Ryuugoroshi no Sugosuhibi

Kosuke is coming to Bellassen, where he ended the fake divine commotion and spent only two days relaxing. Wiale is leaving a message to study magic. I have the magic I want to use and I'm learning it in my classroom. I can't use what I want to use right now, but I intend to do something about it later. Ellis is the escort.

I came to Bellassen to make a sword for Kosuke, which had been put on hold because of the disturbance of the false gods.

A strange man's clerk was at the counter when he entered the Chain Martial Arts Store. Maybe he's Clares' cousin.

"Hello, I'd like you to make me a sword."

"Are you in a hurry? If that's the case, I can't."

When asked why, Clares' father, the shopkeeper, is out of town for the use. My father is the only one who can make a sword for sale in this store, and I'm not accepting production requests right now.

"You have a sword that doesn't have to be custom ordered, right?

"No, I wanted you to make something sturdy. I could still use the two bottles I bought before, but I put too much effort into them and they broke."

"Really? You should be back about twenty days away. Do you want to wait?

"I can wait...... are there skilled craftsmen in this city or nearby townships?

"I don't think you have a craftsman comparable to your father. Father, he's the closest artisan in his class, and I wonder if he's Gonghanha, the city of the Fione Empire. Other than the people there, I think I have to leave the continent. That's a condition I know of."

The Fione Empire is a country in the southern part of the continent. It is located in the southwest of the country where there is previously a port of call to make your way to the Perele Islands. The carriage from Bellassen to Gonghanha went well for a month or so.

The size and economy of the country is not particularly large and is no different from that of the Pyreal Kingdom where Yusuke lives. When it comes to characteristics, is forestry as thriving as it is? It exports wood for furniture and charcoal of good quality.

"I wonder if I should go that way. Oh, yes, Mr. Clares, are you there?

"Mr. Clares is out."

"You're still traveling."

"Do you know when you're traveling? I hear you'll be back in two months."

I guess it means Bordos is coming home. I decided to keep Ellis informed.

Thank you and Kosuke leaves the store.

I went home and asked Ellis if she had ever been to Gonghanha. He's never been there, but he seems to have been to Fione himself, and he was supposed to be able to take him.

If you use metastasis and flying magic, it won't take a day, so there's no journey by carriage. It's been about fifteen days since I got back from my trip, and I didn't think I'd take another trip together.

Wiale is leaving a message and Ellis and I head to Gonghanha. About three hours after leaving the house, before 2 p.m., the two arrived in Gonghanha.

The town from the sky is smaller in size than Bellassen. It feels like more than 5,000 people.

Go into town and talk to people on the road to get information. Sounds famous. I quickly found out where the store is. But I also heard stories that made me anxious.

"I didn't know you were dead."

"I don't know if there's a craftsman who can make it."

It seems that the craftsman Yusuke sought died nearly two years ago and that his son and disciples are now cutting up the store. It is the view of the people that they are also artisans in front of one another, but that they do not extend to previous generations.

Clares' cousin didn't know about this because he wasn't an artisan and he wasn't aggressively gathering information.

"Do I have to go?"

"If you can't, you can't go to Cuhan."

A Cuhan is a Cuhan independent city on the continent of Calhoud. It is a city that makes quality iron, and there are mountains nearby where rare ore can be harvested. Craftsmen are gathered in search of them, and some are skilled craftsmen. Ellis is convinced that there are always craftsmen in an active city of blacksmiths who can handle dragon scales.

I should have gone there from the beginning, but I chose this one to increase the number of places I could go on the transfer.

Going down the path you taught me, I saw a store bigger than the Chain Martial Arts store. The sign says Eliana Martial Arts Store.

"Ho."

Stepping into the store, Ellis raises her voice of inspiration. Yusuke remembered the convenience stores and boutiques on Earth.

The store is beautifully separated from weapon protection equipment and is spacious. The martial arts store I've been to has made me feel somewhere crowded, but this one doesn't feel what was there and I feel refined. Five adventurers still take their weapons and look for something that suits them.

