I wait in the living room, and then Aki and Maki carry in long things carefully. Are those… Sword bags?
“What is that?”
“Yesterday, we asked uncle to get new weapons for you.”
“He asked for four Command, so that turned into two weapons with a combined price of one point two billion.”
“One point two billion…”
I’m pretty sure the mithril sword I have now was a hundred fifty million
That’s quite the price hike.
“So does that mean it was six hundred million each?”
“Yes. These are high mithril swords that use refined mithril only found in small quantities deep within the high rank dungeon.”
I take the bags and check them.
Name: High mithril sword
Weapon level: Thirty three
Description: A high grade sword made using refined mithril
“Ooh.”
The regular mithril sword is level twenty-six, but these ones jumped to thirty-three. I feel like the blades are also a little more transparent, as opposed to emerald green.
And there’s two of them…
“I need to thank Ryuu later.”
“The workshop made these, but the price being what it is means they were left unsold. Uncle bought them with his own money the other day, and was looking for an owner. It was good timing.”
“I see. But have I really become strong enough to warrant this?”
“Of course. You need this kind of performance right now, or it’ll hold you back!”
“I see… Thanks Aki. I’ll take good care of them.”
Then is my current main sword, the mithril sword, retiring too?
I’ve only had it for a week, but I feel like it’s been with me for a long time. This is going to decorate the weapon rack along with Ghost.
“Well then, they’ve gotten here sooner than we thought, but what now?”
“Ah, so is this why you wanted to wait until noon?”
“That too…”
“We also wanted you to take it easy, darling.”
“All right then, I’ll take you up on that and relax this morning.”
And so, the girls pamper me as I spend a lazy and pleasant morning.
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It looks like we’ll be traveling right after I’m done with my business, so Aira packed a lot of stuff into her bag. It’s always incredible to see.
That means we will be away for a while, so we’re taking the planter with the merman seed and the four golems. Apparently our home is being remodeled a little while we’re away, and they asked the guild’s purveyors to handle it.
The person who proposed it is currently driving, but I’m sure Aira can focus on that and talk.
“Was there a problem?”
“Yes. There were small issues I noticed upon using it for the first time, but they would eventually become stressful as they piled up, so I figured we should take care of them promptly.
Eventually, your abilities will most likely mean that the house will be full of things you cannot show to the world, so we do not know how it will turn out. And so, we should take care of this while you do not have enemies.”
“Is this a compliment?”
“Somewhat.”
“…So, can I ask what these problems are?”
“Certainly. First…”
Then she starts listing off things that are inconvenient for our daily life. She starts with minute things I never noticed, and talks about making a room just to plant golden seeds. And…”
“We should make the walls in your room thicker. There is quite a lot of sound leakage.”
“Hnah!?”
Aki is surprised, and Maki’s face turns red.
This reaction tells me they didn’t know about my room being remodeled.
…So sound was leaking?
“What do you mean?”
Only one person doesn’t understand, Ayane… She was probably fast asleep when it happened. She doesn’t like staying up late.
I pat her head to distract her, and the car stops. When I look outside, I see a nostalgic sight.
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I enter Unlucky Hall, which has no one keeping watch over it, and take a deep breath. Aki and Maki are with us today.
They say that they were done with their work after editing the footage yesterday, so they’re free. They could help the branch here, but there are no adventurers to begin with. That leaves them with nothing to do, so they’re coming along. It’s not like it’s dangerous, because it’s nothing but slime here.
“Ah… I feel like I’m back home.”
“Geez, you really look all refreshed like you’re back in your parent’s house.”
“Fufu.”
My old place?
Come to think of it, I haven’t been there in a while. Or been in contact even.
…It’s fine. I send money every month, and that’s a whole different thing. Well, I haven’t decided what I’m going to send this month.
Should I talk it over with the girls…?
As I think about that, Ayane looks around restlessly.
There really is nothing here. There aren’t even those black pillars or guards like in the places we usually explore. If you didn’t know, you’d think this is just a big cave.
“It looks like a normal cave.”
“Isn’t this your first time here, Ayane?”
“Yes. I always heard there was no point in coming here.”
“Well, I guess there isn’t.”
There are only slime here, and all you can get are minuscule magic stones. It’s a lonely dungeon without any specialties.
“But I was right in not coming here.”
“Eh?”
“If I met you here, we wouldn’t have built the relationship we have now.”
“…I guess not.”
Ayane isn’t the type of person to harass or look down on people weaker than her, but if she knew about me, she wouldn’t have attacked me back when I just had some Luck.
It’s precisely because I suddenly got on her radar and she knew nothing about me that she decided to approach me, and she’s here now.
As I feel moved by that thought, Maki grabs my arm.
“Shouta, it’s my first time here too.”
“Ah, it is, isn’t it? I figured as much, because I started coming here right after Aki was assigned to this place.”
“Yes. I was kind of looking forward to today. I wanted to see what you did here. I heard about it, but I wanted to see.”
“Hahaha, there’s nothing to see, just me beating slime.”
As we talk, a slime appears.
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Name：Slime
Agility：2
Intelligence：0
Luck：None
Equipment: None
Skills： None
Drops: None
Magic stone: Minuscule
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Its magic stats are zero.
…It really is weak.
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