Chapter 116 - 115 – Why Are You Asking About This Blacksmith?

I woke up the next morning listening to footsteps across the bedroom. When I opened my eyes, I noticed Lisandra walking around the bedroom while looking for something. I got up and started looking around confused.

"Good morning, Lisandra." I said as I wiped my eyes with my arm.

"Good Morning." She just responded directly, as if she didn't feel like talking. So I didn't say anything and I left her alone, she didn't even seem to want to look me in the eye.

I got up and went into the bathroom to clean my face. Since I didn't need to go to school, I was acting lazier than I normally am.

As soon as I got out of the bathroom, I felt a lot better. Lisandra also seemed to have found what she was looking for, it was those needles and fabrics from yesterday, so she put them in her bag that she was going to take to school.

"Do you intend to sew during class?" I asked curiously.

"It's not that. It's Taciane's needles and thread, so I thought I'd give it back."

"I understood..."

After that, silence took over the room.

Lisandra didn't say anything else, but that silence couldn't go on for long, so I decided to say something.

"Listen, I'm leaving today."

"Serious?" Lisandra replied looking nonchalant.

"Yeah, our mom rushed things a little too fast, so it went a lot faster than I thought it would be."

"I understand." Lisandra still looked nonchalant about it, like she didn't care. But even as I did, I could see that her voice was a little shaky, showing that she was in the mood to cry.

What an emotional girl.

"To be honest, I didn't want to say goodbye to you," Lisandra said before I could say anything. This took me by surprise.

Lisandra walked over to me and looked into my eyes. After that, she smiled and said, "I didn't want to say goodbye because I knew I was going to cry, do you understand?" Tears started to appear in her eyes.

But soon she began to wipe away her tears with her own hands.

"And I didn't want to say goodbye for another reason."

"And what would be?"

"This isn't a farewell, is it? Let's just stay away from each other, let's not stay away forever. Wouldn't it be an exaggeration to treat this as a farewell?"

"…" Lisandra looked at me in surprise. After that, the tears stopped coming out of her eyes, and she started laughing: "Hahaha, it's true." She looked happy now and relieved too.

"Wait, don't tell me you were treating this as a farewell?"

"Well..."

"Calm down, I'll be back to see you as soon as possible," I said smiling at Lisandra.

"And I will also go to the village when the vacation starts." Saying this, Lisandra approached me and hugged me: "I have to go to school now, I hope you have a good trip."

I returned her hug with great affection: "Thank you. I hope you can keep studying."

"I'll do this, I'm not like you." Lisandra let go of me and then grabbed her bag: "Now I have to go, tell our mom I was so happy to see her after so long... Wait, maybe she's downstairs."

"Okay, but if she's not down there, I'll tell her what a cute daughter you are."

"Urg..." Lisandra looked embarrassed and then left the bedroom.

I chose not to tell her that until yesterday I was also treating this as a farewell. But on second thought, this trip is no big deal.

It's that famous saying that a lot of people use: "You're making a big deal out of nothing"

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After about twenty minutes, I had already taken a shower and prepared to go out. I didn't take my things and went down to the main Inn hall for breakfast.

Since Lisandra left now, it's still too early and there were still some adventurers around here.

My mother was also sitting here at one of the tables. She only had a cup on the table, she wasn't eating anything. As soon as Sara saw me, I asked her to bring me my coffee and then sat down with my mother.

"So, did you talk to Lisandra?" I asked as I leaned my body over the table, I'm feeling tired. Since yesterday I'm feeling more tired than usual, I don't know what's going on.

"Yes, she left a short time ago."

"I understand. What she said?"

"Hm? She just told me to have a safe trip and said she was happy to see me after such a long time. On second thought, she had already told me the same thing when I arrived in the capital."

"Did she also tell you to have a safe trip? Does not make sense."

"Moron. She said she was happy to see me."

"I understood." I smiled at my mom and then straightened my posture in the chair as I waited for my coffee to arrive. After just a few minutes, Sara delivered my coffee.

A bread stuffed with meat and cheese, I've never seen it here before. It also had a lot of fruit and also several types of sweets.

"Isn't there too much here?"

"Well, you're leaving, so I thought it was a special occasion."

"I'm leaving the capital... is a special occasion? Wow, you're making me sad." I said in a playful tone, but Sara didn't look happy at all.

"You know exactly what I meant, now eat this and enjoy it." Saying that she turned and went towards another table to meet some adventurers who were there.

"Hey, Noah." My mom started a conversation.

"What was it?" I replied while biting into the bread.

"When the festival took place a while ago, do you remember having some people talking about a blacksmith?"

I searched my mind when something like this had happened. And I remembered some adventurers who were talking here at the inn about it. I never heard about it again.

"I remember some adventurers talking about it, why?"

"Is nothing. It's just that normally that guy would open a tent in the middle of the festival, and there seems to be no news that he showed up this year."

"Did he show up every year?"

"Yes, last year I came to the capital during the festival and he was here. Don't you remember that?"

"Well, you went out so many times last year that it's hard to know when that happened." But even though she left the village, Lari watched me most of the time, so I still couldn't go out and kill monsters.

"I didn't come to the festival this year, and you know it."

"Yes."

"I was after this blacksmith because I need a new sword. When I asked some adventurers around here earlier today, they all told me that blacksmith didn't show up, which is weird."

"Are you saying something happened to him?"

"Of course not, he maybe has given upcoming this year. But even so, it's strange that a person who shows up here every year suddenly decides not to show up."

"You're right, but why are you talking about this to me?" I wanted to know the reason behind this. Was there anything I could do?

"For no reason. Since you were here at the time of the festival, I thought I'd confirm that he hadn't shown up. And nothing better than asking my son, right?"

"You mean you don't trust other adventurers?"

"Yes."

"You're pretty straightforward... But about that, I only went out a few times during the day at the festival, but I didn't meet any famous blacksmiths."

"I understand."

"But how did you intend to order a new sword if you weren't coming to the festival this year?" I asked confused.

"I have a contact here in the capital and I asked that person to place the order for me, but that same person did not contact me again. She didn't even tell me the blacksmith hadn't come."

"This person just disappeared?"

"Yeah, so I figured something had happened."

"And why didn't you come to the capital right after this person didn't get in touch?"

"Well, I was a little busy." My mom had a smile on her face.

That was the weirdest conversation I've had in a long time. And since my mom came here last year, maybe she knows what happens at night during the festival? If she knows, why hasn't she told me about it?

This is weird. But if she didn't tell me, I think she must have a good reason.

I think not wanting her kids to know about people being cut and tortured is a good reason for a mother not to talk to her kids about it.

'But I should stop thinking about it.' I was eating a loaf of meat now. Thinking about it wasn't a very pleasant thing to do.

I continued eating and my mother was watching me with her chin resting on her right hand. She looked happy as she watched me eat.

When I finished eating only the bread, the first thing she did was stand up as she said, "All right, the carriage is ready for us at the door of the adventurers' guild. Let's get going?"

"Sure.." It was so sudden that I could only agree.