Chapter 401 – Origin

Square square.

“Ringle round.”

“What are you talking about all of a sudden, junior?”

“No. It just suddenly came to mind.”

Absolutely not because Faye came close to me from the front to cut my horns, so my eyes were full of round breasts.

“What. It’s not just a matter of a day or two that juniors are weird…”

While tilting her head, Fei seemed to understand once again and started scratching my horn with her dagger.

For reference, I’m using the Shining Lion Dagger because I can’t even scratch my horns with an ordinary dagger.

At first, the Dwarves who lent the dagger to Fay thoughtlessly sighed in dismay and shouted, ‘Keeeee! It was a bit fun to run away saying, “The legend that normal weapons don’t work against dragons is true!”

It’s a while to remember what happened a little while ago and grow up. Soon, only the sound of horn scratching could be heard in the simple workshop obtained by half-threatening the Dwarves.

Neither Faye nor I said anything and kept our mouths shut. Normally, the silence between us was comfortable, but why does it feel awkward today?

The moment I opened my mouth thinking about saying something.

“There you are, junior.”

“Uh, huh? Why, Senior Fay?”

“Come to think of it, did I ever tell my juniors why I’m obsessed with weapons made with alchemy?”

“Ah… No?”

I know. Why was Fay determined to make the best weapon with alchemy?

At H&A, it was just an alchemy character, so I skipped it… If you think about it, Faye must have had her own reasons.

And that wouldn’t be such a light reason.

Scorn at home and ridicule at the academy. And even the cold treatment of his father, who had to be trusted the most.

Isn’t it a dream that I have kept despite all these trials. If she couldn’t achieve it, something desperate enough to sacrifice her own life would have supported Fay all this time.

When I corrected her posture and let her know that I was ready to listen, Fay smiled.

“It’s true that it’s an important story, but it’s not to the extent that juniors are giving so much weight to it.”

“It’s Fei-senpai’s business, so how could I just listen?”

“Anyway, I mean…”

The hand holding the back of my head to hold my head. Fei gently stroked it with only the fingers of that hand.

In fact, it was the moment when she was about to relax slightly at the movement of her hands that was closer to tickling rather than stroking.

“… Her mother died because of a broken weapon.”

“…”

It’s a heavy story, too.

Fei continued her words without waiting for me to come to her senses.

“It happened when I was little, but I still remember it vividly. At the time, I was learning the basics of alchemy while helping her mother. On that day, the business was closed for the day, so I was preparing to close.”

At sunset. By the time the setting sun turns the sky red and people’s hearts are colored with anticipation to go home and rest.

One of her men staggered toward the alchemy shop Fay and Laura were busy tidying up.

“I knew he was a stranger I had never seen before, but it wasn’t like there weren’t any customers like that, so I let him into the store without question. She stumbled and looked like she was hurt.”

But no.

He is not a guest, but a robber… No, he was an assassin pretending to be a robber, and after pretending to be sick, he released Laura’s vigilance and entered the store, revealing his true colors right away.

“It was me who was aiming at first. It was probably meant to be used as a hostage. Fortunately, the store was also my mother’s studio, so I was safe because there were various defense systems… It didn’t stop even without hostages.”

The assassin did not stop his knife, telling him to give up everything that could be money. Even though Laura told me to leave because she would give it all.

Perhaps even this was a kind of acting to hide his identity.

Anyway, due to the fierce resistance of the assassin, the defense system installed in the workshop quickly reached its limit, and it was when Laura and Fay were about to reach the sword.

“Mom stepped forward to defend me there with one of her daggers for self-defense. If you stop this once, she’ll be tied back to her defense system again.”

But there was a problem.

A sword that somehow managed to break through the attacks from the entire workshop.

The swordsmanship was weakened enough that even Laura, who did not know how to fight, could be defeated… Because Laura’s sword collided with the assassin’s sword and broke.

The results were disastrous.

Laura’s upper body was cut deeply and she was mortally wounded.

Still, it was an alchemist’s workshop. If she had immediately retreated and recovered with a superior potion, how could she have saved her life?

But Laura didn’t. She knew Fay would be in danger if she left.

