Chapter 127 – The Beginning of the Celebration and the Wind (7)
The next morning.
I woke up earlier than Fran, did something else, waited for Fran to wake up, and told her that she had met Veronica the bicorn again in a dream.
The last time it ended without anything happening—it wasn’t even something worth talking about to your girlfriend—I didn’t say anything.
But this time, I explained a lot because I learned a lot from that dream.
“So, you’re saying that Norr’s beast return was a magic imitating Odin?”
My girlfriend, who understands my stupid explanation when I was barely awake. Last night’s nudes with violent traces were very good for Juji’s health.
Our franc was a genius who made Juji angry from early morning.
“Maybe? When I thought that way, the front and back turned out to be right.”
When I nodded, Fran laughed.
“Did you say Veronica? Next time he comes over, will you greet me too?”
“Something like that. I can’t guess how to get rid of the curse, so even if I visit you, I’ll have time to see you for a few days.”
Veronica seems to be full of expectations, but unfortunately I don’t know how to break the curse. It would not end like buying cold medicine or roasting beans over lightning.
I’ll probably have plenty of time to chat with Fran.
“But why say hello?”
“Just? Nord solved what he was curious about, so I wanted to say thank you too.”
Fran, the mark of an angel, said that and held me in her arms.
Wrapped around her soft breasts, Ju Ziconda recalled last night’s intense sex and resumed her morning erection. I stroked Frank’s back.
“Fran, do you look happy for some reason?”
“Lol. Did you catch it?”
Fran patted my head as if she was satisfied with the world. Her face is loose as if very excited.
“I heard that the magic that Nord and I are compatible with has a relationship with the god of my hometown, so I am somehow happy. Doesn’t this make it seem like we are bound by fate?”
“Heh. Fran and I are meant to be in nature.”
“Heaven?”
“It means that it is a fate foretold by heaven.”
“… Really. We Norre have a talent for saying things that make the listener feel good.”
─Bubi-bubi.
It was Fran who loved my words and embraced me as if she were going to die. I was so damn happy that I felt like I was going to suffocate in my chest. This is comfort
‘Anyway, people from another world who are not exposed to multimedia like in the 21st century are weak in flattery or romantic expressions.’
From now on, I will have to prepare several cheesy comments.
The old philosophers said that the quality of an orator is determined in Topeka. Isn’t the ability to speak pre-prepared remarks ad hoc? Isn’t that what a romanticist is?
‘Continuing from yesterday, today is a good holiday.’
Yesterday, I got a lot of stuff, including golem cores, new magic, mithril ingots, and master’s training methods.
Today, I greeted a happy morning with Frank naked, and even in my dream, I got a clue to the question that had been going on for a month.
‘Though not all of my questions have been answered.’
Why is Odin, known as a man, a goddess?
And what was Odin’s dream I had?
A new curiosity arose. It didn’t affect my life, but I was curious as to why. Could it be called curiosity as a scholar?
This may also be the effect of living as an archaeologist for three years.
‘I should have asked Veronica.’
Maybe it was because the flow of the conversation had shifted to the curse of the bicorn, so I wasn’t in a hurry to ask.
‘And it’s hard to argue if you hear that it’s just a dream.’
Did I gain some new knowledge or realization from that dream? I somehow accepted Odin’s dream as the unmistakable truth, but if others heard the story, they would dismiss it as a delusion.
A mysterious chain that connects tail to tail.
It might be the destiny of a scholar who challenges the unknown world.
***
“Hey Nord. An invitation came from the lord.”
Dorca said while we were having breakfast on the first floor of the inn. I answered without boiling the soup.
“It’s probably an invitation to a celebration. It must have been noticed by high-ranking people during the golem subjugation quest.”
“Ahang. I’ve heard rumors about it, but are you going to eat there too? Congratulations. I got out.”
“Only in words? What other services are there?”
“Haha. Isn’t it normal for you to have a bite at our store to commemorate your success?”
“Write. Anyway, the service in this store is first-class, first-class.”
