Eccentric Armorer
I understood from a single glance. This dwarf who is wearing leather top and bottom with large opening on the chest part opened, and posing with feminine gesture is the eccentric little brother of Galbas who gave weapon.
Gelf is a man who is a woman in the inside. It’s my first ti seeing it but, I know from that woman’s “knowledge” that this kind of person existed.
Although the elf called Mira knew about this beforehand, Feld seed like he didn’t know. He froze for so reason just like Er and Mihail. I stepped forward through them, took off the hand protector on my left hand and placed it on the counter.
「It’s an old thing but, can you fix it?」
「Oh, cutie pie, you bring a really rare item with you here. It’s using monster leather that I don’t think I’ve seen before but……what monster it ca from I wonder?」
「I heard my boots were made from Night Stalker but, I don’t know about the hand protector. The toughness and elasticity are different so I think it was from different monster but, although the leather is still good for use, the other parts are reaching their limit.」
「Aamazi~ing, that’s a really rare monster from the west. But, the leather part also has to be cared for you know? Even though it’s said to regenerate from the water and magic power in the air, there is a limit to it. I can fix it but……I have a small request for you, so can you co with to the back?」
「Hm? Got it.」
「W-wait a second!」
Gelf pulled my hand to go to the back, but Mihail hurriedly caught my other hand and stopped us.
「……What?」
「You ask what……you, after looking at……him? Aren’t you thinking anything about it!?」
Mihail should be wary and suspecting whose identity is suspect. And yet why is he this panicked and even grabbed my hand to stop from being dragged away?
「If you’re talking about Gelf’s appearance then, I know from “knowledge” that this kind of person exist. It isn’t really aningful to bother about it that much if you know about it right?」
When I said such thing, Feld and the elf Mira opened their eyes wide in surprise. Gelf who seed to be used to hear similar words like what Mihail said was watching us with amusent and he spoke in admiration after hearing my words.
「You, you are really manly despite being so cute aren’t you……」
And then, *pon* Er hit his hand with a face that looked like he has found an answer to his question.
「Aa, I see. Mihail, you kept talking to him because you are concerned and worried for him huh.」
After being told sothing like that, Mihail who has been making a composed smile all this ti made a sulking face as though he is a kid.
「……Got a problem with that? This guy is a reckless guy who will enter a dangerous place without a care, there is no way I can just leave him alone.」
「…………」
What? Could it be his action and words that seed like probing at until now were actually because he was worried for ? Perhaps I had done and said sothing dangerous without realizing it but……what a troubleso man. He should just say it openly.
「My my, you don’t need to worry like that, I won’t kidnap your 『princess』 to sowhere. I’m an armorer. There is just this armor that I want this cutie to wear for a bit, so please wait here for a little.」
Gelf winked one eye with long eyelashes heavily. It made Mihail stiffened. Gelf dragged to the back of shop with that opening. Er and Feld’s muttering overlapped and reached my ears at that mont.
「「……Princess?」」
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I was dragged forcefully but, I didn’t resist because, it’s strange for to say this but, it might be because I felt sothing like “motherhood” from Gelf who is a male…….
「You are really a child with nerves of steel. Even Mira-chan beca tearful with convulsing expression when she first t you know? No wonder Galbas took a liking to you.」
「……How do you know?」
Galbas told to try eting his little brother, but I haven’t ntioned about it at all to Gelf.
「That knife on your waist, it’s the one that Galbas made in the past right? It looked like the person himself didn’t like it but, he is actually really attached to it. For you to receive it is the proof that he took a liking to you greatly.」
「I bought it……after a fashion.」
I still haven’t paid the price though.
「It’s the sa. Galbas won’t even sold it if not to soone who he liked. Well, that’s why I’ll give it my all and do my best-」
「…………With what?」
「……W-well, it will be fine. He is an eccentric but, he isn’t a bad person at all.」
The elf Mira gave that reassurance that wasn’t reassuring at all.
It seed that she had been in the care of this armorer ever since she was still a low ranked adventurer, but she didn’t sound persuasive at all even if she said that while wiping the cold sweat on her face, Mihail thought with a frown.