However, it seemed to the two of them that the number of customers was low relative to the atmosphere of the store. Maybe it's because I came at that time.

"Excuse me."

"Yes. What can I do for you? We'll show you what you're looking for."

"No, I'd like you to make one sword"

"We need labor, and it's higher than off-the-shelf, okay?

"Yes."

Please wait a moment.

That said, the clerk takes the paperwork from under the counter and tells Yusuke to write it down here.

The content feels like the type of weapon, the person in charge, the shape, the desired weight, the materials used, and the budget.

Talk to Ellis, write in detail, and return to the clerk.

The complexion of the clerk I was reading to confirm the contents gradually changed. I was surprised by the ingredients and the budget.

"Let me check with you. Your name is Dear Koske Watase. The sword is desired and the dominant hand is the right. The shape is a double-edged double-handed sword, the weight may be heavier, the material is dragon scales, and the budget is unspecified. As a complement, ruggedness takes precedence over sharpness. And being of high quality. May I?

"So please"

"Ugh, I accept. I'd like to ask you, just in case, that this request is going to be quite heavy. Specifically, it would easily exceed twenty kilometers."

"It's okay."

The fact that there is no thread on the part called dragon scales or budget makes the clerk think that maybe it is a rich request. I thought it was noble, but I don't care what you think, you two don't look noble. Besides, if it were a request from a nobleman, we would not come to the store, and we would call ourselves, so we decided it would be different.

As far as asking the request, it actually seemed difficult to use and I presumed it was a request as a decoration. I didn't think it was for real life with this weight, and I judged it without asking.

This speculation is a step towards ruin.

"I'd also like to hear from you, can the craftsmen here handle dragon scales?

"Yes! They are all well instructed by their predecessors!

Chest proudly and answer Ellis' questions.

Point to the one-handed sword decorated on the wall that this is proof. I can't tell from just looking at it, so when I let it hold it, I found it to be the best product with a firm center of gravity and a good grip on my hand. It's a substitute that made Ellis feel that way, not so familiar with the sword, and it's a dish that really understands the skill of the maker.

"If I could make this, I wouldn't feel safe."

"How soon can you do it?

"Right...... long and a month. If you could use the 20th as a guide as soon as possible."

"Then I'll be here in a month."

"Yes. I'll be waiting for you. So can I have one gold coin as an upfront payment?

The fact that Happy Success sent out an advance that was not cheap convinced the clerk that it was a request from the rich.

Receiving dragon scales and gold coins, the clerk bows his head. I can't see it from the two of us, but there was a distorted mouth and a greed-stained grin.

I will not accept the request because I am not close to the Bellassen Guild, and Kosuke, who has time to spare, is not.

He was waving a single-handed wooden sword at the garden tip to improve the fighting skills he decided to make when he was fighting a false god. Repeating the basic mould, he did things like shadows that imagined strong men like Genou and Sekratox, using dragon costumes to actually move and find out more. The sword is only growing because of its ability to learn and because of its seriousness. Thanks to this, cutting firewood with a wooden sword is easy to do.

In addition, he was able to develop the most powerful knife throwing method. Instead of false profanity, he decides to teach this to Jerm and Cochia. I thought having the means to attack mid-range would help Jerm in the future.

Wiale asked me to go exorcise the demons several times as well. Not to help people in need, but to improve their status.

Wiale is also self-training to use distortion. It means going out to exorcise demons to find out what it's accomplished, and to be able to use magic that wraps up illusions on its own. The magic you want to use is magic that wraps up illusions. Finally, he studied magic that seemed convenient.

He asked Yusuke to accompany him, and Yusuke nodded pleasantly, saying that the exorcism of the demons might be dangerous by himself.

I didn't need guidance like I was going to Cochia, not to be an adventurer, just to improve my status, so I had no objection to killing demons and raising my status quickly.

