Chapter 906: How far are we from the dream?
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The polka will snowball during the great invasion.
Last year was no different, and this year too, while we were just in Lempangas, the landscape of the Polka was turning white in the dead of autumn.
"Woo, suck it up ......, I open the door and it's winter all over again.
Narice squeezes the cloak together and curls up while walking out of the "fuck room".
Then I look up at the heavy cloudy sky. It looks like additional snow is going to spill over at any moment.
"Lyra, can you take Fiona to the secret hot spring in her dragon body (that's the one you're wearing)? And Anzelos, please use the shockwave to create a snow path. Some of the girls are heavily armed.
Ho. I'm on it.
All right. Everybody step back.
Lyra grabbed Fiona and bashed off again, and Anzelos swung his sword, still sheathed, and blew the snow away.
If it's deeper, the weight of the snow will be much heavier, so it's faster to scrape it normally, but it's still about knee deep, so a single shockwave can make a pretty long path.
A few repetitions of this and we were soon out to the already trampled road on the outskirts of town.
That's helpful. I try not to get my shin guards wet as much as possible.
Several of them, including Almeida, who was wearing tight armor, also have metal parts on their lower bodies, and long weapons.
Even though the actual battle will be in the rain and in the snow, and you'll get blood stains on them, you don't want to let them come into direct contact with the snow, considering the hassle of cleaning it up afterwards.
Well, it doesn't have to be metal, I mean, even leather and cloth are not good to get wet.
You're keeping the shed in here? Won't they steal it?
Corti will check it out.
I went down to the snowfield outside of town as usual, but if you ask me, I could have dropped it off in a more convenient location.
'I don't think they'll steal it, but we can certainly move it to a better place. Ljeda, can you move it to the back of our house? And the carriage.
Ha. Yes, sir.
I don't mind doing that on our own: ......
Corti speaks up. He's not happy with the fact that it was his own idea and it's now Ljeda's job.
But we don't know what "how much" is safe in terms of dragons, because we don't know.
They are erected to submit to me "as a female" but "as a dragon" belongs to Ryner.
You don't have to be a dragon to have this cabin with the three of us.
See?
Shario and Corti lifted it up a bit with the diagonal of the hut. ...... really lifted it up.
No, it's only a matter of degree when you say the materials are light, and some of the furniture I've made up and stuff, and it should definitely be heavy enough that a few hundred pounds won't make it. ......
'Oh, if people saw you guys moving the hut eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh. Ljeda would be better off.
Normally a dragon carrying a hut would be more surprising: ......
...... Come to think of it, yeah.
Yeah. But it's becoming common enough in this town that it only takes a bit of explanation for the dragons to do their little jobs. It's more impractical for a girl to carry a hut. That's a problem.
So we make it back to the Smythons' house in one piece, explaining the ointment to Serene and the others who came to pick us up (Marrone was carried on his back by Diane).
From there, the children scattered to the other lodges, Marrone was put to sleep near the fireplace, and Diane went off to meet with the elves to discuss how to deal with the nearby forest.
This will leave you free for a while...... No, free time is weird too.
Aren't you bored?
There's also the paperwork of retirement and blacksmith training to be done. ...... And the folks at Cosmos can't just leave you alone.
He scratched his head while complaining to Seren.
I'm no longer on Special Forces duty, and I'm on the verge of being able to continue my business with the rest of the personnel.
Just as the Masturbation Brothers have already accepted their discharge and gained a new identity, it's time for us to get our feet wet on the next path.
The reason I haven't yet received a form of discharge is either because Mr. Dearne is keeping me in his custody, or because the Celesta Army doesn't want to actively separate me from running the dragons.
Either way, I don't have the option of going back to the crossbow squad and returning to the bason life I'm used to. The only thing I've decided to do is to make this hometown the end of my long journey since that day when I was ten years old.
...... But then I'll be busy again when that happens. I can't just drift off somehow.
I'm not going to become a blacksmith just by being idle. If you had continued to train as an apprentice in the capital, you might have become such a person without being conscious of it, but quitting the military and becoming a blacksmith means that you have to decide on a master by yourself, and you have to draw up your own path to independence. You're not a child, there's no one to take care of that from one to ten.
...... If my dad was alive, he might have taught me a lot of things, but he's not there.
If I'm just making out with all the female slaves without that, my few remaining days in my twenties will pass in no time and I'll just be an old man who can't do anything about it.