The warrior Feld and the spirit user Mira were adventurers that Mihail’s grandfather introduced to serve as the crown prince’s bodyguard. They were the mbers of adventurer party Rainbow Sword.
It was a famous adventurer party that his grandfather was friendly with since his youth. The mbers other than the dwarf leader and the elf Mira had changed several tis, but due to the party’s achievent and reliability, even lrose House had asked them to do many requests until now.
Currently the party mbers numbered four people since the party’s sorcerer retired several years ago and so the party was refraining from doing any full-scale work, but the three mbers other than the scout who was searching for a new sorcerer had started doing activity together again since around a year ago because the efficiency was bad when they all moved around individually.
And then this ti the dwarf leader didn’t join with the work this ti as a guard inside the city. Only these two served as bodyguards.
The city field trip this ti began from the wish of the crown prince Ervan Fon Claydale, but that wish was realized because of Mihail setting it up, because he wanted to show the “reality” to Ervan who was sowhat lacking in tension similar like her mother the first queen who was forrly the daughter of a viscount.
Mihail and Ervan were friend, but their way of thinking as noble was different. Mihail was trying to determine whether Ervan was a suitable person to be the next king.
Mihail fundantally didn’t trust other people. He trusted his family but he thought that only his grandfather was worthy of faith. It would be a different matter for trusting soone as a noble but, if he learned that Ervan wasn’t worthy for his trust as soone to serve in the future, Mihail would abandon Ervan and supported the second prince who was still young or the first princess who descended from the lineage of genuine high ranked noble. He would consider such act as sothing that couldn’t be helped.
This city field trip began from such thinking but, Mihail encountered “her” in the middle of that.
She was blending with the crowd inconspicuously. However, his gaze was drawn to her for so reason.
When he was a child, Mihail liked to see the portrait of his “aunt” who left the house before he was born. She was a beautiful woman with dignified aura but gentle smile. The feeling that Mihail felt at that ti might be similar to a first love.
“She” was dressed in male attire but he knew that she was a girl from a glance. She had similar atmosphere with the woman in the portrait, so his gaze was drawn to her the instant he saw her.
When Mihail unconsciously followed that figure with his eyes, the adventurer Feld also noticed the girl for a different reason and told him that “he” was being targeted by so delinquents.
The girl looked even younger than Mihail, but “he” looked like he was quite strong despite her age so there would be no problem even if they left this alone, Feld explained and asked what they should do.
The usual Mihail would just ignore it but, Mihail hesitated just for a mont and it was at that timing the sheltered Ervan said to save “him”, and that was how Mihail ended up getting involved with “her”.
The dense Feld and Ervan didn’t noticed her gender, but Mihail felt irritated at her lack of vigilance that was like a “child” who lacked common sense.
Why didn’t she realize that she had an appearance that attracted people’s gaze? Because of that she was even drawing needless troubles to her. Mihail should be soone who drew a line that separated him from other people, but he couldn’t understand why his heart was disturbed to this degree toward this girl that he even ended up saying unnecessary cutting remark to her.
He sulked when Ervan pointed that out. He was made to realize of his childish part that he had forgotten along with the growth of his body, and the girl was dragged away by the eccentric while he was in astonishnt.
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「Oka~ay, sorry to make everyone waitt♪」
The eccentric dwarf Gelf returned. He couldn’t do sothing like peeking due to his pride as a gentleman, but when he turned his gaze to check whether the girl was alright…….
「Uwah, as expected from Gelf……」
Mira sounded like she had expected of what to co. Mihail only heard her voice, but all the n including him couldn’t say anything from surprise.
「Gelf……it’s a bit hard to move in.」
「I wonder, if it’s still too big for you?」
Her appearance was completely different from before. The girl was wearing leather short boots and knee-length skirt of leather dress. Her two arms that extended from the sleeveless shoulders and the white calves that extended from the skirt looked dazzling. Mihail unconsciously averted his gaze with embarrassnt.
Even so what drew his eyes the most might be her face.
With the boorish shawl that hid her face removed, the untied hair with the ash dirtying it vanished hanging down on her shoulders, the “pink tinged blonde hair” that looked shiny and vibrant jade green eyes, they were really similar with the portrait of the woman that Mihail admired and harbored a feeling toward that was like first love.
