Chapter 67 - Making a grimoire (2/2)

「Nope, it seems like if you write inside in Japanese, it’ll change on its own into the ancient language of this world.

「Since no other player will be able to read it, it should be fine to write whatever you want. That’s why you can put your all into writing something with all your emotions.」 (Hind)

「I understand. I promise you that I’ll definitely get the best result possible.」 (Riizu)

She seems to be awfully self-confident.

Riizu placed the ink in a quill pen and for some reason, she stared at me.

「…」 (Riizu)

「…? Why are you looking at-」 (Hind)

Motionlessly, she stared at me without saying anything.

The moment I turned away because I felt uncomfortable, the quill pen moved.

Like that, Riizu’s pen ran fiercely through the paper.

I’m quite curious about what she’s writing, but there was a strange feeling of tension and I couldn’t utter a single word.

I watched over her while gulping my own saliva.

Riizu’s gaze kept going from the paper to me and back to it over and over.

In the blink of an eye, she finished writing on all the pages and when she reached the last page-

「Eh? Is this already the last one?」 (Riizu)

Having paused, Riizu placed the pen on the table and passed the book to me and I checked if the letters had dried up.

The letters had already transformed into something I couldn’t read, and the blood seemed to be dry too.

Should be fine to close it if it’s like this.

I closed the book, sealed it with the metal fittings and registered it as a completed item in the window.

Since Riizu was involved in it, I wrote both of our names in the manufacturer’s signature.

Immediately after that, the book released a dazzling light.

「Uo, what’s this!? What’s this light!?」 (Yumir)

「Eh, what…!? It resembles the light after a craft is done, but it’s this intense…!?」 (Selene)

The light expanded throughout the room and Yumir and Selene-san stopped their hands from their work and looked at it.

The light produced a white-out in our vision and eventually slowly gathered in the book.

Once it completely settled down, this time the book was covered with an ominous black fog.

Eh…? This is completely different from what I’ve heard about.

If completing one would have this kind of flashy effect, it would have been written in the BBS’s post.

「What was that, Hind!? What exactly have you made!?」 (Yumir)

「It looks…like a book? Is it an item? However, I don’t think I’ve heard about a book type item…」 (Selene)

When I tried to open my mouth to explain, some text appeared within my field of view.

This happens when a player reaches level cap, or when news appear within the game, but it just didn’t feel right with this timing.

Everyone shut their mouths for the time being and, followed those words and…

『Hind-sama & Riizu-sama have managed to craft a first-rate Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm +10!』

That message was displayed.

The atmosphere in the blacksmith’s workshop froze because of the unexpected event.

「-Wait! Heeeeeeey! I don’t get what’s going on! Explain it to me! Explain it to meeeeeeeee!!」 (Yumir)

Yumir’s scream resounded throughout the home.

It might have been because I had previous experience with leathercrafting, or might be that Riizu’s poured her whole heart into it and it won.

Anyway, it just so happens that our guild made the first weapon with the highest quality cap within the game.

Once I explained it roughly to Yumir, she said in indignation “You should have let me in if it was something that interesting!”.

Besides her, Selene-san looked slightly depressed.

「Hind-kun made it before me huh…a first-rate +10, I was aiming for that too.」 (Selene)

「No no, it would be different if it was for blacksmithing. Besides, it was a joint work with Riizu just as the message displayed.」 (Hind)

「If it’s Hind-san and me, this is the expected result.」 (Riizu)

Riizu let out a line that I get the feeling I have heard somewhere else proudly.

Having heard that, Yumir made quite the unpleasant face, now that I think about it, she did say something similar after our first duel ended.

Since it looks like it’ll take a while until we see the results of our work in duels, this might have been something quite unsatisfactory for Yumir.

「By the way, for your emotions to give such a high verdict…just what did you write in the book? It can’t be something so embarrassing that you can’t tell others right? Hmm?」 (Yumir)

Then, pressed on the contents that I didn’t ask her about.

However, Riizu replied like this nonchalantly.

「I expressed in this book all the feelings I have towards Hind-san. Though there weren’t enough pages in it. Stronger feelings than these don’t exist in this world, right?」 (Riizu)

Since she declared such words in a refreshing manner, I unconsciously stiffened.

Selene-san’s cheeks reddened and Yumir looked as if she had bitten a bitter-tasting bug.

*End of the chapter*