| Author: Ash | Original Source: Syosetu | Word Count: 2738 characters |
| Translator: Mii | English Source: Re:Library | Word Count: 0 words |
The next morning, Arnold who returned with Alphonse called me to explain about yesterday’s matter.
To put it simply, the reason he brought out the katana was to divert everyone’s attention away from me.
Since I started staying at this workshop, he told the merchants who often visited the workshop I was ‘a young but skillful blacksmith.’
But no one would believe a child like me was skillful. According to Master, “No one believes me unless they see you working with their own eyes.” I was grateful for that, but also not… Oh well. I didn’t want to stand out, so it’s fine?
Later on, I asked him to keep the fact that I could forge a sword secret, so Master thought he should hide my existence or lie better.
By this time, he had strictly ordered everyone in the workshop not to talk about my blacksmithing skill to any outsiders. The merchants didn’t believe that I had skills, so he changed the story. He told them that there’s another blacksmith who was currently staying in his workshop. That person was bad-tempered, so they rarely showed their face.
Unlike when they heard about me, they easily believed that story. Muu.
However, that changed their perception of me to ‘a newly hired live-in apprentice maid’ even though he said nothing about me. That’s the reason the kids in other workshops invited me to the harvest festival.
After that, my surroundings’ perception of me changed steadily. By the end of the harvest festival, I had turned into an apprentice maid. Since I disclosed various recipes to the landlady, many recipes got shared from her, and I heard that I was quite popular with the neighborhood housewives…
Vector’s request to create a magic sword improved Master’s opinion towards me at once. When we talked about that matter, Master had a strained laugh and told me he didn’t expect that there’s a blacksmith who was far more skillful than him. I told him this resulted from training here, but he didn’t believe me at all. Muumuu.
However, there’s no doubt that a lot of bad things would happen if my ability was revealed1. Master who thought so consulted with Vector, who promised not to leak my information. He then took various measurements.
As a result, they said that Master got the magic sword forged for Vector through his connections.
In addition, Master really had connections to get magic swords and rare weapons, so the Blacksmith Guild believed him easily. In fact, Master used his connections to get two new katanas before the harvest festival.
Making technical analysis using a single sword wouldn’t be possible. Even if he spent a lot of money on the two new swords, it wasn’t for naught. That sounds just like what Master, a metalsmith addict, would say.
And there were traces of some people trying to find the source, probably because Vector’s magic swords had an exceptional performance.
Although Vector had some escorts guard me, Master was still uneasy with that alone. He then made another plan here. He heard about the escorts directly from Vector. However, I hadn’t heard about the escorts from him, so I pretended that I just knew it for the first time. After all, I noticed them on my own.
For that reason, Master wanted to divert the attention from me to him by raising an exciting topic when people were gathering around him.
In fact, the show originally wasn’t only a place for newcomers and young blacksmiths to exhibit their works, but also a place for masters to show off their skills. However, the masters had a tacit understanding not to bring their weapons since it ended up with a fight almost every time… What are you doing, Master?
Anyway, Master Arnold already told them he wanted to announce a new weapon, and the guild executives agreed to it wholeheartedly. That was only to be expected. Everyone was interested in Master’s new weapon. After all, he was also famous in neighboring countries… Master sure was amazing.
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He made various preparations like this, bringing three katanas to the show as a reference and several swords he forged.
As I said earlier, two of the katanas were obtained through his connections. They came from a dungeon of the famous Labyrinth City in the neighboring country.
He had disciples who settled in Labyrinth City, and it was possible to get magic weapons through that connection. To be honest, I was surprised to learn that they could get Hourai swords other than purchasing it via imported products.
There were several adventurers in Labyrinth City who had acquired ‘Swordsmanship: Katana’ skill with their own power, and those people would buy up all the katanas found in the dungeon. That’s why it’s not popular outside the city… I wondered how many katanas those people had wasted until they learned that skill. It’s scary imagining the amount of money they spent.
Anyway, let’s move on to the new sword Master completed.
Master’s new sword was a curved sword. A curved sword was called Shamshir, Talwar, or Falchion. Depending on the item, its blade might curve even more.
The curved sword forged by Master had a thick blade, emphasizing its strength. He couldn’t forge a blade as thin as a katana, so this plan might hurt his pride. But he saw the curve of the katana and wondered if he could apply it to something else. That’s where it all started.
