165 Chapter 10-10, I knew you were in charge of Othi.

"The eel..."

I was secretly depressed watching a pile of eels (wreckage) in the kitchen. I thought I'd enjoy it a few more times. I lost all the onions, so I take this for granted.

Tuna and other fish are still there, so I can enjoy the seafood bowl with them on it, but I didn't expect to run out of onions so quickly, so it can be surprisingly damaging.

"Dear Tenma, what have you done?

Looking down at the mountain of eels (wreckage), Aina appeared in the kitchen with a sneak peek.

"No, nothing...... just wondering if the sea urchin shell will fertilize? I just thought."

"You're lying."

He lied to me, but it didn't seem to work for Eina. But the sea urchin shell will contain calcium or something, so let's keep it dry for experimental use.

"I've never seen anything called a uni... but the first person to eat it has a lot of nerve. Normally I don't think I can eat something like this... but it's delicious when I try it. I also feel like I know that Master Tenma will be depressed. So let's talk to Maria."

Saying so, Aina headed to the room where Maria was, with a sea urchin shell.

"Dear Maria, excuse me"

"Aina, was there a tenma?

As Aina knocked on the room, Maria opened the door with a worrying voice. And when you look at me behind Eina,

"Tenma, I'm sorry"

And I've apologized. The story that went on afterwards said that Maria also knew I was depressed, and she remembered that a little royalty had been eating and drinking at our house. Well, Maria doesn't come to eat much, but Tida and Luna, of course, and Ernesto and Lyle to the king, come there often. I bring ingredients once and for all, and Caesar lets the two of us have the money for Tida and Luna, but he also brings it out of me. Well, most of the food I received as a result of a request from the Alliance is for my take-out, but some ingredients are as rare as I have bought in the south, so I will be spending the money there. By the way, Maria knew that Tida and Luna were coming for a little meal, but she was surprised that the Kings had done so quite a bit more than she had expected.

Reflecting on eating too many onions, Eina and Grandpa told me where the kings were, and they asked Eina to see how I was doing without knowing what to do with anger and sorrow.

"Dear Maria, I have a proposition for that."

Not sure how to answer Maria's apology, Eina offered her a sea urchin shell in front of Maria.

"Aina...... what's wrong with that?

Maria seemed a little frustrated that Aina had pinched her mouth from the side, and there was only a slight tongue in her voice.

"Actually, it seems that this (...) is the identity of the eel I just received, but doesn't Maria know this (...) well?

Maria, who looked closely at the shell of the eel on her palm when Eina told her, gave a look of surprise at how familiar the eel seemed.

"This (...) is that onion... Was this (...) so good?

"Did you still? It was the same trait I had previously heard from Maria, so I thought what if... Maria, why don't you pick this up from your parents' house instead of apologizing?

"Right! I like that! Tenma, I don't know if this is going to be an apology to date, but I'll let you bring a bunch of cows from my hometown instead!

Maria, who found out who the eel was, was suddenly in high tension and waved me hard over and over again.

"Yeah... what the hell is it?

I can't keep up with all the sudden developments. I tried to visit Maria like that, but Maria started writing as fiercely as if she'd forgotten about me... Well, because she was in too much of a hurry, she'd creepily rounded up and thrown away the letters she'd written over and over...

"So Eina. How did this happen to Maria?

"Actually, it seems that this creature called the sea urchin is being treated like garbage in Maria's hometown."

Anything. Maria's hometown is the Duke's territory facing the northern sea, and the fishing grounds owned by that Duke's territory seem to be crabby, and the people don't recognize it as food and it gets in the way of fishing, so they regularly remove it and dispose of it.

Aina said she didn't realize it was just the contents of the eel, but she looked at the shell of the eel and realized it was something that Maria would easily get.

"I got it! Eina, hurry up and arrange for this to be delivered to my parents!

Copy that, sir.

Upon receiving the letter, Aina went to give instructions to the man who was waiting outside the mansion to take it to the royal castle.

"Now you can eat all you want! Sooner or later, my father and brother may notice the deliciousness of a cow and move to make it famous, so claim the merit of discovering that a cow will be edible before then (sell thanks) so that you can be sure to get a cow! And the kelp!

Maria says that no one eats cows (even in the surrounding territories and neighboring countries), and if this is accepted, it will definitely be a big industry. They sell that information to Maria's brother (now Duke) and father (former Duke) so they can get my share of the cow for free in return.

Maria, too tense, took my hands and started dancing. Well, even when I started dancing, it wasn't like a social dance, it wasn't like a dance like a drunk would make it appropriate in a liquor store, but despite that dance, Maria's movements were somewhere classy.

