Chapter 135 – Bear-san Goes To The Capital To Look For Mithril
After leaving the blacksmith, we set out to the capital to look for a mithril knife. Well, even though I said set out, it only took us a few minutes, thanks to the Bear Transfer Gate.
I had actually gone to the capital just a few days prior to this; I had gone to see Princess Flora since I finally got so rice to spare.
I made a lot of bite-sized onigiri that would suit the taste of a child and brought them to her.
Like usual, Eleanora-san and the king managed to sniff out my presence and ca to eat them, too.
Well, Princess Flora was still a child and couldn’t eat a lot of onigiri even though I made them small, so it was okay for them to have so as well.
Although it hadn’t been long since I was last at the capital, it was different for Fina.
「It’s the capital!」
Fina said happily as we left the Bear House.
「It’s really a strange feeling, sohow. I can’t believe that we were in Crimonia just a mont ago.」
「It’s been a while since you last ca to the capital, so is there sothing you want to see? We could pass by if you want.」
There was no reason to hurry, so I asked her if she wanted to go anywhere in particular, but she shook her head.
「Just walking around is fun enough.」
She was right, simply walking around aimlessly was a way to have fun.
Doing so sightseeing might also be good, so we decided to have fun on our way to the smithy. I soon realized sothing important, though. I had no idea where the smithy was.
I had asked Nert-san where it was, but she didn’t know.
Since I didn’t know where it was, I brought out the Bear Map, which showed the whole capital in detail.
Yep, I had no idea where it was.
The capital seed just like Tokyo’s tropolitan area on the map; it was impossible to find a specific shop in this ss.
Well, it might be possible if there was so sort of search function, but sadly there was nothing like that, so I had no chance finding it using just my eyes.
Well, it was a smithy, so the Comrce Guild should be able to tell where it was.
We headed to the Comrce Guild, which ant we had to go to the main avenue: a really large avenue where carriages were always coming and going. There were other ways to get to the guild, but that would an taking a detour, so we resigned ourselves and walked onto the main avenue.
Even for a main avenue, there was a lot of pedestrian traffic here, and a lot of people around also ant a lot of people looking and talking about : sothing I was used to by now.
Hey, mother over there, please tell your child that it’s not nice to point at people with his finger.
Hey, the person over there, stop being so astonished just by seeing soone, please...
You there, weren’t you taught that you shouldn’t laugh at other people?
Also, the person on the other side, the suit isn’t on sale, so even if you go to a tailor, they won’t sell it to you. So don’t go to a clothing shop, please...
The person next to the one from before, don’t order one for yourself, too, please...
Yes, I’m a Bear...
Yes, it’s embarrassing. I’m used to it now, though.
You think it’s cute? Thank you very much.
You want to hug ? Please refrain from doing so.
You’re going to tell soone else that I’m here? Please don’t.
‘I will stand guard, so go,’ you say... I’m not an animal, you know! Do you plan on capturing ?
Yeah, I’m the rumored Bear.
You want to touch ? That’s strictly prohibited.
I rebuked everything that was happening around in my head, and as I continued to do so like so sort of idiot, we reached the front door of the Comrce Guild.
As expected from the Comrce Guild of the capital, it was an imnse building, and there were a lot of people going about.
There were also a lot of people at the Comrce Guild of Crimonia, but it was still incomparable to the amount of people here.
With this many people around, even more people were staring at , but there was no way that I wouldn’t enter after coming this far.
I took Fina’s hand, and was about to enter the guild, when a voice called out from behind.
「Yuna-san!」
I turned around, wondering who was it, and was t by Shia, who seed to be out of breath.
「Shia? Why are you here?」
「I should be the one saying that!」
She was right; it was weirder for to be here than her.
She was still catching her breath. Was it because she had been running? Her hair did look a bit ruffled, and she was trying to put it back in place. It was before lunchti, so shouldn’t she still be at school?
「What about school, Shia?」
「It’s a holiday today.」
「Why are you in your uniform, then?」
「Ah, I was on my way to the Adventurer’s Guild, you see.」
「.........?」
I didn’t understand her. What did her being in her uniform have to do with going to the Adventurer’s Guild?
When I asked her about it,
「This uniform and mantle are made from a special material, so their defence is rather high,」
was how she answered.
Oh right, I might have heard of sothing like that during the guard mission. So, she was going to the Adventurer’s Guild in her uniform because it had such an effect, huh.
Why was she on her way to the Adventurer’s Guild, though?
「So, why are you here, Yuna-san? Oh, and Fina is here as well, I see.」
Fina bowed and greeted her a bit nervously.
Even though they were getting along just fine last ti, they were still a noble and a commoner, huh.
「There should be a dwarf nad Gazar running a smithy here at the capital, but I don’t know where it is, so I ca to the Comrce Guild to ask.」
「A smithy, you say? Gazar......」
Shia started thinking about it while tapping her forehead then clapped her hands loudly.
「Ah, I know about it and can show you the way. Why a smithy, though?」
「You know that Fina can dismantle things, right?」
Shia nodded.