I'm going to dare to pretend that I don't notice that everyone seems to think that's fine. ...... That's fine, and I'm going to pretend that I don't notice. I'm sure they'll accept me as a bad person, but that's just the way I want my kids to think of me as a decent dad.
I'm not going to be able to get into the ...... apprenticeship ...... to join Master Threed again, but it's going to be a little difficult. I'll need my dad's input.
Is that so?
"No matter how much the world's circumstances pulled me down, I'm too much of a tow to start now. ...... That's what you have to plant in a kid over there. I'm sure Master Sledd was close to 60 when I was there. He could have retired by now, so I'm not sure if he feels righteous enough to train me now. I wasn't a very hardcore disciple.
For the most part, blacksmithing isn't even a very healthy occupation. It is common to lose eyesight, fingers and toes while working with the furnace, especially in the royal capital, where they traditionally drink a lot of alcohol and tend to have an unhealthy diet.
It's also common to hear of people retiring and then immediately becoming bedridden and dying.
I don't have the courage to find out for sure, but I always have the idea in the back of my mind that Master Sled might actually be dead.
'Then why don't you ask Jackie-san to tell you?
Yeah, but ...... he's going to tell me he's never going to teach me anything.
...... uh...
My dad wasn't bad, but he was a bit of a joker, and he didn't treat Jackie like a proper disciple. He was a very dependable employee who could ask for anything, and I think Jackie has the sense that her dad died while she was imitating him without a care in the world .......
I think it would be better for his confidence to be raised in the way of the big workshop, where they have a strict hierarchy, where apprentices are apprentices, and where they are allowed to keep their signatures once they are independent.
It's not that Jackie's skills aren't good enough himself, though. I have a feeling he won't take me as an apprentice.
If that's the case, you can go to .......
That leaves old Dan: ...... hmm.
I'm sorry, Mr. Dunne.
'No, he's a dwarf. ...... Dwarven blacksmithing is amazing.
Is it all right?
It's amazing.
What's wrong with ......?
'A human would never be able to keep up with blacksmithing in the dwarven sense. ...... At least that's how it's done among blacksmiths. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to say that I'm not going to be able to do that. No matter how you try to steal a skill by the side, you can't imitate it.
On top of that, his arm strength is completely different.
Even that little Jeanne could easily swing me around as a grown man.
Old man Dan's power would not be able to be used by two or three times as much as me. I wonder if he would consider me, with such a weak power, to be a good enough base for a blacksmith.
If you learn blacksmithing from him, ...... I have no idea when you will be recognized as one of the best.
If a person who is a blacksmith of a certain caliber originally begs to be taught by ...... for even more advanced skills, this is probably not the person to apprentice with the primary goal of becoming a full-fledged apprentice.
...... It's surprisingly hard to find ....... Would you rather have Carlos introduce you to a good workshop in Celesta? No, but he's just going to try to get me immersed in the sex trade ...... and I'm sure he'll at least create a new, ridiculous harassment workshop ......
'You can trust Carlos a bit more: ......? And Nancy's there for you. I don't think she wants to get into a real fight with Andy, either.
I'm sure he'd come to the edge of not getting into a real fight: ......
There's no doubt that the man is a hell of a sharp guy. That's why I don't want to come by easily when I'm not in a situation where I should be relying on him too much.
I don't care if it's a story involving my sisters or other talc residents, there's plenty of ways to set it up when it comes to me personally being spoiled. ......
'Would you rather learn to blacksmith elves ......? No, it's also like dwarves, there's going to be a one-man line where a human life span can't do it: ......
You don't have to worry so much about it, though. ...... It could be something other than a blacksmith, though, wouldn't it?
'That's that one, ...... kind of, you shouldn't think about that before you've even tried.
Being a blacksmith is not only the family business, but it's also the job I enjoy doing the most and the one I want to do the most.
It's always been a dream of mine since I was that little kid who was happy to have my dad make me a little knight doll.
With .......
Beatrice, who seemed to have heard him talking like that to his Seren counterpart the whole time, banged on the table with a bang.
It's not that easy.
"?
Even if you're halfway decent, or inexperienced, just do it. You didn't tell me I could be anything.
'Ah ......, no, that's not what I'm talking about. ......
Chuckling, I try to excuse myself to Beatrice, and I'm at a loss for words.