Asked Ellis where there were demons stronger than demons around the house, if at all, and he decided to do a stat raise there. I will use the distortion ahead of me, causing my peers to commit suicide from heights, etc. Even in such a battle, power could be absorbed. At the end of the day, we take him to where the violet valve is, and after we split the deer caught in those woods for dinner, we sprinkle them as fishing bait and attract them. Let the violet valves come out and raise their stats. The previous demonic exorcism managed to make the distortion work on the violent valve, and the status increase was successful.

As a result, the ability to be mean E rose to mean D in about ten days. If you look at your abilities alone, you pulled out the cocoa lightly. The illusion magic that was the purpose is also available. The necessary magic power was D, but now Wiale can't deny the feeling of doing a little too much with magic D +.

Because of their lack of mindset and combat experience, you should have a 10% chance of winning if you fight adventurers of the same rank. Although it is a prerequisite not to use distortion. Conversely, using distortion can be unbeatable.

It's a strength that feels like you should fight without distortion and deliver it to your Kokia opponent who has also recently begun to fight demons with a 50% chance of winning.

He spent until the sword could be done that way and came to Gonghanha again a short time before it was a full month. I just get it back, so it won't take me half an hour to stay. That's what I heard. Wiale said she was leaving a message, and she hasn't accompanied me.

"Hello"

"Welcome"

"I made a sword production request a month ago."

"... Oh! Is it Master Watase?

When I nodded, I said wait a minute, and the clerk went into the back of the store.

Less than five minutes later, he came back with two people with crates and one who didn't.

"Thank you for waiting. I am the owner of our store. Thank you very much for using our store this time. This is your order."

Confirm and give instructions to open the crate lid.

The contents are black gold long swords with little decoration. It is not in the sheath and the blade is uneven, slightly more than a meter long from the pattern to the tip of the sword, and the belly of the sword is wider than the normal sword.

"Would you like more information?

"Can you just tell me what's so easy about it?

"Is it a characteristic… it weighs more than thirty kilograms because it asked for sturdiness as ordered. Exceeded the normal sword weight, but sturdy for that matter comes with origami"

"At what cost?

"How about skipping the details and three flash coins to thank you for touching a rare thing called dragon scales?

"Isn't that cheap? I asked for something of high quality, and I thought I was putting two or three more on it."

"Oh, that's right. By purchasing quality ore cheaper on our own route, we were able to offer it cheaper than other stores."

Explain to Ellis quickly in a hurried tone. Ellis suspects such a shopkeeper.

"... right"

Yusuke sends out flash money and gives it to the store owner.

"Thank you. If you have a carriage or an offering, I'll carry you there?

"Before you do that, why don't you try and kill Kosuke?

"Fine?

"Tried out, is it?

The shopkeepers look at Ellis with unexpected expressions.

"If this is an armoury store as well, there's probably an exercise area to see how the weapons are doing, right?

"Yes, but I use it with this"

"You think I can't have it? Yusuke, show him."

The clerks look at Yusuke, who took it out of the crate with one hand, with a surprising look. You don't have a slightly heavy look on the weight of each child, you'd be surprised.

"How's it weighing?

"I'm familiar with it better than the one I used before, but it's a little heavier"

The clerks threw up the same line in their hearts when they found out that the sword they thought was for decoration was actually used. Ellis and Kosuke don't miss that look.

Ellis stops Yusuke, who moved to the exercise area and tried to stand in front of a straw bundle of dolls.

"I want to know how sturdy it is. You can't tell by such a bunch of straw. Bring me a doll in metal armor."

"No, that"

"You don't?

There's a doll in the armor of a failure, but with it, you could find out you don't want to be known.

"... No, I do"

After seeing the owner, the clerk brings an iron doll from the warehouse. The shopkeeper had a dry grin.