「I asked her to dismantle the Black Tiger I had killed on the guard mission, but we learned that it was impossible to dismantle it without a mithril knife. We’re here since we couldn’t get the knife at Crimonia.」
「So you ca to the capital simply to get a knife!?」
Well, she didn’t know about the Bear Transfer Gate, so no wonder she would be surprised.
「Well, yeah. I had so ti to spare.」
「Even if you have ti, is it really normal for you to co all the way to the capital just for a knife?」
「So, you said you know where the smithy is? If you do, I would like you to tell since I really don’t want to enter this place.」
I looked at the entrance of the Comrce Guild which was packed with people entering and leaving.
Every ti soone passed through the entrance, they always turned their heads to look my way.
I really wanted to get away from here as soon as possible.
「I will show you the way, then.」
「You sure? You’re on your way to the Adventurer’s Guild, right?」
I said even though I had no idea why Shia would go there.
It would really save if she showed the way, though.
「I have so ti left, so it’s okay.」
Taking advantage of Shia’s kindness, we departed towards Gazar’s smithy.
Crimonia was quite big, but the capital was so much bigger that they couldn’t even be compared to each other.
「So, you ca all the way to the capital, taking Fina along, only for a knife?」
「If I’m buying a knife, I want it to fit Fina’s hand well, after all. If I brought it on my own, and it was too big for her, she would have a hard ti using it.」
「I can use big knives, too, you know.」
「That’s no good. If you were to hurt yourself with a knife that was too big for you, I would be the one to bla.」
People would confront for making a 10-year-old girl use a knife... Wait, we weren’t in Japan. This was a different world where there were 10-year-old children who were required to use a knife.
Also, Fina had done her best dismantling many things to obtain the techniques she had now, so I didn’t want to take away her job. If Fina later decided that she didn’t want to dismantle anymore, I would have to deal with that then.
We passed by a stall on the way to the smithy, so I decided to buy so food, like I normally did when passing a stall, and ate it while walking.
「We’re here.」
Thanks to Shia, we arrived at the smithy, which seed to be on the edge of so sort of industrial zone.
Well, if they were striking iron every day in the middle of residential area, they would trouble other people, right?
As we were walking down a gloomy street, we noticed a short dwarf sitting on a chair.
「Ehm, excuse .」
「What is it?」
「Are you Gazar-san?」
「That’s right, but who are you, wearing such crazy clothes?」
This was the first ti soone had called my clothes outright crazy.
「Please don’t worry about my clothes. Could you have a look at this?」
I gave him the letter I had received from Nert-san.
「What is this?」
「Nert-san from Crimonia gave it to ? Or more exactly, it’s from Gold-san, I think?」
Nert-san had went to wake up her husband and had made him write it, right?
Gazar-san read through the letter after I ntioned the couple.
「I understand your problem, but there’s nothing I can do to help you. We are short on ores even here at the capital. The closest mine stopped supplying the ores, so we have to get them from elsewhere, but even then, not much of those ores get to . I would love to make sothing specifically for you since it’s on Gold’s request, but it’s impossible right now.」
I knew it, they were short on ores at the capital, too.
「So, why is there a shortage in the first place? I heard that they aren’t able to mine it anymore, but...」
「It seems that a golem ca out of a cave and made it impossible for them to mine the ore.」
Golem, an inanimate creature. A monster made from earth, stone, or even sotis iron, mithril, and other ores.
「And how is the subjugation getting along?」
「I don’t know. I heard that so adventurers went to subjugate it, but since we still aren’t getting the ores, it seems that they didn’t kill it yet.」
Well, that made sense. There was no way the guild wouldn’t do anything.
If a monster appeared at the mine, there was sure to be a subjugation request.
「Now that I think about it, Mother ntioned sothing about this. She said that the subjugation started to go bad and that we might have to send in the knights.」
「The adventurers who were sent weren’t able to defeat it?」
「I don’t know the details, sorry.」
「I don’t know, either. If you want to know more, go to the Adventurer’s Guild. This isn’t an intelligence bureau, you know...」
He was right, but did that an that I had to go to the Adventurer’s Guild now?
I had the feeling that they were handing off their problems to ...
「We’re going to the sa place now, huh.」
Shia said.
Oh right, Shia had told sothing about being on the way to the Adventurer’s Guild.
Hmm, what should I do? I wanted the mithril knife, not the information about the mine.
「Hmm, I know it’s strange for to ask you this since you are a smith yourself, but does any other smithy have mithril?」
「You might be able to find one, but I don’t think they would sell mithril to a stranger.」
I couldn’t get it at Crimonia, and I couldn’t get it at the capital.
Now that it had co to this, I had no other choice but to go to the mine, and that ant I would have to go to the Adventurer’s Guild first.
I thanked Gazar-san and left his shop.
Since staying here wouldn’t help at all, I headed to the Adventurer’s Guild.
Also, if I didn’t say hello to Sanya-san while I was at the capital, I had a feeling that she would end up being angry at .
Author’s note:
I’m planning on posting a side story for the next update and then return to the original story before maybe doing so more.
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