Chapter 354 – Weapon Management (4)

After receiving her spear from her beautiful woman, who had her repaired, she handed over her shield this time and conveyed her lively testimonials to her.

The story of how he engaged in a ‘duel’ using a sword and shield against Yehee Do, whom he met in the Black Mud Swamp.

“Hmm, he had a fight with the earth mage with this shield and now… ?”

“… That’s how it is.”

“Hmm, I know. It seems that there is no problem with performance at all. It would be okay if I mumbled a few more sheets.”

Along with those words, Areumie put her airbrush on the shield she took and began to trim her.

Even though she honestly confessed that she had used her shield for ‘killing people’ without lying or evasiveness, her expression did not change much, and she seemed to be devoted to her shield maintenance.

“… Hey, are you okay?”

“What? Mukko.”

“Because the shield that Areum gave you to use to catch monsters didn’t catch monsters and only caught people. In case you feel uncomfortable in that area…”

“What else do I say? Was it only because of him that his expression had been stiff as if he had been bitten by an insect?”

I nodded her head with her nervous face, and she responded with a nonchalant wave of her hand.

“It depends on the person who uses the weapon. How did a blind man sit still while paying attention until he rummaged through it? Even my older sister has very strange thoughts.”

“…”

“Dungeons are about savage fellows slaying monsters, but if you look at it wrong, wouldn’t it be that kid who gets into fights and fights with other humans? It’s not particularly strange, so don’t worry about it being nothing.”

“… Okay?”

“In the first place, if Unnie hit people, she must have been right because she had a reason to do so! Isn’t it wrong, ahaha!”

… Well, I fully agreed with him about hitting the right woman, so she replied with a nod of her head.

“Seeing you worrying about such nonsensical things, Unnie is sometimes secretly cute.”

“… Is that a compliment?”

“If my sister Ya was Musma, she might have fallen in love long ago. … It shouldn’t be, but, ahaha!”

“Ah, ahaha…”

Even though I had to struggle with a strange guilt in my heart every time she spewed out a joke about her gender indifference in this way.

Pretending to be a woman to Areumie forever like this would not be a very good choice in the long run.

If one day I think of the time when I will reveal to the public that I am a male Awakened Hunter, I should at least reveal to Areumie that I am originally a man.

Even if it’s not to make me feel betrayed later when they see me in the newspaper or on the news.

The problem was that Ah-reum was always making jokes that were not conscious of her gender, so the timing to reveal it was gradually getting late.

As soon as you hear something like, ‘If I were a man, I might have fallen in love with you.’ I wonder where in the world would anyone be able to say ‘I’m actually a man’.

If I had been able to use the sexual desire eye at this time, I would have been able to check Areumie’s inner thoughts once, but it was regrettable in many ways that I couldn’t use it now because I had just used it on Eunbyul at midnight today.

If you look at it subtly from this side, the cooldown of once a day feels quite long.

“… Sister?”

“… Huh?”

“What are you staring at? Did you get some soot on my face?”

As she thought about this and that, she didn’t look at her shield for a long time and only stared at her beauty, so an awkward reaction came back from her side as if it were natural.

I couldn’t convey the contents of her that came into her head to her beautiful woman, so I put up with her excuses for staring at her.

“Just. Ah-reum, who was grooming the shield, was so cool that I was staring at her in awe.”

“… Oh, that’s right.”

“Huh.”

Ah-reum answered with a slightly subdued voice, avoiding my gaze and handed over the shield in her hand.

She brushed off the mud and scratches and returned to a condition similar to before use, taking her shield with one hand.

“Also, my sister’s expression changed strangely as soon as I joked, so I did it just in case.”

“… Aye, no way.”

“… That, I didn’t think it was really weird or wrong with my joke… ?”

“I don’t think so, so don’t worry.”

Fortunately or unfortunately, what I was thinking about seemed to be nothing more than a joke to Areum.

In a slightly awkward silence, Areumyi applied her abrasive and continued to maintain her shield.

“Except for a few scratches, nothing to fix. There is a slight dent in it, but I’ll give it to you at once when you leave it again later.”

“Okay.”