While the clerk is preparing, Yusuke, who was barebacking, is tilting his neck. That's because I felt uncomfortable with the sword. The cause is a strange balance. Weight adjustment is not possible. It doesn't mean you're neglecting to lighten up. It was Yusuke who told me to get heavy, and I have no complaints about heavy things. Should I say that the center of gravity is not in the right position, or that it is made without shaking and thinking about using it? I can't compare it to the one-handed sword that was decorated. It is rude of itself to compare. I thought it was for decoration, so I can't help but ignore the fact that it's made there.

"... ready"

"Is this iron?

"Yes."

Yusuke stands in front of the doll.

"Wait a minute, please"

The shop owner stops Yusuke, who waved his sword.

"What is it?

I wanted to say, "I'm not going to cover you if your sword breaks."

It gives the look of what everyone on the spot is saying.

One of the materials used for this sword is the dragon scale, and past records show that the hardness of the sword exceeds iron.

Yet that statement is like acknowledging it as equivalent to iron. It can't be the same as iron. It's like yelling at me to be suspicious.

Not knowing how to react, Kosuke sees Ellis. I waved down my sword, under the gaze of 'Do it, don't mind'.

Kosuke did not use the technique he had worked out for the act. It's to know the sturdiness of the sword, so I knew there was no point in slashing iron with technology.

Cancer The sound of metal bumping into each other echoes around. The result is that the sword crushes and slashes the metal part of the doll and stops around the torso. I was cutting iron just by force and weight. There was a price for it, and the blade that came into contact with the armor was crushed, too, by the sword.

"Again? You didn't use dragon scales, did you?

"I used it?

See? The store owner glances at the clerk, and the clerks nod even as he shows a slightly confused appearance.

"Well, you said you used it? You used it to have a sword to beat the iron?"

"If this turned out to be the case, wasn't the scales fake? Dragon scales should be precious items, fakes, and some use them for fraud. You don't have to blame us for being deceived."

I guess we're going to push ourselves off if it's not bad. I didn't show any haste or confusion, and said it off with a little sooner and stronger tone.

"Fake."

"I'm sure I'll think about it based on the results."

"I still have more than ten in the house, but that all means it's fake, don't you think?

"Well, that's what happens."

The shopkeeper's feelings waver at Ellis' words. As I said earlier, dragon scales are precious. Only one, even if you have it, and the scales of the dragon that prove it are not already in the other party's hands. Even if it was real, he thought there was no way to prove it was more real than without one of them, and he was so strong.

"Then why don't we take it from the house and have it appraised, to a Merchant Guild person. Of course you're coming with me."

"If the scale is fake, it has nothing to do with us, right?

"He put on a false claim and sold a sword he couldn't do. Isn't that irrelevant?

"Huh!?

The store owner gets stuck without saying back.

That's when one of the young clerks opens his mouth with a big sigh of sigh.

"You should give up, Mr. Pflune"

"What!?

"If we stay like this, we have to mess with the worst stores. I don't know. It's not you."

"Shut up! It wasn't decided yet! You just have to admit these guys were fake!

If you are impotent, everyone will look frightened.

Obviously, I was given something that I could tell was crude, and I don't like Kosuke enough to pull it off. Not to mention Ellis won't have sympathy for any reason.

"I have no choice, let it stop. It's the tide."

That said, the clerk takes a piece of paper out of his nostalgia and spreads it.

At the top of the paper it was written in large letters as a forced closing letter. This is an order issued by the Merchant Alliance to the store in question, and the store that is a member of the Alliance is obliged to follow it. It says it's closed, but actually it's not closing the store, it's a temporary shutdown order.

"Oh, what's that!? Why you? No way......"

"I originally stayed as a spy to keep an eye on you."

"Again!? You Gatork bastard!

Leaving Yusuke and the clerks alone, the conversation proceeds.

In the meantime, the two of you listen to the conversation in silence that if you were listening, you would know roughly what was going on.

Their conversation allowed me to grasp the general situation.