When I received the invitation, Dorca went back to cleaning. Fran and Lalilura also set the tableware and waited for the invitations to be opened.
-Tuduk.
I opened the invitation sealed with wax wax and read the contents. The long introduction and the part full of grandiose expressions were skipped by speed reading and only the main body was roughly summarized.
“──’Please join the party that will be held in 7 days’? The sender is not the lord, but the butler.”
It’s hard to refuse an invitation when the lord sends it. The words were an invitation, almost an appearance. It was a caring concern.
‘Because the only high-class manpower who can accept the invitation of a nobleman is an adventurer above the mithril class.’
If you go that far, it is said that the country will treat you appropriately because you are a first-class combatant who will not be defeated by quite a few knights.
As I summarized the contents of the letter, she poked her head over the letter paper called Lalilu, which was full makeup from the morning.
“Senior~. Can I see it too?”
“Yes. Turn around together.”
I handed out letters to the party members. It was quite good to see beautiful girls from foreign countries frowning their eyebrows at the same time in a text full of complicated expressions.
“Mu, water… Both sides of the water?”
“Areoh… Are torpedoes coming?”
“In honor of the struggles of the adventurers who gave their lives for the well-being of the city, a small celebration will be held at Yeongjujeo 7 days later. If the heroes who can afford it on the day step forward and make the place shine, it would be an honor for the main butler too.”
“… I will stop reading.”
“I’m also a give-up… ☆”
Everyone who read it was our party members who got headaches from the nobleman’s letter.
It feels too formal for a letter to adventurers.
‘Should I practice my party manners for this?’
Since it’s a party inviting savage adventurers, the other participants will probably take a little rudeness into account.
Still, no one likes to see a child roaming around the workshop frivolously. If it’s the same value, every red one. Wouldn’t it be better to learn basic manners?
It seems that nobles are all about the lord and the lord’s family, but it felt like there were many things to worry about besides the dress code.
‘… No. Let’s quit.’
I wouldn’t know if it was a guild leader level, but if I did that, I would stand out on the contrary.
Even a little ridicule is better than paying too much attention. Are you going to marry my daughter? Political maneuvering by influential figures approaching, absolutely no.
Thinking that far, I received the letter and took care of it. This is a substitute for an admission ticket, so if you lose it, you’ll be damned.
“I have to go borrow some clothes for the celebration too. I’ll go out for a bit after eating and then I’ll come back.”
“Ah, then I’ll go with you♡!”
Lalilura raises her hand like an elementary school student presenting in a classroom. Why do you want to follow me again?
“I’m thinking of finding out if there’s a puppet master and consulting on improvement☆! And also, I need to buy a little puppet for the show!”
“Oh, then I’ll go too.”
Fran also responded to the lively words of Lalilura. I brought her up with a premonition that the three of us would be walking around all day at this rate.
“Are you doing this without showing me your clothes? It’s not fair that I’m the only one who gets a surprise at the celebration.”
“Yes? What is it? Do you dare to challenge us with fashion sense~♡?”
Lalilura chuckled and smiled cheekily.
“It’s no use trying to fight back at a surprise? Fran’s clothes are absolutely amazing, right? Skin exposure and clothing area are good fights~♡?”
“… I look forward to that.”
“… Ugh.”
─Poof. Fran hid her face with her hood while I and Lari Lura were talking.
She probably couldn’t refuse the dress the clerk recommended. Would it be a dress like the female actors who gather at the entertainment awards ceremony?
Write it Is it impossible to rent the clothes? I want to take the wrapping paper with me.
“Anyway, I’ll go pick out my clothes. I hate being evaluated by others in real time.”
Having said that, I suddenly remembered what I had said yesterday and asked a question.
“Ah. So, what do you guys think about Tyrsi joining the party?”
I brought up the story before explaining the celebration yesterday, and the conclusion ended with a temporary hold. It was because it was not clear whether Ralilura would remain at the party.
Fran and Lalilura exchanged glances and then said.
