Chapter 549 – IF I Am Alone in Another World 35

As she proudly said herself, Akrina was a first-class craftsman.

“Hehe, sir. Are there any inconvenient places?”

“… “I want to know the secret that Lastina was trying to hide.”

“Ah! “I will let you know right away!”

However, there was no pride worthy of her skills. Akrina said, rubbing her hands together politely as if her slave was treating her master.

“Lastina said the customer felt as if he was looking at a sword!”

“Sword?”

“Yeah-! He said he couldn’t handle a sword, so he couldn’t give him his sword. “I said so!”

She moved her mouth and hands without stopping even for a moment. It was amazing how she cut her clothes without making a single mistake while talking like that.

Soon after, Akrina, who had finished her clothes, motioned to her dojin to make a move. After lifting her up and moving her body around, Do-jin let out an exclamation of admiration when she saw the gi that had been completed just as she had ordered.

“It’s good…” … “Does this really block monster attacks?”

“Would you like to check?”

Akrina said and brandished her cutting scissors. The magic scissors, designed to easily cut through her thick leather, grazed Dojin’s side, but the blade did not pierce her gi.

It was amazing what kind of magic was used on a subject that had been cut in small chunks when making clothes.

She said, “I finished the clothes and received the money. “Sir, if I don’t have any further requests, would you please leave?”

“… “One more thing.”

“If it’s about Lastina, won’t you tell me more? “This is my store, not his store.”

“Lastina is okay. Because what I’m curious about is you. … “Why on earth are you so kind, unlike other dwarves?”

After hearing Dojin’s question, Akrina paused for a moment and looked at her Dojin. The look in her eyes as if she never imagined she would hear such a question.

After taking a moment to gather her thoughts, Akrina explained why she was friendly to her guests, unlike other artisans.

“—Because I lack talent.”

“… “What?”

“Lastina and other craftsmen who have been doing this for decades arrogantly only accept customers, and when they are bored, they just lock themselves in the workshop and hammer away… “I can’t do that, right?”

Akrina recalled the wonders shown by Rastina, her close friend and rival.

A magical technique that creates a weapon with a performance of 10 from materials with a performance of 1.

For Akrina, who has always been limited in her ability to perform as well as the material, she has dexterity that cannot be imitated in her life.

“All I can do is to maximize the performance of the ingredients brought by customers. So, in order for me to grow… “The customer who brings better ingredients is important, not who that customer is.”

A genius in the sky like Lastina. So, geniuses who use their skills to overcome the limitations of materials they were born with are extremely arrogant.

No matter what ingredients the other person brings, you can overcome the limitations with your own skills, so you can choose your guests without being swayed by the ingredients.

But Acrina couldn’t do that. Her limit was making clothes with a performance of 10 using materials of 10, so she needed better materials to grow.

When geniuses jumped up ten or twenty steps, she could only silently climb one step at a time.

“Well, I am also a craftsman who has been called a genius.”

Since ancient times, talent is a relative thing.

Regardless of whether Akrina grew up being called a genius, her arrogance was bound to fade as she was naturally confident when there were even more geniuses around her.

That was the reason why Akrina did not discriminate among her guests.

After hearing her true intentions, Do-jin nodded her head as if he fully understood. She, too, lived a daily life with an insurmountable genius residing among those closest to her, so she could understand Akrina’s feelings better than anyone else.

“Now, sir. Could you please leave now? “I also have to clean up after myself, buy some supplies, and there’s a mountain of work to do, right?”

Ak Rina said and gestured towards her Dojin. Do-jin carefully left the store as he was waving his hands as if telling him to leave quickly.

Even at the moment of leaving the store, Acrina’s words did not leave Dojin’s mind.

They are the same people I met when I came to this world. Don’t you want to support that dream and future?

‘… ‘I have no talent.’

Coincidentally, Dojin had a superpower that surpassed his talent. An ability that is like a grace that creates talents that do not exist.

Although there remained whether Acrina would meekly accept that ability…

‘If you want.’

Dojin was able to bestow her grace on her.

* * *

Dojin, who acquired a new uniform and a temporary weapon, climbed to the 40th floor again with his party members.

He felt it every time, but the monster’s level jumped significantly every five layers. It seems like I’m going over a ‘wall’.