Master wasn’t very convinced, but all the curved swords he brought to the show could be used in actual battles, so many merchants offered business talks on the spot. He received suggestions to lengthen the blade and increase the weight to make an excellent curved sword used when riding horses. Master’s eyes were shining when he told me that. He most likely would try making a prototype after this.
Master could forge a sword that could be used in actual battle in just a few months. He was amazing.
… Well, that means Master wasn’t boasting about the katana, but he did it with completely different intentions…
The reason he didn’t tell me in advance was that Ed was in good shape when I supervised him the entire time, so he didn’t want to bother me. And Ed did forge a ‘high quality’ sword, causing me to be unable to refute him.
After Ed finished his sword, Master was busy with a lot of things before the show and didn’t have enough free time to talk to me… Nah, the result was okay, so don’t worry about it.
| Author: Ash | Original Source: Syosetu | Word Count: 2654 characters |
| Translator: Mii | English Source: Re:Library | Word Count: 1101 words |
Master apologized for showing off the katana I gave to him as a bribe, but I already gave it to him, and I didn’t mind as long as he didn’t tell anyone I forged that katana.
That being said, I misunderstood Master, thinking that he wanted to brag about the katana! It’s because I only heard a part of the story from Ed last night, but…! I’m really sorry!
Master was a metalsmith addict, okay? I could imagine him honestly getting proud of holding a rare weapon, you know? It can’t be helped that I misunderstood him.… No, I’m honestly apologetic. I’m really sorry.
In addition, he told others that the imaginary mysterious blacksmith left in New Year. The teacher Ed boasted about was also this mysterious blacksmith, so Ed was making sure not to call me ‘Teacher’ outside the workshop.
Well, I rarely went outside, so this doesn’t concern me that much. Ed also said he would try not to talk outside the workshop as much as possible. You really should be careful, ‘kay?
As a thank you for supervising Ed, Master introduced me to his disciple who lived in Labyrinth City. If I had any problems when I went there, I shouldn’t hesitate to rely on him. Thanks!
He returned the full fee I had paid for using the smithy until now. Also, I could stay here as long as I like… I should pay for the steel I used, but I didn’t have to worry about the furnace cost. Really? Are you serious!?
Huh? Wait, I’m indebted to Master now, aren’t I…?
Anyway, a lot of my anxiety had been dispelled by Master and I finished supervising the apprentices, so I would like to seriously train my blacksmithing!
First, I checked my status. Seeing my [Blacksmithing] skill getting stuck in LV8 for a long time made me sick. And I vented that resentment by blacksmithing. I mean, I want to level it up already…
Oh? Wait, it’s LV9 now? Why?… Ah, maybe it’s because I guided Ed? Or maybe Ed, who received my guidance, got a good result? I feel like it’s something like that… But with this; I broke through another wall! All I had to do now was forge swords with all my might!
Ah, leaving that aside, I became twelve years old in February. Happy birthday to me.
I secretly ate curry and cake in my room. It’s delicious. The cake was a rare cheesecake. A sponge cake sounds cheap, you know…?
Eh? Why didn’t I invite Triela and the others to celebrate it? But we never celebrated birthdays since we were in the orphanage.
… On the first day of every month, we gathered and celebrated the children whose birthday was in that month. Just that. It’s because we were poor.
After my lonely celebration, I measured my height. It grew one centimeter, and I finally reached 140 cm!
I had never been so happy… You understand, right? I could make platform shoes, but being tall sure was nice…
Eh? You didn’t understand a kid’s feelings? Should I kill you?
As I sulked, Triela and the others came and took me away. They told me they wanted to celebrate my birthday. For real?
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Um, well… it would be a lie to say that I wasn’t happy. I was thrilled. I got ahead of myself and made a cheesecake; you know! I felt a bit complicated when I celebrated my birthday and prepared my own cake, but that was that, this was this! It was still fun!
They didn’t give me any presents, but Arle and the girls gave me treats with their utmost effort… I cried a little. The meal also served as a thank you for all the things I had done since we reunited.
After the boys congratulated me, they became silent at the corner of the room. However, they could eat the treats and there was a cake, so everyone was smiling from beginning to end.
