128-Chapter 8-4 Date?

Didn't the Djinn know that?

Maybe it's a very rare spider.

After we left the djinn and the others, we returned and me and my grandpa took the carriage out to the side of the apartment and watched the three spiders inside. Not long ago, Amour and Blanca had come to bathe, but now they were gone. Blanka-esque, it seemed he was going to stay a little longer, but Amur was trying to crawl into my bed to sleep, so I forced him out.

'The djinn are the deepest party in Seigen, so I thought I'd at least seen them before... If we can't ask Aguri and the others tomorrow, then we'll have to ask the kings for the rest.

Yes.　

I'm the only one who knows the exact name of the spiders from the appraisal, but I haven't told anyone that I can use the appraisal, so I've named these spiders "Golden Spider" for gold and "Silver Spider" for silver... It's about time I did. I may not be able to tell you all of the magic I can use, but I may be able to tell you all of the magic I can use, only if you think that you can trust the It's especially hard to keep it a secret from my grandpa forever.

"So, Temma, can't these spiders 'tame'?

'I almost did, but these spiders seem to be wary of me right now, and I can't seem to make the pass connect.

If I'm feeding him a piece of meat as food, he'll eat it, but if I do it by hand, he won't eat it, but if I keep it in front of him, he'll eat it after a while.　

I'll try letting him loose in the bag first, since he doesn't seem to be able to talk to me without letting his guard down. So I'm going to try letting him loose in the bag. As long as he's properly fed, he won't be able to eat each other.

I suppose we must wait and see.

Yes.

I chose a slightly smaller one from my spare dimension bag and released the spiders into it. I put more meat to feed them and more vegetables to rehydrate them, so they'll last for a few days.

'Good night then,'

I tried to sleep with the lights off in my room, but I was extremely cramped in my bed with three animals that hadn't had much of a chance to get out today.　

'So Temma won't be diving, then? If that's the case, Merlin-dono will have to go too.......you too, Amour?

After a light breakfast, Blanca heard my plans and guessed what Grandpa and Amur were planning to do. Grandpa said when I told him my plans first thing in the morning that there was no point in hiding in the dungeon if I wasn't going, and that he was going to spend the day at leisure. Amur seems to want to follow me, and as soon as I told Blanca of my plans, she moved to my side.

Temma, introduce me to a blacksmith you know. I haven't been able to find any good weapons in King's Landing.

'If that's the case, I'd better go with you. He's the one who looked at my swords and armor, and although he can be a bit difficult to deal with, he's a sure hand.

Please.　

Well, let's get going. Grandpa, just lock the door when you go out, okay?　

Oh, all right, all right, I'll be safe.

Grandpa saw us off and the three of us (plus Slarin and the others) left the apartment. It was still in the morning, but some stalls had finished their preparations, and some of the early ones had begun to sell their wares.　

'It's a bit of a distance to my master's workshop, so let's take a ride in a horse-drawn carriage.

With us, perhaps it would be faster to run, but running through people in the city would be a problem, so we opted for the passenger carriage that was parked nearby.

After about forty minutes in the carriage, we arrived at the stop near the master's workshop. It was only a ten minute walk from here to Master Ganz's workshop.

Is Master Ganz here?

You're back. I've heard of your exploits. I hear you did pretty well!

The master emerged from the depths of the workshop and gave a dynamic laugh as soon as he met her.

''I heard you were pretty violent, so I guess you'll have to take care of your equipment. I'll take a look at it for a bit, let me get it out here.''

Before I could introduce Blanca to him, the master asked me to take out my equipment. Since disobeying the master would only be a hassle, I decided to meekly take out the equipment I have stored in my bag, but I've been taking good care of it, and since it's all new to begin with, it shouldn't be a problem.

I'm sure you've got a new equipment. You look like a pretty good hand..........................could it be that Kelly made it?

You know Kelly?

What's with this girl? Some of them are big.

Amour's response to Kelly's words, the master finally seemed to notice Blanca and Amour.

'This one was made by Kelly and Temma too!

Amur fluttered the Bandit King equipment he was wearing in front of his master.

''This too, that guy seems to have raised his arm. It's still a bit naive, though.''

The master lifted my leather armor and tapped it lightly to examine something. And when he was done, he turned Amur around and looked at the equipment.

'First of all, it's the Temma guy. As far as leather armor goes, it's probably one of the best I've seen. But if I were you, I wouldn't get hung up on the lump of leather armor, I'd put something with the scales of a ground dragon between the surface and the lining. It's a good idea to have a single piece of thinned down armor to the very last minute to increase the strength of the armor without changing its weight. Well, if it's something the Temma uses, I'd put at least two or three pieces in between, not just one. With you, it doesn't matter if it's a little heavier. If it's hard to move, you can just adjust it in parts. If you're going to have difficulty moving, then you can adjust the parts, like two for the chest and back and one for the abdomen.