As Maria's tension rose, and when she hugged me with a dance finish,

"Hey Aina... As for my son, what reaction do you think it would be right to see this scene?

"... shouldn't I laugh?

At the end of the voice was Aina, who was looking at me and Maria without expression, and Lyle, who seemed to have perceived something delicious with her own sense of smell.

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Time stops for a while, the four of us. Lady Lyle didn't know how to react, Eina left me out, Maria was embarrassed to be seen shaking, and so on, and I tried not to say anything extra until someone made a move, which resulted in a strange space of tension.

"Lyle! Sit there!

"Ooh..."

The first person to start moving was Maria. Lady Lyle, who was suddenly called by her name, sat up on the spot (hallway) in a very personal way, feeling like she couldn't help but do as she was told. And a sermon that starts there. Half of that sermon probably contained Maria's illumination. Well, even in half, Maria's illuminated sermon was added to the original sermon, so it actually seems to be nearly double what it normally is.

"Tenma...... I'm so sorry"

Lady Lyle apologized to me for the food and drink that she had done before, roughly three hours after Maria's sermon had begun, and until then, Lady Lyle had been preaching to Maria while she sat in the hallway.

By the way, as a result of the sermon, she was paid from Lyle's salary, which was administered by Maria, and Lyle's monthly allowance was further reduced.

By the way, it was Master Lyle who came to us in anticipation of a meal, but he couldn't seem to tell the boulders to eat after Maria's sermon, and soon after he apologized to me, he went back to Royal Castle with the Tidas. They're about to take a second sermon with the king. Later on, I heard that Ernesto was not present during the second sermon, which also led to the third sermon to which Ernesto was added...

The next day I behaved Maria and the others a bowl of seafood,

"This is the gear we're going to give Amy. It's scratched because it's the one I used to use, but it's good and light and durable, so I can use it enough after a little repair."

It was later than planned, but I decided to give Amy the protective equipment that I had in my magic bag.

This was used before I worked in Gunjo City, a protective gear made of the leather of the bipedal lizard demon Lizardman. It seems that it was made by collecting good parts, and it is a delicacy that I am proud of by the craftsmen, but because of the focus on making (...) good parts, it seems that the general adult male does not enter the body, and even the female has become a tight size.

Thanks to this, even my earnings at the time were at a price that I could buy. Well, it seemed like someone at the store suspected me of stealing the money, but I thought I'd rather sell it pretending I didn't notice than leave it there. Whatever, even women are tough, so it was the only size I could wear as a child.

It was light and durable and easy to move, so it was my favorite protective gear at the time, but it got tight in about a year and a half, and I changed it to other protective gear before the second year. After I switched to other protective equipment, I brought it to the craftsman a few times to see if it could be repaired, but there was no material to repair it or the craftsman's arm was not good enough, so it had been fattening the magic bag before.

It was such a Lizardman's protective gear, but there are trusted craftsmen (Kelly) in Wangdu, and there are materials for repairs of Wyburn subspecies and dragons.

"It should be a better protective gear than when I was using it."

"Brother, if we're going to do that, I think we should make it from scratch with materials from the Wyburn subspecies"

Luna, who was wearing Lizardman's protective gear behind Amy (even though it was yesterday today, she came unpunished), raised her doubts with her neck clenched, but for several reasons.

"One of the reasons I don't make it from scratch with Wyburn subspecies and other materials is to say that it's hard to move when it's new. The one I used before is old, but less damaged, and remains an easy hardness to use because I kept it in my magic bag all the time. The second is that if you make it almost out of Wyburn subspecies and dragon material, it's too expensive and dangerous."

When you find out it's expensive material, there's bound to be a guy out there who's going to take it from Amy and sell it, or try to use it in pieces. Not if Amy gets hurt enough then, but I have trouble with someone thinking about killing him quickly and then taking him away. Amy is given a golem for escort once, but Amy, who is inexperienced, is more likely to be surprised. So it's a good protective gear, but it's not enough to force you to take risks (kill them and take them away) and repair them using only expensive materials where they don't stand out.

"Well, about the school exercise, the Lizardman material would be enough."

I haven't asked in detail what kind of exercise I will be conducting, but at best I want to go to the nearby woods and meadows.

"Thank you, Doctor!

Amy seemed lightly excited that she could have her own protective gear, and her voice was playing more than usual.

"I don't think you mind the weapon being what it is here, but I think you should look at it at Kelly's anyway before you choose"

So we decided to move quickly to Kelly's workshop. Teeda and Luna are with us, so Chris, who came with us at the escort, is with us.