The shopkeeper was the son of an amazing artisan of his predecessors, and the shopkeeper himself was an artisan. But the arms were not first-rate. I was admitted to serving by my father, but I knew myself that I was unlikely to be top notch like my father. To be honest, I was more interested in management than in making martial arts. When I told my father that, he came back asking me to do what I wanted, and I started learning how to run a business. You had more talent there than the craftsmen, and you swallowed your know-how faster. Then he joined the management and started moving the store.

Children were comparable when they had famous parents, and shopkeepers were also compared to their parents. I wasn't dissatisfied with that. I know very well that my father is amazing as an artisan, and it was pride that made me jealous. Still, if you keep being compared again and again, there's something that builds up in your mind. You only ever get to think that you'll accomplish something your father can't beat and you'll do it like you can't compare.

As an artisan, I can't win. The idea was to make the store bigger if we could win. The store at the time was different from the present and not a big one. Even though it is famous, it is sometimes crowded in the store, and I thought it would not be a good store on the customer side. I thought it would be acceptable if we made this store more user-friendly and gained more customers.

From that day on, shopkeepers will encourage things like reducing expenses, organizing stores, and preparing under renovation. Thanks to this, the number of customers coming to the store increased more than before, as did their income.

That's how the moon flowed and my father died, and the shopkeeper who inherited the store was keen to grow the store unchanged. But gradually the customer's legs went away. That's because my predecessors died and I couldn't get the highest quality weaponry. There was no artisan among his disciples who could catch up with his predecessors.

Store owners go further encouraging and rampant in an attempt to regain their income with their reduced customers. For this reason, crude materials were used, craftsmen put out unsatisfactory finished products to the store, and products were sold with advertising complaints above their original quality, which made it a situation for disgusted craftsmen to leave. All that's left now are those shopkeepers blackmailing or agreeing to make money.

A person named Gatork also left, but also persuaded the shopkeeper to persevere. After several discussions, Gaetok realized it was futile to watch the end of the store for one of his own disciples, and told the merchant guild to snitch if the shopkeeper was to expose himself to any more ugliness, leaving for another city. That was about six months ago.

The disciple moved as he could tell and executed what he had been discussing beforehand with the Merchant Guild, thinking that he could no longer do about this one. It was also possible that the disposition would be lighter with today's attitude, but the possibility was crushed because the store manager did not see the colour of reflection.

The artisans who left Gatork didn't immediately inform the Merchant Guild because they spared the store crumbling. I respected my predecessors, and thought that if the store crumbled, my predecessors' names would also fall, and I couldn't let them know.

"Is it over?"

Looks like he lost his strength from his body, and the shopkeeper comes to the spot. I was going to sell scales, earn extraordinary income, and use them to buy abundant materials to make items for the martial arts review that would take place on the continent of Calhoud. I was hoping that if we got high praise there, we'd have customers again.

"I'm sorry where I'm desperate, but what happened to the dragon scales?

"I sold it."

The store clerk who received the dragon scales told me that if I made it sturdy for decorative swords, I wouldn't actually use it for battle, so I didn't know if I was using scales, so I nodded and sold it.

"So shall I get the money I sold and the nuisance fee, or do I also need a stopping fee?

The shopkeeper looks at Ellis with angry eyes. Ellis laughs at it with her nose.

"What are you angry about, naturally. I didn't make what we asked for, I was given a defect, and the material I provided was stolen. If you can't give it back, pay for it."

"I have no such money. It's all gone to material costs."

"Then borrow from the Merchant Alliance."

Cold enough. Whatever the circumstances, I was not at all sympathetic.

Kosuke, who had never seen Ellis like this before, was trying not to piss him off while he thought it was fresh. Even as Kosuke, I have no sympathy. They bought a defect, and if it broke in the battle, it might have mattered. No, for the most part, it won't be as pinchy as it broke. That's not why I can forgive you.

"If you sell what's in the store and what's in the store, you can handle it."

