"Father, some tactless people have come to interrupt our reunion. I'm going to go clean up.
Reiko was quick to say so, grabbing a peach blossom out of the container and running out of the hole.
"Jin-sama, the remnants of the golem from earlier are gathering.
As soon as Reiko disappeared, Hope reported from the top of the hole.
"Okay. ......It looks like there's nothing more in this container. ......<>"
Jin closes the container and steps out of the hole. Rhodes follows silently.
"I still don't see anything."
Hope nodded.
"Yes. We're about two kilometers out."
"Okay."
Jin and the others climbed into the and gained about 20 meters in altitude.
They then deploy a barrier. This should stop most of the attacks.
Reiko, on the other hand, runs across the land with the force of a gale.
Two golems are coming toward her.
"It's <>, isn't it?"
Reiko pulled out her Momoka and with a single flash.
With a single swing, the two golems split up and down, motionless.
"Same as before ......?"
Reiko stops for a few seconds to < the golem, decides she has enough information, and runs off again.
"......<> deployed. <."
Three of them come toward him. Magic is unleashed, but the barrier easily blocks it.
"You haven't progressed much, have you!"
Reiko steps slightly to the right as she passes them.
A second later, two of them split into two, and one of them is hit in the left arm, but barely avoids a fatal wound.
"That's the coup de grace!"
However, another swing of the < split them in half vertically, and now five of them are immobilized.
"The rest are still far from ....... Shall we attack them from here?"
Reiko sheathed the <> and locked it behind her back, simultaneously kicking at the ground.
"Activate the force field generator!
Using the built-in force field generator, he flies through the air. Its speed is Mach 2.
< are effective up to Mach 3.
Despite their supersonic speed, the wards do not generate a shockwave.
"There it is!"
Reiko quickly spots the enemy golem, pulls out Momoka again, and slashes at it as she passes by.
Without paying attention to the golem that was cut in half, she flew to look for the next enemy.
In the end, all the enemy golems were destroyed in about 10 minutes.
* * * * * * * * * * * * *
After cleaning up the enemy, Reiko returns to where Jin is waiting.
Father, I'm back.
"Welcome home, Reiko."
It's been a long time since this exchange, Jin thinks fondly.
"And who is this?"
Reiko tilts her head at Rhodes,
"This is Rhodoth the Puppet. He is the grandson of Zion.
"Ah, you must be Rhodoth. Your father was very kind to me.
Reiko bowed to Rhodes.
She had heard about him from Jin four hundred years ago. However, she had never seen his face before, so it was understandable that she did not know who he was.
"Yes, I'm Reiko. My name is Hanako! Marikka-sama made this doll for me, and she said that she wanted it to be as close to Reiko as possible, so..."
It is rare for an automaton to be embarrassed and flustered. Jin learned that Marikka had built up a high level of intelligence.
"I see, Marikka-san."
Reiko was not satisfied with the praise. In Reiko's case, however, she converted the compliment into .
"And what about this one?"
<. At a glance, Reiko recognizes who made .
"This is . I couldn't handle it on my own, so I made him my assistant. He's Reiko's youngest brother.
"I see. ......<, I'm looking forward to working with you."
"Yes, Miss Reiko."
Hope, like the other Horaijima golems, calls Reiko <>.
Jin explained to Reiko that he had her call him .
"I understand."
"Well."
After the meeting was over, Jin finally started to ask Reiko questions.
"Reiko, I have a lot of questions for you, but first let's get out of here. In the meantime, what should we do with the container you were in?"
"Well, ...... we can retrieve it after everything is finished, so let's bury it as it is."
"Okay."
Hyperadamantite is heavy, so it is better to use the warp gate than to carry it by Pegasus 2.
In other words, we can retrieve it after liberating Horai Island.
Jin uses the < equipped on Pegasus 2 to backfill the island with soil as before.
* * * *
was heading for the Nord Federation at a speed of about 2,000 kilometers per hour.
Reiko said that they should first make a base in one of the countries, and Rhodes suggested that they come to their own place.
Since we were only going back along the route we had come, we could leave it to the autopilot. While letting Hope check the outside, Jin decided to talk to Reiko.
"Well, let's start with ...... ah, there are so many things I want to ask you, I'm not sure where to start."
When it came time to ask, Jin wondered which to start with,
"...... but first of all, this one. ......Reiko, what in the world happened to Horai Island?"
He decided to ask about Horaijima.
"Well, father, is the year 3899 correct?"
"Yes, it is.
"If it is ......, it has been 134 years since I fell asleep. I only know up to the time before I went to sleep, is that correct?
Yes, please, Reiko.
Yes, Father. You know that ...... Horai Island is sealed, don't you?
Yes. Zion told me.
"And about who did it?"
Jin nodded.
"Yes. <
"Yes, that's right. He doesn't want science to spread here in Ars.
Why is he so concerned?
"I don't know. The ...... old man speculated that it might be some kind of <>."
"Is the ancestor ...... an ?"
"Yes."
Jin imagined that the combination of the ...... gene might have resulted in the birth of a human close to the origin, although the probability was very low.
Although the probability is very low, it is not impossible.
"Golbert Malkitas first worked at for about three years and then left. About five years later, he split the into two and founded the <>."
"So it was a part of the Nostalgia Party.
Then it makes sense that they excel in magic technology.