Ah, of course there’s no alcohol. We were minors. The boys drank too much back in the orphanage, so the girls banned them from drinking.
Cain and Boman looked dissatisfied, but Maricle obediently reflected. Ryuu also thought that liquor was dangerous. Ryuu’s growth was really extreme…
Also, I didn’t expect that Maricle also liked liquor… That’s great! It might be interesting to give him some liquor in the next few years. Let’s drink together! I don’t know about Cain and Boman. They could buy liquor themselves.
I continued my blacksmith training after my birthday. I had nothing to do, and I wanted to raise the level quickly and do something else. It would be nice if I could raise it to LV10 this winter, but I wasn’t confident if I could make it in time.
Speaking of which, I stayed in the forest last year, eh… What did I do back then? Hmm… If I remember right, I tried to make a sword, right? I was doing the same thing now. I didn’t grow at all…!
No, no. I was growing taller, and my ***** were getting bigger. This was an improvement. It’s okay, I shouldn’t get panicked yet.
What did I do after that? … Ah, I did my daily routine almost every day, huh? I didn’t have much to do, so I had a lot of free time… I haven’t done my daily routine recently, huh?
Eh? It’s a daily routine, so I should do it every day? Rather, it’s strange that I hadn’t done it recently? Ah, yeah. You’re right.
Ah…… Yeah, let’s go far away again in the spring.
By that time, my blacksmith skill might have reached the maximum. It should be fine to leave the royal capital and go somewhere else, right? Maybe I should show up in Harula? It’s been a while since I last saw Lily and Arisa, and I also want to meet Yui and Shin.
Well, for that reason, I had to reach [Blacksmithing] skill LV10 first.
After that, I concentrated on forging swords more than ever, and by the time the snow melted in March, my blacksmithing skill level had finally reached 10.
At last, I’d reached it! I fulfilled my dream!
But I also mass-produced magic swords using the material swords I forged, so I gained more experience after reaching the goal.
Anyway, I could finally do things other than forging swords… I’m already tired of doing this.
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For the time being, I guess I settled it all here, so let’s go out for a while and change my mood. Hohoho!
| Author: Ash | Original Source: Syosetu | Word Count: 2738 characters |
| Translator: Mii | English Source: Re:Library | Word Count: 0 words |
The next morning, Arnold who returned with Alphonse called me to explain about yesterday’s matter.
To put it simply, the reason he brought out the katana was to divert everyone’s attention away from me.
Since I started staying at this workshop, he told the merchants who often visited the workshop I was ‘a young but skillful blacksmith.’
But no one would believe a child like me was skillful. According to Master, “No one believes me unless they see you working with their own eyes.” I was grateful for that, but also not… Oh well. I didn’t want to stand out, so it’s fine?
Later on, I asked him to keep the fact that I could forge a sword secret, so Master thought he should hide my existence or lie better.
By this time, he had strictly ordered everyone in the workshop not to talk about my blacksmithing skill to any outsiders. The merchants didn’t believe that I had skills, so he changed the story. He told them that there’s another blacksmith who was currently staying in his workshop. That person was bad-tempered, so they rarely showed their face.
Unlike when they heard about me, they easily believed that story. Muu.
However, that changed their perception of me to ‘a newly hired live-in apprentice maid’ even though he said nothing about me. That’s the reason the kids in other workshops invited me to the harvest festival.
After that, my surroundings’ perception of me changed steadily. By the end of the harvest festival, I had turned into an apprentice maid. Since I disclosed various recipes to the landlady, many recipes got shared from her, and I heard that I was quite popular with the neighborhood housewives…
Vector’s request to create a magic sword improved Master’s opinion towards me at once. When we talked about that matter, Master had a strained laugh and told me he didn’t expect that there’s a blacksmith who was far more skillful than him. I told him this resulted from training here, but he didn’t believe me at all. Muumuu.
However, there’s no doubt that a lot of bad things would happen if my ability was revealed1. Master who thought so consulted with Vector, who promised not to leak my information. He then took various measurements.
As a result, they said that Master got the magic sword forged for Vector through his connections.
In addition, Master really had connections to get magic swords and rare weapons, so the Blacksmith Guild believed him easily. In fact, Master used his connections to get two new katanas before the harvest festival.