The master, who had put down his armor, then turned to Amur.

'I don't have much to say about this, but you should still take care of your abdomen, too. If you can make a jacket or trousers out of wyvern leather, it won't let a few attacks through.

My master's words make me feel a bit depressed. Since I was involved in the creation of these equipment, I must have compromised somewhere.

'But I'm not going to rework your armour. But I'm not going to alter the armor, because that would be bad for Kelly. If you want to do that, you'll have to say no to Kelly. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But this is an impressive weapon. The materials are nice, but the technology is just as impressive.

The adamantine sword seems to have passed the test. However, the master wasn't sure what to call the "big body spear", but in the end he called it the "big body spear" that I mentioned.

It's an innovative weapon. I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make it work for you. However, this is something that can be used as a main weapon depending on the user. It's pretty hard to handle, though.

The master muttered something like, "I'll try to make one of those sometime," and looked at the large spear as if he were licking it, but it didn't look like Blanca would be able to talk to him at this rate, so he fixed it in his bag and got down to business.

As it turns out, Branca's weapon was going to be made. And at a reasonable price. Before Blanca ordered the weapon, the master said he would make it cheaply if it was a spear. It seems that he felt a rivalry with Kelly's "large body spear" that I showed him. I heard that Blanca had originally planned to order a spear, so as soon as she heard her master's conditions, she agreed. Amur and I have already been left out of the mosquito net.

''Well, we'll be going then,''

There was no reply from the two of them to my words, but me and Amur didn't care and walked out, heading for the guild where Aguri and the others were supposed to be.

'Date, date!'

At first I tried to ride in a carriage, but Amur rejected me and we had to walk to the guild. When Amur tried to link arms with me, I firmly refused, but I had no choice but to walk like that.

It's a good thing that we're in a good mood all the way to the guild, buying and eating at the food stalls and chilling out at the shops, which looks like a date from the side, and Amur seemed very happy with it. However, the smell of the stall had taken hold of him, and he had pushed Shiroumaru and Solomon back into the bag, forcing them out of the bag. Well, there was no protest from the two animals as Amur had put a lot of food from the stall in his bag after pushing it back.

'This spider I remember seeing somewhere but hold on a minute.

When I arrived at the guild, I found Aguri busy in a corner of the first floor, and when I showed him the spider and talked to him, he left his seat as if to remember something. I was to help him with the work left there instead of Aguri. Amur doesn't seem to want to get involved in the work, so he checks the request form on the bulletin board.

'So what's this pile of papers, Ted?'

This is a request to join the Tamer's Guild.

I've heard that the number of applicants to join the Tamer's Guild has increased dramatically since the tournament in King's Landing. To put it simply, when I first got to know the guild, there were no applicants for membership, but now there are about two hundred. However, there are people who want to join the club because I did well at a tournament, or because they want to get close to me, even though they are clearly unqualified for the job, so they are asked to fill out a paperwork before the interview.

But if you're dealing with a civilian, that might be fine, but won't it be awkward if they're a nobleman?

'That part is all right. The representative is Mr. Aguri, but the Marquis of Samons is the deputy, and the guardian is His Excellency the Grand Duke of Audrey. So if a problem arises, one of the two of you will be notified and asked to take care of it.

This is a fact I've never heard before, but perhaps this is the generosity of the kings. The Marquis of Sammons could be involved because he's a tamer himself, and it's not surprising that he's a high-ranking nobleman, so even if he can't come very often, he could still fit in as a deputy representative. As for Ernest-sama...........................Perhaps it's also a warning. To a nobleman who knows about the relationship between me and the royal family, it's like, 'Don't think anything strange.......'

That's why I have to help out on behalf of Aguri with this job that can't be said to be unrelated to me.

'But I don't see anyone who looks disgustingly decent... what's with this 'I have no tame experience, but the guild should let me in'... are you stupid?

The owner of the papers is the second son of a certain nobleman, a man in his mid-forties. It's obvious that he's looking for me. Because in the remarks column, it says something like 'Daughter available, good caliber'... Of course, I immediately threw this document into the box with the batsuit written on it, with an immediate decision. I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I'm not the only one. By the way, I've heard that so far less than ten people have gone on to an interview. It's a little tough, but apparently Ernest-sama has told me to make the screening process tougher. The candidates who have passed the screening are those who have had experience with taming, and those who have had a hunch that they can be tamed. The Marquis de Samoens will attend the first interview without telling the interviewer.