A clerk named Spy pinches his mouth.

"Can you sell the store, etc!

It's a lifestyle for shopkeepers, selling is out of the question.

"I can't do that either, I can't do this either. Don't be ridiculous, okay? If you wanted to protect the store, you should have done something to discredit the store. That's what you did to scare Mr. Gaetok and make him kick out, so you lose what you wanted to protect."

"What do you know!

"I don't know what's going on with you! I'm not even willing to know! There are so many people in the world, all of them have their own circumstances. Don't think you're the only one special!

There must have been some circumstance with the man who did the spying. I was able to make the line feel convincing because I got over it.

I guess the store owner also felt what was put into the words, without saying anything back.

The bystander, Yusuke, was applauding in his heart.

Store owners' perceptions keep the conversation moving. The store was closed, and Yusuke and the others were to receive a return of the money they sold the dragon scales and the money they paid and a nuisance fee. The dragon scales were no longer in the city and had gone missing, so it was a payoff with money.

The merchants' guild did not miss out and punished the clerks who were disguised as irrelevant to prevent harm from happening to them. Those who cooperated rather than praise the storekeeper's rampage, they deserved it. Those who were being blackmailed had room for sympathy and lighter punishment.

The merchants' guild allowed the stores to survive if the people who left were to do business. But those who went out shook their heads beside each other. I couldn't protect him, I abandoned him. Nobody came home alone that I couldn't go back now. This brought the Eliana Martial Arts Store to an end of a short history.

"" I'm home ""

"Welcome back. It's too late to just take the sword, isn't it?

Wiale tilted her neck when she saw the two of them back when it was time to go to bed. Because he didn't look like he had a sword. Ask what happened to the sword.

Tell me the circumstances and tell me that you couldn't get the sword.

"So I guess I'll be asking you tomorrow in Bellassen."

"That happened. You didn't follow me."

"Really."

Was this bad luck carried over until the next day, when the owner of the Cheyne Martial Arts store was out again and made a mistake. With an undetermined state of when I'll be back, maybe tomorrow or maybe ten days from now.

I could have waited, but I went to Cuhan because it meant more places to go.

"That's why we're going to Cuhan. What will Wiale do?

"Right...... if you're staying over there I guess I'll come with you"

"I know it might be late, but I don't think we're staying, okay? I don't think there's going to be another happening."

"Then I'll be leaving you another message. I think I'll be able to do some rain shelter magic soon."

"Hmm? How far have you been?

While the two of them talk about magic, Kosuke starts preparing for a late dinner. Wiale was making it, so I'm glad I just rewarmed it.

And the next day, they came to Cuhan Independent City with two transfers. First, Yusuke moved from the house to the resortic marg where the martial arts tournament took place, from where Ellis moved to Cuhan. Ellis' prowess was just a little short of a transfer distance to travel in one go. From now on, if Yusuke is in the condition of using dragon costumes, he will be able to come and go.

Cuhan is a robust city surrounded by about five metres of stone walls around the city. Every part of the wall is also made of guard guards, and we know very well that we are investing in protection. Five hundred meters away around the city there are also a number of watchhouses and bandits, constantly watching the movements of demons and bandits.

There are more than twenty guards at the southeast entrance at all times, and if you want to cause trouble, you can immediately be quelled by the soldiers. Guards are also commonly seen all over the city, glaring all over the place.

We felt a breeze that we would only name ourselves an independent city and protect ourselves.

"Looking for the best blacksmith in the city."

"Well, if you can handle dragon scales, even if they're not the best, and you can trust them, you can do that."

"It is. Let's just go to the guild and gather information."

The Alliance made it easy to get top ranked blacksmiths taught. But I also found out that I don't know if I can get my order. That's what the Eliana store owner also said about the proximity of the review meeting, and the blacksmith won't be able to afford to take the order because he'll be focusing on creating the weapons to put it out.

"You're in trouble."

"If I go and they say no, I'll ask if I can make an appointment even after the review."