“I agree. We talked about it while shopping yesterday, and Lalilura said that she intends to buy a new puppet and put on a street performance for the time being.”
“If you keep playing, your skills will rust~. When you’re working without me, the wizard sister will be of great help, so don’t regret her refusal and snatch her up when you’re alone ☆!”
“No, what is the expression? What kind of Bossam kidnapper am I?”
I will argue that this is only a matter of forming a team relationship as a business agent.
Now, with just a healer, the basic composition of the party is perfect. Anyway, after the talk was settled, we went to our rooms and decided to go see each other’s business.
─Thump.
I closed the door, packed my bag, and went to the sewing guild, but I heard a conversation between two people from behind.
“Sister sister~. Are you going to practice mana today? I’ll help you a little before I leave!”
“Oh, really? Thank you, but… What are you helping me with?”
“Whoops. What! It’s a fun puppet play♡!”
“It’s Lalilura that’s fun. You seem to be the only one——Wait a minute, why are you taking off your upper clothes?!”
“Ahaha☆! It’s a training to use my sister’s mana to block my mana controlling her hand!”
“Wait a minute! Where is this training—— Hiyaaaaah?!”
“… Write it down.”
What is going on in the room? The world is exciting
I don’t think you’ll get punished for watching for an hour or so. When I started thinking about it, I had to exert great patience to let go of my hand holding the doorknob.
‘Life is a series of pain.’
I, with superhuman patience, leave the door and set out on the road.
It was certain that these trivial efforts would make my mental strength stronger.
“Gold daughter makes the man stronger…”
Dash to the sewing guild with a mental victory. Although not aristocrats, he arrived on an upper-class street where residents who were richer than ordinary people lived.
─’Couturier Sewing Guild’.
It’s here. I took out the sewing guild’s letter of introduction and opened the guild’s door.
– With daughters and daughters.
The couturiers guild was like a shopping mall remodeled into a medieval style. The impression was strengthened when I submitted a letter of introduction to the receptionist and went to the place explained.
‘Hmm.’
A space where expensive-looking clothes are lined up with sausages, just like celebrities’ closets!
If I set fire to this place, how many years will it take to pay off everything even if I save as much as I receive my salary? Even if you don’t see it as a different world, your body just shrinks.
It looks like you’re in a 200-year-old boutique in England. Fuck. Don’t make excuses, come with the kids.
“Oh! That introduction! Your guest is Mr. Nord, an adventurer!”
I was picked up and dragged away by a guild member who was running a sewing machine in another world—it looks like a loom—I was hesitant like a jinta who entered a high-end hair salon with a cut of 50,000 won.
“I heard you! Are you looking for clothes for the celebration? How do you like these clothes? I asked the party member who came yesterday and picked it out in advance!”
“No, that. As a Kitai, if I were to wear pure white clothes, the yellow color of my skin would pop out.”
“I see! Next this! It is the red of passion!”
“… Are there any clothes that are not the primary color of the fabric?”
Conflicting between the fashion gaminess of menswear in another world and the aesthetic sense of the 21st century, I was able to choose a tailcoat after three hours.
Damn it, but it’s not bell bottoms, bell bottoms.
What is the collar on your neck? Is it an erect scarf lizard?
“It takes about 2-3 hours to adjust the dimensions, so come back after lunch!”
“Yeah.”
I chose clothes and left the guild. Two or three hours would have afforded me time to finish my other business.
─Tumbling.
The place I headed to was none other than the blacksmith Clara’s weapon shop. To be precise, it is a ‘metal specialty store’ according to the person himself.
“Excuse me. How are you?”
“Ah, Mr. Nord! Welcome!”
Clara, a married woman blacksmith who greets lively. Is the dark circles around the eyes caused by too much work or too little?
Either way you look very tired. Let’s not skip it, let’s move on. Because time is running out
“What are you here for today? You don’t even wear her armor.”
“Ah, yes. I would like to ask you to make an order.”
– Empty.
