On a late afternoon of the 11th of April, Jin and the others had reached Fonde just before sunset.

After coming this far, Jin felt like the climate had somewhat changed.

Although the dryness was still there, if one were to explain, it would be that the difference was that if one had a dryness warning, the other would have an extreme dryness warning.

“As I thought, the eaves of the roofs and the roofs, as well, are small–they must have very little rainfall around here.”

Such a murmur escaped Jin’s mouth.

“Jin, did you say something?”

“No, not really.”

Jin, Reinhart and Matheus headed towards a Fonde inn together.

“In two more days after this night, we will be at Roizato. It has been long…”

Reinhart said heartily during dinner, holding a gla.s.s of wine.

“When did you leave the country again, Reinhart?”

Matheus asked while in thought.

“Umm, I left in the beginning of spring last year, so it has been over a year.”

“What do you plan on doing after you get back? Continue being a diplomat?”

Saying that, Matheus started explaining to Jin.

“By our tradition, once diplomats return, they can choose to do a different job for 3 years.”

“I see.”

Jin agreed with that. As there might be various inconveniences due to being outside the country for long.

“Will you marry when you get back, Reinhart?”

“Yea, I guess that would happen naturally. I haven’t met Belche for more than a year too, after all.”

Hereupon, Matheus interrupted with a grin,

“Belche has become quite pretty. I haven’t seen her for half a year myself so she probably got even prettier.”

From the looks of it, Matheus gets drunk easily. He has also started addressing himself as ‘ore’ (casual masculine version of I).

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“Yea, I look forward to meeting her.”

Reinhart washed it away with a normal reply. Reinhart could drink way more than Matheus.

That night, thinking he would let Reinhart take it easy, Jin returned to his room early.

And then, he secretly went out at night to the carriage with Reiko and leaped to Hourai island using the warp gate.

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[Welcome back, my lord. Welcome back, Reiko-san.]

Laojun’s welcoming voice reverberated.

Jin didn’t plan on going to the Kaina village again tonight. Firstly, because of the time difference, it is already 11 pm there.

“I plan on visiting Kaina village again tomorrow. I will be taking the b.a.l.l.s Roland-san ordered, so get them ready.”

[Understood. Handball, baseball and dodgeball 100 each, yes?]

“That’s right. We have the materials, right?”

“Yes, gutter-percha like… the tea plant’s raw rubber, correct? We have more than enough.]

“Alright, then, also set up the vessels needed to collect tea plant sap starting now ‘cause I also want to teach Elsa how to make it. I don’t need many, just 3 will do.”

[Understood.]

After giving the general instructions, Jin decided to listen to the report.

[It was Earl Walter’s work–not letting any salt get to Kaina village.]

Jin was enraged.

“Again with him… So, is there any evidence?”

br>[No, nothing other than circ.u.mstantial evidence. He is quite clever with his methods–he makes the subordinates of his underlings hire someone from the city to do the work which makes it hard to get anything on him.]

“Hmmm. However, the moment we get a hold of evidence, we will throw it in front of the the country–we can’t keep being hit by him.”

As Jin muttered that, Laojun proposed without a moment’s delay,

[Please leave that to me. I shall take care of it.]

This part of Laojun was kind of rare. He is also probably angry about the Earl meddling with Kaina village.

“Got it, I will leave it to you. I will reach the capital of Shouro empire soon, so I might not be able to come back in 2-3 days, I leave this place to you.”