Smith， a Black Company in Another World 35

Chapter 35 – Ep.35 Smith, a Black Company in Another World

“Brother. “It’s nice to see you again.”

Ms. Ardella greets us with her characteristic smile, with only the corners of her mouth slightly raising from her blunt face.

“No, Ardella is here… ?”
“…”

The corners of Ardella’s mouth, which had been blurred, became straight again.
I felt a chill down my spine for a moment.

“Sister Ardella.”
“Okay. Brother. “Can we go inside first?”
“Ah, yep. Sure. Haha…”

Having overcome the crisis with my quick management skills, I glanced at Kernax, who was standing behind Ardella, who calmly passed me and entered my room.

‘Is this your job?’

I gave him a look, but Kernax quietly avoided my gaze and went into my room with Lady Ardella.

I had no choice but to close the door and look at the two women who were sitting on my bed with their butts so casually that I sat down on the floor.

“Brother. Why are you sitting on the floor when there are seats left? “Hurry up and sit next to this sister.”
“… Yep.”

As Ardella patted her side, I got up from her seat and sat down next to her.
Fortunately, Kernax didn’t seem to care much about this situation.
If it had been Siron, he would have already lit up his eyes and tried to kill Ardella.

“No, sister. So what is going on here all of a sudden?”
“What’s going on? “I came to see something her brother made.”
“Yes? “Sister?”

No, this sister. Is there less to do than you thought?
From what I heard, he was the next heir to the throne.
Is Yeongju Castle closer to here than expected?

Just to let you know in advance, I don’t know where the cities other than Mallingta are.
It’s not that I’m stupid, it’s that I was so busy living that I didn’t have time to learn.

“Okay. At that time, I was investigating traces of a band of bandits suspected to be paladins and cultists nearby when I heard my brother’s story. “So, since it was close, I came here myself.”
“Aha…”

At first glance, the former seems to be more important, but was there really a need to come in person? I had a thought, but I, Smith, who is a quick-witted person, nodded with an expression of great emotion.
The effect was amazing.

“Haha, you don’t have to be that impressed. “Coming to see my only younger brother is more important than that.”

I don’t know why, but I’m grateful that you consider me important. But apart from that, I thought that if a person like this became a lord, it would be a bit of a pain.

Kernax, who was sitting next to Lady Ardella, was also staring at Lady Ardella’s head with a subtle expression, as if he was thinking the same thing this time.

“Uh, then can I show you the item now?”
“Okay. I know its appearance after taking off what Kernax was wearing, but I have not been able to test its performance. “I held it in my arms as if it were an heirloom passed down from generation to generation.”

Ardella said teasingly and Cernax blushed and turned her face slightly at an angle.

“Well, I only vaguely listened to it on the way. Blind arrows and clumsy sword cuts are easily blocked, right? Plus, you said Kernax and Amela vouched for it. If there was a guarantee from the two, there was no need to verify the facts, but it was a bit difficult to believe unless you saw it with your own eyes. So Smith. “Show this sister what you made.”
“Yep. “Then I’ll bring some things to you.”

I quickly got up from my seat and went outside. Then I went down the back stairs and spent some time, then made a night fairy (2kg) and returned to my room with it.

“It definitely looks the same as the one Kernax is wearing. Oh, it’s okay if it gets torn, right?”
“Of course.”
“It’s nice to be cool.”

Lady Ardella put her hand between her cleavage, which was slightly smaller than Kernax’s, and took out a dagger in a simple white sheath.

“Cernax.”

Kernax grabbed the warm night fairy he had just created with both hands and spread it out.

Ardella pulled out the dagger in his hand and swung it lightly vertically towards the tense night fairy.

Kang—!!

“Ho… ?”

Ardella’s eyes widened slightly when the thing that looked and felt like it was made of cloth made a metallic sound.

Lady Ardella swung her dagger again towards the Night Fairy, who was still pulled tightly.

Once, twice, three times, four times.
Kagagak—

With the noise of metal scraping, the night fairy (2 kg) was cut in half by the dagger.

Haha—this is really something. Brother. You really have great talent. “This sister is happy.”

Ardella’s voice, which did not have a very high pitch, slightly rose in pitch.
Even though he doesn’t show it on his face, he seems to be in a pretty good mood.

“It was more durable than what was stated in Kernax’s report. “If it’s something like this, I’ll have to go into debt to arm the knights and soldiers in my territory.”

Ardella took away his dagger and put it back into his own breast. And he looked into my eyes with a brighter smile than before.

“I really want it.”
“Yes?”
“No, no. So little brother. I plan to send someone separately for more details, but before that, let me ask you one question. How much do you plan on charging for each of these?”

I looked briefly at Stocking, who was gloriously beaten to death.

“Sister. “In fact, it is twice as durable as the product I originally planned to sell.”
“Expected? Then to me… No. “Are you planning on selling something of lower quality than this in the future?”
“That way, both the seller and the buyer will have less burden in terms of price. Of course, we won’t just sell low-quality mass-produced products.”

I told Ardella about my plan.
The plan is to custom-make and sell better quality products to some customers.

