Chapter 8 Fraud
The first thing thrown was a dagger.
The next thing, judging from the throwing posture, is a type of spear.
What he swung after getting close was probably a two-handed sword.
Elin is watching Frontier’s fight now. going over and over again
I was able to learn the identities of Frontier’s invisible weapons one by one in the sights I had seen again and again. Even the type, length, and weight of the weapon could be guessed at a glance.
And last.
The sword that Frontier cut through the golem.
The sword alone was not transparent, but was clearly visible through Elin’s eyes.
Frontier didn’t even use an auror, and even the cutting technique couldn’t take off his clumsy tee, but he slashed the golem lightly.
Probably the weapon itself is different.
But, somehow.
I think I saw it somewhere–
“Ellin, Elin!”
“… … !”
Elin opened her eyes. She was in the classroom.
Giselle in her class was waving her hands in front of Elin.
“What happened? The kid who only slept while walking, now sleeps in the classroom. No, is this more normal? Should I say I’m happy?”
“I haven’t slept.”
slept.
Surprisingly, Elin, who lost her teeth in her sleep, has reached the stage where she can dream of what she wants.
If it’s a recent event, it’s even possible to recreate it while looking back at the memory as it is now.
Anyway, Frontier is a very mysterious person.
He’s lazy, has no spirit of improvement and no ambition, and his talent is just a culprit.
… … That’s what I’ve heard, apparently.
Rumors are inherently unbelievable, but can they be so different even if they are different?
What the hell did the people who spread the rumors see about Frontier?
“How’s your side?”
“… … Oh, it’s okay.”
While answering Giselle, Elin looked at her side.
I am still wearing a bandage, but there is no pain enough to make my life uncomfortable. Of course, by her standards.
Golem’s spear, although it was avoided, it is true that it was cut quite deeply.
“I really, sleep every day and recover quickly in this area. Is it good or bad?”
“I walk while sleeping as a way to conserve energy.”
“Yes Yes. I know.”
Giselle waved her hands, trying not to listen to Elin’s tired explanation.
Well, Elin got a little embarrassed and put her mouth together. Have you talked about this so much?
“Even though it was a friend’s business, I was too reckless by myself. Call more people or tell the teacher. I’m glad it was resolved.”
“… … There was no circumstance for that. Edwin’s condition looked dangerous.”
Elin felt a little guilty as she spoke.
As Giselle said, the rest of Constell’s students thought that Elin was the only one who solved this case.
In fact, she does not know that there is another person who has a greater contribution than her. But Elin didn’t say that.
This was the request of Frontier, who had contributed to the end.
-You don’t have to lie, but please don’t tell other people that I was there that day. It just gets complicated. Edwin-senpai can also be misunderstood.
Having said that, Elin didn’t even bother to say that Frontier was there.
… … Could it be that Frontier hid his achievements in this way until now?
… … no way?
“You say you have to get the sword again?”
“yes. To find out today.”
After fighting the golem, Elin’s sword was broken.
It was because of the technique of taking the opponent’s weapon, ‘fallout’.
It is said that Atjie’s original ‘Nakjang’ does not even scratch the opponent’s weapon.
But the dungeon the golem saw was so crude and rough that her sword had already been tattered.
… … It’s a bit annoying to be hit by such a crude technique.
However, it was too far away from the blacksmith to whom it was originally taken care.
Elin and her younger brother, Aster, have come all this way to enter Constell.
So I need to find a weapon shop or a blacksmith near Constell.
Gisele smiled slyly.
“Would you like to go with me? I think it would be perfect for Elin to be deceived by going to change weapons.”
“… … Ugh, no, that’s it.”
Actually, I was going to ask for it first, but when it comes out like that, I hate to ask for it.
Yes, you have to see it with your own eyes and decide for yourself.
Being deceived, who is who and what?
* * *
“Guest, if you have a sword, wouldn’t it be right to choose a companion for the rest of your life?”
