Chapter 424 – Matching Weapons (4)

“Then, since both of you have new weapons, let’s train in the back for a while.”

“Uh? Oh… What about your sister?”

“I have something to say to Areum for a moment. I’ll finish it soon and come back.”

“Come on, Seongcheol unnie.”

“Then beautiful, let’s talk over there for a second.”

“Ah, I see… What are you going to talk about with me…”

“Just a moment.”

After letting Jin-ah and Sun-ah swing their weapons on their own at the training ground behind the store for a while.

Taking her beauty out of sight of her two younger sisters, I shared secrets with her that I did not want her twins to find out.

“Arum, could you make a custom weapon for me?”

“Custom? That’s about it, of course you can mess around. Wow, sister, do you need a new sword?”

“I don’t want to use it, I want to make the weapons of the two of them custom.”

“Jin-ah and Sun-ah?”

“Huh.”

At my request to make a custom weapon, Areum tilted her head slightly and expressed her doubts.

Perhaps her proposal seemed quite foreign to her.

“… Are you overdoing it, kid?”

“Huh?”

“After hearing the story, it seemed that he was only a D-level son. Wouldn’t it be a bad habit if you already gave me something like a customized weapon? To put it bluntly, you never know when you’ll quit your job as a hunter. I’m saying this because it sounds like you’re making a fuss about custom equipment.”

“Well, it might seem that way. Still, I want to give them a properly good weapon if possible.”

“Hmm…”

She strangely tilts her head, as if she doesn’t like something about her, despite my story.

Even as a beauty, she seemed displeased with making custom weapons for new hunters.

Unlike selling a weapon that was just made, there was a strong feeling that custom weapons were made for the opponent by herself, so Areumi must be worried in her own way.

I don’t know, because if you’re a normal blacksmith, you’re hoping for a good Hunter to use the weapon you’ve made.

There is no dwarf in the world who wants to hear the sound of a blacksmith who makes things even for mediocre bitches without a backbone if you give them money.

“Okay. I’ll just do something that didn’t exist. Anyway, I haven’t told the kids yet, so you don’t have to worry about what you just said.”

I couldn’t force her to do something that could damage her honor and pride just because of my greed.

In the first place, the weapons the two of them were wearing were also quite clever.

The moment I was about to end the story with a little bit of regret behind me, this time, Ah-reum spoke in my direction.

“… Child I’ll do it for you.”

“Oh, really?”

“Instead, unnie, get your weapons to match. Then I’ll do the same for you two.”

“As far as mine… ?”

“I also have pride as a craftsman. A custom weapon is a weapon that I only give to people I approve of. However, if you don’t mess with the unni that I acknowledged, I think she will be in a bad mood, Ai.”

For that reason, there is nothing to refuse.

If it was a custom weapon made by Areumi’s hand, I was welcome. Rather, to the extent that I wanted to ask first.

The problem was that most of the weapons I needed right now were stocked, so I didn’t bother to ask for them.

Still, there was nothing particularly bad about having a spare weapon, so I agreed without hesitation…

“…”

… Wait a minute, come to think of it, the cost for three people with a custom weapon would be significant.

How much money do I have left in my account… ?

“Wait a minute, beautiful. I don’t think I can pay for the weapons of three people right now. But since next month I’ll be able to afford it, so if I make my weapon from next month…”

“You’re worrying about all sorts of bizarre things. Unni, of course I said I would mangle the weapon, so it’s only natural that I won’t take any money.”

“… Uh, yes?”

“Ah, but the weapons of those two over there are of course worth getting paid for.”

“That’s it, that’s normal.”

It’s because I don’t have a conscience enough to make shameless demands against Areum.

“Then I will ask you. Three custom weapons, including mine.”

“They say that the two of them are determined to have claw knuckles and spears, and sister, what would you like to have as a custom weapon?”

“Huh? Can you fix that?”

Of course, since it was a custom weapon, I thought he would say something like making a new greatsword.

In response to my question, Areumie only responded as if it were natural.

“Of course, I am a kid. In the first place, my sister wields a mithril greatsword, but do you know how many years it will take for me to swear by something better than that?”

“… Yes, it will.”

“It doesn’t have to be a sword. From what I heard last time, I think I heard that you know how to use various weapons, but you can tell her what you need the most.”

“If it’s what you need most right now, hmm…”

… Well, it wouldn’t be so bad to have a sidearm and stock it up in case of emergency.

There’s a subspace pocket anyway, so you don’t have to worry about storing weapons.

In response to Areumi’s question, I intuitively asked if it was possible to make a weapon that came to my mind.

Areumie immediately nodded her head with the answer of course.

“I get it. Then, unni, can we do that, and the two of them over there can mumble with what we said before?”

“Yes, please.”

“If you calculate the materials that will be used when making the weapon, the duration of the weapon production, and this and that… It looks like it will come out with roughly this estimate, but will it be okay?”

“… Huh. What about this?”

Excluding the cost of living, the amount was a bit close, but it was an extremely reasonable amount for a dwarven artisan’s weapon.

I nodded her head and handed her her debit card from her wallet.

“You can scratch it with this. Just figure out the cause of death.”

“I get it.”