Making technical analysis using a single sword wouldn’t be possible. Even if he spent a lot of money on the two new swords, it wasn’t for naught. That sounds just like what Master, a metalsmith addict, would say.
And there were traces of some people trying to find the source, probably because Vector’s magic swords had an exceptional performance.
Although Vector had some escorts guard me, Master was still uneasy with that alone. He then made another plan here. He heard about the escorts directly from Vector. However, I hadn’t heard about the escorts from him, so I pretended that I just knew it for the first time. After all, I noticed them on my own.
For that reason, Master wanted to divert the attention from me to him by raising an exciting topic when people were gathering around him.
In fact, the show originally wasn’t only a place for newcomers and young blacksmiths to exhibit their works, but also a place for masters to show off their skills. However, the masters had a tacit understanding not to bring their weapons since it ended up with a fight almost every time… What are you doing, Master?
Anyway, Master Arnold already told them he wanted to announce a new weapon, and the guild executives agreed to it wholeheartedly. That was only to be expected. Everyone was interested in Master’s new weapon. After all, he was also famous in neighboring countries… Master sure was amazing.
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He made various preparations like this, bringing three katanas to the show as a reference and several swords he forged.
As I said earlier, two of the katanas were obtained through his connections. They came from a dungeon of the famous Labyrinth City in the neighboring country.
He had disciples who settled in Labyrinth City, and it was possible to get magic weapons through that connection. To be honest, I was surprised to learn that they could get Hourai swords other than purchasing it via imported products.
There were several adventurers in Labyrinth City who had acquired ‘Swordsmanship: Katana’ skill with their own power, and those people would buy up all the katanas found in the dungeon. That’s why it’s not popular outside the city… I wondered how many katanas those people had wasted until they learned that skill. It’s scary imagining the amount of money they spent.
Anyway, let’s move on to the new sword Master completed.
Master’s new sword was a curved sword. A curved sword was called Shamshir, Talwar, or Falchion. Depending on the item, its blade might curve even more.
The curved sword forged by Master had a thick blade, emphasizing its strength. He couldn’t forge a blade as thin as a katana, so this plan might hurt his pride. But he saw the curve of the katana and wondered if he could apply it to something else. That’s where it all started.
Master wasn’t very convinced, but all the curved swords he brought to the show could be used in actual battles, so many merchants offered business talks on the spot. He received suggestions to lengthen the blade and increase the weight to make an excellent curved sword used when riding horses. Master’s eyes were shining when he told me that. He most likely would try making a prototype after this.
Master could forge a sword that could be used in actual battle in just a few months. He was amazing.
… Well, that means Master wasn’t boasting about the katana, but he did it with completely different intentions…
The reason he didn’t tell me in advance was that Ed was in good shape when I supervised him the entire time, so he didn’t want to bother me. And Ed did forge a ‘high quality’ sword, causing me to be unable to refute him.
After Ed finished his sword, Master was busy with a lot of things before the show and didn’t have enough free time to talk to me… Nah, the result was okay, so don’t worry about it.
| Author: Ash | Original Source: Syosetu | Word Count: 2654 characters |
| Translator: Mii | English Source: Re:Library | Word Count: 1101 words |
Master apologized for showing off the katana I gave to him as a bribe, but I already gave it to him, and I didn’t mind as long as he didn’t tell anyone I forged that katana.
That being said, I misunderstood Master, thinking that he wanted to brag about the katana! It’s because I only heard a part of the story from Ed last night, but…! I’m really sorry!
Master was a metalsmith addict, okay? I could imagine him honestly getting proud of holding a rare weapon, you know? It can’t be helped that I misunderstood him.… No, I’m honestly apologetic. I’m really sorry.
In addition, he told others that the imaginary mysterious blacksmith left in New Year. The teacher Ed boasted about was also this mysterious blacksmith, so Ed was making sure not to call me ‘Teacher’ outside the workshop.
Well, I rarely went outside, so this doesn’t concern me that much. Ed also said he would try not to talk outside the workshop as much as possible. You really should be careful, ‘kay?
As a thank you for supervising Ed, Master introduced me to his disciple who lived in Labyrinth City. If I had any problems when I went there, I shouldn’t hesitate to rely on him. Thanks!