''Temma's dropping off some paperwork I haven't read it well, but is it okay?

'No problem. The ones I'm dropping are all aristocratic ones, all of them marked as inexperienced... and they're clearly trying to get a match. It's the same kind of stuff you threw away earlier.

I only look at my name, the introductory section, and the remarks section, and I only touch the ones that look like they might be a problem. I'm in the process of turning all the non-aristocratic papers over to Ted.

'There it is, Temma.

Aguri brought an old book from the archives.

'I had only read it once, so I couldn't quite recall it, but it was written in a little bit in this book. Let's see ... here it is.

According to the book Aguri brought, the Golden Silk Spider and Silver Silk Spider are both C-ranked demons, and if you take into account how little they are found, they are comparable to S-ranked demons. Their main method of attack is thread and bite, and they have a paralyzing poison, though their toxicity is weak. The threads can produce a color similar to their appearance, and can be soaked in acidic water for long periods of time to remove the stickiness. If caught in a spider's web, even a human being can become unable to move, and in some cases, other demons have attacked the spider's web and killed it. The sticky thread is more lustrous and breathable than ordinary silk, and is tens to hundreds of times stronger than ordinary silk. There have been about a hundred nests found in the last few decades, but only about a dozen individual nests have been found, and no live ones have been captured, with one dead one being brought in.

This is how the book is written. The book that Aguri brought was a book written by an old tamer, and it was a book with rare demons that the author had seen in various places. It also contains other things like earth dragons, unicorns, and bicorns, and it's a book that's still relevant today.

'It must have been at least sixty to seventy years ago. By the way, it was more than thirty years ago that I read this book. It was a lot older then.

The djinn said they hadn't seen a spider's web in that area in over a hundred years, so it's possible that there are even fewer of them than in the past.

Or maybe he's just trying to keep them from building a web. Just to reduce the chance of detection.

After that, I discussed it with Aguri, and it was decided that the information about finding the spider in the dungeon would only be passed on to the guild leader. The head of the Adventurer's Guild in Seigen seems to have an understanding of the Tamer's Guild, so if we bring the story to him from Aguri, he will at least listen to what we have to say. However, I don't know what the guild leader will conclude after hearing this story. Maybe he might decide that it's better to make it public, but it means it's better than us making the decision on our own.

'Temma, here.

As me and Aguri were discussing it, Amur, who had been away from us until then, came in with a request form. The content of the request was to help move and bring in wood that had been placed outside the city. The client is a few craftsmen, and it seems that they will be paid for the amount of wood they carry, but they have not gathered the number of people, perhaps because they have decided that it would be more profitable to hide in the dungeon.

''What's the matter with this?''

"Tenma, I've got a magic bag. We're going to have fun and make a fortune if we carry it all.

It would certainly be a request that I would be able to make an easy buck on. However, it's a request that has no merit to Amur at all.

So what do you really think?

"Suburban Date with Tenma!

Amur reveals his true purpose without showing the slightest bit of offense. Indeed, even if he asked me to go on a normal date, I'd say no. So it looks like he's going to make a request and take me out.

I'm not sure what Amur's intentions are, but it's certainly a good request, but it's also a request that I don't need to accept.

You can go ahead and do it. It's a good thing for the guild that a celebrity like Tenma receives a request like this, as well as for Seigen. And having a craftsman on your side is also good for Temma. After all, artisans are very well connected to each other. The more allies you have, the more trouble you get into, the better.

Well, you're right it would be a good way to pass the time.

After listening to Aguri, I decided to take this request. Behind Aguri, Ted's grinning is bothering me, but since I've decided to accept it, I have to hurry up a bit. From now on, we'd only have about five to six hours to get there, even with travel time. If it takes longer than that, it will be nightfall.

Let's run a bit.

Oh!　

Amur and I went to the counter to complete the procedures for the request and rushed to the designated area.

The west gate is the designated site and the timber must be carried from the west gate to the collection point near the east gate. However, if you try to go through the West Gate to the East Gate, you will not be able to go through the slums near the West Gate with the wood in its unprocessed form, as the streets in the slums are very narrow. Therefore, it was written in the explanation column of the request form that there were three different routes to take: carry it to the north or south gate, and from there go through the main street to the east gate, or bring it directly along the wall to the east gate.

'But I could go through the west gate and point straight to the east gate. If you're going to focus on speed, you can also run outside the wall with a tanikaze.

'Yes, yes. By the way, I think I'd rather be Tanikaze.

It took me roughly an hour to get from the guild to the west gate. I arrived earlier than the time I had planned, but this was because I naturally competed with Amur while running alongside him on the road.

'I'm Temma, as requested. Is this the meeting place?

