Ariete yelled at the temple, but Krank, who was crossing his arms, raised his arms without saying a word, took off Eris’ priest cap and patted her on the head. And put the priest’s cap on again.
“You will have someone better than me. And you will live a peaceful life free from adventure. This is my own blessing.”
Eris was able to laugh because she thought that she would not accept it of course.
Carrot snapped her fingers and interjected.
“Eris, sell your hair to Crank.”
“Yes?”
Carrot laughs sharply.
“Have you heard of selling your hair to Crank’s automaton to get a boyfriend? This is a fait accompli.”
I think I heard it.
Eris, who grabbed her hair, looked at the automaton Venus, who was still covered in cloth and on crutches.
“Be, Venus is a crank…”
“yes. This is my automaton. It will be repaired soon. But in its current state, it’s a bit short. Grow some more and come. I will leave it as it is until then.”
Eris’ face brightened.
After mentally sighing, Ariete turned around and murmured.
“Since we came to the temple, shall we pray before we go?”
Unexpectedly, Crank and Carrot readily followed Ariete. It is natural for adventurers to wish for a safe return from the gods, so they often came here.
Crank, who entered the temple after a long absence, discovered something strange.
“This···. Oh no, who is that…?”
The priest who had been following put the money bag Eris had given him into the temple’s offering box and said.
“Some adventurers came from the cave before. I don’t know why, but it’s a costume from 100 years ago.”
The crystal stone that occupied a place in the vast temple carved out of marble contained the crown of a goddess praying.
Carrot exclaimed.
“ah! this is what i found When I went to Gion’s party training and met Rimo and robbed the goblin.”
Come to think of it, Crank, who remembered that he had talked about it, looked up at the priestess inside the crystal stone, took out a gold coin, put it in the offering box, and prayed with his hands together.
“What are you praying for?”
“Thank you for the safe return of all the members of the party, and when we come to the temple, we should tell the god our regretful wishes. The offering is a kind of communication fee.”
The priest who was listening laughed.
Eris said as she was about to leave the temple.
“The next time you go out to work, please call me. Fixed parties are good too.”
“It was my first time, so I hit it well. If you come as a fixed person, I will treat you with a small salary,”
“It’s okay.”
While Ariete was wary, Crank nodded calmly.
“If there is anything I need to do, I will contact you. Will you be at the temple for a while?”
Eris nodded.
Carrot, who was walking along with Crank leaving the temple, looked back and shouted.
“If you’re bored, come visit the studio! You’re commuting!”
“all right! Bye! thank you!”
Eris waves her hand.
When they arrived at the workshop, it was three hours after arriving in Argon.
“You are tired.”
“Me too.”
“hahahahaha! Finally our home! arrive!”
As Carrot grabbed the doorknob of the workshop, Crank put his hand on the door.
“Wait, I need to prepare my mind. I’m back after almost 2 months. Whoa whoops…! it’s okay. open it.”
“hahahaha! What kind of mess is going on! Dugu dugu dugu!”
When Carrot opened the door, the studio was surprisingly tidy. Charles, who was holding a soban, quickly turned his head and greeted them.
“Are you back?”
Tuna, who had been making something while sitting at the workbench wearing her new pair of glasses, turned her head.
“huh? What!”
Tuna got up from her seat with a warm smile, smiled and ran, but fell over.
“Wowako!”
“You lack exercise. exercise.”
Feeling inexplicably irritated, Crank entered the studio, stood Tuna up, and nagged her.
“I will make a routine for you to do every day. Build some strength in your legs.”
“Oh, come on. hehehehe, bar, nice to meet you.”
As Tuna stood up holding Crank’s arm, her face was smiling, but tears were streaming down her eyes behind her glasses.
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Then, Ariete gave Tuna a hug.
“I missed your smell.”
“Oh, oh oh. Ariete. Ughhhhh.”
Tuna liked Ariete’s back and butt. After taking off her glasses and rubbing her eyes with her sleeve, she made a fuss about her family members who had returned and told stories about their heroism.
“Yeah, so that’s it. I’ll take a cold medicine from the demon’s horn…”
Crank, who had been listening to the story while drinking the tea Charles was making, nodded.
“Good job. That was a big help.”
“Yeah, the lord gave me a lot of prize money too. See, do you want to see?”
After rushing in, Tuna brought a heavy box and opened it.
“Ooooh! Tuna is good! How much is all this!?”
“Awesome. Please don’t praise me.”
“Uh hee hee.”
“This is yours. Take good care of it.”
Crank closed the lid and said while looking at Tuna.
“I’m sorry as soon as I came, but I have something to do.”
“What, what is it?”
Crank started talking. It was about Ariete’s prosthetic arm. everything was blown up Touna nodded her head unexpectedly.
“Sah, it was really just a matter of time. What, what can I do?”
“I need a concept and blueprint for that neural link technology. Can you hand it over?”
“Yeah, isn’t it a big deal?”
no big deal?
Tuna stood up and took some papers from the bookshelf in her lab.
“Here, I was bored, so I arranged it in advance.”
“Nice. Good job. It’s awesome. don’t praise Now, I want to know where the gold nugget came from.”
“Hee hee hee! That, that’s not yet.”
I took advantage of the atmosphere and glared at her, but Tuna was not a clumsy woman. Crank, who was excitedly trying to read the contents, let out a long sigh.
“I should also talk about the South, but I am too tired right now. Let’s wash up, eat, and get some rest.”
