57 – Dagran and Reina
Dwarf Dagran.
Received the title of ‘Craftsman’, he is the maker of the holy sword ‘Emotion Guider’.
Originally, he was often ignored among the dwarf blacksmiths because he had no special talent, but he rose to stardom that year by producing ‘Emotional Guide’.
This is because a weapon that uses emotions as an energy source is a great achievement that no one has ever made.
However, what made him a star wasn’t simply because he made great weapons.
The ‘reason’ for making that weapon was what made him a star.
If so, what is the reason?
It was love.
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Love for a human female knight.
The time goes back 40 years.
In the days when the Empire and the Dwarf United Kingdom were still on friendly terms, the Empire’s knights would often be dispatched to the Dwarf United Kingdom to help them.
At that time, the Dwarf United Kingdom was in the midst of securing mineral veins, so it was necessary to protect them from the monsters they encountered while searching for new mineral veins.
The meeting between the dwarf Dagran and the human female knight Reina also took place at that time.
While Dagran and his colleagues were leading workers up the mountain to secure the ore vein.
He was attacked by a large monster called Seolgwi, and Reina saved him from being in danger of dying.
“Keugh!”
“Gwa, are you okay!?”
However, in the process, Reina suffered a leg injury.
Injuries so severe that they cannot move for at least several months.
Seolgwi had a corrupting component in his body that made him immune to healing magic, so he couldn’t be healed.
“I’m sorry. Trying to save me…”
“…”
While trying to save herself, Reina suffered injuries that did not even work on heals.
But Reina’s teammates didn’t care if she was hurt or not.
Rather, he only ostracized her, saying, ‘You know how to make a sick face’.
When Dagran got angry at this, they answered.
“If you don’t know anything, don’t get involved. Because that bitch got hurt rather well. I thought it was bad luck because we ended up at the same party, but it turned out well.”
After they said that, they abandoned Reina and went up the mountain.
Dagran’s companions also hurriedly moved to find the veins before sunset.
Dagran couldn’t leave her alone and decided to stay by her side.
However, her reaction was cold.
“What are you doing here? Instead of following them up.”
“···Yes?”
“It is a contractual relationship. I mean, I just did my duty to protect you. But you are not doing your duty.”
“No, I’m worried about you…”
“Go find a vein or something. My pay goes up according to the terms of the contract only when you find the vein. Even if you don’t know how to protect yourself, staying by my side won’t help anything.”
····under.
It was absurd.
I was worried at best, so I stayed by her side, but to hurt the Dwarf’s feelings like this.
But it was true that he was hurt, so Dagran calmed down.
He sat down next to her and said.
“I want you to look at one color. I don’t have any skills and I have a dirty temper, so I’m bullied. I’ll make friends with bullies.”
“…”
Reina stares at Dagran with an expressionless face.
Then she looked away again and said.
“I am not angry.”
Aren’t you angry?
It was an unexpected answer.
I definitely thought that her colleagues were ostracizing her because of her unique way of speaking, but that’s not the case.
“Then what? It’s not because of your skills. It’s to the point where you can talk alone.”
Dagran showed curiosity and spoke friendly.
It would take at least half a day more for my colleagues to come back, so I acted kindly with the thought of killing the boring time by talking quickly.
“…”
But Reina was silent.
Maybe he didn’t want to have a conversation, so he kept his mouth shut and just stared straight ahead.
So, Dagran tried to hide his embarrassing expression and followed her to stare straight ahead.
Now I have to endure this boring time without moving.
“…it’s just that it’s different from others.”
However, the answer came back at the wrong timing.
It was 10 minutes after I asked the question.
But Dagran didn’t care.
I looked at Rayna intently.
What is it that makes you different from others?
It wasn’t that he was ugly.
Rather, it was a face that could be called beautiful by human standards.
Fair-skinned blonde hair.
Eyes with long eyelashes.
But there was no life on his face.
The eyes were also dead.
Come to think of it, there was not a single change in expression throughout the entire climb.
In the meantime, she said the answer she was expecting.
“I don’t feel emotions.”
“…”
I vaguely expected it, but a brain freeze came.
that you don’t feel emotions
However, as if making excuses for her own words, she continued to speak.
“It is a good condition for a knight. There is nothing to be swayed by emotions and make mistakes.”
“…”
“Thankfully, I survived. A colleague I’ve been with for 4 years fell into a trap and everyone rushed to save it, but I was able to survive by making a rational decision. If I had rushed at that time, everyone would have been annihilated.”
Dagran nodded.
I thought I could understand why she was being bullied.
“How did that happen?”
“It is destiny. It is said that he was born with brain damage. My parents found out about it too late and didn’t have time to treat it.”
·····fate.
Dagran felt that the word was somehow sad.
Had she accepted this life as if it were her destiny?
“At first, everyone makes that face.”
At that time, Reina looked at herself with an expressionless face.
He was talking about his expression.
“Eh, this expression…?”
“Yes. That look on your face that pity me.”
“···ah. I’m sorry about this.”
“it’s okay. I can’t feel anything anyway.”
“…”
“In time, you will despise me too. Even then I won’t feel anything. Nothing changes.”