...... What, I wonder, is not.
I stopped practicing in the middle of my training. That's why I'm not a blacksmith. I can't be a blacksmith yet.
That's just something I've decided for myself.
I can't do what a blacksmith should be able to do, so I have to learn it all over again?
Such things vary from one school to another and from one species to another. Some blacksmiths only make cooking knives, while others only make certain tools, but it's hard to say what that "one way" is.
You can call yourself a blacksmith, even if you're only a blacksmith who can do what you can do.
And above all.
'If you run into something you can't do, just ask anyone to tell you, right? Whether it's that Dan or Jackie or any of the Carlwyn craftsmen. You have a lot of people to teach.
............
...... Yes, I know, right?
What was bothering you? You don't need to become someone's apprentice and get a biography.
Even after you become a full-fledged apprentice, you'll learn. You have to challenge yourself. Even Master Sledd said that. If you sit on your laurels, you're as good as dead.
Even Anzelos and Aurora, who are now recognized as ace knights, are eager to learn more and become stronger.
What's wrong with a blacksmith learning a deficient skill after holding up a sign?
I could have been a blacksmith long ago.
Master Slied can't be too proud to be my protégé. He's certainly not a worthy replacement for my father, Master Smythson.
"...... ha-ha-ha
What are you laughing at?
No, you're right. You're right. Not wrong at all.
I can't believe the words that encouraged Beatrice, who had never known anything but fighting, who had never known the rich world, to come back like this.
Yeah. Yup.
Let's go with that. ......
"Thank you, Beatrice.
I'll have to ask Diane to move forward with the ...... retirement.
After that, let's do our best to be magnificent.
It's late in the afternoon, and it's not time for me to do anything else.
But it's a little early for a drink at the bar.
Then I'll take a bath, and head for the usual men's bathhouse.
I'll let Fiona keep the secret hot spring to herself. It's hard to go there but the smell of the ointment is still wafting through the air.
...... and I met Becker's special centurion in front of the men's bathhouse.
'Whoa, you're back, Smythson,'
The Special Services Hundred: ...... Oh, my hair.
It's a magical re-dye. Fine.
It was properly golden. On top of that, the luster was back in good shape.
''So you got the elves to help you?
'They say it only lasts a few months, but, well, they say if you cut it short, it'll all be natural hair by the time the magic wears off. That way the wives won't be disappointed.
The special centurion ruffles his bangs while woozy. It seems that it was really hard for him to be white. ...... Well, I'm actually at an age where I'm starting to get curious.
You're back, by the way, which means you're ...... in the women's hot tub by now, isn't that right?
...... Well, I guess it will.
Okay. Let's go explore women's bodies for a while, shall we?
...... kind of feels like a loss at times like this.
I'm going to look at the tits that I was looking at at at close range with someone else from afar. Yeah. It's a luxury I don't have.
"Why don't we just go out on our own, then?
That's kind of a loss for me, so I'm going.
...... I think a little bit about what I'm doing, but even though I say it's a loss, there's still a lot of emotion in the tits that I'm hiding and peeking at.
(Continued)
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The polka will snowball during the great invasion.
Last year was no different, and this year too, while we were just in Lempangas, the landscape of the Polka was turning white in the dead of autumn.
"Woo, suck it up ......, I open the door and it's winter all over again.
Narice squeezes the cloak together and curls up while walking out of the "fuck room".
Then I look up at the heavy cloudy sky. It looks like additional snow is going to spill over at any moment.
"Lyra, can you take Fiona to the secret hot spring in her dragon body (that's the one you're wearing)? And Anzelos, please use the shockwave to create a snow path. Some of the girls are heavily armed.
Ho. I'm on it.
All right. Everybody step back.
Lyra grabbed Fiona and bashed off again, and Anzelos swung his sword, still sheathed, and blew the snow away.
If it's deeper, the weight of the snow will be much heavier, so it's faster to scrape it normally, but it's still about knee deep, so a single shockwave can make a pretty long path.
A few repetitions of this and we were soon out to the already trampled road on the outskirts of town.
That's helpful. I try not to get my shin guards wet as much as possible.
Several of them, including Almeida, who was wearing tight armor, also have metal parts on their lower bodies, and long weapons.
Even though the actual battle will be in the rain and in the snow, and you'll get blood stains on them, you don't want to let them come into direct contact with the snow, considering the hassle of cleaning it up afterwards.
