

"Yes, Hannah. Your mother chose to enhance her engineering magic even with such sadness. ......"

Reiko reacted to Hannah's words.

"Brother Jin, how did Adriana-san prevent water from leaking out of the screw shaft?"

Elsa asked.

"I'm sure Marcia-san had a hard time solving that problem too."

"Ah, there."

Jin indicated the back page of the diary.

"There is a diagram here. ...... I see, in short, the room with the golem that turns the screw, in other words, the engine room. That's the only place where water seems to come in."

"What?"

"In other words, the leakage of water is only in the engine room, and the leaked water is drained out with water magic. Worst of all, the golems seem to be able to move even underwater.

This was probably revolutionary at the time.

"Shuki the Wise probably knew about the screw, but not how to make it watertight. That's why the previous generation solved the problem by combining magic for the time being."

"...... convinced me. That's just like our predecessors."

"Well, let's look at the second book."

Peridot2 brought us some Persica juice and we all quenched our thirst.

Jin took out a diary numbered <<2> from the bookshelf.

He unscrews the clasp and opens it slowly.

"......It seems that my predecessor has arrived at what is now called the Pazdekst isthmus."

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