“Mom rather went ahead of her. She hugged the assassin, threw her body…”

So, together with the assassin, he was pierced through the mercury stake created by the defense system.

“I belatedly tried pouring a potion, but it wasn’t enough for a high-grade potion. It’s only natural that there’s a hole in your chest.”

However, Faye’s efforts were not meaningless.

Unlike the assassin who died soon after, he bought me enough time to leave a will.

“He passed away in my arms, leaving behind the words that he loved me and to take the broken dagger and go to Jarl in Jarnshad.”

After that, Rokhan came to Fei first, and that’s how he headed to the family of Jarnshad.

“… I found out later Her mother said the last dagger she heard was a gift from her father.”

It was the first weapon Rokhan made. Giving a dwarf a weapon he made for the first time was quite meaningful, so it wouldn’t be strange for Laura to have it.

“Ah, I don’t blame my father for the broken dagger. It was the first time I made it, so I had to make it well to see how well I made it.”

“Well what…”

No matter how much Rokan was, he probably wasn’t called Meister from the beginning.

“But it is. Mother, who trusted her father’s weapons, wondered what she was thinking when the dagger broke. What was my father thinking while holding a broken dagger and crying in secret?”

Fei, who has been thinking that far, makes a decision.

Let’s make a weapon with alchemy.

Never betray the owner at the most important moment… Let’s make a weapon that can be trusted until the very end.

Items made with alchemy are generally durable. This is a tendency that arises because the science of alchemy itself aims at perfection.

That’s why even the same alloy is of higher quality when mixed through alchemy than when it is melted in a normal furnace.

“Somehow, I was ashamed to say it, so I pretended that it was made to help blacksmiths who are struggling, but… Huh. I didn’t want anyone to die like my mother.”

“Is that so.”

There were many things I wanted to say, but I nodded my head as calmly as possible. Because now there was someone who seemed to have more to say than me.

For example… Like Rokan, who visited Fay’s workshop in advance to get medicine.

Fay didn’t seem to notice Lokhan behind her, either because she was so focused on shaving my horn, or because she was so focused on the past she recalled while talking about herself.

I wonder if she didn’t know what kind of thoughts Faye was insisting on alchemy. Lokhan stopped with a dazed look on his face like someone who had been hit in the back of the head.

Seeing that she couldn’t control her expression even though their eyes met, she secretly grabbed Fay’s hand.

“This amount of horn powder is enough, Fei-senpai?”

“Huh? Uh yes! If there are too many of them, the effect of the drug will be compromised. Good work junior.”

“What did I do? Anyway, as soon as the horn I ripped off last time to make a golem grew back, I would grind the other horn. I guess it will take a little longer for my antlers to get out of their mess.”

He shrugged her shoulders and stood up. Then Fay giggled and lifted her tiptoe.

Faye stroking my hair with her outstretched hand. It seems like he has a taste for having my hair touched these days.

If I’m bored, I’ll squat at Faye’s chest, so I have nothing to say.

“No horn, thank you for listening to me. It was something she had never said to anyone, but after confiding in her junior, I feel a little more at ease!”

“It was also nice to get to know Fei-senpai a little more, so it’s teacher-teacher.”

Hehe. Still, she’s a little embarrassed to go and talk, so you have to put up with it, junior?”

Faye cracks down on her mouth with her unique bizarre laugh. But it was already too late for that.

Without saying a word, she raised her hand and pointed behind Fay. Then, Fei obediently looked back at her while tilting her head.

“…”
“…”
“…”

An incomparable silence from just before filled the workshop.

Fey’s pupils trembled as if an earthquake had struck, and Lokhan was staring at her faintly, probably because she had been taken aback.

I took a quick look at the atmosphere and nodded her head.

“Then you two take care of the rest. I’ll be gone, Fei-senpai.”

“Huh, junior! Where! Where are you going, leaving me in this atmosphere!”

“We have to thwart the plans of the evil spirits even a little bit. I’ll blow today’s Punishment and come back!”

Then, she threw her body and escaped the workshop.

“Did you know?! Didn’t you say anything even though you knew, junior?!”

I heard a sound coming from behind me with one ear and let it out with the other.

Yandel is dark and mona.