Well, it doesn't have to be metal, I mean, even leather and cloth are not good to get wet.
You're keeping the shed in here? Won't they steal it?
Corti will check it out.
I went down to the snowfield outside of town as usual, but if you ask me, I could have dropped it off in a more convenient location.
'I don't think they'll steal it, but we can certainly move it to a better place. Ljeda, can you move it to the back of our house? And the carriage.
Ha. Yes, sir.
I don't mind doing that on our own: ......
Corti speaks up. He's not happy with the fact that it was his own idea and it's now Ljeda's job.
But we don't know what "how much" is safe in terms of dragons, because we don't know.
They are erected to submit to me "as a female" but "as a dragon" belongs to Ryner.
You don't have to be a dragon to have this cabin with the three of us.
See?
Shario and Corti lifted it up a bit with the diagonal of the hut. ...... really lifted it up.
No, it's only a matter of degree when you say the materials are light, and some of the furniture I've made up and stuff, and it should definitely be heavy enough that a few hundred pounds won't make it. ......
'Oh, if people saw you guys moving the hut eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh. Ljeda would be better off.
Normally a dragon carrying a hut would be more surprising: ......
...... Come to think of it, yeah.
Yeah. But it's becoming common enough in this town that it only takes a bit of explanation for the dragons to do their little jobs. It's more impractical for a girl to carry a hut. That's a problem.
So we make it back to the Smythons' house in one piece, explaining the ointment to Serene and the others who came to pick us up (Marrone was carried on his back by Diane).
From there, the children scattered to the other lodges, Marrone was put to sleep near the fireplace, and Diane went off to meet with the elves to discuss how to deal with the nearby forest.
This will leave you free for a while...... No, free time is weird too.
Aren't you bored?
There's also the paperwork of retirement and blacksmith training to be done. ...... And the folks at Cosmos can't just leave you alone.
He scratched his head while complaining to Seren.
I'm no longer on Special Forces duty, and I'm on the verge of being able to continue my business with the rest of the personnel.
Just as the Masturbation Brothers have already accepted their discharge and gained a new identity, it's time for us to get our feet wet on the next path.
The reason I haven't yet received a form of discharge is either because Mr. Dearne is keeping me in his custody, or because the Celesta Army doesn't want to actively separate me from running the dragons.
Either way, I don't have the option of going back to the crossbow squad and returning to the bason life I'm used to. The only thing I've decided to do is to make this hometown the end of my long journey since that day when I was ten years old.
...... But then I'll be busy again when that happens. I can't just drift off somehow.
I'm not going to become a blacksmith just by being idle. If you had continued to train as an apprentice in the capital, you might have become such a person without being conscious of it, but quitting the military and becoming a blacksmith means that you have to decide on a master by yourself, and you have to draw up your own path to independence. You're not a child, there's no one to take care of that from one to ten.
...... If my dad was alive, he might have taught me a lot of things, but he's not there.
If I'm just making out with all the female slaves without that, my few remaining days in my twenties will pass in no time and I'll just be an old man who can't do anything about it.
I'm going to dare to pretend that I don't notice that everyone seems to think that's fine. ...... That's fine, and I'm going to pretend that I don't notice. I'm sure they'll accept me as a bad person, but that's just the way I want my kids to think of me as a decent dad.
I'm not going to be able to get into the ...... apprenticeship ...... to join Master Threed again, but it's going to be a little difficult. I'll need my dad's input.
Is that so?
"No matter how much the world's circumstances pulled me down, I'm too much of a tow to start now. ...... That's what you have to plant in a kid over there. I'm sure Master Sledd was close to 60 when I was there. He could have retired by now, so I'm not sure if he feels righteous enough to train me now. I wasn't a very hardcore disciple.
For the most part, blacksmithing isn't even a very healthy occupation. It is common to lose eyesight, fingers and toes while working with the furnace, especially in the royal capital, where they traditionally drink a lot of alcohol and tend to have an unhealthy diet.
It's also common to hear of people retiring and then immediately becoming bedridden and dying.
I don't have the courage to find out for sure, but I always have the idea in the back of my mind that Master Sled might actually be dead.
'Then why don't you ask Jackie-san to tell you?
Yeah, but ...... he's going to tell me he's never going to teach me anything.
...... uh...