It seemed so.
She maintains an expressionless face throughout the conversation.
But Dagran didn’t know why, she seemed somehow sad when she spoke calmly.
It seemed like he was hiding the sadness deep inside.
“You saved my life.”
So Dagran made an impulsive resolution.
He uttered the promise that seemed impossible.
“So someday, I will make you laugh. I want to make you feel the emotion of joy, even for just one moment.”
“…”
She just stares at herself with an expressionless face.
A face without the slightest movement.
After a while, she looked away and spat out a careless word.
“It would be impossible.”
“…”
···impossible.
However, Reina’s words stimulated Dagran.
Touching the dwarf’s unique stubborn stubbornness, he made him resolve to make that woman smile.
From then on, Dagran began to focus on ‘how to make Raina laugh’.
***
“Stay at my house. I will attach an attendant to help you recover.”
After coming down from the snowy mountain, Dagran made a proposal to Reina.
It was an offer to stay at home and recover the body.
It was to investigate why she couldn’t feel emotions.
“If you pay me.”
However, her answer was not typical.
Usually, it was normal to ask how he was going to bring a woman into a strange man’s house, but Rayna just asked for money.
“How much can I give you?”
“Fifty thousand Ardennes a day. Of course, I will accept only imperial currency.”
“… that’s good.”
But Dagran had a lot of money.
In the first place, it was because he was a child of one of the five families that led the Dwarf United Kingdom.
In a word, he could have been crowned king.
Although the problem is that he has absolutely no interest in the throne.
“I will give you accommodation. Follow me.”
Thus, the strange cohabitation of the two began.
Reyna moved Mana and followed Dagran with crutches, and was assigned an accommodation suitable for humans to live in.
It had been a month since we had been living together like that.
“Keukkeukkeu… I guess it can’t be done in the usual way.”
Dagran let out a self-deprecating laugh and buried himself on the sofa.
Reina, who was sitting on the bed, stared at Dagran, who was resting her forehead with an expressionless face.
Finally, Rayna spoke.
“Are you going to break the contract?”
“····no. We are still far away.”
Dagran, who has tried countless times to make Reina laugh.
But all of those methods have failed.
The sloppy humor books sold like hot cakes all over the continent, famous clowns, delicious food, fragrant flowers, beautiful scenery, and the treasured sword of the century, nothing failed to make Reina laugh.
But Dagran did not give up.
If you were a dwarf, you decided to use the dwarf-like method.
All you have to do is make equipment that makes you laugh.
“I will make you smile no matter what!”
That’s how the dwarf’s stubbornness began.
Day and night, Dagran’s blacksmith’s fire never went out.
During the day, he talked to Reina and researched emotions, and at night he devoted himself to making equipment that promoted emotions.
Born as the son of a chieftain in charge of one axis of the Dwarf United Kingdom, and having spent a boring day, he began to ignite his passion for the first time and immerse himself in something.
Making Reina laugh became his most important goal.
“…Your face is very damaged.”
Then one day.
Dagran entered Reina’s room with a bloodied face.
However, Rayna didn’t seem interested.
After glancing at Dagran, he threw out a word, then turned his gaze to the book he was reading.
Dagran sat down on the sofa and said to Reina.
“Aren’t you curious? The reason why my face turned like this.”
“…”
Reina raised her head.
she said with an expressionless face.
“Why did that happen?”
“…”
Fisik- Dagran laughed.
Still, it’s already been over 3 months since we’ve been living together, and I’m deeply saddened by her showing such an indifferent attitude.
Dagran said.
“…that’s what the colleague who came with you said. You’re a crazy bitch who is obsessed with money. She’s a prostitute who can sell herself even to dwarves to make money. …I couldn’t stand still. I know it’s not right for a knight to trample on the honor of others, but I had to punish myself.”
Dagran said so, and deep down he hoped Reina would understand.
That he fought that worm because of her.
Even though she didn’t hit her once and suffered the humiliation of being beaten like this, she wanted her to know that she fought to protect her honor.
Only then will he be able to fill up his trampled pride.
“You did something useless.”
However, her reply was shocking.
She said with a face as cold as a sheet of paper.
“I feel no shame. The reason I was able to abandon my colleagues and run away was because I felt no attachment to them or shame for running away.”
“…”
“Why did you do that? Even if he said that, it didn’t hurt me. Actually, as long as I can earn money, that’s enough. If you asked for my body, I’ll pay you a fair price—”
“stop!”
Dagran roared and stood up.
Ghh-hhh-hhh I looked at Reina with a quick breath.
Reina said with an expressionless face.
“You said that. You will despise me too.”
“…”
“Are you going to break the contract?”
Dagran felt that way as he looked at Reina’s unwavering eyes.
I feel like all my hard work so far has gone to waste.
However, apart from this feeling, he had a certain realization.
He was convinced that he had fallen in love with her.
If it weren’t for that, there would be no way the emotions would surge like this.
“…You don’t know about the stubbornness of the dwarves, but you don’t know too much. Let it go. Because someday I will make you laugh.”
It a bad weather were having aren’t we?
It seems like it’s going to rain…