Chapter 1

Magi Craft Meister Volume 8 Chapter 01

08-01 Brother and Sister

On the 2nd of April when spring was in full swing, the Jin-Reinhardt group left Yada Village, and spent a night in the town of Coorz .
The next day they continued east without returning to the main road, finally arriving in the provincial city of Ikasanaato on the border of Celuroa Kingdom .
People who wanted to go from Egelia Kingdom to Celuroa Kingdom, or vice versa, went through here, and this immigration control was picky .
This was because the other party was Celuroa Kingdom; the border of Elias Kingdom wasn’t controlled as strictly as this .

“It may take up to three days . ”
“Well, it may be good to rest our bodies . ”
Moving on a carriage in itself was tiring . Without having breaks every few days, one’s body couldn’t endure it .
And so, Jin decided to take this opportunity to repair the Automata Ann that was found in the ancient ruins of Keuwan .
On the night of the day they arrived in Ikasanaato, Jin had Ann deactivate temporarily, and with Reiko carrying her they warped to Hourai Island .
He was thinking he might tell the truth already if Reinhardt asked where he repaired her .

“Welcome home, My Lord . Oh my, who is this lady?”
In the research laboratory Laozi greeted him . Then, he saw the Automata Reiko had carried in and raised his voice in curiosity .
“Ah, this is an Automata I found in the ruins of something called Keuwan, her name is Ann . She was pretty hurt so I thought I’d repair her . Please make the preparations . ”
“As you wish . ”
And then because of Jin, Ann’s repairs begun .
The first thing to do was to mend the Control Core . Jin transferred all the information Ann had to the prepared all-attribute Magi Crystals .
“[Transfer Info] . ”
By [Transfer Info] Jin made an exact copy . It was an especially close call, as after copying, the original Control Core broke into four pieces .
“Woah, just in time . If it’s like this then I think there’s the possibility that some of the information contains bugs . ”
That was Jin’s analysis .
“If you’ve got a minute, Laozi, transfer the minimum information about Hourai Island to her, please . At the same time, also copy the information Ann has . ”
“Understood . ”
In this way, Laozi happened to gain information of things during the Great Magic War . They decided to simultaneously give Ann the minimum information for working under Jin from now on .
“My Lord, around 20 percent of the information is incomplete . ”


Laozi reported after copying Ann’s information . It was as Jin had expected .
“Is that right, I thought so . Please restore as much of it as possible . It’s fine even if it takes a while . ”
“I understand . ”
Leaving the matters of the information to Laozi, Jinn continued Ann’s repairs .
“Next let’s think the reproduction process and upgrading the materials through . ”
From a steel skeleton to a Light Silver one, from the tattered muscle tissue to the same Magical Fibers Reiko used . The skin was prepared out of a Sham Dragon’s wing membrane .
And, after going this far, Jin noticed a material he had never seen before on a shelf .
“Reiko, what’s this?”
“Yes, it is something harvested from a Sea Dragon . ”
“Oh, the thing I heard from earlier . I see… I can use this . ”
To bring Ann’s repairs to an end for now, Jin resumed the repairs .
Eyes from sapphire crystals . An Ether Converter, a Mana Driver, and shielding . He installed a Mana Tank, and made the hair out of Ground Spider’s silk dyed blue .
After finishing installing the muscle tissue, next was to be the coating, howeever .
“Making her exactly the same as before is a little…”
Jin was troubled . To tell you the truth, there was something Ann had had installed that Reiko hadn’t .
“I wonder if she was also used for ‘that sort of thing’…”
During the war, within the troops that had had no female presence there had been female-type Automata . The reason can be easily guessed .
“I better not, after all . ”
Jin couldn’t see any of his Automata that way . To the very end they were his daughters, and he loved them and that being the case he didn’t think of them as sexual objects .
Finally, the clothes . He had her wear the same clothes as the five-colored golem maids . The color was black and there was no maid headdress .
“Alright, it’s complete . [Activate] . ”
“Yes, master . ”
Ann got up .
“How is it, the state of your body?”
The activated Ann walked around and raised and lowered her hands to check her motions .
“It is very good . Thank you very much . ”
“Alright, stay there on standby . Next, Reiko, come here . ”


