Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

"As far as I'm concerned, I'd like to thank Luca."

When I say that, Crope tilts his neck.

"Why?

"Otherwise, Crope wouldn't have set up a blacksmith in Malt, would he? Then I would have been in a lot of trouble..."

Well, I'll take care of the other blacksmiths about when I was human, but it would have been good.

My arm wasn't a big deal.

Therefore, even the weapon needed was fine if there was one with standard performance.

But not now.

I need you to try and mistakenly build a weapon that fits my special physique, and I wonder if any other blacksmiths would have accepted this situation of mine as a problem in the first place and said they would build a weapon for me.

In that sense, I must thank Luca.

And, of course, to Crope.

Crope guessed and nodded at the circumstances around it, which he didn't particularly put into words.

"... I see. Well, in that sense, I'd have to thank Luca, too. I had to live in Malt to get to know someone as funny as you."

"You mean each other"?

"That's what I'm talking about"

That's what I say, we laugh at each other.

Then, Claude continued the conversation.

"For that reason, there was so much going on up until today, but that's how I work as a blacksmith in this malt. Oops, I didn't say why I would be a blacksmith in Malt..."

"No, you're right. Why? It would have been better in the city."

Or that would be a lot more convenient.

Crope answers this.

"That's true...... well, for now, I think I need to settle down somewhere when I get married. It's just that I don't want to be near Wellphia or anything, because I'm going to meet someone I know who says it's not very urban. I decided here because border cities seemed convenient in so many ways. It's just a peripheral city, and the demons spring out of it. There will be no end to the demand for weapons, and it's just right to say that business is going to flourish."

You seem to be the result of an immediate thought.

Well, that's what putting up a belt.

The only time you can do whatever you want is when you're single and nobody bothers you, even if you lose your life.

If anyone is with us, we have to think ahead.

That's why it was hard for me to assume that the day would come when I would get it, even if I had a longing for a couple like Crope and Luca.

With someone... yes, with someone, because it seems bad to suddenly lose your life one day.

But think about it.

I'm not going to die that easy right now.

That's what makes some resurrection possible, even if it takes damage from the instant death class.

With that in mind, don't you mind if I have a location now...?

No, you can't.

In the first place, that's what the body is now of the Undead.

You would refuse from a husband who doesn't have a person or someone else.

I still have to go back to being human first......

For this reason, it is "Existential Evolution", but it is not aromatic here.

For now, I'm making an effort to be strong, because that's not all I can do.

We need some kind of "trigger" after we become stronger, defeat more demons, and absorb that power.

From the boner Skeleton to the corpse-eating ghost Ghoul, I don't think I needed that big a trigger, but I find it gradually more difficult to get what is required.

To the flesh of men, the blood of vampires… I wonder what we need next.

I don't know.

Or maybe we didn't need them originally, but we needed them to evolve into a single flight.

Originally, demons do not "evolve in existence" so often.

Especially the more superior the demon.

And yet, I'm doing it at quite short intervals.

It would be natural to think that because the conditions were much easier to "evolve into existence" than the original demons.

And maybe one of those conditions was the intake of human flesh and vampire blood...

Well, whatever it is, we're just going to have to work hard on all this by hand.

Not yet, I don't think it's a headache here.

I will continue to seek the Evolution of Being.

And sooner or later... go back.

To humans.

Well, let's get back to talking to Crope.

"So... after that extra bend, Claude, who settled down on Malt, now has to go to the blacksmith competition for what reason, after all?

"... a letter came. Here."

Krope handing me the rough paper.

This was written on it.

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Long time no see, Clope.

Remember me?

You remember about the benefactor who planted the foundation of the blacksmith on the boulder.

That's what I expect. I'm writing a brush.

In retrospect, how many years have passed since you left our workshop...

I can still remember the day you came to our workshop with your eyes shining.

Gradually raise your arms and become a full blacksmith.

And so when you're gone...

All right, when you get older, you can't help being sentimental.

This is not what I wanted to talk about.

More to the point.

You, why don't you compete in the next blacksmith tournament in Wellphia?

You came forward, that's it.

I know you're still a blacksmith.

Sometimes he's got his arms up pretty good.

That's why I'm looking at your arm right now.

Like I said, I'm old, too.

It's time to retire.

I want to see you doing your blacksmith again before then.

Old man's wishes, can't they be fulfilled?

... Oh, and Hazara will also compete in that.

He's a deputy manager now, too.

My arm was over mine a long time ago.

This time, we can give him the workshop manager as a last resort.

I'm sorry to remind you of all this, but now that you and Hazara are grown up, I feel like you're gonna turn it all upside down and wash away the rest of my heart.

So please.

Well, if you didn't feel like it, you have no choice.

Well, I hope so.

From Barzel Staro

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"This is..."

"I got it when I told you to settle in the past. Parental care. You can't just not go."