My dad wasn't bad, but he was a bit of a joker, and he didn't treat Jackie like a proper disciple. He was a very dependable employee who could ask for anything, and I think Jackie has the sense that her dad died while she was imitating him without a care in the world .......
I think it would be better for his confidence to be raised in the way of the big workshop, where they have a strict hierarchy, where apprentices are apprentices, and where they are allowed to keep their signatures once they are independent.
It's not that Jackie's skills aren't good enough himself, though. I have a feeling he won't take me as an apprentice.
If that's the case, you can go to .......
That leaves old Dan: ...... hmm.
I'm sorry, Mr. Dunne.
'No, he's a dwarf. ...... Dwarven blacksmithing is amazing.
Is it all right?
It's amazing.
What's wrong with ......?
'A human would never be able to keep up with blacksmithing in the dwarven sense. ...... At least that's how it's done among blacksmiths. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to say that I'm not going to be able to do that. No matter how you try to steal a skill by the side, you can't imitate it.
On top of that, his arm strength is completely different.
Even that little Jeanne could easily swing me around as a grown man.
Old man Dan's power would not be able to be used by two or three times as much as me. I wonder if he would consider me, with such a weak power, to be a good enough base for a blacksmith.
If you learn blacksmithing from him, ...... I have no idea when you will be recognized as one of the best.
If a person who is a blacksmith of a certain caliber originally begs to be taught by ...... for even more advanced skills, this is probably not the person to apprentice with the primary goal of becoming a full-fledged apprentice.
...... It's surprisingly hard to find ....... Would you rather have Carlos introduce you to a good workshop in Celesta? No, but he's just going to try to get me immersed in the sex trade ...... and I'm sure he'll at least create a new, ridiculous harassment workshop ......
'You can trust Carlos a bit more: ......? And Nancy's there for you. I don't think she wants to get into a real fight with Andy, either.
I'm sure he'd come to the edge of not getting into a real fight: ......
There's no doubt that the man is a hell of a sharp guy. That's why I don't want to come by easily when I'm not in a situation where I should be relying on him too much.
I don't care if it's a story involving my sisters or other talc residents, there's plenty of ways to set it up when it comes to me personally being spoiled. ......
'Would you rather learn to blacksmith elves ......? No, it's also like dwarves, there's going to be a one-man line where a human life span can't do it: ......
You don't have to worry so much about it, though. ...... It could be something other than a blacksmith, though, wouldn't it?
'That's that one, ...... kind of, you shouldn't think about that before you've even tried.
Being a blacksmith is not only the family business, but it's also the job I enjoy doing the most and the one I want to do the most.
It's always been a dream of mine since I was that little kid who was happy to have my dad make me a little knight doll.
With .......
Beatrice, who seemed to have heard him talking like that to his Seren counterpart the whole time, banged on the table with a bang.
It's not that easy.
"?
Even if you're halfway decent, or inexperienced, just do it. You didn't tell me I could be anything.
'Ah ......, no, that's not what I'm talking about. ......
Chuckling, I try to excuse myself to Beatrice, and I'm at a loss for words.
...... What, I wonder, is not.
I stopped practicing in the middle of my training. That's why I'm not a blacksmith. I can't be a blacksmith yet.
That's just something I've decided for myself.
I can't do what a blacksmith should be able to do, so I have to learn it all over again?
Such things vary from one school to another and from one species to another. Some blacksmiths only make cooking knives, while others only make certain tools, but it's hard to say what that "one way" is.
You can call yourself a blacksmith, even if you're only a blacksmith who can do what you can do.
And above all.
'If you run into something you can't do, just ask anyone to tell you, right? Whether it's that Dan or Jackie or any of the Carlwyn craftsmen. You have a lot of people to teach.
............
...... Yes, I know, right?
What was bothering you? You don't need to become someone's apprentice and get a biography.
Even after you become a full-fledged apprentice, you'll learn. You have to challenge yourself. Even Master Sledd said that. If you sit on your laurels, you're as good as dead.
Even Anzelos and Aurora, who are now recognized as ace knights, are eager to learn more and become stronger.
What's wrong with a blacksmith learning a deficient skill after holding up a sign?
I could have been a blacksmith long ago.
Master Slied can't be too proud to be my protégé. He's certainly not a worthy replacement for my father, Master Smythson.
"...... ha-ha-ha
What are you laughing at?
No, you're right. You're right. Not wrong at all.
