"No, Jin-dono, thank you for your valuable information."
Opening his eyes, Rouzo Chioda thanked Jin.
Then he began to speak again.
"......Well, let's get back to our business."
"Yes."
"There was a time when the roads around the village of Kuento were paved with macadam pavement, but then a great storm hit the area, causing mudslides, and all these efforts came to naught.
Ah, that's why the village was once abandoned?
Yes. ...... Then we stopped trying to do too much.
"I understand most of what you mean."
Jin nodded broadly.
Then I'll do the talking now. Why did you come to this region?
"Yes.
"Actually, a friend of mine in obtained an excellent control core in the eastern part of the Kingdom of Celluloid. I wanted to find out where it came from.
A control core?
Yes.
Jin explained that the project started when he heard that Groma had heard that there was a researcher of magic brains in the city.
"The control core was not a sphere but a disk."
"Huh? ...... Indeed, we sometimes make such control cores."
Have you ever sold them?
No.
I see. ......
If so, Jin guessed that the control cores that Groma and his group had obtained were made and sold by the Tomoshide-Yoda group, and not by this company.
* * * * * * * * * * * *
<, Jin decided to ask Rouzou Chiyoda again.
"I'm going to ask you directly. ...... do you wish to back up the island of Horai?"
"No."
The answer was immediate.
Probably, he had been expecting this question since he found out Jin's true identity.
And Jin also knew that such an answer would come back to him, albeit dimly.
"We have gone the wrong way, and we will continue to go our own way.
"I see. ......
The techniques we have passed down and refined from generation to generation are probably nothing more than child's play to you, Jin-dono.
No, that's not true. ......
"No, that's not true,," he said. If you see ...... Miss Reiko, you will understand how great she is."
It seemed that Rouzou had seen through Reiko's act to her true nature.
* * * *
After the two parties had settled their positions, they had another round-table talk with Goh and the others.
"Oh.... Goh-kun and Rubina-san are apprentices of Jin-dono, huh? I'm honestly envious of you.