“Hmm. That would be better. “It will certainly make his brother’s name more valuable.”
“Hehe, I thought so too.”

Perhaps because I was recognized by someone higher up, the corners of my mouth went up without me realizing it.

“Then, you don’t mind if I become your first customer, right?”
“Yes?”

Gradually.
In his sitting position, Master Ardella untied the straps on the gaiters that protected his legs and stretched out his hands to take off his iron boots.

“Lord Ardella.”
“Hmm. “I guess today is not the day.”

Lady Ardella, who was about to take off her boots, tightened the laces of her gaiters again and Kernax got up from the bed. And soon after, the sound of rough footsteps running down the hallway reached my ears.

Thud! Thud! Kwasik—!!

-Uh… ?

“No, three-bell?”

After knocking a little too hard on the door, the hand of a knight wearing formal silver armor broke the door and entered the room.
The knight must have been surprised as well, and a somewhat bewildered sound came out from inside his helmet.

“Bellanis. “What’s going on?”
“Oh, yes.”

Kwasik.
At Ardella’s call, a knight named Belanis cut the door open with his hand and calmly entered.

“There is someone who came to the guild to ask for help, but I think you need to meet him in person.”
“Tsk. I get it. Smith. “We’ll continue the story later.”
“Ah, yep.”

The knight who destroyed my door went out again, and Kernax and Ardella followed him out of the room.
I sat alone on the bed looking at the broken door and thought.

Wow, what should I do with this?
If I tell Amela the situation, she won’t scold me, but given her personality, I will have to pay 100% of the cost of repairing the door.
Shit. I was really fucking angry.

What… But I have no intention of going down and arguing about it.
It was a powerful force that broke the door while simply knocking. I felt like I wouldn’t be able to get my bones out if I got hit while laughing.

“But what’s really going on?”

Seeing that he walked out calmly even after breaking someone’s door, it usually seemed like it wasn’t a big deal.
I heard there that they came to the guild to ask for help, so wouldn’t it be okay for me to go down and listen for a bit?

Making a quick decision, I stepped on the cold, dead door of my door and carefully went down.

The restaurant, which should have been noisy with drunken adventurers at this time, was very quiet. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t adventurers. Rather, there were more adventurers than usual sitting down and sipping bland beer.
Nevertheless, the reason it was quiet was because everyone was watching the stairs leading to the first floor.

If this goes down like this, all eyes will be on me.

I slipped down and entered the kitchen. I wondered if Amela was there, but she wasn’t there.

“I’ll use the back door for a moment.”

The people in the kitchen, who were enjoying a long break thanks to the quiet adventurers, nodded their heads and I quickly took the back stairs and went down to the first floor.
Of course, since it was a place for officials only, there would be no one there, but after checking the surroundings one more time just in case, I opened the door to the reception desk slightly.

—Well, well, so…
-It’s okay to speak slowly, so don’t be nervous and speak clearly.

A familiar woman’s voice was heard first, followed by Ardella’s voice comforting the woman.

—Whoa, haha… Whoa, haha… Therefore…

After catching her breath several times, the woman moved very slowly, just as Ardella wanted. And then she began to explain how she had come here.

On the first day of the ascent, we were attacked by a group of bandits, but fortunately we were able to easily defeat them. We packed our bags early the next day and got back on the road, but as the sun was about to set, we were attacked by a group of bandits once again.

Unlike when I was attacked at night, the sun was still up and I was able to notice the enemy’s attack in advance, so I thought I would be able to repel it more easily than the night before, but unfortunately, it didn’t work out as I thought.

The number of thieves was so large that it could not even be compared to that during the night raid, so the woman in charge of the ascent decided that she would have to give up part of her luggage and stepped forward.

However, no sooner had she stepped forward than the woman saw a suspicious figure wearing a robe with a strange pattern on the mountainside, and she immediately ran back.

This was because the person was wearing a robe with many symbols of a cult full of impure doctrines that were rejected even in this place where religion is free and many faiths exist.

Not only the women, but also the adventurers and mercenaries hired as escorts noticed the cult, and they were all bandits, no. He made a desperate move to break through the cultist’s siege and escape.

The woman, without her fighting skills, asked the strongest silver-ranked adventurer in her group for her safety, and the silver-ranked adventurer kept that promise.

In a desperate attempt to escape, he ran for two full days into the mountains, but was surrounded by the ominous powers of a person presumed to be a cult priest. The adventurer hid the woman under a rotten tree stump and used himself as bait to drag the cultist away from the woman. We got as far away as possible, and after a full day under the stump, the woman got up and came to this place. I ran towards Mallingta and was only able to arrive now.

By the time the woman’s story ended, I had already opened the reception desk door and entered.

At my sudden appearance, the eyes of the people gathered on the first floor were immediately focused on me, and the woman who had finished her long story was also looking at me.

The old-fashioned look I had before I left here is gone, my hair has become a mess, and my dress is torn all over my body. A woman dirty with mud and dust all over her face and body.

One of the upper lords of the Golden Reeds.
Marcolin Vincennes.

The woman who had hired Siron became a beggar and returned to her adventurer’s guild alone.