I can't believe the words that encouraged Beatrice, who had never known anything but fighting, who had never known the rich world, to come back like this.
Yeah. Yup.
Let's go with that. ......
"Thank you, Beatrice.
I'll have to ask Diane to move forward with the ...... retirement.
After that, let's do our best to be magnificent.
It's late in the afternoon, and it's not time for me to do anything else.
But it's a little early for a drink at the bar.
Then I'll take a bath, and head for the usual men's bathhouse.
I'll let Fiona keep the secret hot spring to herself. It's hard to go there but the smell of the ointment is still wafting through the air.
...... and I met Becker's special centurion in front of the men's bathhouse.
'Whoa, you're back, Smythson,'
The Special Services Hundred: ...... Oh, my hair.
It's a magical re-dye. Fine.
It was properly golden. On top of that, the luster was back in good shape.
''So you got the elves to help you?
'They say it only lasts a few months, but, well, they say if you cut it short, it'll all be natural hair by the time the magic wears off. That way the wives won't be disappointed.
The special centurion ruffles his bangs while woozy. It seems that it was really hard for him to be white. ...... Well, I'm actually at an age where I'm starting to get curious.
You're back, by the way, which means you're ...... in the women's hot tub by now, isn't that right?
...... Well, I guess it will.
Okay. Let's go explore women's bodies for a while, shall we?
...... kind of feels like a loss at times like this.
I'm going to look at the tits that I was looking at at at close range with someone else from afar. Yeah. It's a luxury I don't have.
"Why don't we just go out on our own, then?
That's kind of a loss for me, so I'm going.
...... I think a little bit about what I'm doing, but even though I say it's a loss, there's still a lot of emotion in the tits that I'm hiding and peeking at.
(Continued)
The polka will snowball during the great invasion.Last year was no different, and this year too, while we were just in Lempangas, the landscape of the Polka was turning white in the dead of autumn."Woo, suck it up ......, I open the door and it's winter all over again.Narice squeezes the cloak together and curls up while walking out of the "fuck room".Then I look up at the heavy cloudy sky. It looks like additional snow is going to spill over at any moment."Lyra, can you take Fiona to the secret hot spring in her dragon body that's the one you're wearing? And Anzelos, please use the shockwave to create a snow path. Some of the girls are heavily armed.Ho. I'm on it.All right. Everybody step back.Lyra grabbed Fiona and bashed off again, and Anzelos swung his sword, still sheathed, and blew the snow away.If it's deeper, the weight of the snow will be much heavier, so it's faster to scrape it normally, but it's still about knee deep, so a single shockwave can make a pretty long path.A few repetitions of this and we were soon out to the already trampled road on the outskirts of town.That's helpful. I try not to get my shin guards wet as much as possible.Several of them, including Almeida, who was wearing tight armor, also have metal parts on their lower bodies, and long weapons.Even though the actual battle will be in the rain and in the snow, and you'll get blood stains on them, you don't want to let them come into direct contact with the snow, considering the hassle of cleaning it up afterwards.Well, it doesn't have to be metal, I mean, even leather and cloth are not good to get wet.You're keeping the shed in here?Won't they steal it?Corti will check it out.I went down to the snowfield outside of town as usual, but if you ask me, I could have dropped it off in a more convenient location.'I don't think they'll steal it, but we can certainly move it to a better place. Ljeda, can you move it to the back of our house? And the carriage.Ha. Yes, sir.I don't mind doing that on our own: ......Corti speaks up. He's not happy with the fact that it was his own idea and it's now Ljeda's job.But we don't know what "how much" is safe in terms of dragons, because we don't know.They are erected to submit to me "as a female" but "as a dragon" belongs to Ryner.You don't have to be a dragon to have this cabin with the three of us.See?Shario and Corti lifted it up a bit with the diagonal of the hut. ...... really lifted it up.No, it's only a matter of degree when you say the materials are light, and some of the furniture I've made up and stuff, and it should definitely be heavy enough that a few hundred pounds won't make it. ......'Oh, if people saw you guys moving the hut eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh. Ljeda would be better off.Normally a dragon carrying a hut would be more surprising: ............ Come to think of it, yeah.Yeah. But it's becoming common enough in this town that it only takes a bit of explanation for the dragons to do their little jobs. It's more impractical for a girl to carry a hut. That's a problem.So we make it back to the Smythons' house in one piece, explaining the ointment to Serene and the others who came to pick us up Marrone was carried on his back by Diane.From there, the children scattered to the other lodges, Marrone was put to sleep near the fireplace, and Diane went off to meet with the elves to discuss how to deal with the nearby forest.This will leave you free for a while...... No, free time is weird too.Aren't you bored?There's also the paperwork of retirement and blacksmith training to be done. ...... And the folks at Cosmos can't just leave you alone.He scratched his head while complaining to Seren.I'm no longer on Special Forces duty, and I'm on the verge of being able to continue my business with the rest of the personnel.Just as the Masturbation Brothers have already accepted their discharge and gained a new identity, it's time for us to get our feet wet on the next path.The reason I haven't yet received a form of discharge is either because Mr. Dearne is keeping me in his custody, or because the Celesta Army doesn't want to actively separate me from running the dragons.Either way, I don't have the option of going back to the crossbow squad and returning to the bason life I'm used to. The only thing I've decided to do is to make this hometown the end of my long journey since that day when I was ten years old....... But then I'll be busy again when that happens. I can't just drift off somehow.I'm not going to become a blacksmith just by being idle. If you had continued to train as an apprentice in the capital, you might have become such a person without being conscious of it, but quitting the military and becoming a blacksmith means that you have to decide on a master by yourself, and you have to draw up your own path to independence. You're not a child, there's no one to take care of that from one to ten....... If my dad was alive, he might have taught me a lot of things, but he's not there.If I'm just making out with all the female slaves without that, my few remaining days in my twenties will pass in no time and I'll just be an old man who can't do anything about it.I'm going to dare to pretend that I don't notice that everyone seems to think that's fine. ...... That's fine, and I'm going to pretend that I don't notice. I'm sure they'll accept me as a bad person, but that's just the way I want my kids to think of me as a decent dad.I'm not going to be able to get into the ...... apprenticeship ...... to join Master Threed again, but it's going to be a little difficult. I'll need my dad's input.Is that so?"No matter how much the world's circumstances pulled me down, I'm too much of a tow to start now. ...... That's what you have to plant in a kid over there. I'm sure Master Sledd was close to 60 when I was there. He could have retired by now, so I'm not sure if he feels righteous enough to train me now. I wasn't a very hardcore disciple.For the most part, blacksmithing isn't even a very healthy occupation. It is common to lose eyesight, fingers and toes while working with the furnace, especially in the royal capital, where they traditionally drink a lot of alcohol and tend to have an unhealthy diet.It's also common to hear of people retiring and then immediately becoming bedridden and dying.I don't have the courage to find out for sure, but I always have the idea in the back of my mind that Master Sled might actually be dead.'Then why don't you ask Jackie-san to tell you?Yeah, but ...... he's going to tell me he's never going to teach me anything....... uh...My dad wasn't bad, but he was a bit of a joker, and he didn't treat Jackie like a proper disciple. He was a very dependable employee who could ask for anything, and I think Jackie has the sense that her dad died while she was imitating him without a care in the world .......I think it would be better for his confidence to be raised in the way of the big workshop, where they have a strict hierarchy, where apprentices are apprentices, and where they are allowed to keep their signatures once they are independent.It's not that Jackie's skills aren't good enough himself, though. I have a feeling he won't take me as an apprentice.If that's the case, you can go to .......That leaves old Dan: ...... hmm.I'm sorry, Mr. Dunne.'No, he's a dwarf. ...... Dwarven blacksmithing is amazing.Is it all right?It's amazing.What's wrong with ......?'A human would never be able to keep up with blacksmithing in the dwarven sense. ...... At least that's how it's done among blacksmiths. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to say that I'm not going to be able to do that. No matter how you try to steal a skill by the side, you can't imitate it.On top of that, his arm strength is completely different.Even that little Jeanne could easily swing me around as a grown man.Old man Dan's power would not be able to be used by two or three times as much as me. I wonder if he would consider me, with such a weak power, to be a good enough base for a blacksmith.If you learn blacksmithing from him, ...... I have no idea when you will be recognized as one of the best.If a person who is a blacksmith of a certain caliber originally begs to be taught by ...... for even more advanced skills, this is probably not the person to apprentice with the primary goal of becoming a full-fledged apprentice....... It's surprisingly hard to find ....... Would you rather have Carlos introduce you to a good workshop in Celesta?No, but he's just going to try to get me immersed in the sex trade ...... and I'm sure he'll at least create a new, ridiculous harassment workshop ......'You can trust Carlos a bit more: ......?And Nancy's there for you. I don't think she wants to get into a real fight with Andy, either.I'm sure he'd come to the edge of not getting into a real fight: ......There's no doubt that the man is a hell of a sharp guy. That's why I don't want to come by easily when I'm not in a situation where I should be relying on him too much.I don't care if it's a story involving my sisters or other talc residents, there's plenty of ways to set it up when it comes to me personally being spoiled. ......'Would you rather learn to blacksmith elves ......?No, it's also like dwarves, there's going to be a one-man line where a human life span can't do it: ......You don't have to worry so much about it, though. ...... It could be something other than a blacksmith, though, wouldn't it?'That's that one, ...... kind of, you shouldn't think about that before you've even tried.Being a blacksmith is not only the family business, but it's also the job I enjoy doing the most and the one I want to do the most.It's always been a dream of mine since I was that little kid who was happy to have my dad make me a little knight doll.With .......Beatrice, who seemed to have heard him talking like that to his Seren counterpart the whole time, banged on the table with a bang.It's not that easy."?Even if you're halfway decent, or inexperienced, just do it. You didn't tell me I could be anything.'Ah ......, no, that's not what I'm talking about. ......Chuckling, I try to excuse myself to Beatrice, and I'm at a loss for words....... What, I wonder, is not.I stopped practicing in the middle of my training. That's why I'm not a blacksmith. I can't be a blacksmith yet.That's just something I've decided for myself.I can't do what a blacksmith should be able to do, so I have to learn it all over again?Such things vary from one school to another and from one species to another. Some blacksmiths only make cooking knives, while others only make certain tools, but it's hard to say what that "one way" is.You can call yourself a blacksmith, even if you're only a blacksmith who can do what you can do.And above all.'If you run into something you can't do, just ask anyone to tell you, right?Whether it's that Dan or Jackie or any of the Carlwyn craftsmen. You have a lot of people to teach................... Yes, I know, right?What was bothering you? You don't need to become someone's apprentice and get a biography.Even after you become a full-fledged apprentice, you'll learn. You have to challenge yourself. Even Master Sledd said that. If you sit on your laurels, you're as good as dead.Even Anzelos and Aurora, who are now recognized as ace knights, are eager to learn more and become stronger.What's wrong with a blacksmith learning a deficient skill after holding up a sign?I could have been a blacksmith long ago.Master Slied can't be too proud to be my protg. He's certainly not a worthy replacement for my father, Master Smythson."...... ha-ha-haWhat are you laughing at?No, you're right. You're right. Not wrong at all.I can't believe the words that encouraged Beatrice, who had never known anything but fighting, who had never known the rich world, to come back like this.Yeah. Yup.Let's go with that. ......"Thank you, Beatrice.I'll have to ask Diane to move forward with the ...... retirement.After that, let's do our best to be magnificent.It's late in the afternoon, and it's not time for me to do anything else.But it's a little early for a drink at the bar.Then I'll take a bath, and head for the usual men's bathhouse.I'll let Fiona keep the secret hot spring to herself. It's hard to go there but the smell of the ointment is still wafting through the air....... and I met Becker's special centurion in front of the men's bathhouse.'Whoa, you're back, Smythson,'The Special Services Hundred: ...... Oh, my hair.It's a magical re-dye. Fine.It was properly golden. On top of that, the luster was back in good shape.''So you got the elves to help you?'They say it only lasts a few months, but, well, they say if you cut it short, it'll all be natural hair by the time the magic wears off. That way the wives won't be disappointed.The special centurion ruffles his bangs while woozy. It seems that it was really hard for him to be white. ...... Well, I'm actually at an age where I'm starting to get curious.You're back, by the way, which means you're ...... in the women's hot tub by now, isn't that right?...... Well, I guess it will.Okay. Let's go explore women's bodies for a while, shall we?...... kind of feels like a loss at times like this.I'm going to look at the tits that I was looking at at at close range with someone else from afar. Yeah. It's a luxury I don't have."Why don't we just go out on our own, then?That's kind of a loss for me, so I'm going....... I think a little bit about what I'm doing, but even though I say it's a loss, there's still a lot of emotion in the tits that I'm hiding and peeking at.Continued