"So this is the big zone."

When I got to the workshop, Kelly, who counted us, welcomed me in with a voice that sounded like she was stunned.

It's just called the Great Zone, and in addition to the first members who came to the workshop (me, the three Tidas and Chris), there are also three idiots, Albert and the others, Aura to Amur and Shiloumar to Aina (at Chris's request, moving out of the bag) for some reason.

Amur started getting ready as soon as I told her I was going outside, and Jeanne and Aura followed me for the reason that Aina would be tight when I was gone, and Aina was supposed to join them as such two watchdogs (actually escorting Tida and Luna).

I can see that far, but the reason the three idiots are here was because they forcefully rendezvous that they seemed interesting because they happened to find us somewhere trying to play.

Normally, I'd almost throw it back, but Amy, who was taken care of by Albert and the others a while ago, said she doesn't mind, so it's the form that hasn't hesitated to follow. It should be noted that the man approaching Amy has alerted Tida to Lion since earlier.

"Well, the requirement is to repair and adjust this protective equipment and consult on the weapon... I can't do the protective equipment or the weapon right away, so I'll talk to you today and give it to you later"

With that said and with Amy's approval, Kelly wrote Amy's size down on the wooden board. That's when Tida was trying to sneak up on me to steal a wooden plank, but Aina was grabbing my arm with gutter. It should be noted that only me and Aina and Chris noticed that. Tida had been taken to the corner of the workshop by Aina and Mr. Chris and preached not to let anyone else find out. After the sermon, Teeda was sorry and ashamed of what she had done, so I followed that it was not strange for a boy to want to know about the child he liked, but Teeda asked me if I was the same, and I accidentally replied, "(not in this world)," so on the contrary, I stung the stop.

With such a depressing Teeda to spare, Amy decides what to adjust her gear and weapons as she consults around her. When we talked about what to do with the color of the armor in there, Luna said,

"The color of the armor is good bright red!

I said out. And when that voice sounded in the workshop, the most responsive was Teeda for some reason. Amy at heart seems to be on board with that suggestion.

"Why do you want red?

When I ask Luna why she dared to push red, she does, because anything is the same color as the armor she has.

"Dear Tenma. Luna's red means something special in the royal family."

Eina explains that royal men wear 'blue armor' as in the name Blue Mail, but opposing women wear 'red armor'. They use some gold and silver for armor, but it is almost red and should not be used by other nobles, but if they use the same color for formal armor as a courtesy, do they use nearly half the other colors? However, they don't really have to worry about color about the armor that the average person uses.

"I see... but you should stop being red"

I was most surprised to hear my words, Tida. Probably imagined Amy wearing a color that would pair with herself (...). He looks at me with a slightly resentful eye. By contrast, Luna and Amy look strange, but don't seem to think any more. By the way, Amur and Aina looked natural in my words, and the other members looked like they didn't know why.

"Amy's going to act as an adventurer in the future, isn't she? In that case, the red armor is too conspicuous. Conversely, some guys attract enemies and targets with prominent armor, but adventurers are black and brown colored armor, basically to keep them unnoticed."

For example, there are many dim spots in the dungeon that Amy will use most in the future, and colors such as red are easily discovered by enemies. This is the same in meadows and elsewhere, where red is noticeable to target prey, making it easy to escape, and to be attacked by demons that can fly.

"In contrast, royalty needs to be deliberately dressed to stand out from around during wars, etc. On my side, I'm fighting here too, the enemy has the neck you want here..."

Amy looked surprised when she heard the story and immediately said the red would stop. Luna said she would change to other colors as she was caught by it, but Aina noticed that she worked for the royal family.

In the end Amy decided to brown the color of her armor to a thin green (a good or olive color where she said it in her previous life).

By the way, with regard to the color of the armor, me and Aina are black and Jeanne and Aura are colored, Mr. Chris is white, Amur is black and yellow tiger pattern, Albert is blue, Cain is gray and Lion is dark green. The last three say they don't decide that this is the official color, which happens to be my current favorite color.

Also, Luna said the Amur tiger pattern was noticeable because of the color thing, but she was convinced that the pattern was camouflage for animals (including animal-type demons) or also a magic item with a concealment effect... or she had trouble thinking about it, and it seemed like she decided to think of it as such because it was a magic item.

"What about weapons?

"It's a single blade like a teacher, I like it short"

Apparently, weapons in the form of knives have also become popular in schools lately. Well, Amy said a single-edged weapon would be nice even if it wasn't fashionable, but Kelly looked difficult.

