「Well then, we’ll be back again in two months」
「You’ll definitely come back again won’t you Eric?」
Two days later, Roland & Eric were leaving Kaina Village. Eric and Barbara were dejected from having to part.
（It takes 2 days to travel to the next village by wagon, another 2 days to get to a town, and a further 3 days to get to the Cline Kingdom’s capital. The speed of a wagon seems to be from about 4km to 6km per hour. Assuming I travel 8 hours a day and the capital is about 200km to 300km away, it would be quite a considerable distance. But if I go to the capital, I’ll be able to obtain a map of this continent. That way I might be able to figure out the location of the laboratory）
「What is it Hanna?」
「Jin-oniichan… are you leaving the village?」
「Hmm, I wonder. At the very least, I won’t be leaving before the end of the year」
「I… I’ll become Onii-chan’s bride so don’t leave me!」
「Ahh… thank you. Well once Hanna becomes an adult, if you still have that thought, then at that time I’ll accept」
answers. Actually, this isn’t the first time he’s been told those kind of words.
The first time was when Jin was in his 3rd year of junior high school. He was suddenly told those words when he was taking care of a girl that just came to the orphanage. At that time she was 6 years old.
The next time was when Jin was in his 1st year of high school doing part-time. A girl 4 years his junior confessed. But he worked at his part-time job during the day and did part-time school at night and before Jin noticed it, the girl was dating another guy.
With those experiences, they went back on their confession which happened twice, well they were after all only temporary words. Jin could no longer trust in those words from a small girl.
Now let’s return to the main story… While recalling about the orphanage he was picked up and raised at, Jin decided that he would repay the favour to Martha and the village for picking him up and stay in this village for one year.
It was getting close to summer, the village’s wheat fields were ripe. The harvesting of the village’s wheat fields was a joint effort which continued day after day. Jin also helped out, but he soon got a sore back and dropped out.
This was because most of Jin’s body was supplemented with magic power, so no matter how much training he had done, he did not gain any muscles. Conversely, if he strengthened himself with magic power he would have an unthinkable amount of strength, but it would still be a long time before Jin noticed that.
The wheelbarrow Jin made was useful with transporting the harvested wheat, but Jin thought there was still something else he could help with.
Trying to dig up his memories,
The flour being eaten in this village was wheat flour, but not the whole wheat flour, a wheat that was completed milled. It was not the common modern household pure white flour, but a brown powder of mixed flour and bran.
Jin excused himself from Martha and went home to quickly make a sieve. He made the frame, then the net and combined them together to complete it. There were two kinds of nets, a detailed one and a little coarse one..
Therefore, he hanged the sieve from a height, making a frame so there wasn’t a need to use both hands. He recalled seeing a drain-board hung from the ceiling in the paper before. ⚑
The frame hanged the sieve which is shaken using your hand, and it would accumulate in the tub below. All that was left was the wheat bran to feed into it.
Right on time, Martha and Hanna returned carrying the wheat and saw the sieve.
「Onii-chan, what is this?」
「Fuu-n, this can sort out the flour right?」
「Will it become delicious?」
Then without delay, he milled the last year’s harvest of wheat, resulting in flour, and places it in the sieve. （Because the wheat that was just harvested was not dried yet, it could not be milled）
「This looks interesting! I want to try it too!」
「Waaa, it looks pretty!」
「It’s turned out really pretty. Okay then I’ll use this flour to bake some bread today」
「This is delicious, Oba-chan!」
「It really is delicious…」
He was raised to not be picky about what he likes and dislikes, and he was fine with eating bad food, however the breads up until now were completely different in taste to the one he was eating now.
「I need to tell everyone」
The next day the villagers were delighted to know how delicious sieved flour was, and once again, it was decided that Jin would make a sieve for every house.
After the sieves were given out, the village chief made that proposal, and he agreed with the village chief.
Was what Jin was pleased about.
Roland came after February and was pleasantly surprised when he saw the flour.
Although it was not pure white, the colour was pretty close to white, furthermore the price for it was reasonable. The merchant jumped at the chance.
「Still, each and every time Jin-san sure does surprises me」
「I’d also like to be able to see Jin-san’s home town. When you come to the capital and need a helping hand, by all means I’ll gladly cooperate」
Although his home was Japan, he would never again return home. For now he decided to politely accept.