Chapter 407

12-48 Touring the Venue

After visiting Reinhardt’s booth, Jin and Elsa continued to tour the venue .

Reinhardt seemed eager to join us, but he became busy handling several customers that visited his booth .

Jin and company headed to Steirleana’s booth .

“Hey, Jin . You’ve come . Elsa, too . Welcome!”

The centerpiece of Steirleana’s booth was undeniably the crystal golem … no, it was a blue topaz golem, Selene .

With the smooth feminine body line, the transparent blue body looked even more mystical .

There were other sculptures and vases made of crystals, as well as accessories . Steirleana was skilled in processing such gems and precious stones .

“This is an exceptionally beautiful pendant . ”

It was a pendant made of pale blue stone, possibly an aquamarine . It was cut in a pear-shape, or sometimes known as teardrop-shape .

“Oh, that one . I created that pendant with the leftover material from when I created Selene . ”

It was a blue topaz, not an aquamarine . Elsa was fascinated with the beautiful color .

“Oh, I see . ”

Steirleana looked at Elsa’s face, then Jin’s, and then gave a cheeky smile .

“Jin, I’ll give you this for the trouble before . ”

Steirleana handed over the pendant to Jin .

“Huh?”

“It’s fine . Keep it . ”

Steirleana halfway forced it into Jin’s hands while winking and said, “If you don’t want it, you can give it to someone else . ”

Jin and Elsa backed out of the booth into the aisle . Right at that moment, two customers came by and started to ask Steirleana questions, so Jin and Elsa walked away along the aisle .

“… . ”

While staring hard at the pendant in his hand, Jin finally realized what Steirleana’s intention was and said, “The color of this stone is very similar to Elsa’s eyes . If you want, I’ll give you this pendant . ”

He handed it to Elsa .

“Yeah, thank you, Brother Jin . ”

Elsa took the pendant while smiling .

Steirleana gave the two of them a sidelong glance while smiling, thinking that she was spot on with her a.s.sumption .

“Oh, Jin and Elsa!”

“Yo, Saki!”

Right when the two of them were thinking of their next destination, they b.u.mped into Saki .

“Would you like to go explore the venue together?”

Jin invited .

“Yeah, I’d love to . I’d appreciate your explanations about various things in this exhibition as well . ”

From then on, three people (and an Automata) toured the venue together .

“Where’s Aal?”

“Oh, I asked him to watch my booth for me . ”

Saki left Aal to watch his booth, just like Jin was doing, touring the venue .

“What’s that over there?”

Saki pointed at the booth where a crowd of young customers gathered .

“Shall we go check it out?”

We pushed our way through the clamorously bustling crowd to get closer, only to find various sizes of … or more precisely, various dolls that fall into the “small” category . They were lined up packed together .

“These are … . ”

Those would be called Figures, the perfect dolls .

The smallest ones were about 10 centimeters tall, while the big ones were about 50 centimeters tall .

They were made with various materials such as gold, silver, copper, marble, and crystal .

Most of them were in the form of girls, with no dresses on, only the molding . But their vital parts were cleverly concealed by how they were postured .

“They’re cute, but how shall I put it … . ”

Saki turned slightly red as well from embarra.s.sment .

“… Are they your a.s.sociates, Brother Jin?”

Elsa said something so unexpectedly wild .

“Hey!”

Jin protested, to which Elsa giggled .

“No . I’m just kidding . Sorry . ”

Elsa’s remark took Jin and Saki by surprise because it never occurred to them she would crack that sort of joke .

That was probably because she came back to her home country . Jin thought it was wise to have brought her along .

“Oh, is that Lord Jin over there?”

Someone called out to Jin who was engrossed in deep thought . The voice came from inside the booth . That would be the person who created those dolls .

“I’m a Magi Craftsman from Celuroa Kingdom, Clark Lambda . ”

Lambda would indicate that he was the 11th engineer . He was about in his late 20s to early 30s .

He had short-cropped brown hair and brown eyes . His face looked ordinary and yet had distinct features; his physique was medium-build . At first glance, his appearance left a light impression .

The models he made were amazing . Perhaps it was due to the biased theme that his rank stopped at the 11th position . Jin was somewhat rudely thinking somewhere along those lines .

Without breathing a word of his thoughts, he greeted him back .

“I’m Jin Nidou . ”

“Oh, it’s an honor to speak with you firsthand . Is that Mini Smith? I envy your ability in creating small golems to that extent . ”

Clark paused, then gripped both of Jin’s hands and said,

“… If only you could make these dolls come to live!”

He said it with a voice that resembled a shrill scream of the spirits .

“Brother Jin, it looks interesting over there, too . ”

“You’re right . Jin, I’m going over there, all right?”

Elsa and Saki bailed politely .

Jin came to realization and excused himself as well, and then chased after the two of them .

“Mr . Clark, I still want to look around the venue, so I’ll excuse myself here today . I’ll see you again sometime . ”

“Ah, Lord Jin . ”

Pretending not to hear Clark’s attempt to stop him, Jin left in a hurry .

“Hee hee, there are so many different people . ”

Saki laughed at Jin who finally caught up to them .

Thereafter, Jin and company visited several more booths but decided to check out the Alchemist section since there wasn’t enough time .

The section was also in the same big hall .

Undoubtedly, the first booth they stopped at was Saki’s booth .

Aal was there watching the booth .

“Are those … your display items?”

Rare minerals that Saki had collected so far were lined up on the display .

“Yeah, but my favorite is the paper . ”

That item had been submitted for appraisal, and the value would be announced at the end of this expo .

“This here is an interesting piece because the stone always breaks into a certain shape, so I collected it . ”

He explained while pointing at his collection .

Regular octahedral fluorite . Slightly distorted cuboid calcite . Dice-type galena . Thinly peeled biot.i.te .

“Even though they were formed naturally, these stones have amazing shapes … . ”

There were crystals in the shape of hexagonal prisms, cubic pyrites, crystals made of rolled garnet, and so on .

Those minerals were often seen in the science room of any junior high school .

“Lastly, these stones have beautiful colors, don’t you think?”

Purple amethyst, blue sapphire, green emerald, yellow citrine (yellow crystal), red garnet, and two-colored watermelon tourmaline .

Jin secretly thought that if he collected such gems and precious stones, he would deplete all his wealth and wouldn’t be able to afford his employees anymore .

“You’re selling rubber, how come you don’t display maple syrup?”

Jin spoke his mind, to which Saki laughed and answered .

“Yeah, you taught me about those things, Jin . Aside from the paper (because it was unavoidable), I thought to display only my creations . ”

Saki seemed to have pride in his own style .