06-35 Lotte’s Remodeling
The next day, Jin was very busy starting from the morning.
Immediately after breakfast summons from the Prince came, and Jin left for the inner royal palace. There was the third Prince Ernest along with lotte.
The third Prince Ernest said. It seemed like a royal’s selfishness, but as Jin treasured Lotte whom he built himself, he laughed and agreed.
The Prince said to Jin.
Jin replied with a question.
The prince replied. Jin was pleased with his answer. He then said,
The prince was greatly delighted.
He said and went off, and immediately came back holding some documents in his hands.
He said and handed the permit to Jin.
“Well then, I wonder what kind of materials there are.”
He had Lotte wait there, and from there took a cart for transporting materials and pulled it half excitedly to the royal palace’s raw material storehouse. It was in the corner of the inner royal palace grounds. Two soldiers were guarding it, and official was closely managing who was allowed in.
Even so, materials valuable in their own way were also stored within.
He glanced at the official in charge who was muttering something about how if Jin didn’t have the Prince’s permit. Jin the pushed the materials cart back to the workshop lent by the Prince.
When he got back it wasn’t just Lotte but the Prince too.
“Ahaha, I wanted to see Jin repair Lotte, so I ended up skipping today’s studies.
“Is it fine if I watch from here?”
Jin didn’t hold any dislike towards this Prince who genuinely loved golems.
“First, let’s reinforce the skeleton.”
“Ah, that’s aluminium, isn’t it? And that over there is Adamantite.”
“Yes, first I’ll change the steel skeleton to an aluminium one.”
“Oh really, Lotte’s skeleton was like this.”
Jin kept working while sometimes giving explanations. After that he coated the surfaces that moved along other surfaces with adamantite.
The Prince also was rather quick to understand.
Next was the work on the muscles. Forming fibers of Sand Worms’ leather, Jin intertwined them together to make ‘Magical Muscles’.
The prince said as he kept staring at Jin working. The current look of the golem with the muscles attached was frankly ominous, but the prince wasn’t concerned about it one bit.
Then was the most important bit: inserting the Magi Device. This was just a simple transplantation of the already existing one, or so the Prince thought, but,
He said and held out the Magi Device in front of the Prince to show it well to him.
“Yeah, it’s a Magi Formula to protect against outside magic.”
The Magi Formula was of the same nature as a [Magic Barrier]. The effective area was the inside of the component instead of an airspace though.
He put the Magi Device in its proper place in the chest and covered the surroundings well with Magical Muscles.
Jin said, and waited for questions. As he thought, a question came from the Prince.
A rather good question. Jin found it easy to understand why the Prince asked it and replied,
Jin pointed at the six wires protruding out.
“These are conducting wires that transmit Magical Energy to all of the body parts. They’re linked to each of the arms and legs, the head, and the torso.”
The Prince’s understanding was excellent. Jin was glad and began one of his explanations.
Magic Energy was simple waves of energy, but magic was an energy with substance in a sense, so traveling through this thin wire would be difficult for it, he explained.
“You’re amazing, Jin. You seem to know more than my teacher.”
The Prince Ernest looked at Jin with respect. Jin smiled and resumed his work.
“Now, Lotte’s restoration, entering the final stage.”
Seeing Lotte return to her original form in front of him, the Prince was also delighted.
“Alright, shall we do the final finishing touches?”
“Woow, how magnificent.”
“Let’s separate the zinc. [Smelting].”
“[Forming].”
“[Heat Treatment]. [Hardening]. [Surface Treatment].”
Jin’s special-made weapon usable for throwing and as a blunt instrument.
Even so, there was still some left, and after thnking for a while Jin made a mop. A steel mop. As a blunt weapon it was a rather effective thing. At the tip he made a tassel out of the remaining Sand Worm leather.
Finally, he called for the Royal Secret Maid Laila who had abstained from entering the workshop. Even though she had work today too, she knew to maintain a reasonable distance to Jin.
Laila was a little nervous being summoned to a place where the Prince was too. Actually, ‘a little’ doesn’t begin to cover it.
As a reply to the Prince Laila said,
She spectacularly bit her tongue. It seemed to be painful.
“I’m not as capable as onee-ch-…my elder sister…”
But as Jin had business with Laila,
He said, politely interrupting the Prince’s talk,
He told Laila.
Jin then spoke of his task.
“Eeh!?”
“Listen, not ‘your’ maid outfit. I want a brand new maid outfit ‘your size’. “,
“Come on, take a look. They’re to dress that golem up. Isn’t that right, Jin?”
You were sure that you what. That was on Jin’s mind, but he didn’t say it.
“E-excuse me, but was that all?”
Jin took the maid outfit she presented to him and thanked her, then first started up lotte.
“Yes.”
Laila, who was looking from the side was surprised and let out a little scream. It seemed she wasn’t accustomed to and got scared by Lotte who was lying down suddenly getting up.
Jin asked.
After replying she turned towards Ernest, kneeled, and
she greeted him. The prince rejoiced,
He said and hugged her. He then spoke with surprise,
The one who replied was Jin.
This was a function that Jin included in almost all of his golems after the manufacture of Reiko.
“Ooh, Jin, like I said, you’re amazing!”
“Lotte, put those clothes on.”
With a knife on her thigh under her skirt, a tray under one arm and holding a mop in the other, Jin’s imagined battle maid was complete.
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