“Looking here, there are definitely traces of people hitting people. If you look closely at this part here…”

It was fortunate that she confessed honestly instead of making excuses that she used to catch mudrello or stonerello.

Since she had eyes that could see in detail like that, if she had just told a strange lie about something insignificant, Ah-reum, who was repairing her shield, would have noticed the abnormality first from her side.

After all, the relationship of trust between the Hunter and the blacksmith was quite important, so lying was a bad choice in many ways.

In the first place, I didn’t feel like lying to Areum.

Because she strangely stimulated her innocence, and the fact that she lied to her seemed to make me feel guilty.

“Bah, I finished cleaning my shield… No business, take it and go. Nope, leave the greatsword and wear it?”

“I’ll leave this to you next time. Maybe it’s because of the material, but it didn’t wear out much compared to the shield.”

“That’s wrong… If you’re busy, hurry up and go…”

“Uh, uh…”

As soon as the shield maintenance was over, the air with Areum who kept avoiding my gaze and talking became awkward for some reason.

Unable to endure the mysterious atmosphere, I walked out of the store as if being chased.

For some reason, I couldn’t find out the identity of this awkward atmosphere until I finally returned home.

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Suareum’s weapon workshop, spark of creation.

After kicking Kim Seong-chul out of her store as if she was halfway kicking her out, she let out a shallow sigh while sitting on her counter chair.

“Oh, you poor bitch… Why did you get rid of the strange words there…”

No matter how cool she was, why did she bring up such strange words, saying that if she were a man, she would have fallen for her.

Soo-reum groaned softly from her checkout chair, clutching her head at the stupid act of her own she had just done.

“My sister… I don’t think it’s strangely misunderstood…”

She would have been much closer to saying that she had accidentally spit out her true feelings rather than a misunderstanding, but she dismissed the feeling as a mere delusion on her part.

The fact that she saved her life in the dungeon, and the fact that she tested the performance of her weapon on her behalf.

In addition to that, the feelings for Seongcheol unnie, who helped her big and small in many ways, were growing subtly in Sua-reum’s heart.

In that way, she was losing her mind several times a day or getting bruised in her feelings that were growing up without her knowledge.

It was none other than Su Areum herself who felt the most confusion about such strange feelings.

“My sister is definitely a little girl… I don’t even know if her heart is beating when I see her. .”

Even though Seong Tae-gyeong was wearing a mask in front of her and acting as Guild Hunter Kim Seong-cheol, no matter how much she hides her identity, there are of course elements that cannot be hidden.

His charm as a man, his male scent, and his radiant energy that could not be concealed were elements that could not be hidden with an unknown mask.

As a result, he was half-bewitched by Su-areum, the owner of the studio, without even knowing it.

Since Su Ah-reum was already saved by him in the dungeon, Su Ah-reum had a strong affinity for and longing for Guild Hunter Kim Seong-cheol, and as the number of days they met face-to-face increased, that feeling gradually grew in size.

At first, I thought it was just a strong sense of friendship expressed in that way, but as time passed, standing in front of Kim Seong-cheol made my heart beat more and more loudly.

Su-areum still did not realize that it was the beginning of the feeling of love.

The reason for not realizing this blatant and obvious feeling was the gender barrier, which was also clearly visible.

For her, who had long enjoyed her dwarf culture since her childhood, her homosexuality was a kind of love that she could not understand at all.

Su-reum could not understand the fact that she, a woman, fell in love with her sister, her sister Seong-cheol, who was her woman.

If Seong Tae-gyeong had revealed that her identity was a man from the first meeting, she would have clearly recognized that the identity of her feelings was her love.

He didn’t bother to correct Su-reum’s misunderstanding that he was a woman when they first met.

As a result, only more and more confused feelings grew in her heart.

“Sister… Just because you heard something strange from me doesn’t mean you won’t come to my store all of a sudden… ?”

That pompous back figure that stopped her customers from making a fuss and kicked them out of the store as soon as she entered her store in a situation where she was in trouble.

Saying that you might suddenly fall in love with him, who was exceptionally cool today.

It was a fact that even Su-areum herself hadn’t realized yet that those words weren’t just a joke.