“… … It’s a wise thing to say, but,”
“Is that right? That’s why you have to use this sword made of our pipa steel—”
it was messy
Elin’s eyes were spinning at the merchant’s lengthy explanations pouring towards her.
At first, apparently she was examining the swords closely with her own eyes.
However, the merchant sneaked up to me, recommended various weapons, and the price gradually increased and came to this point.
Driven by the momentum and flow, I think I will buy this sword if it continues. And the thought that this would be enough to buy, creeps up my mind.
In fact, the purchase has already been decided, and all that is left is self-rationalization within her.
The smart merchant noticed it and raised his voice even more enthusiastically.
“How are you? A famous sword made of the highest purity pipa steel is not negotiable on price. However, if you have it, as a reliable partner who can protect the safety of guests and the lives of precious people-”
“Is that the Pipa River?”
Then I heard a voice interrupting the merchant.
The merchant quickly turned his head and gave a friendly smile to the man who had stopped talking.
“Oh, not like that. It is steel made through a special process by obtaining ore from the ‘Annual Glacier Basteres’ in the north.”
The man was silently looking at the sword whether he was listening to the merchant’s explanation or not.
And Elin, a little startled, stared blankly at the man.
The man was a frontier.
“How about your guests? If you use a sword, this item is perfect for you.”
There Frontier laughed. I don’t know what the merchant said was funny, but Frontier said.
“It’s like looking at a cube and calling it a diamond.”
“… … ?? What, what?”
The merchant was stunned for a moment by Frontier’s calm words, and then quickly gathered his brows. Elin, who was listening, was surprised and looked at the sword again.
That means, is this fake?
“No, you, what are you doing all of a sudden? Are you saying this is fake now?”
“yes. Far from being pipa steel, it is miscellaneous gold that has been mixed with impurities and has not been made into steel properly.”
“Come on, junk? hey! This young Nomu Shikya! Let’s see, let’s see! Do you have any proof?! Where are you talking nonsense like that!”
The merchant was furious, reaching up to the ceiling. Even though he was listening to the sound right next to him, Frontier was calm.
Indeed, at that point, Frontier’s taeyeonjayak is also worthy of respect.
Proof, the Frontier peacefully murmured,
He held the sword that was so great in his hand, lifted it horizontally, and with the other hand, flicked the front of it from top to bottom.
Clap!
What kind of anomaly, a hand slammed in front of the sword in the air, and there was a loud noise.
And the black was cut in two.
“Heh, heh heh!”
The merchant was startled and stepped back.
Rather than the fact that the sword was broken, he must have been surprised by the fact that he broke it with his bare hands. It would appear that way to the public eye.
Of course, Elin knows a little about her identity, but of course she keeps her mouth shut here.
“If you promote this kind of sword as a pipagang, without knowing it, the association ‘Smishingd’ won’t let it pass you by.”
“I, I didn’t know! I am just a merchant who receives and introduces goods!”
“okay. You included all the creators who supply you with the crime. I have to catch them all.”
“Hey, is that possible?”
“sure. Enough in the name of Roach.”
‘Roach’. As soon as the name appeared, the merchant knelt. The upper body was completely flattened.
“sorry. It’s that person’s fault. Similar promotions have previously made a few savory returns. Others don’t care.”
Even without asking, he reveals every detail of past crimes.
Frontier shrugged at the sight and looked at Elin.
“Then what?”
“… … uh, me?”
“sure. Because it was a senior who almost got scammed.”
Elin lost her eyes, not knowing how to react.
That’s right, I almost got scammed.
“Um, should I report it?”
He was almost deceived, but when it came to crime, he was a cold-hearted Elin.
She wasn’t involved in a scam because she was weak.
It was just because I didn’t know.
I heard the voice of the merchant in despair.
* * *
“Then why are you looking for a sword? What was it originally?”
“It’s broken and I can’t use it. Because of the fallout of the golem.”
After leaving the weapon shop, the two walked down the brick road.