"Well, I hope so... you know what? More guys switch weapons to swords after Tenma is active, but most of them are returning to the weapons they originally used."

Kelly told me that she was fascinated by the cleavage of the knife I showed at the tournament, and that many young adventurers had started using the knife, but that many of the knives out in Wang Du had just sharpened what they had cast, so many times they broke and crooked pockets during use.

Because there are many second-class, third-class products, but because even first-class swords don't know how to use them, they often hear stories such as forcefully meeting with other swords to make them chip the blade. And some adventurers were struggling with their lives just because of the cost of that repair.

And Kelly herself had only struck a few knives and disposed of them all without selling them for practice, but some of her fellow blacksmiths were told that they had been grabbed by defective products that could be broken quickly, even though they sold them cheaply after saying they were practice (second-class products). However, they ended up with a blacksmith's overwhelming...

Incidentally, the blacksmith was experienced in blacksmiths, and the practice products made were not necessarily top-notch enough to be used, and according to the southern pedestrian (Raccoon Beast Man) who happened to be on the street, "it is not always possible for a knife of this quality to be bought at that price".

"Mr. Lani?"

"It's Lanitan."

First of all, without a doubt, the merchant would be Mr. Rani. He noticed that the knife had started to become popular and thought he was going around to see if it would be business.

"Well, Amy's the last one to decide, but I'm not gonna hit you with a knife. At least I can't hit the level that I'm selling."

I decided to advise Amy, who was wondering what to do when Kelly told me.

"Amy, if it's a single blade, it doesn't have to be a knife, there's a weapon in the form of a knife."

So I took one blade off the workshop shelf and showed it to Amy.

"It's a twister. If you're one of these guys and you only see shapes, it's similar to a knife, and it's user-friendly."

The people who failed by switching to swords are probably the ones who used them to slap them without pulling and cutting. There are many people in this country who use the weight and momentum of the sword to beat it off, and it's actually easier and doesn't require much skill. But if it's as thin as a knife, I don't think it can be broken or bent that way.

Compared to this, it can be beaten like when breaking firewood, and it can be thick, so it doesn't break or bend even if handled slightly abusively. Also, peaks can be used as blunt instruments, and depending on the length, they can also be used as cooking and tools as knives.

When she heard that explanation, Amy seemed interested in the swordfish, and tried to find if there was a swordfish in the workshop, but she felt sorry for Kelly when she told me she hadn't put it there. Unfortunately, the feeling confirmed by the sword is not bad, so the weapon will proceed in the direction of the sword.

"The material, you should use the guy I have."

I just got to the material about Amy and Kelly, and I handed Kelly a dimension bag with what I was planning to dispose of. Kelly is peeking into the bag she's been given and pulling out some things that seem to work.

"You can use this guy, this guy, this guy, too."

What Kelly took out was weapons and protective equipment made of demonic iron, and they reuse them to make a few swordfish. While Kelly was choosing the material, an employee of the female Dwarf had Amy hold a stick of various lengths, using sheet lead and other weights to determine the general center of gravity of the sword.

"The day after tomorrow or so, a Kenji prototype will be made, so you should come about that. After the armor."

Kelly said she was going to get ready for production now, so she handed over the deposit and everyone left the workshop behind. According to the story of the female Dwarf who dropped me off, I had few customers and had free time lately, so instead of the day after tomorrow, the sword would be completed about tomorrow. Well, they said the day after tomorrow, so I don't think they're coming tomorrow.

"If you're not running errands from now on, go to the guild too!

A short distance from the workshop, Lion has made such a suggestion.

"Nothing good... how's everyone?

Everyone nodded when I heard that, so I decided to keep going to the guild.

When we finally arrived at the guild when our bodies were getting cold from the boulders, we hurried into the guild to escape the cold and headed straight for a warm drink in the co-located liquor store.

There were several adventurers serving liquor in the tavern, but there were Mr. Chris (a knight who seemed to be of high stature) and me and the Three Fools (nobles), so no temple adventurers showed up to tease the children on the boulder.

Each of them asked for a thoughtful drink and took a breather, and I looked at the requisition on the bulletin board, but there were still some occasions, and there was no easy request.

"Hey, why don't you take this?

When Lion tells Albert and Cain that,

"Sorry, I have plans for tonight"

"Me too."

He was immediately turned down. Next thing you know, you were looking at me.

"It's cold, I can't"

I said no the moment I had eyes. I don't want to bother working outside in the cold.

Thus I was to leave the guild immediately, but at this time Albert and Cain said that the plan was actually to involve women, and Lion seemed depressed for a few days.