I put the items I had kept in my arms since the sewing guild on the table.
“Can you process this?”
A metal ingot that glows silver.
It was a mithril given by Nefertiti.
‘Because there’s no reason to cherish Mithril.’
Ingots are for easy storage before smelting!
Wouldn’t it be better to quickly process it and turn it into an object, rather than hoarding expensive and rare metal?
‘If I use a formal contract, I don’t have to worry about being stolen.’
Opening a shop means that permission came from the blacksmith guild or the estate, so even if I ran away at night, I wouldn’t see any loss.
Clara looked at the mithril I held out and twisted her head.
“Made to order? We accept anything as long as it’s metal processing, but if it’s made of silver, it’s our shop too… How much… Any amount… ?”
Saying that, Clara picked up the mithril and stuttered as if playing a damaged MP3 file. Like me last time, after touching it with my own hands, I noticed that this was a metal that contained mana.
─Tick-click-click!
Clara screamed as her teeth clenched in movements reminiscent of a nutcracker that a child would play with.
“Me, me, me——s——!!!”
“Shh!! Shhh!!”
Embarrassed, I raised my index finger to stop Clara. Everyone in town knows I’ve brought mithril!
“Ah, ah! Oh! Yes! That! Me, Miss! Miss Britannia——!!”
Clara looked at her as if she had come to her senses and shouted.
No, is it a true story of the ability to improvise? What are you talking about out of the blue? I was dumbfounded by the lady’s book, and Clara, seeing my face, bowed her head in shame.
“Hmm, hmm. Anyway! You’re entrusting the processing of this item to me, right? Yes?! Yeah?!”
As befits a professed metal geek, Clara quickly regained her temper at the fact that she could process mithril. The way she slumped over the topic reminded me of a certain female pony I saw just the other day.
“Not all. I want to see a sample first, write a contract, and see the results of the work in between. Is it possible?”
“Yeah! Yes yes yes yes!! Yeah!! Here’s a sample! How about it?! Do you like it?!”
─Thumbs up! Clara throws a mess in the store and brings samples. I don’t mind seeing that mess now. Humans are creatures of adaptation.
“This is metal art that I processed with magic and tools! A certificate of high evaluation from the blacksmith guild, and an item that won second place in the competition!”
“Aha. I’ll see you in a minute.”
Is it the same context as evaluating a welder’s skill on a 21st century earth by a picture engraved on a steel plate?
I looked closely at iron plate art, like welding art without fire marks. The picture drawn with the processing of the iron plate was a butterfly shape with detailed rendering of the wing membrane.
‘The perfection is high?’
It was an honest admiration.
To be honest, although I had guessed at Clara’s skill, I hadn’t experienced it myself.
Why, I didn’t have many opportunities to test the quality of the equipment I bought here, like the pants and Fran’s throwing knife.
I just assumed that he would have the skills, given the circumstances of supplying agricultural tools to large farmers such as hotulusil and items in the store.
‘I’ve thought about making a request by hiding my identity, but…’
You’re going to carry the finished product, so what are you going to do by hiding it?
Rather, it might be proof that Arthur Wayne = Nord. I only have 2 or 3 official IDs. Adventurer Nord couldn’t carry the goods Arthur Wayne ordered.
That’s why I came to entrust processing without a face mask.
“It is beyond my expectations. I can trust you with this.”
“Yes Yes! Thank you!”
Clara got caught in her ear when I responded well.
“Hi-Hi. Hehe. Mithril~ Mithril~ First time touching Mithril after being independent under Master!”
Clara keeps her eyes on the mithril ingot during the consultation. I think she likes this lady very much.
She was a bit stunned, but when I saw her doing that, I believed her on the contrary. Isn’t it said that those who work hard cannot beat those who enjoy?
“Oh! So what can I make you?!”
“Ah, yes. For now, since the amount of mithril is sufficient—”
“If that’s the case, it will take some time until the spear is completed—”
When Clara asked as she pulled out her contract, I answered point by point.