Louvagne, an area near Constell famous for its various shops and eateries.
Frontier tilted his head as he ate Louvagne’s famous ‘twin egg buns’.
“On the ranch… … ?”
“yes. What the Golem did was probably not a proper fallout.”
At those words, Frontier seemed to be thinking about something.
That’s right, an unfinished patch will ruin your opponent’s weapon. I heard such a murmur.
“you? You missed your weapon on the farm, too. I caught it again.”
Elin remembered the weapon Frontier showed her last.
It was strange when you think about it. That weapon must have been damaged by the fall, but Frontier seems to have no reaction at all.
“ah… … . Mine was in bad shape from the start. After that incident, I did something because it was more damaged, but I didn’t know it was because of the fall.”
Frontier took some time, but gave a plausible answer.
Elin remembered the shape of the sword.
Well, the design and casting did look outdated.
… … The more I think about it, the more swords I’ve seen anywhere else.
“But it’s better not to stop at a black weapon shop, but to leave it to a trusted blacksmith.”
“I used to be like that, but after I came to Constell, I didn’t have such connections.”
Elin spoke calmly, but when the situation got to this point, she knew she was in a more difficult situation than she expected.
If she is in this situation, it must be the same for her younger sister, Aster.
If you don’t find a solution for something.
“Then, shall I introduce you?”
Then said Frontier.
“Do you know a blacksmith?”
“yes. Oh, that’s not an introduction. Because I have no friends.”
Frontier made a strange noise.
“There is a blacksmith you know, but you don’t know him?”
“Um, it’s too difficult for me to say. But he is a really trustworthy person.”
Elin thought for a moment. But the worries didn’t last long. I decided to trust Frontier.
If you don’t do it in the first place, you might be scammed again. Much better than Frontier, who has just caught up with the scam.
“Then you’re going to be pissed off.”
“What.”
Frontier replied briefly. like it really doesn’t matter.
Elin looked at Frontier’s side face for a moment.
Frontier’s face is definitely drowsy. He looked sleepy.
If I had seen me sleeping with my own eyes, would it have looked like this? Elin thought for a moment.
“… … Frontier.”
“yes.”
“Why are you helping me?”
“… … .”
“Why, last time, and this time too.”
Elin asked before. why did you save me Just before he collapsed, Frontier looked at Elin and called him ‘a person who should not die’.
I’m not sure what that means.
If you simply think one-dimensionally, you end up with very childish thoughts.
Perhaps the favor that Frontier is doing me is-
“… … Elin-senpai,”
Frontier opened his mouth. He looked at Elin quietly and seemed to ponder what to say.
Even the gap between those worries, it’s as if Frontier took Ellin,
“It’s like a child thrown out by the water.”
“… … What?”
“Senior has sleepwalking.”
“… … No, it’s not sleepwalking, it’s a sleep technique designed to conserve energy in case of an emergency.”
“I almost got scammed a while ago.”
“I have nothing to say about that.”
Frontier laughed at Elin’s honest confession.
“There aren’t many people I care about. Everyone is just worried about me.”
Come to think of it, are you worried about that human sloth Frontier?
The me who is called the most skilled swordsman in Constell?
… … Something is humiliating.
“That worry is an illusion. Before, it was because I didn’t have a lot of things like this before, so I’ll get used to it quickly, and even when I’m walking and sleeping, if there’s something dangerous, I wake up on my own, and I’m more thorough than I thought.”
“The wise words are used at times like this.”
Frontier replied jokingly.
It must have been a return to the answer that Elin had given to the merchant a while ago.
… … No, hang on?
then?
“… … Since when have you been watching I’m talking to the merchant.”
“Since the merchant asked, ‘Sir, that sword is fine, but how about this one here?’”
almost for the first time
“Are you still watching me get involved with him then?”
“Ah- Then I will contact you separately about the blacksmith.”
“Aren’t you going to answer me properly?”
Is this Nagumo Hajime’s skill ‘ignorance’