Magicraft Meister Part 1

"...... and that's why."

Jin tried his best to explain to Erza. Thanks to his efforts, Elsa finally understood that it had been a misunderstanding.

"Oh, really?　But I've never heard of an automata (automata) being emotionally unstable ......."

"Reiko is special in many ways."

Jin looks up at the sky. The stars had already begun to appear.

"Let's go inside."

Elsa agreed, and they walked out of the garden back to their room.

"Oh, I see you've been out for a walk.

A nanny came in. She gave Jin a cold look,

"She says dinner is ready.

So Elsa went to the dining room with the nanny. Jin goes back to his room and brings Reiko.

Reiko tells Jin that she does not need to eat, so that only he can hear her, to which he replies,

"But, well, there's no need to tell the village head that you're an automaton, is there?

Reiko agreed with him.

By the way, Reiko can mimic a meal. She has to secretly eject the food later, though.

By the way, egestion is to take out the solidified food in the form of compressed food, balls or needles from her mouth, but she keeps some of them in her body because she can use them for attacks.

In addition, they have an analytical function in their mouths to analyze the taste of the food they eat and to make use of it in their cooking. This is the result of Jin's enhancement of this function, which was originally intended to detect poisons and the like.

Dinner that night was sumptuous. To tell the truth, Jin had never eaten anything like this before.

Since he is not familiar with fine cuisine at all, he has no idea about the names of the dishes. <

I don't have any likes and dislikes, so I had no trouble eating, but I didn't know the manners, and I ate as Elsa did, so I felt somewhat tired and didn't feel like eating.

The night of the event, Jin was in his room.

That night, as Jin was relaxing in his room, there was a knock at the door.

Reiko happened to be gone to drain too much food, so Jin opened the door to find Elsa's nanny standing there.

Looking closely, she looked to be still in her twenties. Her chestnut-colored hair was pulled back behind her head and she had brown eyes.

"Come in."

She declines Jin's invitation,

"Mr. Jin, as your daughter's nanny, I'd like to tell you something. Do not make the mistake of thinking that the young lady has given you permission to ride in the carriage with her. I'll cut you off if you try any insolent thing.

What?

I had no idea what he meant by that, but I knew from my experience in my previous life that I should never talk back to a woman who talks this way, so I agreed with him.

"It is all right if you understand. Well then."

With that, she turned and left.

He closed the door and went to bed, not knowing what she meant.

Reiko came back just in time, so he turned off the light of the magic lamp and lay down on the futon.

The next morning, we had to leave early.

The next morning we left early. It was a little far to the village of Mohut, where we would be staying next.

After a breakfast of freshly baked bread, goat-like milk, and some kind of salted vegetables, the group left Flathead village with the village chief seeing them off.

Flathead was beautiful in the morning sun.

"Oh, I couldn't make the damper after all..." said Reiko, who had become unstable.

I was too busy trying to calm down Reiko, who had become unstable, and to clear up Elsa's misunderstanding, to develop the damper. But when Reiko said,

"It's all right, father. I will heal you this time.

Her words caused Elsa's eyes to roll back in her seat.

"What?　Did you learn the magic of Verheillet, by any chance, Reiko?

"Yes, thanks to you."

"......"

Elsa is absolutely mortified. That's true. It's no small feat to be able to reproduce magic you've only seen or heard once.

It is not easy to reproduce magic that one has seen and heard only once.

Usually, it takes chanting, imagery, magical power, and the talent (sense) and mental ability to access the archives that hold the catalog of magic.

If all of these are not in place, magic will not work.

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The reason why Jin cannot use most of the offensive magic is because he does not have access to the archives of offensive magic.

On the other hand, he has almost unlimited access to the <>. This is a given, so there is nothing we can do about it.

If we compare magic to a computer program, we can say that there is a callable function in the <>.

It can be likened to a story about whether or not trigonometric functions can be solved with only four arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) instead of calling the function y=sin(x).

Then, the question arises as to why Reiko, a creature, can use more offensive magic than Jin, but is still limited in engineering magic.

This is because the results of normal magic, including attack magic, are simple and easy to visualize. The < to be invoked at the same time is also relatively simple in many cases.

On the other hand, engineering magic requires the user to visualize not only the result but also the process, so it is selective.

