Chapter 7-9: Volume 7 - Chapter 9 – The Ores
07-09 The Ores
Jin returned back to the crossroads of the tunnel branches, just when the other people had all returned too .
“Hey, how did it go for you, Jin? I got these . ”
Reinhardt showed the pieces of ore he had harvested . There were two crystals and an amethyst .
“I found these . ”
Jin also showed off his spoils .
“Oh, three citrines, three amethysts, and a smoky quartz, huh . As I’d expect from you . ”
It seemed that Reinhardt had an idea as to just how Jin found them . Although the little girl dug up one of the citrinse and amethysts each .
“I couldn’t find anything but this one . ”
Elsa held out the black quartz in her hand to show it .
“It’s just a crystal, isn’t it . ”
Reinhardt voiced his thoughts .
“Mother, here, it’s a present . ”
The girl from earlier gave the gem she had dug out earlier as a present to her mother , the wife of Viscount Secatt .
“Now now, really? Schiede, thank you . ”
Apparently the girl was called Schiede . She was smiling as her mother stroked her head .
Jin gave them a sidelong glance and thought it was good that he had made the pink sapphire with Craft Magic .
“That mister over there told me where to look . ”
Jin heard her say . Then the viscount’s wife walked over where to Jin was and,
“My daughter seems to have had help from you, thank you . ”
She thanked Jin .
“Err, excuse me, but you’re Maririsan, right?”
Reinhardt asked from the side .
“Yes, I am Mariria, and you are?”
“I’m from Shouro Empire, and my name is Reinhardt . I met your husband Viscount Secatt in Asunto the other day . ”
He said . After Mariria heard that she said,
“Oh, so that’s how it was . Was my husband okay? He’s been late in coming back so I’ve been worried . ”
“Yes, he’s fine . It’s just that there was a bit of trouble during His Highness Ernest’s birthday party, so I think he was recruited for dealing with the aftermath . ”
As the propagation of information was slow in this world, it seemed that news of the golem riot hadn’t reached the madam yet . And so Reinhardt told her just the harmless parts .
The madam seemed to be relieved after hearing of her husband’s circumstances from Reinhardt who had been there .
“Brother’s return is late . ”
During that, the voice of the little girl, Schiede, could be heard . The young boy who was her elder brother hadn’t come back yet .
“That’s so, Edem’s late, isn’t he . ”
“I’ll go search . ”
Schiede said and began to run .
“Ah, don’t run, it’s dangerous!”
Right after her mother Mariria said that, Schiede tripped and fell over .
“T-that hurt . ”
“Come on, I told you so, …How inconvenient that I can’t use healing magic…”
Then Elsa stepped forward and,
“Let me . …[Heal] . ”
“Ah, it doesn’t hurt any more . ”
“My my, young lady, thank you . Come on Schiede, thank her . ”
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“Okay . Thank you very much, miss . ”
Obediently, the girl thanked Elsa as soon as her mother told her to .
“…Take care now . ”
“I will . ”
It was dark so you couldn’t see it well, but Elsa seemed to blush a little .
“Mother! I found an amazing gem!”
Then, while yelling loudly, Schiede’s elder brother Edem arrived .
“Come on, look! It’s a green gem! And this beautiful shape!”
Edem said while holding out the raw ore he had in his hand towards his mother . Jin at a glance recognized the gem from its unmistakable characteristics .
“Isn’t that fluorite . ”
Elsa caught his absent-minded muttering .
“Fluorite?”
“Mm, yeah . It’s the gem that, um, Edem is holding . It’s a neat octahedron, right? Fluorite has that kind of cleavage . ”
Fluorite is calcium fluoride . In fact, it is also used in iron manufacture . At the very least, the electric furnace that Jin fell into utilized it in its blast furnace to draw out the foreign matter called slag while manufacturing iron .
And that’s why contrary to expectations it was a mineral Jin was familiar with .
Because it was too soft for a gem (4 on Moh’s hardness scale), no one but some collectors gathered them .
This was probably also one of the freebies for tourists .
“My my, Edem also found a splendid gem . I’m glad . ”
“Brother, I found a pink gem . ”
“Is that so, good for you . ”
“It is . ”
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Jin had no intention of throwing cold water on the delighted family . However . Their intimacy was just a bit enviable, he thought .
“Alright everyone, did you have fun? It’s about time for us to get out, so please follow me . ”
The guide then raised his voice . The eight people returned the borrowed Magi Tools and returned the way they came .
When they came out, the clouds had split and bits of blue sky peeked out from between them . The blowing winds were already the winds of spring .
“Ahh, the outside air is good, isn’t it . ”
Jin said while stretching, Reinhardt also agreed with an ‘indeed’, and Elsa too nodded rapidly .
“Well then, farewell everyone . ”
The wife of Viscount Secatt said her goodbyes . While waving her hand Schiede said,
“Mister, miss, bye bye!”
Jin and Elsa waved their hands a bit in return .
It was precisely lunchtime so they decided to try going into a nearby restaurant .
Because this was a mining village, the restaurant’s insides too were decorated with various large and small crystals, gems, and pieces of ore .
“There’s no Aquamarine?”
Elsa asked Jin with a low voice .
“Aquamarine, huh . I wonder . ”
Aquamarine resembled the color of Elsa’s eyes well . That was one of the reasons it was Elsa’s favorite gem .
“Ah, that seems to be the case . ”
There was a fist-sized crystal decoration . Aquamarines were the same mineral as emeralds, but emeralds were crystals born deep underground in enormous pressure, while aquamarines could be found inside regular pegmatite .
“That’s, pretty . ”
“It’s pretty even without polishing, huh . ”
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“Mh-hm, I’d say that if a polished gem was a dressed-up beautiful woman, a raw gem would be a pristine village girl . ”
Reinhardt sudddenly cut into the conversation . Both Jin and Elsa couldn’t help making an undescribable face as Reinhardt said something uncharacteristically pretentious .
“Huh? I’ve got a feeling that you’re thinking of something awful . ”
Reinhardt guessed and said while smiling bitterly, then,
“It’s not just your imagination . A line like that doesn’t suit Rai-nii . ”
Elsa revealed her honest impression .
“That’s terrible . I was just considering whether or not to buy that gem, but should I not?”
Reinhardt said as if disgruntled and,
“Sorry . Rai-nii is handsome . ”
Elsa said and edged closer to him . Reinhardt’s bitter smile intensified,
“Just when I think you’ve become more of an adult, but you never change, huh . Oh well, I’ll buy it . ”
Reinhardt was weak towards his cousin .
“So sapphires like that still come out…?”
The guide who had watched Schiede hand it over to her mother, the Viscount Secatt’s wife, reported it to the miners’ guild .
After that, the tunnel for tourists was closed for two weeks, and mining was cirred out, but far from pink sapphires even regular corundum was found barely found .
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