Chapter 87 – 87. Duke

“Are you familiar?”

Upon hearing Margarit’s answer, which made her dizzy, Makina’s whole body began to tremble.

She changed her facial expression at random, like someone who had been damaged somewhere, but immediately after something in her was cut off, she returned to an expressionless expression that could not read any emotion.

“Things like that happen, too.”

When she said that, as was her habit, she went to the coffee pot, boiled water, and added coffee grounds. Pouring the powder right into the hot water, she gulped the water in which her coffee beans had not properly dissolved, then turned to look at the party.

“Welcome again. Come on. Do you want to drink coffee?”
“…… No.”
“Okay? It’s delicious.”

Seeing the way she was drinking, Johann declined her tea and then sat roughly astride the sofa straight inside her.

Makina, who was seated across from him, crossed her legs and looked at John.

“Come on, human. What did you come for?”

“Can you turn this on?”

“Yes? Ah, why are you asking me that? Are these yours?”

“—You keep coming out uncooperatively. Yohan, can’t we start with the limbs broken first?”

Seeing Makina’s attitude, Evangeline clasped her fingers and looked at her Makina. Hearing Evangeline’s threats, she waved her hand and slinked back from her.

“No, broken limbs will disrupt your research, right? Could you please refrain from doing so?”

“Then play around in moderation and blow what you know. If you make me say it twice, there’s no turning back?”

“Um…… In the first place, why are you looking for me to charge this? It’s yours, isn’t it?”

Giving in to her threats, Makina scratched her cheek and asked John why. After looking down at his smartphone for a moment, Yohan pondered for a moment, then realized that he would not be able to cooperate if he did not tell him why.

Unless he intends to come here every time her smart phone runs out, he should have told her the details of her reason and figured out a way to recharge this one.

“I don’t have it.”
“Yes?”
“I don’t have a charger.”
“Eh? Then how did you make this?”
“That…”

Johan secretly began to notice his teacher. Although he implicitly knew that I was from another world, he didn’t reveal that he was from another world first.

Even because her constitution was born because she was a person from another world, did she not try to hide the fact that she was a person from another world?

I was wondering if I could just say that, but…… Evangeline smiled as if she was okay and nodded her head.

“—This is a common thing in our world. I can get a charger anywhere, so I don’t carry it around.”

“Our ‘world’, yes. Okay. I see okay. I’ll tell you how I charged it.”

Saying that, Makina took her smartphone and put her finger on the charger terminal for a moment before she pulled it out.

After a while—she just touched her finger and her smart phone started to power up.

“…… How?”
“It’s simple, I just converted her mana into electricity.”
“So, how did you do that…….”
“How is it… It’s hard to explain. It’s magic.”

Makina soon began her forgotten introduction of herself.

“I forgot. I am a machine witch. This empire, to be exact, the emperor’s henchman.”

The one who paved the way for the emperor to rule the empire.

“I am the Minister of Science and Technology.”

She was the first witch to hold an important position in the state.

* * *

After hearing that Makina is the emperor’s henchman, a commotion begins to arise among the witches. I knew from the business card that she was a minister, but I didn’t know that she was the emperor’s henchman.

Other witches did not understand the fact that they could be so trusted by the country’s emperor by becoming a witch.

“Help…… Say?”
“Yes. Right.”
“The emperor’s henchmen?”
“Help—is it? Because we don’t see each other as anything more than tools.”

Watching the emperor be treated as a tool, the witches realized that the witch in front of them was indeed a being that had a relationship with the emperor.

“How?”
“What?”
“… I meant how witches and humans are collaborating.”
“I told you. There is nothing more valuable than a tool.”

Even though he occupies an important position as the Emperor’s confidant, he is just an emotionless machine.

“Humans are starting to use witches now.”

Just as the monsters that once threatened their lives were downgraded to hunting targets.
Just as natural phenomena that were once considered gods were made simple parts of nature.

Humans began to use witches in gear.

The emperor is only the first human, and there will be more and more humans using witches in the future.

Upon hearing that, Evangeline shook her head and objected.

“—I don’t think so. Witches are beings that can never connect with humans.”

