Magi Craft Meister

anet, and a satellite.

“Do you know what this is?”

Jin slowly opened his mouth to respond.

“…The sun, this world, and then… The moon, isn’t that right?”

Reinhardt was shocked after hearing Jin’s response.

“Jin! Isn’t this your first visit here? Why do you know the conclusion which took countless of successive generations of researchers to arrive at!?”

The surrounding tourists sent puzzled looks at Reinhardt’s sudden loud outburst.
Elsa, who noticed this, chided Reinhardt,

“Rai-nii, you’re too loud.
It’s better to have that talk in some other place.”

Reinhardt understood and let the matter wait for a better spot.

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It was lunch time, so Jin and the others went to a nearby restaurant.
Luckily a private room was empty, and they sat down there.

“Now then, Jin, give me an answer to my previous question!”

Reinhardt asked Jin with a ragged breath.

“Before I answer, could I ask a single question? …Was my previous opinion considered heresy?”

This was an important matter.
Even on Earth, when the heliocentric theory came to deny the old Earth-centric theory, many people were… Names like Copernicus and Galileo sprung into Jin’s mind.

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“Uh? Not particularly, there’s no such thing.”

But Reinhardt gave Jin an unexpected reply.

The earth is round, and that could be easily confirmed by boarding a boat.
It can also explain why there are four seasons.

Certainly, this world’s horizon looks spherical.
Jin was fairly certain this world was smaller than Earth.

“Well, I’d say there exists people who think the world is flat.”

The roundness is an optical illusion, they’d say.

Then they’d finish with the words that it doesn’t even matter in our day-to-day lives.

“So, Jin, what’s your answer?”

If heresy doesn’t particularly exist then there’s not much to worry about.
A weight was lifted off Jin’s shoulders.
He was already thinking about how to escape with Reiko if worst came to worst.

“Oh, my teacher taught it to me.”

It was a doubtful line, but not technically a lie.
His schoolteacher taught it to him, after all.

“I haven’t heard who taught it to my teacher.”

As expected, Reinhardt and Elsa misunderstand Jin’s reply.

“Hmm, Your master is indeed an amazing person.”

“That’s true.
The theory started spreading through Shouro Empire only ten years ago.”

The theory itself goes back way further, but eventually a scholar used the drawing to explain various phenomena.
That’s sort of a big deal.

“Excuse me.
Here is your meal.”

At that moment, the food was brought in, and the topic changed to lunch.

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Sauteed bird breast, grilled fish with herbs, a steak, and some light wine as a drink.

Jin didn’t recognize all the different birds, fish, meat, or fruit, but it was still delicious.

For dessert, it was Citran.
Elsa looked like she loved it, and it was good that the compartment was private since she also begged to eat Reinhardt’s portion.

“Oh, Elsa, do you want to eat my portion too?”

“Is it okay?”

Elsa asked with a delighted look on her face, and Jin nodded.

“You can eat Reiko’s portion too.”

So as not to raise suspicion, a small portion was ordered for Reiko too.

In the end, Elsa ate everyone’s Citrans by herself and looked satisfied about it.

“Now then, Jin.
In truth, I must do my last greeting rounds as a diplomat now.”

Reinhardt said after the meal.

“What are you going to do? Will your return to the marquis’s estate, or visit more places with Elsa?”

After considering the question, Jin asked if it’s okay that Elsa doesn’t take part in the rounds.

“Yeah.
She’s not an official, you see.”

To which Jin replied,

“Then I’ll let Elsa decide.”

And to which Elsa said,

“I want to tour the town with Jin-kun.”