The monster that crossed the 8th wall was a monster comparable to a hand-made modern tank or fighter plane. The blow was as violent as a tank shell, and its speed was such that the eye could not easily catch it.

However.

“Don’t make that mistake twice.”

“I know.”

Those who hunted such monsters were also superhumans who surpassed human limitations. Adventurer. Those who make it their business to hunt monsters.

Dojin is a first-class adventurer who belongs to the top 0.1% of such adventurers. In other words, it was a monster covered in human skin.

─Kwaaaaannanncastle~!

“It’s noisy. “My ears are going to fall off.”

A roar so strong that it makes the dungeon scream. Facing the roaring monster, Dojin smiled and ran in front of her.

As a monster, the 40th tier ogre with reflexes superior to those of beasts never missed Dojin, but Dojin was not alone.

“Spirit-.”

“Strike down, thunderbolt.”

Hehe-?

Orion’s spirit and Ryze’s magic hit the ogre’s face. The thick-skinned ogre lightly ignored the attack due to the monster’s unique toughness, but was unable to prevent its vision from being obscured for a moment.

It was when I noticed that his back heel was tingling that I noticed Do-jin, who had been lost from sight.

─Cow wow-!

“It seems like the power is ridiculously strong… “If it doesn’t work out in the end, isn’t it meaningless?”

Dojin, who had already gone behind the ogre, muttered as he cut off his Achilles tendon. The moment the ogre flexed his muscles, indignant at being attacked by a human who was less than half his size, Sayoung, who had been waiting for him to get angry, rushed over and scratched his skin.

The sword that cuts through his raw flesh cuts the ogre’s skin sharply. The exposed blood vessels under his skin were very swollen from excitement, and it was easy to cut them out as they were visible.

─Ugaaaaagh-!

Pushyuyuyut-!

As the swollen blood vessels were cut, the blood circulating throughout the ogre’s body began to spurt out with a fierce force.

Even for a monster, the amount of bleeding is dangerous. The Ogre’s solution was simple. Ignorantly inflating and compressing the muscles.

As an ogre famous for its strength, this was not that difficult. However, because he was so concerned about the bleeding, he couldn’t even pay attention to the fact that the people who caused him the bleeding were nearby.

“A monster is a monster.”

─Crook-!?

“As strength increases, does intelligence decrease?”

Only then did the ogre discover Dojin, a moment faster than he stretched out his hand.

Dojin’s sword cut through the ogre’s entire body.

It was meaningless to block it with muscles, and the blade penetrated through the texture of the muscles and cut down the ogre’s entire body without any resistance.

And so, geari-.

Kuuuuung-!

“Revenge, complete.”

My neck drops.

Dojin, who saw the ogre’s head rolling on the floor, clicked his tongue as he looked at the knife with the tattered blade.

I bought a mass-produced version from any store, but—how can it be that it gets damaged like this after just one monster?

It was true that monsters of this class were worth money, but if you had to change weapons like this every time you hunted, you wouldn’t be able to cover the cost.

‘Be sure to change your weapon…’

Dojin collected the ogre’s magic stone rolling on the floor and returned to the group. The reason I gathered the group was none other than to check their skills.

Is it really safe to go to the 40th floor? The task of checking whether the last incident was truly a mistake caused by carelessness.

Fortunately, what happened last time turned out to be an accident caused by negligence.

“With this, I knew I could hunt without difficulty even on the 40th floor.”

“Then what do you do? That’s what happened to the weapon.”

“What is this… “It’s a temporary weapon.”

“I’m sorry, Leader. I just need to convince you…”

“It’s okay. Because I also have thoughts.”

However, today I could not continue hunting on the 40th floor. This is because there were not that many weapons brought.

So the party went down a few levels and continued hunting there. This is because it was common knowledge among adventurers that it was more profitable to catch dozens of monsters that could be overfished rather than one or two monsters that could be hunted.

Now I needed money. Even if we succeed in persuading Lastina, in the current situation, we don’t know how much material or money she will ask for…

‘You can’t sell a sword to a sword…’ …’

And above all.

It wasn’t that I had no idea what Lastina was talking about.

Dojin was confident that he could persuade Lastina.

A few days passed like that.

Lastina closed and opened her store.