She didn’t even tell Fran that she was given mithril. This was a secret until the finished product came out. Clara had a craftsman-like face, and she began to offer serious advice from time to time.
“You don’t put power stones in it? If it’s combat equipment, it’s a bit of a waste to make it with only mithril.”
“There is no Power Stone that is of the same grade as Mithril. I’m hesitant because I think it’s going to get broken in a fight.”
“That’s right… Okay. Let’s go next. If it’s mithril, it’s possible for me to enchant it. Can you look at the list here and choose the price range or enchantment you want?”
─Flutter.
The enchantment list on paper was reasonably priced, but I declined before I could read it properly.
“Oh, sorry. I can also use enchantment magic. Wouldn’t it be more meaningful that my hand was involved?”
“Eck. I see. Excuse me. Whoops. I am just grateful that I can immerse myself in the form.”
After consulting with an expert, the shape was roughly taken. While revising the contract, we drew a blueprint for the finished product.
“It’s the window side. Even if you leave a lot of Mithril, it’s a lot to make only spear blades. It will be a bit like a glaive, are you okay?”
“Yes. The detailed form comes to be revised every mid-term inspection. Please start with the other processing first.”
“All right! As requested, I will complete it in a special way! Remember, it will take about five days!”
I waited until Clara removed as many ingots as needed, then took the remaining Mithril and came out.
‘I’m glad it’ll be completed sooner than I thought.’
With a sigh of relief, I received the finished tailcoat from the Couturier Guild.
The guild member, who skillfully matched the clothes to my body, said while holding the finished product in my hand.
“Would you like to stop by and dress up before going to the celebration? It suits you very well, but if you wear it by yourself and end up embarrassing yourself, it’ll be troublesome!”
“I see. Thanked. I’ll see you in a week.”
After finishing my business, I came out and looked at the sky for a while. The autumn sky was high and blue, terrifyingly the same as the winter morning when I first landed in this world.
“… Haaaaa…”
In just a few months, it will be four years since I have been living as a stranger in another world.
3 years and 8 months of living wearing clothes from another world, adorning themselves with items from another world, and eating food from another world.
The turning point that had happened two or three times during my survival in another world was approaching me again like this.
***
A week was an extremely short time for me living with my girlfriend of a month.
After repeating the tension and preparation, when I came to my senses, it was the day I was going to the party. Even before enlistment, I don’t think time passed so hecticly.
Anyway, that’s how it happened, and I was walking down the street at 3:00 PM by myself.
The reason why they discriminated until the time they went to the party was to set the mood until they actually met at the banquet. I proposed and sent Fran and Lalilura to the party first.
‘They must have arrived by carriage now.’
You couldn’t even walk down the street in a dress.
The carriage I called separately would have waited for Fran and Lari Lura to leave the couturiers guild, and then she would have driven them to the manor house. I hope Fran will be moved by my consideration.
Even though I, who had put the two of them in a carriage, was walking to the mansion in a sluggish mode.
─It’s all over the place.
As I walked so as not to get my clothes dirty, I endlessly touched the cramped collar.
The tailcoat from the other world, which she changed into at the sewing guild, was so cramped that she suspected that she had secretly shortened her neck after adjusting the size for the first time.
I know why. It’s because i’m nervous
Three days before the celebration, a letter came from Cromwell, and it was news that I, Edlin, and Cromwell were three people who were being congratulated as representatives in front of nobles and influential people.
‘One hour.’
Damn why didn’t I think of that?
Wasn’t it the situation where Carlisle Shack ran, saying that he had never lost, and Nefertiti made a comeback home? It was natural for me to be selected as the representative adventurer, as I was ranked second in the damage ranking of the warlock raid.
“Ugh, very, very, very, very, very, very much.”
I walked down the street trembling like a tic patient, not fitting in my winged tailcoat.
I decided to take a walk to clear my mind, but it doesn’t seem to work at all. I pulled on the cape of my tailcoat.
