Souta went to see Antgar who kept working in his workshop, but Antgar was concentrating so hard he didn’t seem to notice Souta. Souta wanted to call him but decided he should just go back to the living room because he was afraid he would interrupt Antgar who looked to be in the zone.
「Ah, that’s the correct answer. If you bother a craftsman… something scary will happen to you.」
What Dina said was also based on her personal experience. A thousand years ago, Dina, happy that Souta came back to the elven country, interrupted him while he was working and get scolded by Souta and the others. Remembering this, Dina stared reproachingly at Souta.
「Hmm? What’s wrong?」
Souta remembered that he was angry, but he didn’t remember the other person was Dina.
「No, it’s nothing, really.」
「I see.」
Her reaction hinted there was something more to it, but Souta didn’t pursue it because he felt like he might step on the tiger’s tail.
「All right then, how about we call it a day? Let’s go back to the inn, the preparation should be ready by tomorrow.」
「I agree.」
Before noon the next day
As the two entered Antgar’s workshop, they heard a loud snore coming from the workshop. In there was the figure of Antgar sleeping with his head stuck in a pile of metal while snoring loudly.
「Guoooooooo~」
The sound was as if something was roaring from the depths of the earth, it startled the birds from the surrounding area and making them fly away.
「Oi.」
Souta called him, but he just kept snoring.
「Goooooo, n-ga, guoooooo~」
「Oi, wake up!」
He tried shaking Antgar’s body roughly, but there was no sign of him waking up at all. As his body was shaken, the metal pile also shook and rattled. The metal seemed to bite into his face but he seemed to be in too deep of slumber that he didn’t feel any pain at all.
「Get up!」
「Eh, huh? O, ohhh it’s you. There was a really loud voice before!」
Antgar was still in the midst of confusion and did not seem to calm down even when he saw Souta’s face.
「I said, calm down. That was my voice, I just shouted to wake you up.」
He put aside the fact that he was in the wrong and urged Antgar to calm down.
「A, Ahhh, that was your voice? No, I think it wasn’t just voice, there was something else……」
Antgar felt the intimidation from Souta, but didn’t know what it was.
「Maybe it’s just your imagination? More importantly, it seems the metal is ready?」
Inside was various ingots like mithril, iron, and copper.
「Hmm, I’ve got some metal on my side, so I’ll get that out too.」
Souta took out some metal from his magic bag. He put them on an empty space, Antgar’s eyes were widened in surprise from the variety of metal Souta took out.
「Th-This is」
Despite Antgar’s surprise, Souta kept taking out more metal.
「Phew, guess that’s all. Wonder if they will be useful.」
He took out far more metal than the amount of metal Antgar prepared.
「They’re more than just useful! You can’t even get these kinds of metal around here. If there are these…」
Antgar looked excited and took the metal in his hands.
「This is normal… Who are you really? is what I want to say, but I guess you’re the hero from a thousand years ago. I kinda believed you, but seeing this gives that more credence.」
What Souta had put out made his claim of being someone from a thousand years ago real enough.
「Rather than that, can you make my katana with these?」
「Of course! From everything you told me, the katana was made with multiple metals. One of them is going to be dragon iron, but we have the advantage of being able to choose from all these other metals.」
Obviously, depending on the combination, it might end up becoming something that wasn’t suitable to be made into a weapon, this was where Antgar’s experience could help in sifting through them to some extent. After that, it was trial and error to find which combination was the best.
「There are still more of that dragon iron ore, even if you try all the combinations, we will still have more to spare.」
The drowsiness from Antgar’s face had already disappeared. The fact that he was woken up by a loud voice also already faded from his mind.
「Alright, then let’s get started!」
Maybe affected by Antgar, but Souta was feeling uplifted too and more enthusiastic than usual.
Dina was looking at them with a smile from the distance, but she decided to go to the kitchen to fulfill her role.
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