I spoke to a dwarven man who was roaring something just outside the west gate. He seemed to be the representative of these clients, and there were a few craftsmen in front of him.

''Yes but why would a big man like you take on this task?''

The dwarf man seemed to know me. I told him it was just a way to pass the time, and he laughed out loud.

That's all well and good. I'm sure you'll be happy to spend your free time adding strength to the war effort. It's just that....

Something about the man made it hard to say.

'Quite a bit of weight, but is it okay? Pretty hard work, huh?

According to the man, some adventurers came before me, but most of them were newcomers who had just started adventuring, and more than half of them didn't become a force.

''Well, it's a request for forcefulness.

Then I looked at the pile in front of me. The request form said only lumber (...), but in front of me was a pile of posts and boards that had probably come from when the building was torn down. Obviously, it wasn't an amount of one or two houses, but clearly enough for twenty to thirty houses.

'Why so much?'

Hearing Amur's words, the man pointed to the West Gate.

'This came out of the demolition of an illegal building that had been built inside the West Gate, and one that was too old and in danger of collapsing. We demolished it and we were supposed to take it back, but we couldn't get the wood through the slum roads to get it out. So you got it out of there once. But we're way behind schedule because very few of the guys who can use it have come.

After saying that.

So you're going to take the job?

I confirmed that I was not the only one. The craftsmen behind the man looked at me, too.

'I'm fine! Temma would be a piece of cake!

""Ohhhhhhh!"

For some reason, the craftsmen shouted expectantly at Amur as he declared on my behalf, "Then get on with it.

Then you can get right to it. You can take care of everything. If you go to the east gate, the guy waiting over there is supposed to weigh the weight and write the amount of money on the certificate of order completion. It's a rough estimate of 2,000 G for 100 kg, but depending on what you carry, it may be colored a little bit, but it's supposed to be. I'm counting on you.

'Before we do the work, I have a question for you. I have the means to haul a lot of stuff at once, but just because one person hauls a lot of stuff doesn't mean the other guys can't complain about it, right? I hear there's a set quota for each of them.　

I asked the other adventurers if they had a contract with other adventurers about how much they had to carry, but they told me that they didn't have such a contract. One of the terms of the contract was that each time I carried from here to the east gate, it seemed to mean that I had completed the request once each time, and that I didn't have to worry about the adventurers who weren't here.

''Then feel free to help me Slarin, help me out.

I asked Slarin, who was resting in his bag, to come outside and carry the wood into the empty dimension bag. I needed Slarin's help to get all the wood in here to the edge of the dimension bag if I was going to carry it efficiently.

Slarin is equipped with a magic bag and a dimension bag inside his body, so the first thing he does is give the wood to Slarin to store in his body. Then he goes into my bag and fills it with wood from the corner. While Slarin works in the bag, I use the Guardian Gigant, the Guardian of Giants, to sort the wood. Amur was in charge of supporting me near me.

After repeating this over and over again, all of the several empty dimension bags were filled.

''I'll go then. Just in case you need to remember how many bags I used. I'll have them counted over there as well, so you can check them later.

Saying that to the surprised craftsmen, I pulled the Tanikaze out of my magic bag and activated it, making sure the slarin was in and then straddled it. I checked the rest of the wood on top of the Tanikaze and saw that it was down to less than half of what it was when I first arrived. It looks like we can carry it all in one more time.

'Touche!'

Amur waits for me to straddle him, then jumps up and lands behind me. Then he puts his hands around my waist.

'Just as I calculated,'

I realize now that this was why Amur was pushing Tanikaze, but I felt bad about leaving Amur alone here, so I let Tanikaze run as it was. I could have taken either the north or south route, but I somehow started running along the route through the south gate. Since the perimeter of Seigen is supposed to be about 100 km, it would be about 50 km from the west gate to the east gate by simple calculation. Tanikaze could get there in fifty minutes. If there is something out of the calculation....

I'm drunk... ugh.

It is probably the endurance of the person who is riding. It seems that it was impossible to ride the vehicle that exceeds 60km per hour for a long time. If this was just a normal car on a well-maintained road, it wouldn't be a problem for an hour or so, but the vibration is intense like a horse, and because it was running on a barely maintained place, Amour couldn't take it anymore after about 30 minutes. In my case, it didn't matter because I had a tolerance, but we had to take a break past the south gate to let Amr rest. However, Amur's physical condition did not return to normal after a short break. In the end, Amur ended up moving in the dimension bag containing Shiroumaru and his friends.

He arrived at the east gate about 20 minutes later than planned, but the craftsmen who were waiting for him were surprised at how long it took, and were twice as surprised by the amount of wood they had brought with them.