“Yes, Father . ”
Jin called out to Reiko .
“Alright, Reiko, earlier you had a hard fight with Gigantes, right? I’ll check your whole body, but how about after that I strengthen you so that something like that won’t happen again?”
“Yes, I couldn’t ask for more . Please do . ”
She shot back with a reply immediately . Jin nodded and,
“Alright, got it . ”
First Jin had Reiko deactivate, and checked all the parts . And then .
“This is…”
Jin frowned . The reason was that a few places had been damaged .
The skeleton of the right foot looked a little deformed, and the Magical Muscles on both arms too looked to have snapped apart a bit .
There were no abnormalities in the chest cavity, but both the Ether Converter and Mana Driver had deteriorated a bit .
As expected running at 200 percent output appeared to have worked them too hard .
“This needs a complete reinforcement, huh . That and I need to give a warning to Reiko . ”
Jin muttered and started working on Reiko’s improvements .
First was revising the whole body . He included things he had realized while inspecting Ann’s structure .
An Adamantite skeleton . Hollow, with the core having a spongelike structure . With this both lightness and strength could coexist .
For the muscles he used a composite of the fibers of a Sea Dragon’s leather and the existing Magical Fibers .
By just rotating Magic Energy through Sea Dragon’s leather it wouldn’t deteriorate, and on top of that its high-power output was three times that of Magical Fibers . But controlling it was somewhat difficult, so he made it into a composite material .
For the skin he used a Sea Dragon’s wing membrane . It seemed to be twice as robust as a Sham Dragon’s membrane .
The result of using these materials was that somehow Reiko’s weight lightened by 15 percent . Dragon-type materials should be feared .
“Hm, it’s as I hoped . Like this the output can be increased . ”
Jin said, and added a second Ether Converter and a Mana Driver to Reiko . In other words, she could double her output .
“Even with this, against Gigantes I’d be little unsure . ”
Jin then started working on the final points of improvement he had thought about after that fight .
That was boosting the output .
It would be different if he had Elradrite, but to work without it Jin thought of something called a ‘capacitor’ .
Jin wasn’t very well-versed in electronic circuitry, but he was aware that a capacfitor was something that temporarily stored electric power .


In other words, normally unused output was temporarily stored and released as necessary, that was the theory .
For that purpose, he planned to install an ultra high performance version of a Mana Tank to Reiko . It would surely be useful when going south to where there was little Ether too .
Theoretically, it could be expected to have a momentary output of 1000 percent . He couldn’t think of a use for it though .
“This thing will take all the weight I reduced earlier, though . ”
After finishing up, Reiko’s weight became precisely 30 kilograms . The reform took back the weight gained in the previous remodeling .
“Alright, Reiko, [Activate] . ”
Jin told the details of the improvements to Reiko who stood up .
“Understood . From now on, I’ll limit myself to 3 percent output in normal use . ”
“Mh-hm . So, how’re you feeling?”
“Very light . Thank you very much . ”
“Alright, in that case I’ve got something to say to you . Sit down ofer there . ”
“Yes?”
Jin had Reiko sit down . After thinking he then scolded her .
“Reiko, I’m happy that you fight for my sake . However, just taking the brute force approach is irresponsible so stop it . Okay?”
“Eh? The purpose behind Father repeatedly enhancing me, was it not so that I could use that force?”
“What the…”
Jin was greatly perplexed and silenced . It appeared that the enhancements he had given to Reiko in good faith had just made her more devoted to strength .
“That’s wrong . I only enhanced you because I didn’t want you to be broken even in the worst case scenario . Put more thought into fighting from now on . ”
“Yes, I understand . ”
Then Jin, Reiko, and Ann were about to return, when Laozi called out to Jin .
“My Lord, I have a proposal to make . ”
“Hm? That’s unusual . What is it?”
“Yes . Now that the amount of subordinates My Lord has has increased, there’s a possibility that by some accident or such they fall into someone else’s hands . ”
What Laozi said was reasonable . When Jin heard that something popped into his mind, but he first motioned Laozi to continue .
“And so, I propose that just in case, we install a function for information erasure . ”
“I see . ”
What Jin had thought of in the spur of the moment was a self-destruct mechanism, but this was a much gentler idea than that . In the first place, even though it was Jin’s idea, he didn’t want to install something like a self-destruct mechanism to the golems that could be said to be his children .
Even the safety measure installed in Laozi was a destruction device only Jin could activate, so it wasn’t a self-destruct mechanism .
Those golems of Jin that did not use rare materials couldn’t possibly bring out the same performance as those that did . Currently just imitating Lotte was difficult .
On the other hand, concealing as much information about Hourai Island as possible was necessary .
“Alright, with Laozi as the guide enact that plan . ”
“Understood . ”
And like that, after this Laozi would add security measures to each one of the subordinate golems .

This time Jin returned to Ikasaato . He had stayed quite a while in Hourai Island, and when so he dozed off for a bit, or at least thought so, morning had come .

“Good morning . ”
While rubbing his sleepy eyes Jin went to the dining room for breakfast .
“Good morning, Jin . ”
Reinhardt gave morning greetings to Jin, then looked at his face and,
“Did you not sleep well? Your eyes are red . ”
He said . Jin nodded, and replied that he missed sleep while thinking about various things .
“Good morning, Jin-kun . ”
“Good morning . ”
Elsa also greeted him .
The three went to eat .
“What are today’s plans?”
Jin asked Reinhardt .
“We’ll go handle the formalities . I can handle that alone, so Jin and Elsa, you two can do as you like . ”
At that moment, the door of the dining room opened, and a military-ish man came in .
That man looked around restlessly, but finally walked towards Jin’s group . Then,
“Elsa, it’s been a while!”
No sooner had he said that than he hugged Elsa who had just finished her meal .
“Brother!?”
Elsa was surprised .
“Yeah, that’s right . Has it been two years? You’ve become prettier, Elsa . But best of all you look healthy . ”