"I like that."

It's called the Waray Door Workshop. I don't run a martial arts store there, and I do business like wholesale it to other stores I have contracted, take orders and make it. You don't have to be eager to attract customers because your arms are good and what you make is expensive to sell.

"Hello -"

Speaking from the entrance, there is no response. On the contrary, if you're busy for a quality review, you should be annoyed by the sound of hitting metal, etc., but you're very quiet and can't feel the enthusiasm.

Just in case and speaking again, someone came from the back.

"Can I help you?

A woman in the middle of forty, with a dark vibe somewhere.

"I'd like you to make me a sword."

"Sorry, I'm not getting my order right now"

"I knew you were busy making weapons for the quality review. I don't care if it's after the review."

"... I didn't even create a weapon for the review, not in a state where I could make something"

"Is something wrong?

A dark expression stains my grief.

"Oh, if you don't want to tell me, you don't have to. We're outsiders. We don't want to get in. Koske, let's go to another store."

"Yeah."

"... I'm sorry you're here because of me"

"You don't have to worry about it. I hope the problem is resolved soon."

"Thank you"

The woman drops you off, and you two leave the workshop.

Next, I went to a place called Obowatt Workshop, where I didn't receive any current orders, but I did accept orders after the review.

"The order is a long sword, isn't it? No matter how much it costs, be sturdy anyway. It weighs up to fifty kilos okay...... eh are you serious?

"It's true. Why don't we lift something up?

"Then I'd like a box there, please. There must be a little over forty kilometers."

A clerk named Irenos points to a box with a lot of knives.

"Nice."

Yusuke grabs the edge of the box and lifts it gently with one hand.

"Whoa. Sounds true. You can also use ingredients that you don't normally use, and you're going to have a sturdy sword. Craftsmen will rejoice when they have arms."

"You can count on that. So, I'd like you to use this as an ingredient for the sword you make."

Get the dragon scales you were bringing out on the table.

Irenos, with that strange look on his face, gets permission from Ellis and takes it in his hand. It turns into a look of surprise as it tries to touch, bend, or illuminate the light.

Ask with a slightly trembling voice if there is a conclusion out of your own knowledge.

"Maybe it's a dragon scale?

"Exactly."

"I've never seen the real one"

Exhale and lean against the back of the chair. Soon he becomes a serious face and stretches his spine.

"Sorry, I'm going to have to cancel this order"

"May I ask why?

"Our specialty is protective equipment. You can make something that you can call a first-class weapon. And it's possible if they tell you to use this to make protective equipment. But I can't have a weapon. Even if you use this to make it, you just make things that haven't been able to bring out all the ingredients' flavors. We cannot afford to be proud to give such things to our guests."

From Irenos, who said he couldn't do what he couldn't, he felt he had a firm belief.

"Well, then could you introduce me to a weapon maker who can use this? I don't have much, but I'll pay you back."

"I don't want to thank you. Because I decided to say no because of this lack of power. Only two artisans in this city are likely to be able to handle dragon scales. One of us is better at striking weapons than blades, so the only person who can fulfill your wishes will be the Waray Door Workshop. But now there..."

I guess it's hard to say beyond that, I mumbled without saying until the end.

"You went there once. I came here because I couldn't do it."

"Was it"

"Can I ask what happened?

Show Yusuke a little thought in his words.

"... as many of my peers know, you'll get it in your ear someday, and it'll be the same here to talk about it. Mr. Walleidore Workshop makes weapons with his parents and children and two apprentices. It was fifteen days ago. Two of your sons and disciples went to the nearby mountains to pick up the ore. For materials used for weapons for quality reviews. That's where your son fell off the cliff. Rescue was not possible with only the disciples I followed, and after telling those who were at the foot what had happened, I went back to the city and hired the adventurers to hurry to the rescue. But although there were falling marks under the cliff, there was no sign of your son. I didn't look like I bled out, so I searched around to see if I'd gone down the mountain alone, but I never found it. Since then, I've been throwing out my work and looking around the mountains."

