Chapter 61 – Afterword to the Request.

From what Lucia had seen, the chainmail she was wearing now could be said to regulate her body temperature. It was given the power to maintain a constant temperature when it was hot or cold.

In fact, Lucia, who had been sweating in the scorching heat inside her forge, felt as pleasant as a breath of cool air as soon as she put on her chainmail.

“Then isn’t good something good?”

“It’s not an issue that can be overlooked so lightly?!”

Tia Ran thought that a good thing was a good thing, but Lucia shook her head.

“No matter how trivial a special weapon may be, it has great value!”

This is because the blacksmith only makes it once in his life, so there is little productivity, and it is not even distributed, so it is impossible to keep up with the demand.

“It’s ridiculous to create something like that in succession!”

“Now, wait a minute! Wasn’t everyone able to make something like this easily?”

After hearing Lucia’s story, Crusha spoke in embarrassment and ended up touching her forehead.

“You weren’t even aware of it?! If you weren’t careful, you could have been kidnapped or treated like a slave by the government in the name of protection!”

“Hi!?”

“… It was a much more dangerous situation than I thought.”

While Krusha looked shocked and Anise looked fed up, Tiaran had something in mind.

‘So the equipment vendor was Krusha?’

In Landesia’s biography, she is not named, but for some reason she is not a red-haired loli with shackles around her neck and dark circles under her eyes, but a dwarf who sells equipment with various effects.

Perhaps, like in Lucia’s story, wasn’t she a Crusha who was exploited by someone who discovered her abilities? It’s only natural that any equipment is effective in the game.

If it was possible to actually create equipment with such effects indefinitely, it made sense why they were selling equipment with special and rare effects in the game.

‘Was there actually a blacksmith-related quest?’

Of course, since the subtitle was ‘The Warrior Being Humiliated’, the result seems to have been a trap event like that of a blacksmith.

“I’m sincerely asking, but did the equipment you made previously have a similar function?”

“Uh, yes. But is this really that great?”

“An average blacksmith makes a deal once in his life.”

When Anis answered Krusha, who asked with a puzzled expression, her face became even more incomprehensible.

“That can’t be right. Even though I made things like this, my father always got angry and asked me if I couldn’t make them more straight?”

“What on earth is this person doing?”

“I said my father was a blacksmith too.”

Tiaran got a feel for what was going on at this point, so he intervened.

“Have you ever gone out while you were at home?”

“Huh? No, I think I went out to play a lot when I was young. Not so much after I became a blacksmith?”

“Krusha, didn’t your father open the door?”

When Anis asked if she realized something, Krusha thought deeply and nodded.

“Is that so? I heard from my father that I shouldn’t come out until I’ve perfected my skills as a blacksmith.”

“… How did you manage your meals and bathroom?”

Lucia also spoke with a serious expression, but she continued as if she still did not realize what the problem was.

“Your father brought you meals, and he always took you to the bathroom?”

Thanks to this, I wanted to be outside more, so I drank water often, but I went back and forth so much that my father, who got angry, wouldn’t open the door, so there was a time when I couldn’t go out until I peed my pants.

Krusha blushed as if she was talking about her shameful memories.

“What the heck.”

“Krusha…”

“Hmm, the guy named Abi was doing canned food.”

Even when Tiaran’s group couldn’t keep her mouth shut in shock after hearing the story, her face was filled with questions.

“What’s wrong with you?”

“Do you by any chance remember how you got there and ran away from home?”

Anis almost said it was an escape, but when she asked about the process of running away from home, Krusha spoke obediently.

“A lady she knew from her childhood opened the door.”

Her aunt took care of her things and sent her away, saying that her training as a blacksmith was already overflowing, and it was time for her to leave her village and be recognized by others on her own.

“It was good for me! Now it was my chance to become a blacksmith who could be recognized by everyone like my father!”

“”…””

“Huh? Why is everyone looking like that?”

As expected, Crusha could not understand the sight of Anis and Lucia watching her with tears in their eyes.

“What did your father do to become a famous blacksmith?”

“Of course, the quality of the weapons they make is excellent!”

Krusha puffed out her chest proudly and spoke, but Tiaran swallowed her bitter saliva and changed her question.

“Have you ever seen your father make weapons?”

“Why are you showing that? Isn’t it natural for blacksmiths not to show how they make weapons, even if they are family?”

“Sniff.”

“Okay.”

Anis and Lucia’s eyes were now red with tears, and they were holding their breath so that Krusha wouldn’t find out that they were crying. Even if Lucia didn’t know it, she must have been quite shocked to see Anise do something like that.

