April had ended, along with spring, and came May, with summer closing in . Today is the 2nd day of May .
“Yes, this is a letter . A, B, C . Let’s try reading them . ”
“Eii, beee, shiii!”
Mine and Elsa were having a study session, teaching Hanna .
Jin, who was absent-mindedly listening to them while laying down, once again thought about how similar these world’s letters are to Earth’s ones .
(Well, there might also have been some other human who was summoned long ago from Earth . )
He won’t come up with an answer even if he pondered and so he recalled the conversation he had with Reinhart last night .
[Seems like the Serroa kingdom’s governing body started operating properly at last, as we were finally able to renew our passing license . It has been a while since I rode a carriage . ]
“Glad to hear that . ”
[Yeah . Beth and Dolly probably want to meet their family as well, after all . ]
“You too, right?”
[Haha, yeah . We have been away from our motherland for more than a year now, so we all feel homesick . ]
“Where are you staying tomorrow, again?”
[After departing from Forte in the morning, we will probably go to Bololon . Everyone has been waiting to resume the journey, so it’s pretty lively here . ]
“A lot has happened over here too . I ended up receiving a village within Kurain kingdom’s borders as a leasehold land for the next 50 years . ”
[Sounds fun . ]
“Actually…”
And that was how their conversation went .
(Shouro empire, eh?… I do feel like going there . )
But seeing Hanna practicing letters with her utmost efforts, it was kind of hard for him to bring up the talk of going on a trip .
It seems Elsa felt something about that Jin .
After the study session had ended, Hanna and Elsa held hands and were on their way back . Along the way,
“Hanna-chan, what do you think about Jin-nii? You like him?”
“Yep, I like onii-chan!”
Elsa and Hanna were talking about Jin .
“Right? I like him too . ”
“Yay!”
“Hanna-chan, what do you think about Jin-nii going out to travel?”
“Ehh, I don’t like it . I would feel lonely . ”
The obvious response .
“Yep, it would get lonely, huh? But, what did you think about the three of us going out? Wasn’t it fun?”
“It was fun!”
Elsa nodded and patted Hanna’s head .
“Right? It was fun . And, so, Jin-nii has a place he wants to visit . ”
“He does?”
Hanna stopped and looked up at Elsa’s face .
“Yes . Jin-nii has been looking forward to visiting this country called the Shouro empire . ”
“… . . ”
Elsa squatted and looked up to Hanna’s face .
“If we like Jin-nii, let’s let him do what he wants, alright?”
But only silence came back . After a whole 3 minutes of them staying like that, Hanna finally opened her mouth .
“… . Yes”
Elsa hugged Hanna .
“Such a good girl . You did good . ”
Saying that, she stroked Hanna’s back .
“But, it will be fine . If it’s Jin-nii, he will come back time to time . ”
“Yup… he will . ”
Hanna said with wet eyes .
Afternoon of the same day, Jin was checking up on the magic eyes which were set up within last night .
“Hmm, hmm . With this, even if humans were to come attacking, we would have ample amount of time to prepare . ”
They were able to monitor a maximum of 10 kilometers and at least 2 kilometers away from the Kaina village area .
“I guess I will make a support intellect exclusively for monitoring . ”
Something like a small-scale Laojun . In terms of efficiency, it will be about a hundredth of Laojun but should have enough processing power to rival 100 men .
Since he had experience making Laojun, it only took him about 30 minutes to complete .
“Activate . ”
[Pleased to meet you, master . ]
“Alright, your name will be Koushin . ”
These namings also have a complicated backstory .
In a manga Jin had read long ago,
–Insects within the human body leave the host on the “Kanoesaru’s” night and tell the Lord of their hosts’ evil deeds . The Lord would then reduce their lifespan depending on those deeds and so the humans would not sleep on the Kanoesaru’s night . –
Jin remembered reading such folklores there . It was a faint memory but from that one point of monitoring, Jin named it Koushin (Kanoesaru) .
[Understood . I am Koushin from now on . I will do my utmost in monitoring work . ]
“I leave it to you . ”
Jin returned to Kaina village after 3 PM .
When he went to the library on the 2nd floor, he found Hanna there, waiting for him .
“Onii-chan, welcome back . ”
“Mm? Did something happen, Hanna?”
She cast her eyes downwards and was being hesitant but after a while, looked up to face Jin, and said with a clear tone .
“Onii-chan, it is fine if you want to go travelling somewhere, okay?”
“Eh?”
Jin was confused by this sudden event .
“When we went out before, it was really fun . Onii-chan, you also have some place you want to visit, right? Then it is completely fine if you go visit . I will be a good kid and wait here . ”
“Hanna…”
Certainly, his desire to go to Shouro empire swelled up after having that conversation with Reinhart .
But was it really so obvious that even Hanna realized it? — Jin thought, but soon understood that it was probably Elsa . After all, the only ones who knew of this were her and Mine .
But he didn’t say it out loud . Instead, he just stroked Hanna’s head .
“Thank you . Then, I might head out sometime soon . But I will return from time to time, I promise . ”
“Okay!”
Jin promised to return . Hanna was happy with just that .
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That night, during Reinhart’s regular call .
[We finally reached Bololon . ]
“Glad to hear that . I also might head there sometime around tomorrow . ”
[What? Jin, you okay?]
“Ah, only me, though . It’s still impossible for Elsa, right?”
[Hmm . Fritz is back to normal but we don’t know about his home, after all . Ah, right . We also found Adburgh and Herman . ]
“Adburgh was the butler and Herman was the guard, right? What about the other one?”
[We are unsure about the manservant, Otto . As far as I have heard from Herman, after the dismissal, he went away on his own . So he won’t probably be returning to Shouro empire . ]
“I see . I guess we can’t help it . ”
[Elsa is doing fine, right?]
“Yea . This time, I will be coming alone . ”
[Got it . We will probably reach Ganiz by tomorrow and Toskoshia the day after . Catch up to us by Toskoshia, alright?]
“Yea, leave it to me . ”
[Haha, I thought you would say that . Alright then, I will be looking forward to our reunion . ]
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