"You don't take orders for those reasons, do you? Is that mountain big?

"Pretty much something like that. There are no demons that are too strong, and we know what to do, so it's possible to get in without being an adventurer."

"... good arm, close to a review meeting. I guess some rivals want to stop you from competing."

When he heard Ellis whispering, Irenos nodded. I asked if it was an accident, not an accident.

"I think that's possible, too. Thinking on that line, a city guard interviewed one of the suspected disciples about the situation. Neither had I met the suspicious before I went to the mountains, and the result was Shilo. I heard about it, too, but I felt like I was hiding something. The accident scene is not a place to fall by mistake. That seems to be the same for the guards, or they're keeping an eye on their disciples."

"Aren't we supposed to talk about that kind of information?

"I guess. I talked to him for a reason. I'd like to ask you both to search for you, Bahar. That's what we're here for."

"Ask the adventurer you met by chance to rescue the son of an approximate workshop?

Sasuke tilted her neck to see if it would be strange.

"I speculated from having a dragon scale, the strength of the power I was shown earlier, and the financial power to be a powerful adventurer. If we solve the case, the Waray Door Workshop will also be motivated to accept the order. There's no harm in that, is there?

Return only half the answers to Kosuke's questions. It doesn't answer the second half of the question.

"Assuming you have strength, do you have reason to bother asking those adventurers?

"I just hope you're lost, but if you were kidnapped and imprisoned, you wouldn't be able to get it back safely on those adventurers, would you?

Doubtful, but in a tone that sounds as if you're sure. I guess I have a strong feeling it's not an accident, it's a case.

"In that mouthful, is there any certainty?

"There isn't. But the possibilities are not zero. It is certain that the Waray Door Workshop has been highly regarded at past product reviews and that there are those who are in the way. We believe there's something hidden about your apprentice."

"I don't feel comfortable, but how's Koske?

Ellis, who has something in her being as a parent, doesn't feel comfortable doing things that make her parents happy.

"I wonder if I'd be willing to take it on if they told me to look for it for months."

"I'm going to expire with twenty days about that. If you are missing due to a quality review entanglement, I think you will be back when the reception for the quality review is over. I'm asking you because it could kill me if I'm used."

"Twenty days? Then I guess I could do it."

I thought if I found my son, he would sell me a favor and build me a sword with a temper.

Besides, this city is one of the most active blacksmiths in the world. If there are still few craftsmen here who can handle dragon scales, you should consider that they are rarely found anywhere else. Given the hassle of looking for it, you should be able to ask for it here. I know that, so Ellis hasn't shown a complete rejection either.

"If Koske is going to take it on, can you help? Can you tell me about that workshop buying grudges or something like that?

"You can take it, right? Thank you."

Irenos will share all the information Irenos knows, such as the scene of the accident and rival stores and dissatisfied people at the Waray Door Workshop.

The name of the missing person is Bahar. Twenty-one years old, the blacksmith's arm is still developing. He told his surroundings that he dreamed of catching up with his father. He said that he had many times gone out to other workshops to see the work of various people, not just of his father. Sometimes he left Cuhan and went to other villages and towns to see the work.

"I want to ask you one last time. What's your relationship to the Waray Door Workshop? That's not where unrelated people go, is it?

"What's the store owner negative over there? He was my cousin, and he was a competitor. Even when it comes to competitors, I'm not as an artisan, I'm more in love. Sometimes I want my relatives to be safe, but sometimes I want my former thinker, Yussil, to feel better."

It wasn't sneaky to see how someone I used to fall in love with was sinking, but I wanted to do something about it and gathered information.

The two convinced by that get out of the workshop. Keep going. The two head to the scene of the accident. I wanted to see what was going on with my own eyes. Yusuke remembers the word "scene a hundred times," and thinks there may be something to discover.