He returned the full fee I had paid for using the smithy until now. Also, I could stay here as long as I like… I should pay for the steel I used, but I didn’t have to worry about the furnace cost. Really? Are you serious!?
Huh? Wait, I’m indebted to Master now, aren’t I…?
Anyway, a lot of my anxiety had been dispelled by Master and I finished supervising the apprentices, so I would like to seriously train my blacksmithing!
First, I checked my status. Seeing my [Blacksmithing] skill getting stuck in LV8 for a long time made me sick. And I vented that resentment by blacksmithing. I mean, I want to level it up already…
Oh? Wait, it’s LV9 now? Why?… Ah, maybe it’s because I guided Ed? Or maybe Ed, who received my guidance, got a good result? I feel like it’s something like that… But with this; I broke through another wall! All I had to do now was forge swords with all my might!
Ah, leaving that aside, I became twelve years old in February. Happy birthday to me.
I secretly ate curry and cake in my room. It’s delicious. The cake was a rare cheesecake. A sponge cake sounds cheap, you know…?
Eh? Why didn’t I invite Triela and the others to celebrate it? But we never celebrated birthdays since we were in the orphanage.
… On the first day of every month, we gathered and celebrated the children whose birthday was in that month. Just that. It’s because we were poor.
After my lonely celebration, I measured my height. It grew one centimeter, and I finally reached 140 cm!
I had never been so happy… You understand, right? I could make platform shoes, but being tall sure was nice…
Eh? You didn’t understand a kid’s feelings? Should I kill you?
As I sulked, Triela and the others came and took me away. They told me they wanted to celebrate my birthday. For real?
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Um, well… it would be a lie to say that I wasn’t happy. I was thrilled. I got ahead of myself and made a cheesecake; you know! I felt a bit complicated when I celebrated my birthday and prepared my own cake, but that was that, this was this! It was still fun!
They didn’t give me any presents, but Arle and the girls gave me treats with their utmost effort… I cried a little. The meal also served as a thank you for all the things I had done since we reunited.
After the boys congratulated me, they became silent at the corner of the room. However, they could eat the treats and there was a cake, so everyone was smiling from beginning to end.
Ah, of course there’s no alcohol. We were minors. The boys drank too much back in the orphanage, so the girls banned them from drinking.
Cain and Boman looked dissatisfied, but Maricle obediently reflected. Ryuu also thought that liquor was dangerous. Ryuu’s growth was really extreme…
Also, I didn’t expect that Maricle also liked liquor… That’s great! It might be interesting to give him some liquor in the next few years. Let’s drink together! I don’t know about Cain and Boman. They could buy liquor themselves.
I continued my blacksmith training after my birthday. I had nothing to do, and I wanted to raise the level quickly and do something else. It would be nice if I could raise it to LV10 this winter, but I wasn’t confident if I could make it in time.
Speaking of which, I stayed in the forest last year, eh… What did I do back then? Hmm… If I remember right, I tried to make a sword, right? I was doing the same thing now. I didn’t grow at all…!
No, no. I was growing taller, and my ***** were getting bigger. This was an improvement. It’s okay, I shouldn’t get panicked yet.
What did I do after that? … Ah, I did my daily routine almost every day, huh? I didn’t have much to do, so I had a lot of free time… I haven’t done my daily routine recently, huh?
Eh? It’s a daily routine, so I should do it every day? Rather, it’s strange that I hadn’t done it recently? Ah, yeah. You’re right.
Ah…… Yeah, let’s go far away again in the spring.
By that time, my blacksmith skill might have reached the maximum. It should be fine to leave the royal capital and go somewhere else, right? Maybe I should show up in Harula? It’s been a while since I last saw Lily and Arisa, and I also want to meet Yui and Shin.
Well, for that reason, I had to reach [Blacksmithing] skill LV10 first.
After that, I concentrated on forging swords more than ever, and by the time the snow melted in March, my blacksmithing skill level had finally reached 10.
At last, I’d reached it! I fulfilled my dream!
But I also mass-produced magic swords using the material swords I forged, so I gained more experience after reaching the goal.
Anyway, I could finally do things other than forging swords… I’m already tired of doing this.
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For the time being, I guess I settled it all here, so let’s go out for a while and change my mood. Hohoho!
