Chapter 289 – Greatsword Management

After parting ways with senior Hwayoung at the station near the hotel, I quickly moved to the outskirts of Gangdong-gu.

If you walk straight down this street and enter the alley on the right, you will see a villa where Mina and her younger siblings live, but the main purpose of the day was not to meet them.

There were other places to visit around here besides Mina’s semi-basement villa, so she only stopped by.

If meeting Mina was her goal in the first place, it would be much more likely for her to go to the company. Because he was like a livestock who consumed more than half of her life at the company.

As I walked along the road, which would take about 30 minutes if I walked slowly, the surrounding scenery that I had engraved in my memory began to come into my eyes.

After walking for 30 minutes like that, I saw a familiar sign that I had seen about three days ago.

“Flame of Creation”

Fortunately, the store seems to be open.

Before entering the store, I hid myself in the side alley for a while and took out some preparations to enter from the pocket of the subspace.

First of all, an unknown mask was essential, and the rest was a spear with only a Damascus steel greatsword and a spear blade left.

Monster material pouches and subspace pouches look similar in purpose, but are slightly different.

Unlike monster material pockets that can only store monster cores or monster-related materials, subspace pockets containing all kinds of objects were unfamiliar to the general public.

So, if you openly pretend to take a weapon such as a sword or spear out of a monster material pocket, you will probably get suspicious in many ways.

With that thought in mind, I finished all my preparations before entering the store and walked into the store with the words “Flame of Creation” Written on it.

“…”

The store door was open, but the owner was clearly lacking a sense of crisis in many ways, seeing as he calmly left the counter empty.

What if someone steals something after leaving it defenseless like this?

Thinking that it would be my own store, I turned my gaze to the call bell above the cash register.

「Press it when the shopkeeper is out of business!」

Even though she had only met her once, a smile leaked from her handwriting to the note that exuded her own atmosphere.

As soon as I pressed the call bell on the counter, a clear ding rang from inside the workshop, and soon after, a familiar voice returned from beyond the door.

“Yeah. Get out now!”

There were several bustling sounds from the back of the door, such as putting something down and moving it, and soon after, the door to the workshop opened, and Ah-reum with rich brown hair jumped out.

“Who are you… Oh, sister!”

“Long time no see, beautiful.”

“I’ve been waiting for you thinking you’re coming today! You’ve been full since morning!”

As if she had just been working on her, her clothes and face smeared with soot, she ran noisily with a happy expression on her face.

Should I say that he is innocent enough for his age?

In terms of absolute years, he was much older than me, but by half-dwarf standards, he was in his twenties anyway.

I didn’t find such a bright and lively personality strange. ‘Cause I’m not a racist

Well, maybe it’s because the only dwarf I know is Ahrum, a half-dwarf, so I got this impression.

“Oh right. Sister, did you come to find a sword? Just wait a little bit, I’ll bring it right away.”

“You can do it slowly.”

“I got it, I got it. I’ll bring it right away.”

Perhaps she understood what I said to do slowly, but as soon as she said hello to me, she quickly moved into the workshop.

Soon, I returned with a bustling step, holding the greatsword I had entrusted to me in both hands.

“Come on, sister, here you are!”

She stretched out both her hands to her, looking up with her innocently dazzling eyes.

The mithril greatsword that Ah-reum was holding in her hand caught my eye naturally in the sparkling field of view.

To be precise, her two huge breasts supported by her blades.

“…”

It felt particularly emphasized, perhaps because it was heavily oiled and placed on top of a shiny sword.

Looking at that clear expression, it seemed that he really didn’t notice. I don’t know how that is possible.

In order to pretend not to know this embarrassing situation, I desperately sent my sights into the distance.

… Let’s not come up with strange thoughts. Areum-ie just thinks I’m a woman, so she just shows such a defenseless attitude.

The reason why she decided to be friends with her in the first place had nothing to do with that. She had a strange idea, and losing her connection that she was a dwarf blacksmith was only a loss to me.

If that happens, who will take care of the sword?

“Sister? Why all of a sudden?”

“… Yes?”

“Suddenly, his expression became serious. Is there anything you don’t like?”

“Oh, no. Nothing.”

“Get the sword. It’s so heavy that my arms will fall off.”