“Oh right. I’m going to let you take care of the sword this time, so include that as well.”

“I got it, I got it.”

“And just in case, keep it a secret until the end that you make custom weapons for them. Even with the excuse that measuring is necessary for weapon maintenance.”

“Know. I guess I don’t even notice that much. I keep my younger siblings far away and tell me this secretly, but I know everything.”

Areumyi walks towards the counter holding my card with a nice expression on her face.

Shortly thereafter, a payment payment text message with two commas was sent to the smartphone as a text message.

I struggled to maintain a calm expression at the expense, which was quite painful to smile.

Still, compared to the cost of their lives, even this much was infinitely cheaper.

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“Sister, please go inside! Jin-ah and Sun-ah too!”

“Areum, you are doing well too.”

“Oh, good-bye…”

“Don’t forget to come back next week to pick up the weapon I left you!”

“Goodbye, Mr. Beautiful.”

After seeing off Kim Seong-cheol and his two younger sisters, who suddenly came to the store.

In the empty store again, Su Areum secretly smiled alone.

Not to mention Seong-cheol’s older sister, who was worried that she might have fallen out of love with herself, visited her shop again.

It was the day we broke up after exchanging phone numbers and saying that we should contact each other more often in the future.

Her worries that she might not be able to see her again and again disappeared like snow before she knew it, and rather, she felt that her relationship with her older sister, Seong-cheol, was deeper than before.

“I was wasting time and money by worrying for nothing. You stupid bitch.”

Even though she seemed to be blaming herself, Soo-reum, who couldn’t hide her good mood, sat at the counter and still hesitated after the three of them left.

It was only after her excitement had calmed down to some extent that she began to sort out the things she had to do one by one.

“First of all, I’ll give Jin-ah’s Chang and Sun-ah’s knuckle a mangle. After that, it’s her sister, trimming the bayonet. Sister, since you said you don’t need weapons right away, she’ll start working on it step by step from next week…”

She was going to be quite busy for a while, since she had taken on all of her work at once, but she didn’t feel the slightest bit tired about it, and rather was in a good mood.

With her own hands, the thought that her Seongcheol sister could make her custom weapon for her use never crossed her mind.

Of course, her main weapon, the Mithril Greatsword, required constant effort to the extent that she had to work on it for almost several years, so it could not be easily replaced.

Just imagining that her own customized weapon would one day play an active role in the hands of her older sister Seong-cheol was enough joy for her.

The gloomy feelings that had plagued Suareum for several days had already disappeared, leaving only a comfortable and refreshing feeling as if the inside were hollow.

She was able to end the day with her good feelings instead of anxiety for the first time in a while.

… Just one thing.

Although the behavior of the two younger sisters who came with Seong-cheol’s older sister today bothered me a little.

“It felt strange to say that we were just close sisters and brothers…”

There was a strange current flowing between the three of them to judge that it was a simple friendship between women.

No matter how unfamiliar Suareum was with dating, it wasn’t so much that she couldn’t grasp the atmosphere.

Every time he shifted his gaze towards the twins, they were only looking at Seongcheol unnie at a ratio of 7 to 8%.

Even to Soo-reum, seeing her blushing or speaking shyly against Seong-cheol, a woman, was strange.

It was because of Han Jin-ah’s single mistake that she was able to decide her suspicion with certainty.

‘Hee, you can talk about your wishes. Oh, it’s also my brother’s weapon.’

‘Brother? Do you have any brothers, Jin-ah?’

‘Oh, no, that… Not a brother, but a sister…’

“To think that nonsense came out, it was too natural to call him oppa…”

The Kim Seong-chul she knew was definitely a woman, but why did she call the woman she knew Han Jin her brother?

It just came out too naturally to think of it as a simple slip of the tongue.

Even after that, when she listened carefully to her words, she was sure to call her brother, and then she hurriedly corrected her words several times.

In a contradictory situation, Suareum carefully came up with a slightly risky guess.

“I wonder if Seongcheol is her older sister… I have a preference for doing things with girls… ?”

She had heard through her public stories that sometimes a woman who plays a male role among homosexuals is called ‘oppa’.

If Seongcheol unnie was really interested in a girl and was in a same-sex relationship, she was at the moment all doubts were answered.

The two twins looked at Kim Seong-cheol as if they were looking at the opposite sex, and they almost made the mistake of calling Kim Seong-cheol an older brother from time to time.

Besides, it wasn’t just one person who gave her the look of her man, but two.

It was also a moment when I cautiously speculated that what Seongcheol unnie was doing was not a one-on-one relationship, but a multiple relationship.

I once heard that homosexuals enjoy one-to-many relationships rather than one-on-one relationships, but it was the first time that I actually met that object in front of my eyes.

She never even imagined that one of them would be Seong-cheol’s sister, whom she admired.

Of course, you might conclude that all of this is just your own delusion, and that in fact, Seongcheol and her two people were not related.

In fact, Su-reum was hoping that her delusion would fit in a part of her mind without even realizing it.

“If unnie really likes girls who aren’t Musma… Ugh, ugh…”

If Kim Seong-chul is really gay and enjoys dating with many women.

Perhaps she had a disturbing imagination that she might have a chance, too.