Although Reiko has a brain with the highest quality magical crystal (Magi Crystal) and the best technology of Magi Formula, her imaginative and creative power is not as good as Jin's. On the other hand, the materials of <> are not as easy as those of Jin's, but they are still very useful.

On the other hand, even if she cannot access the archives of offensive magic, Reiko can memorize most of the magic, as long as she can write in the magi crystals for memory in her body, she can refer to them the next time.

The same is true for the bracelet that Jin made for himself.

However, it is impossible to memorize the magic which is too complicated to be written down or whose method is not known. However, with Jin and Reiko's analyzing ability, they can analyze most of the existing magic.

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"Reiko has some artifact technology, so she can do it.

Jin only explained so. Well, it is not a lie. All is part of the story.

<, Erza did not question further and kept her mouth shut.

Jin is looking out the window today. It seems less likely that she will get drunk that way.

The road gradually climbs. It is quite steep in parts. The horses in this world are powerful, pulling this many carriages with two horses.

Jin-kun, can I go that way?

Erza says. It is true that if you are sitting backward on the uphill, you are likely to slip off when the carriage sways.

"Yeah, that's fine."

It seats three, and Reiko is small enough that there is plenty of room. Hitoshi leaned a little closer to the window. Reiko moves closer to him accordingly.

Inevitably, Elsa sits on the opposite side of the window.

"It's all uphill from here. Today's lodging, Mohut, is a village built on a gentle slope at the bottom of the Hambaluf Pass. The main industry is cheese.

Elsa explains. Indeed, it is the end of February, and the landscape seems to be gradually turning back to winter.

"It's mountainous, but there's hardly any snow. That's because the roads are chosen to go through those areas."

Elsa seemed surprised at Reiko's mastery of magic, but she seemed to be convinced and started talking to me as if it were yesterday.

At that moment, the carriage shuddered and stopped, tilting.

"Miss!　I'm sorry, the wheel got caught in the hole!

The voice of the coachman rang out.

The three of them hurried to get off the wagon. The path was cut across the slope, and water from above had gouged out some parts of the path.

"Come on, keep up!"

The usually quiet governor shouted at the horses and gave them a whip as if to encourage them. However, no matter how strong the horse is, the wheels, which are stuck in a very tight position, do not start moving.

The carriage ahead of us noticed this and stopped, and four attendants got off.

"Elsa-sama, please leave it to me.

With these words, the three servants except the nanny tried to lift the carriage with all their might. However, the weight of the carriage and the wheels, which were stuck tightly together, did not budge.

Seeing this, Jin asked..,

"Reiko!"

Reiko," he said,

"Yes, father.

She replied shortly and pushed the men away as she approached the carriage.

"Hey, hey, little girl, what are you doing?"

one of them said roughly, but Reiko didn't care and got under the carriage, even though her clothes were soiled,

"Ei!"

She stood up, carrying (・・・・) the carriage.

"Hey ......!"

"Oh, are we dreaming?"

The three men watched with open mouths as the little girl lifted the carriage with both hands and then carried it away.

At any rate, even the two horses were halfway up on their feet and were being dragged along.

After moving the carriage to a place where there was no rough surface, Reiko gently dismounted the carriage and came back. There was a little mud on it, but a swipe of her body removed the dirt. This is only possible with rare materials.

"Thank you, Reiko."

Jin pats Reiko's head and praises her when she comes back. Reiko looks happier than usual.

"Reiko, you're an automaton, but you're as powerful as a golem?

Erza asks in surprise.

"Yes, she does. I mean, we've seen it before. At the dock in Potlock."

Elsa said that she had been attacked by a golem at that time and had been upset. That's why I forgot about it until now. And then,

"Normal automata are as strong as humans or a little stronger. I've never seen an automaton that can generate that kind of power.

"Is that so? ......"

While we were having such a conversation, the man who had approached Reiko earlier came to us,

"Hey, are you an automaton?"

"Yes, I am."

When Reiko answered, the man said,

"...... can I pet her too?"

Reiko asked. But Reiko's voice was cold,

"No. Only your father is allowed to touch me without permission.

The man was so disappointed that he backed away.

"...... he has been away from his daughter for about six months now. I think that's why he wanted to pet Reiko."

Elsa followed up. She told me that he was her escort. She said he was an expert with a sword.

The group resumed their trip soon after that, as it was getting late.