105 - - 05-14 Apology and Dolls
Jin and Reinhardt forgot to eat lunch and were making distillers.
Reiko, who could not bear to watch them, dragged them forcibly to the dining room.
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After finishing lunch in a hurry, they ran back to the workshop,
"Do this here," she said.
"Yes, let's try this."
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They work on the distiller. They devised, improved, and refined ways to increase efficiency and extract as much water as possible in as short a time as possible.
"Reiko, get the copper."
Yes, Father.
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You're so good, Reiko! I envy you, Jin!
Reiko's assistant is also impressed Reinhardt, and he becomes more and more fascinated with her.
Jin, with Reinhardt's strong research spirit, is uncompromising in his pursuit of the project.
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Two or three prototypes are made, and then they are destroyed.
In the end, the day ended with making a distiller instead of going to see the city with Reinhardt. Instead, they made a high-performance distiller.
"............"
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And so Elsa, who was looking forward to spending the afternoon touring the city of Borgia with him, was completely bummed out.
"Elsa, I'm sorry.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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"I'm sorry." "I'm sorry."
Erza's elbow landed cleanly in Reinhardt's tail as he was about to tap her on the shoulder.
"...... are you okay?"
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Jin, who was watching, was worried and called out to Reinhardt,
".................."
Reinhardt, his body bent in a crouch and sweating profusely, does not reply with a blue face.
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He finally seemed to be able to breathe when Jin thought of applying the cure,
"G,u,u,it worked......,that's the old-fashioned Elsa......."
Perhaps she heard me say this, Erza looked at me for a moment, and when her eyes met Jin's, she quickly turned and ran away.
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"Reinhard, I still think we are to blame.
"Well, ......, you know. Well, , we are the ones who broke the promise, no matter what the reason.
"I have to go apologize."
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Jin says so, but Reinhardt says..,
"Uh-huh."
But Reinhardt only said, "Ummm..." and was not very clear. When Jin questioned him about it, Reinhardt finally said why.
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"Erza doesn't listen to me when she's angry. ......
He said, "That's not true.
Jin said, "That's not true," to which Reinhardt replied, "You saw the elbow strike she just gave me.
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"He's always been a bit of a handful when he's angry."
Jin thinks to himself, "If he knows so much, he shouldn't have broken his promise," but even he doubts that Reinhardt would have stopped the production even if he had said he would do it later.
"But I don't know if Jin would have gone."
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"Why would I?"
Reinhardt replies to Jin, who doesn't understand why Reinhardt would say such a thing, "Because he looked a little different when he was with you.
"What should I say to apologize for that ......?"
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Jin thinks as Reinhardt is still in pain.
He doesn't know much about girls Erza's age, but when he was in the institution, he was forced to break a promise he made to a younger girl, and when he apologized, he said ......
"Okay, let's do it. Reinhard, get me some clean fabric, thread, and hard wood."
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"What? Yes, okay."
With these words, Reinhardt went around to the maidens and butlers of the Marquess Florenziano's residence and in a short time he had the materials Jin had mentioned.
"Are you going to make something with these?"
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"Well, you'll see," said Jin.
Jin wielded his engineering magic.
First, the wood is shaped and formed into parts by shaping. The parts are then joined together by joints and shaped.
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The surfaces are then treated by bleaching and smoothing.
Next, the black threads are taken from the yarn, bound together with binding, and attached with joints.
"Well, this is ......."
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Then he gave Reiko a piece of one of the beautiful fabrics and gave her some instructions. I sewed myself up into an unfamiliar shape using another color of fabric.
"Finally, a tabi.
He found some white fabric and shaped it into the shape of a tabi (socks).
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Black stones were added to the eyes and rouge was applied to the lips to complete the process.
Yes, Jin was making a Japanese doll.
"Put the kimono on like this," he said.
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For the younger children who cried for an ohinasama. It was helpful that I had studied briefly about the structure of kimono, Hakata dolls, Kyo dolls, and Ichimatsu dolls.
"That's an unusual doll. Are those clothes from some folk costume?"
Reinhardt is impressed.
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"And she looks a bit like Miss Reiko."
Dark eyes, dark hair, sideburns. If her hair were a little longer, she would look just like Reiko.
"Well, you know. I made this doll to look like a doll I saw a long time ago.
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The materials used are different, but the doll is a Japanese doll, a checkerboard-like doll at least. The kimono is made of Western-style fabric, but it suits the doll surprisingly well.
Jin went to Erza's room ...... with the doll he had just finished,
"Reinhard, where is Elsa's room?"
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So Reinhard, Jin, and Reiko went to Elsa's room together.
First, Reinhardt knocks on the door.
"Yes?"
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The nanny, Meine, showed her face.
"Mr. Reinhardt, what's going on? You came running in, Miss, and you've been locked up in your room ...... and you haven't opened the door no matter how much I've called you.
She said anxiously. And when he found Jin's figure,
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"Jin-sama, I didn't expect you ......."
It seems that Meane still has some reservations.
Then Reiko steps in front of Jin,
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"Please don't make false accusations. If you insult your father any more, you'll get what you want.
"No!"
Meine's face turned pale, as she had seen Reiko's ability.
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"Stop it, Meine!"
"No, Reiko!"
Reinhardt and Jin calmed both Meine and Reiko down,
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"Jin, we'll wait here, you go ahead.
Jin nodded his head and went to his room. Meane did not disturb him anymore.
He knocked on the door further down the hall. There was no answer, so he knocked again.
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"Elsa? It's Jin. Can you open the door? I want to apologize."
With that, I knocked, and a few moments later the door opened slightly. Then he whispered,
"...... what? ......I don't want you to apologize."
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Jin holds out the doll to Erza, who looks as if she has no idea what to say to him.
"Yes, I'm sorry, but this is my apology. Please take it."
For a moment, Erza stared at the doll, but then opened the door a little more because she couldn't see it well. Then her face relaxed a little.
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"Cute. ...... can you give me this?"
Elsa reaches for the doll soon. Jin quickly hands the doll to her as if to push it to her,
"I'm sorry about today. I'll make it up to you tomorrow. Reinhard!
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Jin turns around and reminds Reinhardt. Reinhardt shakes his head in panic,
"Oh, yes. Yes, of course!
Reinhardt says so too. So please get yourself in a better mood. And take good care of that doll.
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Erza stops Jin as he is about to go back to the house by pinching the hem of his jacket.
"Wait...wait...wait...wait...wait...wait...wait... ............ what's this girl's name?"
What? What? Hmmm, let's see. ......"
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Jin, Yi, Rei, Tomonobu. Immediately Jin thought of the name Nobuko, but it didn't seem to fit in this world,
"My name is ...... Non."
Normally it should be
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"Non ...... thank you. You are ...... cute."
Seeing Erza hugging Non in that way, the whole group was relieved.