Chapter 35 (1/2)
Thirty-Fifth Episode~ Blacksmith
Translator’s Corner: Hey everyone! Short chapter today. New characters. Enjoy~
Editor’s Corner: The Editing is coming along somewhat slower then what I originally thought for the older chapters.
“However, to carry such a heavy carapace…you have incredible strength.”
Receptionist-san said so too.
“Yeah,”
I answer safely.
Quiche is guiding me to the Dwarf shop while being amazed by my herculean strength.
Anyhow, we are pa.s.sing many side roads and Small alleys.
While we walk I memorize the way and houses.
Before long, the blacksmith district comes into view.
A new long sword and spear shaft are leaning against a rack.
A mannequin is set up with steel armor attached.
This store probably serves as both a blacksmith and a shop.
A full-scale black smith is next door.
A worker with a strong physique is stepping on a bellows, dripping with sweat as he works.
The heat is so strong that it is making us feel hot.
Of course, there is an anvil near the furnace too. With a human and dwarf craftsmen wielding a hammer, the ringing sound of beaten steel sounds out.
Rather than a smith, on the other side a brick making workshop spreads out.
With approximately five buildings lined up, multiple workers are using straw, water, and clay to make bricks from scratch. There are also dried bricks to be collected in the area.
This area has various craftsman including blacksmiths.
Quiche stops in front of a shop before a corner on the street.
“Here is Zaga-san’s workshop. You can see the quality of the equipment of【Zaga and Bon’s Blacksmith Workshop】. They are considerably famous blacksmiths in this area.”
The beautiful Quiche directs her green eyes to the workshop, and as she talks a dwarf appears from within the workshop she is explaining.
The dwarf has a /kappa/ head. (TL: Kappa)
He has a smile on his perfectly round face.
The smiling dwarf runs up to us.
“Enchanting? Enchanting?”
“Eh? Enchanting?” Unintentionally, I parrot him.
“Enchanting.”
“Nya?”
Rollo reacts to the strange dwarf from my shoulder.
“Enchanting?”
“Nya nya, Nyyaaa”
Rollo gets hops down from my shoulder and approaches this strange Dwarf seeming to be curious, while crying out.
“Enchan, Enchantiiing.”
“Nn, Nyanya, Nyaa.”
The kappa headed dwarf calls out enchanting repeatedly to Rollo.
A strange conversation is started with Rollo.
I turn to Quiche to ask for help, but she is turning her beautiful and peaceful feminine smile to the kappa dwarf.
“Bon-kun. We don’t need to worry about enchanting, so would you go get Zaga-san?”
The kappa headed dwarf seems to be named Bon.
Probably because of the poncho he is wearing covers him completely from head to toe he looks even more round.
“Enchanting.”
Bon-kun leaves with the strange word “enchanting” and runs back to the shop.
“Eeeto, Bon-kun is…”
“Aah, that child can only say the word enchanting. You should hear the specifics from Zaga.”
Is there a disability like autism? (TL: What he has is actually called aphasia.)
Meanwhile, the kappa headed Bon-kun returns. They brought with them a stern faced dwarf who seems to be the store owner.
The Dwarf shopkeeper has a height like that of a dwarf. (TL: Thanks for tell us he is normal.)
He has s.h.a.ggy brown hair, and he has an excellent mustache that grows into his sideburns. [ED: WHERE IS MY BEARD?!]
The is a large wrinkle in the outer corner of his eye that connects to his plump cheeks.
His eyes convey a peculiar sternness.
His eyes are blue like Bon-kun’s…
Unlike Bon, the ruddy bridge of his nose is thick and his nostrils are large.
It could be said it was contrasting since their clothes and hair styles are so different.
“Oh, it’s Quiche.”
“Yeah, Zaga. I brought a customer to introduce with me today.”
As I though, this hard-faced looking dwarf-san has the same name as the shop, Zaga-san.
A tunic is wrapped around his stern shoulders. He also wears a leather belt spotted with silver that is wound around his waist and smithing tools like hammers hang from the belt.
He gives of the aura of a craftsman.
Having been introduce by Quiche, I bow slightly to Zaga.
“…Thanks, I am called Shuya Kagari. I was told you could work with this carapace, so I requested Quiche to guide me here.”
I show the dwarf Zaga-san to carapace.
“Hou. This is the complete carapace of an officer. You’re able to carry it despite its weight? You look like a human, but do you actually have dwarf blood?”
Joking? But Zaga-san has a straight face.
So, I will also respond with a straight face.
“No, no, nothing like that. So, will you process it?”
“Fun, I’m joking, let’s have a look. …This carapace is famous for being a hard material. Using it is difficult, it is impossible for a common black smith.”
A joke. Zaga easily lifts the carapace with a brawny arm.
He begins to look over it, staring.
He traces a thick finger across the carapace to determine the quality of the material, and taps the surface with a *kon-kon*
“Enachantiinngg.”
Bon exclaims.
Since he is smiling he seems to be pleased.
“Kora, Bon. Don’t shout so close to me, I need to look over this more, it’s still not your turn with it.”
“Enchanting…”
Being chastised by Zaga, Bon looks down.
Muttering weakly. He then shrinks back to his round form.
Bon-kun seems disappointed and looks to be even smaller because he is hunched over.
Thereupon, Zaga seems to notice the curios gaze I am directing at Bon…
“…Most people normally react the same way when they see this the first time. Do you think it strange?”
Zaga talks about Bon with a calming voice as he looks at him with tender eyes.
“Ya.”
I nod naturally.
“Bon is my younger brother by a year. He has been reticent since he was young, never speaking at all. He is my strange little brother. Our relatives worried about my younger brother and tried to cure him… They had a lot of money taken to the church priests as medical fees, but it was pointless in the end. Neither recovery magic nor potions worked. Thus, our father and mother also thought Bon was too weird and the poor child was chastised by the entire clan…”
Zaga then looks at Bon proudly.
“As a matter of fact, it was not so. Bon is amazing.”
“Amazing?”
I look a Bon-kun.
He does not seem so amazing…
“Aah, amazing. His smithing ability still has a way to go, but he is a magic enchanting specialist far beyond myself. n.o.body actually knows Bon’s battle occupation; however, it can be conjectured.”
There are magic enchanting specialists too?
The person himself does not seem to understand.
However, Bon is amazing,
“He is better than Zaga-san?”
“Aah, as soon as I gave him a blacksmithing magic scroll loaded with a familiar stone, he leaned his body forward and showed an interest in magic. …I am an enchanter. If it’s explained- he suddenly began to exclaim ‘enchanting.’ Since then this ‘odd fellow’ has continued repeatedly calling that word. At first he was looked down on…then, one day, although I don’t know how, Bon was playing with the magic jewel but there was no scroll there. Using his own mana to grant an enchantment, he created amazing magic jewels.”
Enchanting.
“…Magic enchanting. He is a sage enchanting engineer beyond to scale of a ‘magic engineer’ or a ‘magic goldsmith.’ He is a so called enchanting prodigy. So, since then, I have left the enchanting to Bon, and we have worked together in the shop.”
“Enchanting!”