“Then how did you learn metallurgy?”

“My father brought me a blueprint and explained that this is how it can be made!”

Every time Krusha’s father needed it, he would bring a new drawing and explain how to make it and what to do, and she would just follow as he was told.

“It was even stranger to know what the world was like.”

Somehow, a letter was found among her luggage with a very kind explanation on how to find a carriage and a house. The owner of the letter must have been the woman who helped Krusha escape.

“Iik! Are you going to keep making fun of me like that? I won’t be fooled by a gypsy in the future, so don’t worry!”

“Oh my gosh…”

If Tiaran left Crusha like this, she would wear shackles and become a machine that made her equipment, as she saw in the game, and she felt that she might live, so she asked Anis.

“How about making this guy our party’s exclusive blacksmith?”

“Oh?! Really?! You’re the exclusive blacksmith?”

Krusha jumped up and down with joy just for that, and her emerald eyes sparkled.

“Yeah. I think that would be a good idea.”

“Sigh, but will it be okay to be her exclusive blacksmith? If I leave Krusha alone…”

Anis accepted without question, and Lucia sniffled, expressing her concern. As she feared, her exclusive blacksmith was nothing special. If you think about it, I feel like a regular at the blacksmith shop.

“In times like this, you should use fantasy chances!”

“Fantasy…”

“Chance…?”

“Hogu. The house is a mess anyway, so how can we live together in our dorm?”

“Eh?”

Lucia was taken aback as Crusha blinked her eyes blankly.

“Now, wait a minute! Does that mean you’re going to have Krusha as a member of our party?”

“Why? Anyway, if you’re worried about leaving her alone, you can just take her with you.”

Why? When you watch fantasy, isn’t there a case where you take on ridiculous tasks like repairing and manufacturing equipment while fighting directly?

“But isn’t there a place in our dorm that can be used as a blacksmith?”

Anise pointed to the forge, which was still simmering with heat. This was consistent with the reason why blacksmiths were concentrated in one area of ​​the territory.

Not only was the noise, but we also needed land to build a dedicated blacksmith shop and place equipment and tools to utilize it. But there was no problem in that area.

Because the accommodation itself was a large building with a yard.

“Anyway, there won’t be a problem if she accepts Krusha as a member of her party, right?”

“Uh, yes. That’s right.”

“Hogu. Where are you?”

“Eh? Me, me?!”

Krusha didn’t seem to think that she would be asked, and she hesitated, glancing at her tiaran and blushing.

“I like it.”

She wriggled her two fingers together as if embarrassed, and then whispered softly and accepted.

“Can I borrow that for a moment?”

When she accepted the party offer, Tia Ran pointed at the large hammer, Ohamma, around her.

“Eh, it doesn’t matter, but what are you going to use it for?”

“What can I use it for? There’s nothing like it to change the structure of a house!”

Eventually, they returned to their accommodation.

“Hey!!”

Quang! Kwakang!! The women, including Anis, were able to see Tiaran swinging a hammer excitedly and breaking down the walls of the dormitory.

“Lucia, is it okay to change the structure of the accommodation like this?”

“… Well, there won’t be any problem. It’s a place that no one uses anyway.”

“The hammer is coming out!!”

Quagga Gaga River!! As Tia Ran’s actions continued, the loud noises that rang out in succession made them close their mouths.

“Is this okay?”

“Hmm, it’s still not enough. The space itself is not a problem, but ventilation needs to be good to prevent heat and toxic air from accumulating.”

Krusha was checking her internal structure and teaching Tiaran where she should not break and where she should break.

“Then why don’t you look through it further!”

-Kwahwaah Ah!

It was the moment when Tia Ran swung her hammer and smashed the wall.

“Kwaaaaa!?”

“Huh?”

The sharp scream of a man suddenly heard from where his hammer passed.

“Trixie? No, she’s still in the basement. She’s not even a man.”

“Is the house screaming too?”

“Anise, there’s no way the house is screaming!”

The women were also puzzled and when they checked the place where the scream came from, what they found was a man who seemed to be Anis or Lucia’s age.

“Huh, is he a beginner? Why is he here again?”

When I checked the plate around my neck, I saw a card of the same color, proving that I was a bronze-level adventurer. From the looks of it, I was just thinking that he was an immature rookie who became an adventurer as soon as he became an adult.

“Cornell?”

Anise muttered those words when she saw the novice adventurer. Tiaran and Krusha didn’t understand what he said, though.

“If it’s Connell…, Isn’t he the son of the village chief who chased Anis around?!”

Lucia was astonished as if she had already heard that name, and she looked down at him stunned.