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ant Elsa.
Indeed, she did use healing magic to heal Schiede’s wound after the girl fell over, Jin thought.

“Mmh, she’s doing something else right now.”

“Is that so? And I wanted to see her again.”

It appears after Elsa healed Schiede’s wound, she took a liking to her.

“Mh-hm, that may be difficult.”

“So after all, she can’t go outside so often because she’s a noble too?”

“Well, something like that.”

There was no way Jin could tell her the truth and so he dodged the question, while Schiede then said with a serious look on her face.

“That’s lonely.
In that case, Schiede may as well stop being a noble.”

Those words made Jin think of something but,

“That’s no good, Schiede-chan.
Your mother would be sad.”

He said to persuade her.
Schiede meekly nodded.

“Yes, I understand.
I don’t want to make mother sad.

“Mmh, Schiede-chan’s a good girl.”

Jin said and stroked the air of Schiede walking next to him.

“Ehehe, that feels nice.”

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Schiede delighted in having her hair stroked.

Meanwhile, they arrived in front of the hotel.

“Schiede!”

A hurried woman’s voice.
It was Schiede’s mother, the wife of Viscount Secatt, Mariria.

“Mother!”

Mariria came running over and hugged Schiede.

“Where did you go! Edem and Hauro have been looking for you!”

Hauro was probably their butler, Jin thought idly while watching the meeting of parent and child.

“I’m sorry.
On the main street I saw something interest on display, then mother and everyone else were gone, and mister brought me here.”

Then Mariria let go of Schiede whom she was holding and looked at Jin.

“Thank you very much for bringing Schiede back.
…Wait, aren’t you…?”

She appeared to remember Jin’s face.

“Yes, we were sightseeing the mine tunnels in Yada Village at the same time, my name is Jin Nidou.”

“My my, so it was you.
You’re by yourself today?”

“Yes, Reinhardt went to see an acquaintance of his.”

“I see.
I’d like to give you something as a token of my gratitude but as we’re traveling I’m short of money at hand…”

And so forth, she spoke and that’s why Jin felt all the more ashamed and,

“No, it wasn’t such a big deal, well then, I’ll be going now.”

He said and bowed, and turning his back to the voices who still wanted him to stop for something, Jin quickly left the scene.

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“Parent and child, huh.
That sort of thing, isn’t it nice.”

While thinking about things like that in the back of his mind Jin kept casually walking and came to the riverside.

A riverbank about five meters tall had amassed along the river, and it was possible to climb it up.
Jin who was a bit sweaty from walking tried climbing up the riverbank to for something like a breeze off the river.

“Hm? Something’s causing a ruckus.”

He climbed up the bank and could see the dry river bed, but there a group of people had gathered.

“Father, it looks like a drowned body or something.”

Reiko told Jin while staying invisible.
Reiko’s eyesight was sharper than a falcon’s.
That’s what Jin was thinking, but for the invisible Reiko using infrared rays to see it was difficult to discern faraway details so for a moment she had gone closer and come back.

“It is…I recognize it.
It seems to be Mine.”

“What!? Mine who was supposed to have run away with Elsa turned up as a drowned body!?”

Jin had a bad premonition and ran down the riverbank.
He was about to slip and fall multiple times but each time Reiko supported him up so he got down without falling over.

After getting down on the riverbed Jin urgently rushed there.

From among the crowd of curious onlookers Jin said with a groan.

“It really is…Mine.”

It was unmistakably Mine.
The only mistake was that it wasn’t a drowned corpse.
She was still breathing.

“Out of the way please! I know her!”

Jin said and moved to Mine’s side and,

“Ugh…”

He grimaced at the terrible scene.

Her right arm appeared to be broken and bent in a weird direction, her head was swelled dark red as if she had been hit, and a knife had pierced through her abdomen.