“You say that, but it seems like you are being swayed by a human?”

“…… John is different. Because I am not a normal human being.”

“In my eyes, everything is the same. After all, humans will one day conquer witches and even magic. The long and long era of persecution is coming to an end.”

Rather, it was something to be happy about, and Makina looked back at the witches as if asking why they were so upset.

But the witches present here never agreed to that.

Can you collaborate with humans? Will humans one day conquer even witches?

‘No way.’

Witches are cursed, and magic is part of that curse.
A curse from God. Humans in another world can never make a witch happy.

“Right now, we here are witches with a curse that humans cannot overcome. Unconditionally hated, invisible, treated as a fearful being, unable to even talk to humans…….”

“…… You look fine?”

“Okay. We weren’t saved by humans or anything like that.”

Evangeline said that and brought John to her.

“Not at all to humans, but to the savior…….”
“S, Master? What is that…….”

“…… Wow, what kind of pseudo-religion are you guys talking about?”

While Makina was bewildered, the smartphone Yohan was holding turned on completely.

Seeing the civilization he hadn’t seen in a very long time, John immediately unlocked it.

Then, a picture of a half-naked woman was revealed.

“—Ah.”
“…… John?”

The eyes of the witches who were looking at their smartphones right next to them start to turn cold. In the case of Evangeline, who was hugging me, her fists were even filled with strength.

It was only now that Yohan remembered the fact that he had set the background of his smartphone as a swimsuit photo of a gravure idol he had found on the Internet.

Due to the nature of smartphones that are mainly viewed alone, it is because there was nothing to shy away from…….

‘Fucked.’

Snuggle-.

I turn my head and look at Master.
Her eyes were stained black.

“This…… What is it?”

Plain question.
However, I couldn’t really feel it as a question.
One question.

Yohan held back tears and deleted the wallpaper.

Sending her away, never to be seen again…….

* * *

“So, it needs electricity- and without that electricity, you couldn’t charge it?”

“Actually, even if there is electricity, it has to be 220V, and I need a charger to convert it to the proper capacity.”

“220V…… Roughly how much is that?”

“…… 220 volts is 220 volts, how much is it?”

“So, how much energy is that! You’re asking if it’s the amount of a wagon or how much energy is released when water drops from 1 meter to 1 liter.”

To questions requiring specialized scientific knowledge, John had no answers. Roughly how much is 1 volt?

It was a common promise all over the world, and I didn’t have to remember it.

Most people don’t write the definition of 1 second knowing that a cesium atom vibrates approximately 919.2 billion times, just as they memorize 1 second perceptually.

Just as the definition of 1 meter does not memorize the distance that light travels in 1/299,792,458 seconds, it roughly memorizes three and a half steps.

John did not have the confidence to explain the promise. The electrical knowledge he knew was at the level of secondary education, about V=IR.

“I don’t know.”
“Then do you know how to make it?”
“…… You can make it yourself, why did you ask?”
“You said you had to use 220 volts first.”

Listening to her, he recalled that he had said it had to be 220 volts first. John clapped his hands and nodded his head.

Makina, who was looking at Yohan in a pitiful way, got up from her seat her and headed towards the studio behind her.

There, holding various ingredients, she closed her eyes and immediately used her magic.

“Works.”

Magical power dwelled in the material, and the material imbued with the mechanical witch’s magic moved like a living, breathing machine, and began to merge itself with other materials.

Like the machines in a sci-fi blockbuster movie, the combined materials have transformed into a single mechanical device.

“Okay, complete.”

Makina completed the charger in an instant and approached Yohan holding the item. After receiving the charger, Yohan inserted the slot into the terminal and looked at Makina.

“Now what can I do here?”
“Infuse magic. Then it will automatically convert it into electricity.”
“Oh, high technology.”

While charging his smartphone with a magical scientific instrument full of contradictions, Yohan sneakily turned on the camera and took pictures of Master.

Click, after the sound of the shutter sounds – Master’s cute image is saved on your smartphone.

“What is that sound!?”

Makina and the other witches approached with interest, and Yohan showed me the picture I took and thought.

‘The camera is fine…… Then….’

I could take a picture now.
Master and sex video.