「You……are a woman?」
Compared to that line of Feld who didn’t read the atmosphere at all, the attitude of Ervan who was staring with reddening face beside him was more irritating to Mihail for so reason.
「It’s the prototype that I created previously for temporary sewing but, I’m glad it can match your size with just simple adjustnt. Use it for now until the repair of your equipnts is finished. Then the next ti you co you can tell how does it feel wearing it.」
「……Yes.」
It seed that this outfit that I was told to change into is lent to as replacent until my equipnt’s repair is finished. ……But, I can’t understand why I’m given full body equipnt to replace hand protector and boots. Furthermore Gelf even saw through the illusion of ash on my hair instantly, dispelled it, and even combed it.
「That attire, originally I should be the one wearing it but, I prioritized shape and function too much that it beca impossible to wear for .」
Even though he is a dwarf, he wanted to wear this kind of thin and fluttery thing huh…….
But, he said that it was for temporary sewing but, it seed this equipnt is properly using real leather. Although thin, its defensive power is considerable and it also provided softness and elasticity to so degree.
「……Also, take this with you too. Wear it properly okay? No matter what okay-!?」
「Yes.」
At the end Gelf pulled sothing from the shelf where he put thin fluttery clothes and made grasped it.
What’s this……he was completely shocked when I changed but, is this thing related to that? More importantly, I was told that this attire is made from normal leather so I won’t stand out but, am I really more inconspicuous like this?
I don’t want to stand out because after this I’m going to work. I dressed as man for that but, Gelf told that soon I would be unable to hide my gender by dressing as man.
He persuaded that if that was the case, it would be better if I didn’t use male clothing but attire like cloak to hide my body and made my age and gender ambiguous and wore equipnt that prioritized function. He told that this is the normal attire for female adventurer recently but……Feld and others are looking at with dumbfounded face, so it made felt sohow anxious.
Perhaps that’s why even though what Gelf did is the sa like Galbas who gave this black knife, I’m feeling a bit reluctant to thank him honestly.
「You……you are a woman huh?」
As expected it’s obvious with this appearance. I received such puzzled impression from Feld, but for so reason such inconsequential comnt made felt a bit gloomy.
The atmosphere is getting awkward, so let’s leave this place right away. I can ask more about this equipnt and my equipnt that I entrusted to Gelf later when the repair is finished.
At this rate it feels like they’ll also go with the flow and accompany until the adventurer guild, so I go outside first, pointed behind at the nearby person who seems to be a knight that they are still inside, and then without stopping I blend with the crowd and vanished. Then I heard from afar the voices looking for .
After that I checked the item that Gelf put in my grasp before parting. This thing, in that woman’s “knowledge” it’s called an underwear. It’s a small thing made from cotton and it’s the type that is tied at the sides with string.
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Originally I’m going to head to the adventurer guild from here to investigate about my target, the rcenary of Dawn, but it’s possible that Feld and others will also head to the guild, so I should wait for several days before going there.
Even so I still need to obtain information. Because I shortened my travelling ti to here, it’s possible that my contact from assassin guild still hasn’t arrived to the capital. But, if it’s not a contact, but a “watcher” with so level of strength, then it’s possible that they also used the sa path like .
Nothing happened at that day. But, when at the next day I did the sa thing like yesterday, killing ti by sitting on a wall at a back alley near the capital’s cathedral while using Stealth to deceive the eyes of normal citizens, after around two hours passed a voice called out to from the “shadow” of the tree a little bit of distance away.
『──”Ash covered”, there is sothing that I want to ask you.』
「…………」
As I thought, soone from the guild contacted . But, instead of saying 『I have information』, it’s 『there is sothing I want to ask』 instead. What’s the aning of that?
I jumped down from the wall and started walking to the opposite direction of the voice.
『……Oi』
The voice just now called out to again from inside a different shadow, but I’m not planning to stop.
「I don’t have anything to say to soone who won’t say themselves.」
『…………』
The watcher fell silent at the words that I muttered. Several seconds later, a cat beastman with her long hair fluttering behind her appeared from the gloomy alley in front of .
「I want to ask you sothing. “Ash crowned”……what did you do to Guy?」
「…………」
No way……Shadow User Radha huh.
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