“I will do that!”
“oh! Ohhh!”
Tuna fell in love with Carrot’s story. In the meantime, Crank and Ariete returned to their seats after packing up, washing themselves, and changing their clothes.
Crank came with a chair.
“Venus.”
“yes.”
“This is your seat. sit down And no one here will recognize you, so you don’t have to use it.”
Picking up the crutches, Venus, who had been standing all this time, took off the cloth. Then, an automaton wearing a yellow heat-dissipating wig raises its head. Although Venus was lame, she skillfully handled the crutches and sat down.
Tuna sees Venus.
“Ohhh! That, sea, pirate ship’s automaton?”
“It’s our boy now.”
“But why are you limping? Why would Crank let that go?”
said Carrot, pretending to slit his throat.
“I cut my throat. Once the nerve wire is cut off, the signal transmission is not good. It’s a level where one leg is well attached.”
“Oh oh. So, then Be, Venus should also be repaired? Go, the family is growing. happy.”
“I thought the workshop was still wide enough… but what did you pile up?”
When I left, the workshop, which was still empty, was lined with shelves and furniture along the walls.
“Woah, a woman needs a lot of things. Oh, there’s also Ariete’s weapon cabinet.”
“Weapon closet?! Armory!”
Ariete, who was eating the pancakes that Charles baked, jumped up from her seat while holding the plate. Crank, who saw the two of them beaten to death and went into the studio, saw Carrot.
“Whoa…”
“Why are you sighing?”
“Let’s take a break from your soft skin. If I go now, next week or so, I might be dead.”
“That can’t be done, you can’t die, it doesn’t matter as it is. Let’s take a good rest and go when spring comes.”
Crank nodded and pointed at the bowed Venus with a thick finger.
“You will fix it within this week. Look forward to it.”
“All right. What shall I do after repair?”
“What are you doing? You have to take an adventure.”
Venus looked at Carrot. Carrot winked and gave a thumbs up.
“Let’s go on an adventure together! There are many people waiting for us there!”
Adventurers with deep pockets after returning from a business trip to the south spent money in Argon, so as soon as they returned, the city became lively.
“That’s nice too, but don’t you have the idea of saving a little?”
“Not everyone is that stupid. It’s just like an after-party.”
“Wow, it would be better if we had two more dinners, right?”
Carrot, who had been staring at the hangover adventurers lying on the side of the road after a night of binge drinking, turned to look at Adam.
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Carrot, who met the members of the Party Molly Wizards on the way back from the smithy on Crank’s errand, asked.
“But didn’t they all come to the South? Didn’t you see?”
Toast, who had bought cotton candy from a roadside stall, gave it to Lena and Adam.
“Don’t talk. Right before departure, I was caught by Mr. Romani and went around to clear up the remnants of the Black Mage. To the east, to the west, it seems to have turned once.”
“Are there any remnants left? Those people are persistent.”
“That’s what being a wizard is like. I heard that if you take one or two more steps while researching, you will deviate from the human path. Wake up, black mage! It feels like this.”
“Ohhh.”
As Toast speaks, he holds out a stick with cotton candy to Carrot as well.
Carrot made a strange face, but the others just looked at her mischievously.
When Carrot accepted it, Lena said a word.
“it is delicious.”
“What are grown-ups doing?”
Toast laughs at Adam’s words.
“Don’t you want to go back to childhood sometimes?”
“and! mom! look over there! cotton candy! cotton candy!”
Children passing by grin when they see the rugged adventurers walking around with cotton candy in their hands. The mothers also laughed and walked to the cotton candy stall and put it in the hands of their children.
The cotton candy seller, who was skillfully wrapping cotton candy, raised his thumb, and Toast, who met his gaze, also raised his thumb.
Adam, who couldn’t even think of eating cotton candy, asks while holding it.
“···Acquaintance?”
“Men’s conversations continue even if they don’t know each other.”
Next to Adam, who has an expression of having a headache, Lena is licking cotton candy.
After waving to everyone and returning to the studio with cotton candy in one hand, Crank, who was laying a new nerve wire for Venus at the workbench, said.
“It suits you well. They are like neighborhood kids.”
“I met that idiot on the street, and he bought me some toast. Would you like a bite?”
When Carrot lifts up the cotton candy, Crank takes off the cover of the helmet and leans in slightly to take a bite of the cotton candy. Carrot now took it and approached Ariete, who was grooming her longsword in front of the weapons cabinet.
“Is it cotton candy?”
“How about a bite?”
Ariete, who leaned down while brushing her hair over her ear, also took a bite. and smile brightly
“Mm, that’s delicious. Sweet.”
Carrot, who lifted it like a torch relay, turned to Tuna, who was writing something on the table in the lab set up at the far end of the studio.
“Oh, cow, cotton candy.”
“How about a bite of Tuna?”
Tuna, who stopped the pen, also closed her eyes, brought her face closer, and took a bite of it. Suddenly, Carrot laughed and shouted.
“You guys indirect kiss! Cotton Candy Kiss! Ha ha ha ha ha!”
“Go, indirect?!”
“Hogok!?”
“hmm.”
The people who were so absorbed in their work that they didn’t notice Carrot’s insidious plans blushed, but they only looked at each other and didn’t say much.
“ha ha ha!”
Standing in the middle of a workshop full of odds and ends, Carrot smiles with joy, holding a large cotton candy in her hand.
At this moment, I am the happiest automaton in the world,