It’s monga that the embroidery is stuck in the middle of the day… Monga… It was clothes with an atmosphere that made me feel like I should have said something like All Hail Britannia.
Was I a knight of the round table?
It must have been a foreshadowing that his pseudonym was Arthur.
“Ibosch! A handsome man over there!”
As I was walking down the street like that, there was someone who called out to me by pinpointing my characteristics.
You’re not an ordinary guy to see through to the fact that I’m a dandy forager. It was the flower shop lady who spoke to me.
“Come and see! Are you also going to the adventurers’ celebration party that is being held at the lord’s house today?”
“Yes. By the way.”
“Why, after wearing dirty clothes, I have to use it when there is not a single flower? To meet a good relationship at a party, you need at least flowers! Come and buy one!”
“Heh. You have excellent business skills.”
It just went well. If I went like this, I thought I would roll my eyes and faint in front of the lord, so let’s catch our breath for a moment.
─Click. I took out my watch and checked the time.
The celebration starts at 5:00 PM. It’s 3:15 now. The manor house, the venue for the party, is so close that you can see it over there, so you don’t have to worry about being late.
I put my pocket watch in and went into the flower shop.
“By the way, Ms. How do you buy flowers and carry them around? Do you still carry it in your hand?”
“Oh, don’t you know that? All you have to do is buy one and put it on your chest!”
“Heh. Do you think it’s tacky?”
“It’s corny. That’s all cool, cool Go check it out, and if you don’t like it, you can pull it out and throw it away. Think of it as an investment, an investment.”
Haha. There are people who will give flowers, so I won’t see any loss.”
When I took a breath in the flower-scented room, I felt a little more at peace.
While I was doing it, I tried to find out if there was a difference between the flowers of this world and the flowers of the earth.
I just looked around moderately, and there was a flower with a color that was exactly like Fran’s blue eyes, so I picked it out. I don’t want to get bitten while wearing it in my chest, so I’m thinking about carrying it around and then plugging it in after looking at it.
“Thank you for buying it! Enjoy the party!”
I roughly waved her hand to the flower shop lady and went to the front door of the manor house.
─Dooung!
The manor house was surrounded by a high and long wall, like a rich man who had been hit by mulberries in the Middle Ages, and it made the coldest heart beat again.
It looks a bit like the Great Gatsby’s mansion I saw in high school English class back in the day.
As I approached the front door, armored guards crossed the spears.
“Stop there. What are you doing at the manor house?”
Just like private soldiers on the day of the event where the stars fell, the guards were armed with discipline. The four guards moved in an orderly manner to check the invitation, which was quite intimidating.
Rather than that, I came wearing a tailcoat and asked what my business was. Damn, it seemed like I had to work as FM today.
“I am an invited guest at the celebration. Oh, but my invitation was taken by those who came first. I heard you can do that.”
“… Excuse me, what is your name?”
“I am Nord, an adventurer from the Auduumra Guild. ID here.”
I handed out my plate and residence permit, and my name and identity were confirmed. Because you won’t be able to confirm it with just your face.
“Ooooo!!”
– Empty! Bang!
The procedure took quite a long time, probably because it was a day to invite many people, but seeing a guard collide with the table in the middle of it and causing a commotion made me laugh and relax.
‘What are you doing because you’re nervous? It’s something I’ll have to do someday.’
Banquets and gatherings like this were something I couldn’t avoid in order to succeed in another world.
If I excavate the ruins and make an achievement, I will have my sponsor. Of course, they will set up a stage like this from time to time to increase their personal connections with me, but should I be afraid to use it every time!
“Confirmed. Please go inside and follow the instructions.”
The guard gave me permission to enter after about 10 minutes.
Oh, I see. There are usually no invitees who walk on their own feet and wait. All the other guests would have waited inside the carriage.
They seemed to have made a mistake because they were embarrassed because I was walking. I’m a little sorry. I cleared my throat and bowed my head.
“You are suffering.”
“No. Please go in.”
─Kikiiik!
The door opened, and I stepped into the manor house where the celebration was being held.
