Sword of Glutton Princess

Episode Seven: Blacksmith Mani

Having taken off the Battle Mouse Hive, I walked through the woods, swallowed water in the river, washed my dirty clothes and hung them in a tree.

Dressed in his raw clothes, he also stopped to visit the village near the Battle Mouse Nest.

According to the village people, Gilbard and Morgan came three days ago.

Looks like those guys were stopping by on their way home, too.

At that time, he said, 'The man who was with me was killed by a war rat,' and when he saw me, he was terribly surprised.

How dare you tell me.

I thought I'd tell you what he did, but this time I decided to keep my mouth shut.

Because of the small amount of money held together, the villagers were asked to buy out the fighting bones used for Gilbard's spare magic sword for 20,000 temis.

Cities would have sold for double the value, but I can't help it.

If it's true, they don't need to fight bones.

There is no craftsman in this village who can build a magic conductor.

No matter what kind of bone fighting is bought, it just takes a lot of work to redeem it.

But when he saw my situation, he had no choice but to replace it with gold.

Plus when I thought I was selling Gilbard's weapon for a low price, I just felt a little clearer.

However, the Demon Nucleus decided to sell it when they returned to the city.

I was able to buy clothes and procure food with the money I got from selling bone fighting.

I also bought a cloth from a villager to hide the demonic nucleus of Belzevute.

Since there was no luggage on the way home and I was alone, I decided to go home on foot without using the carriage.

It took me two days to get back to the city of Romaburg, which is the foundation of my life and a guild of adventurers.

When I left, I decided to visit my best friend Mani, who lives first in the depths of the city's Romaburg slum.

Mani has Gaven, dubbed the legendary blacksmith, for her grandfather, and her house has made the blacksmith a business for generations.

"You're worried about me because you must be about Mani. I know the Adventurers Guild, but when they hear I'm dead, they'll only think I'm dead."

While I was concerned about my surrounding eyes, I called out to Belzevute's demonic nucleus, which I hid in my cloth bag.

"Is there only a blacksmith daughter in the Glades who worries me even if she dies? I don't have the color. The concubine wanted to go somewhere a little more glamorous. '

He says rude things to me.

... But Belzevute, for the Great Devil, talks to me personally for a long time.

The demons that come out of the inheritance were all brutal, irresponsible, like they only thought of humans as toys.

Are you trying to trick me into using me?

No, I can't even move properly on my own, maybe it's something I intend to do in view of myself.

"I wish it were anywhere compared to under the dirt. Dean, I'm more interested in doing this with your best friend. But now the concubine is without hands or feet. Don't leave your concubine alone too much and make me feel lonely, okay?

... Maybe I just missed my conversationalist while I was simply living under the earth for a hundred years.

But why are such family members living in ghettos?

"Legendary blacksmith Gaven seems to have been a hell of a gambling lunatic"

For Mani's father's sake, his wealth, which was supposed to have been enormous, was already gone, and he moved to this slum and worked fine as a blacksmith.

"Has your eyes dazzled by greed ruined you? Well, that's not unusual. '

The blacksmith conductor in Mani's possession seems to be quite something, but the consumables can't be properly aligned and it's the best they can do just to maintain it.

She also uses her mineral knowledge and smelting magic (Alchemy) more than a blacksmith, and as a miner diving into the Demonic Labyrinth is the main business.

Since Mani has the expertise, there are not many opportunities to be blatantly underestimated like me as a haulier, to be rewarded, or to find life difficult without finding a job.

But I'm living a life that's not so different from me just because I'm not the worst handled.

"Here we are, here we are"

The door of Mani's blacksmith was stretched with a board marked 'Closed'.

They heard things, so it's not like there's no one in there.

I was set next to the door, ringing the call bell.

"... I'm sorry you've come all this way, but I'm going to be closed for a while. Now I don't feel like waving a hammer..."

Mani's voice returns.

"It's me, it's Dean. Can I come in?

"Di, Dean!? You were alive!

The door opens vigorously and a brunette appears with a red bandana wrapped around her head.

The woman shifted the goggles she was wearing to her forehead, blinking her big cat's eye.

She is the mani. Mani is one above me, eighteen years old.

I had him inside the blacksmith and told him about what happened in The War Rat's Nest.

"... even though it was still a shallow hierarchy, there was a massive infiltration of the war mouse Moose. I managed to jump into a narrow tunnel and get out of the Battlerat's Nest over the course of days. I had a really bad eye."

"I'm so glad... I checked with the Adventurer Alliance because Dean didn't show up at all. I was wondering if Dean was really dead because he had a death report."

Mani exhales deeply in relief.

Tears leak from her eyes.

She wiped it with her own fingers if she smiled bitterly.

"... worse than that. Mani hit me with the" Poor Blade Popo, "but I dropped it when I ran away from the" War Rat's Nest. "

That demon guide sword is something I managed to collect for fighting bones and demon nuclei, but the preparation of other materials, including metal, and the cost of work, were done by Mani free of charge.

"It was a life-threatening thing, so don't worry about that. But you're in trouble for not having a magic sword..."

Yes, even that "Blade Popo of the Poor" will slightly exceed 100,000 temis if combined with other materials to prepare the fighting bones and demon nuclei.

Even if you lose your mana lamp and collection tools, and you can no longer receive your rewards from Gilbard, it's not something you can easily prepare.

There's nothing you can't carry without a magic guide sword, and if it's just a mana lamp and a collection tool, you can manage to get it all together, but the treatment will be even worse than usual.

"... Actually, I need to talk to you. I'm not the only one who's crossed the Battle Mouse Hive."

I opened the cloth in my hand and removed the demon nucleus of Belzevute from inside.

"This is the Demon Nucleus...? You're so beautiful. It doesn't look like it's lined up... but can I touch it for a second?

Mani reaches out softly.

"Well, I thought you were going to keep your mouth shut about the concubine."

The demonic nucleus of Belzevute emits thought.

Mani stopped frightening and opened his eyes.