I’m sorry for being late, I don’t like using the scheduling system in case of issues. I have been preparing for finals, of which my last few are on Tuesday, so no problems after that. I’ll be out of town for a few weeks because of military training so I will need to use the scheduled release for the next chapter, as it’s already done, and as I said in the announcement post, I have training all of July, so the July chapters will be scheduled as well. For any scheduled chapter, if there are problems, I may not be able to fix them until I get back from my training as I may not have internet there.
Now, without further delay, here’s your chapter, translated by Falinmer.
03-13 Just Before the Preliminary Starts
The dawn of the next day. Fine weather. The day of the preliminaries for the golem boat race. (TL: I so wanted to say Dawn of the First Day, Majora’s Mask reference.)
「Aaaah, I’m a little nervous.」
「Fufufu, I’ll win today！」
A tense person, a determined person, an uneasy person. They are showing various faces. Meanwhile, Jin was as usual.
「Isn’t it unreasonable to compare them with father/Otou-sama?」
「Hey, Jin！」
Reinhardt rushed up with a girl in a yellow one-piece swimsuit behind him.
「Elsa Randall, best regards.」
「I’m Jin. This is Marcia who is the ship operator and my teammate, and this is Reiko.」
「Best regards.」
「Hahahaha, Elsa, your chest already lost… OUCH!」
「Good grief, Rai-nii should learn some delicacy.」
「Hi, Mr. Reinhardt and Ms. Elsa. This must be Marcia, and this is?」
「This is Mr. Valentino. He’s Mr. Jin.」
「Ah, so he had such a name, excuse me. Well, Ms. Elsa, Marcia, how’s your condition today?」
Marcia seems depressed to be looked at in such a manner.
And, as if Elsa doesn’t feel his eyes,
After Valentino bows with his thin chest that has no muscle,
He talked big, and then someone appeared from behind Valentino.
It was a small beauty who put on a red one-piece swimsuit. She was glamorous.
And with a pompous bow,
And then walked out as he said so.
Elsa who was half disgusted.
Unusually, Reinhardt said this with a serious tone.
「Now then, we will soon start the 10th Golem Boat race preliminaries, participants board promptly and get ready.」
Marcia calls out to Jin.
Reinhardt said as he left together with Elsa.
「When the competition starts, there will be nothing for me to do anymore. I believe Marcia is an arrow that can only be watched.」 (TL: I think this is supposed to be a reference comparing her to an arrow and him an archer, once the arrow is let fly he can do no more.)
And Jin and Reiko went to the dedicated staff seating.
「Now, the 10th annual golem boat race will begin, and we have a record high number of participants and even many from out of town too, it’s an unprecedented upsurge.」
「We have invited a young Magic Craftsman, Bernardo, whom is the pride of our country for commentary.」
「Now, Bernard, could you explain the competition in a way that a visitor who came sightseeing from a foreign territory could understand?」
Of the spectators, who were in the pay seats in the harbor, more than half were tourists and the rest were of the local populace.
「Let me see, to put it briefly, it is a competition of speed, but the special parts are where a golem propels the ship and a woman steers it.」
「Yes, that’s also true, but the operations also cannot be ignored. Today’s preliminary is just a competition of simple speed, but for tomorrow’s competition they will have to go through several checkpoints which also requires navigation.」
「That’s right, just as it’s important for a coachman and a horse the ship operator also needs to control the golem.」
「Thank you very much. Now, the participants and their ships seem ready to start soon in the harbor.」
As this was said, the ships were lining up in their participation application order and slowly went around the harbor following the guide ship.
「This year, ship operators are wearing a customized swimsuit showing off their limbs to the audience without regret.」
Jin didn’t think that the figurine he made for the test would be this popular, either.
「Well, first, the team that stands at number one “Elias’s Glory”. This is the team of Mr. Valentino who is one of the 3 aides of Marquis Hudson, he has Miss Riche who was a runner up last time as a ship operator, and the golem is a product of Sir Valerio. It can be said it has cornered the position of favorite.」
The picture reflected in the 《magic screen》 changes.
The ship fills a large part of the magic screen.
The emcee explains while examining the documents on hand.
An especially big shout of joy broke out when I explained so it.
「Really, Reinhardt was from a count family.」
Then the introduction of the player continues, but there is not the thing which is particularly new for Jin either. But,
It is athlete’s number 27. What are those huge wings that grow at the back of the golem?
「Bernard, it’s an interesting golem, isn’t it?」
「The width of the ship was defined as four meters or less, but there’s no limits on the golem.」
When seeing the golem and the whole metal ship, it sank fairly well into the water and its weight could be imagined.
「Hm? What’s that?」
Athlete number 28, team “Sea Bird”. The hull was a slim canoe type, but a supporting hull called the outrigger was attached to both sids.
Reiko says
Jin explains.
Reiko says as she consents.
Jin was worried about the golem that had four arms. Naturally, it has four oars. The pattern of the short oar was seen clearly.
「It may be the desperate plan in which you can’t have a long oar by the one with an outrigger, but it isn’t bad.」
「Now then, the dark horse, a unique team who’s athlete number is 35, “MJR”.」
「The shape of the ship is different, isn’t it?」
「What is it? It seems to be a water mill.」
「It’s a water mill that water flows around, but this is the reverse, isn’t it? The reason which is turning a water mill and is kicking water. This seems fascinating.」
The introduction of the participating teams ended with the 35th Cygnus team at the end. The preliminaries are starting shortly.