Chapter 31.1 - Capital of Dwarf (2/2)

「Do not be surprised yet, Diehart-dono」

Dario said so as he looked at me who was looking around restlessly since a while ago.

「Yes, Dario-dono. In spite of being underground, I’m truly surprised by the scale of the city that was made by the Dwarf」

Dario is delighted in hearing my honest impression.

「Fufufufu. But, Diehart-dono. That’s all the surprise for you. Prepare yourself since we’re going to go to an even more amazing place」

Dario is saying so as his expression turned serious.

Then, I nodded at him.

「Hide your face, Kuna」

I told Kuna who walked along with us while clinging to my arm without even saying anything.

「Uhn」

After I say so, Kuna is putting on her hood to hide her face.

We’re getting on the elevator-like things and then arrived at the upper level. We must move carefully from this point ahead.

This point ahead is the workshop of the dwarf, an extremely restricted area which was located in Volundr.

And then, the workshop of god Heibos is on top of that after leaving the workshop area.

We were entering the workshop area. It was a completely different with the ornamental area from before, a completely dreary yet practical area is spreading ahead of us.

Many of the Dwarves inside those workshop is especially moody, we can’t make a ruckus here.

Though I think it’s better to not bringing Kuna along since beautiful girl have the tendency of disliking to enter this dwarf workshop, in the end I’m still bringing her along with me since Kuna doesn’t want to leave my side and I feel anxious to leave Kuna alone in Nargol.

If one were to ask what kind of anxiety it is, it would be her relationship with Regena, the former princess of Algore.

After I saved Regena and her relatives in Akeron mountain, she became a maid who took care of me in the demon king castle.

And for some reason, Kuna seems to hate Regena. It seems those hatred are one-sided hatred of Kuna since Regena doesn’t seem to hate Kuna, thus I feel anxious to leave Kuna alone in demon king castle while I’m away from her. Thus I bring her along with me.

We were leaving the workshop area in silence. Though I’m curious about what those dwarf doing in their workshop, I restrained myself since they’re the type that disliking someone who is trespassing their area.

And then, we finally arrived at the workshop on top of the workshop area.

There was a strange room here.

This workshop is cramped due to various kind of gems, paper, and tools as it’s a room that made anyone who was seeing it would be confused since the form of the room itself is confusing.

It seems this is the workshop of God Heibos. If that was the case, it means that this area is the boundary between Volundr and Elios. According to the story, god Heibos is living in the lowest place of Elios which also happens to be the highest place in Volundr.

We are entering the workshop of God Heibos.

And then coming out to a slightly spacious place. In there, a man was waiting for us. Though he gave the impression of a weak person with his crooked-like body and bushy beards, I can feel his sharp spirit from the glints that peeking out from his side profile and his brawny arms.

「Heibos-sama. I brought the dark knight」

Dario is bowing to that man. Thus there’s no mistaking it, this man is God Heibos.

Heibos is looking toward us.

The sharp glint in his eyes is locking on my figure. It seems God Heibos himself isn’t gifted with combat prowess but, the glint in his eyes feel like an extremely veteran warrior to me.

「It’s nice to meet you, God Hei—-」

「No need to greet me, Dark Knight Diehart」

He’s interrupting my greeting.

「You should hear about my request from Dario. Can you show me that sword? 」

Heibos is stretching his hand.

I give him a short sword which I kept in my bosom pocket.

The short sword length is generally shorter than long sword.

This short sword is something that I made myself after Dario taught me about know-how to make sword.

When the short sword is drawn from its sheath by God Heibos, its blade is exposed to the light.

「This one can understand few things after seeing this sword. One look and this one can understand better than hundreds words」

Heibos eyes are locking on to the sword. I made this sword with my own black flame while taking a lesson from Dario, and I finally completed this one after numerous failures.

On top of the scarce material that can withstand my dark flame, I made heap of wrecked sword due to the difficulties in adjusting the degree of the power and the timing.

Eventually when I finished the short sword, the sword blade is cast a dark light which might happened due to its long exposure in the dark flame, it was quite sharp too.

Though I thought it was a nice sword, I lost all of my confidence when showing such crude sword to the God of Craftsmanship.

「Fumu, I see……… You made a good sword. But please wait for a minute」

Heibos left us for a while after saying so. When he returned a while later, he’s holding a beautiful short sword which was different from the one I gave to him a while ago.

「This is」

Heibos is giving the short sword to me.

I’m stretching my hand to receive that short sword.

「Try to unsheathe the short sword」

When I’m unsheating the short sword, exposing the dark sword blade to air.

「This is………….」

I’m struck by a surprise.

「Yeah, this is the sword that was made by you」

The short sword which he gave me was the short sword that I gave to him. The short sword that I gave to him a while ago didn’t have any pattern or whatsoever, I was just focusing on how I can make it easy to use and easy to hold.

But, God Heibos doesn’t change the ease to use the short sword at all, he gave a bit yet splendid finishing touch on it. Thus I failed to notice it when he gave that sword back to me.

I’m admiring it in silence.

「The thing that I can grasp is the fact that the sword doesn’t have any ornament at all. So I added a bit of craftsmanship to it. Honestly speaking, I’m not that inclined to do so either. You might be the type of person that completely ignoring fashion sense. You are always wearing dark cloth so that you won’t stand out aren’t you? 」

Heibos words is stabbing like an arrow into my heart.

How do you know that. I’m surprised that you know that fact.

Shirone even told me 「Say Kuroki, have you ever worn any clothes other than the one with grey or black color?」. Dark color makes you feel at ease you know………..

「Bull’s eye am I? 」

I can’t even retort in hearing Heibos words.

Well it’s just way too obvious even without me making a groaning sound since it’s the fact.

And then, looking at the sword.

「But, I can feel a good will residing inside this sword…….」

Then, Heibos is looking at me.

「You’re a clumsy man in a certain meaning. You cannot do anything even if there’s a woman that you love, furthermore you just keep resigning from competing with another woman to win the love of the woman you love���

His words once again pierced like an arrow into my heart.

「Maybe it’s not just limited to woman, you basically won’t compete for anything and just keep resigning aren’t you? In the end you’re at lost for what you have to do and ended up doing something that you shouldn’t do」

And then, Heibos is changing his line of sight.