… That would be heavy

After barely swallowing her hair that was about to stick out to the tip of her tongue, he grabbed her handle and carefully took her sword from her.

If you just accept it as it is, this embarrassing situation will be as if nothing happened…

“Huh?!”

… It doesn’t work.

I tried to take it as carefully as possible, but in the end, while taking out her sword, the blade of her great sword touched Areumie’s chest once.

Only then did Ah-reum notice where her breasts were located, and she let out a smile as she put on her embarrassing expression.

“Ah, Mi, Mianta. Mine was up there…”

“… I have nothing to be sorry about.”

“Anyway, this guy’s chest is unnecessarily heavy, so he’s tired in many ways. Even when I’m hammering in the workshop, it shakes and throbs all the time, and it’s always annoying when I try to dig something up to move it. It’s heavy, so I guess it’s become a habit to wear it somewhere, hehe.”

“… Yes, that must be tiring.”

“When I come out of work, I am full of sweat between my breasts and underneath. There are no work clothes that fit my size, so I have to try them on before buying them. Has your sister ever been like that?”

“Never before… It seems that there was…”

It was quite embarrassing to pretend to be calm and give an answer to Ah-reum, who consulted her troubles without any vigilance.

The obscene demon in her head had to be put to rest because of the strangely detailed experiences that made her imagine the scene every time she said something.

When she imagined shaking with every stroke or wiping the sweat from between her breasts, she thought as fresh as possible. Vast nature, green forest, clear river…

It’s probably because she thinks I’m a girl like her, so she’s casually talking about girls like this. How would you react if you found out later that I was actually a man?

Even for her sake, the fact that I’m hiding her gender shouldn’t be found out until the very end.

“Okay, I’ll return this too.”

“Ah, come to think of it, I left that greatsword with you, too. Come here.”

Taking the Damascus Steel Greatsword she had borrowed as a substitute while the Mithril Greatsword was not available, she inspected the blade of her sword as soon as she received it.

“They said they didn’t need it when they received it, but looking at it like this, it seems pretty bitter.”

“Somehow it happened that way.”

“Didn’t you take it as well? Does it make sense that a prosecutor walks around without a sword?”

“Okay. Certainly, you are right.”

“Gee, you always carry your weapon with you. And unnie, it would be a good idea to have the greatsword managed at least once a month if possible. If a material like mithril that my sister uses is damaged once, it may take a year or more to repair it.”

Ah-reum also says something similar to Eun-yeong noona.

It was certainly persuasive since the current Dwarf blacksmith and S-class great swordsman said the same thing. In the future, I will have to leave the management of the great sword on a regular basis.

“Then, this mithril greatsword, if you bring it next time, can you check it?”

“Oh, that? If that’s the case, it’s a problem because I’ve seen it once this time. Unless you broke it somewhere, I’ll take care of it.”

“Ok, thanks.”

“But next time I will get paid. I have to eat and live.”

“That is normal.”

First of all, she received a confirmation that she could continue to manage the greatsword at Areumi’s studio, so that was enough for her.

In particular, the biggest thing was that I was able to entrust my mithril greatsword to a Dwarf blacksmith who doesn’t take care of other people’s equipment.

Meeting Areum in the dungeon was a great fortune for me in many ways.

“Then I’ll drop off this for a while.”

“… Okay.”

Unknowingly, as before, she unconsciously used the Damascus steel greatsword as her own chest support, and she moved her steps to the back of her own workshop.

She also received a mithril greatsword, so she was thinking about saying goodbye and going back when she touched something hard and sharp inside her pocket.

… Come to think of it, I almost forgot about this business.

“I’m back, sister.”

“… Beautiful I’m sorry, but could you fix this too?”

“Huh? I don’t take care of other people’s hands.”

“That’s fine. Because this is what I bought here.”

“Huh? What did unnie buy the other day?”

As she tilted her head and recalled her memories, she took out a spear blade the size of her palm and handed it to her in front of her.

“… What is winning?”

“Window.”

“Huh?”

“One of the three spears I bought from you the other day.”

“…”

After silently taking the spear blade placed on my palm, Areum looked around at the object and asked with a puzzled expression.

“… Was it bombed somewhere?”

“Similar, yes.”

It was not a very pleasant scenery.