I was there for the Longsword!
Kill me, but I'll do it.
What are you doing?
Without saying, I finally created my first long sword.
Thermia saw me doing this farce on my own,
"What are you doing, Eizo..."
And there is no harm other than being stunned.
Longswords were created in a manner close to our arrowhead method. Make a wood mould (male mould), cover the wood mould with clay and dry, break it in half and make it female. The wooden mould can be used several times, but eventually (...) comes, so when it does, it will be rebuilt.
Bury the female mold in a barrel with sand, flush the iron dissolved in the furnace into the mold, remove it when it cools, take the "burr" part, heat it up, reshape the details a bit, and finally cook it in and grind gently to complete the body. The rest wrap leather around the pattern or make sheaths.
It's basically a "general model", but it's a "luxury model" with a few pieces made and only one. I decided to apply a "fat cat sitting figure" sculpture to this luxury model's patterned head. My favorite cute cat, Ko, I saw on the previous world SNS, is the motif.
Sheaths and sculptures like these are originally handled by specialist craftsmen, but that's where I have cheats for products that can be made in blacksmiths. It is difficult to say it is perfect because I am not yet familiar with the experience of being "installed", but I have something that can be seen.
Of course I won't forget to make arrows in between.
In the end, it took five days to produce a new inventory of knives and a long sword. Is it time?
"Eizo."
Just when I finished my long sword sculpture, Thermia talked to me.
"What?
"I think it's time to go back hunting or something"
"Right. Then I'll install the arrows, so bring the shaft to the workplace."
"Yeah."
I'll go to the workshop first and prepare the arrows and hammers I made between these days. Thermia brought many thin sticks there.
If I stick that stick in a hole with an arrow in it, I hammer it carefully and cashmere it. Once it was distorted and installed here, it naturally had a lot of impact on accuracy, so I worked with all the forces I could hold.
While I'm at it, it has cheats and is mounted almost perfectly. There may be some madness, but the artisans there can't get it out with precision... it should, maybe.
That's how when I worked ten bottles, Thermia opened her mouth.
"You know."
"Yeah?"
I respond while I work.
"You said you wouldn't live here before.
"Oops. I told you."
"That still works, doesn't it?
"Of course. I don't remember saying it was invalid.
"Atashi, I'm glad Eizo helped me. I came here and I haven't done almost anything yet, but I enjoy helping, and it was funny that Eizo would talk to me about it at dinner, and I like to see Eizo make something. So..."
That's where Thermia's words stop. The beast man's age is hard for me to understand, but from his voice and tricks, he should be a lot younger than mine. A child of that age will have the courage to say that he will live with Mr. O. even if he is certain that I don't have a word (...) or an eye (...). I will wait for Thermia's words to continue as I continue my work.
"So you can live with me...?
"Well, I told you I'd live there, so it's up to you to even be good, isn't it?
Listen to that, slap me in the back with a bassin, Thermia says.
"Yay! Thanks, Azo!
"Go ahead."
"Fine! I'm so happy for you!
Thermia's face, who laughs at him for saying so, was the brightest of all that she had lived with for a short time.
"It's Thermia."
"Hmm? What?
"How old are you?
"How many... Oh well, was it hard for humans to understand?
"I know you must be young.
"Five years old."
"... ha!? Five!?
I raised my voice in surprise. I thought you were young, but being five is a little too much to imagine. Are the children of the beast men so firmly done? When I was five, I was probably more of a kid.
"Don't be surprised. I hear you're not the same age as an animal."
Oh, I see. Even in the previous world (maybe this way), the way you age is very different with dogs, cats and humans. I guess it's something similar to that.
"Well, how many things do you say in human terms?
"Uh, I guess you said you were 25. But I haven't really changed my appearance from here, and I've heard before that if humans were to live for 80 years, Atashi and the others would be about 50 years.
"I see..."
Is there a difference in life expectancy? Still quite a long time compared to regular dogs and cats. Double.
"What about Eizo?
"Hmm?"
"How old is Eizo?
"Oh, it's me. I'm thirty."
The contents are over 40. I should go by at 30 because I was certainly the one I saw in the lake before.
"Thirty."
"What's up?
"No, I don't know, Atashi's five years old, but when I think about the human age I've seen him in it, he's more of an O."
Is it because you're an animal man, sharp guy?
"Don't worry, even humans aren't as good as beastmen, but thirty's already stuck one foot in Mr. O."
That's what I said and decided to deceive.
"Well, we did it while we were talking."
"Whoa... whoa! Fine!! I knew Eizo's would be nice!
I am excited to see Thermia's mounted arrow.
It seems slightly different to say that a raucous young maiden shakes with an arrow, but, well, I'm honestly glad you're happy with your work.
"Thank you."
That's what I said.