The Hard Work Will Never Betray Me

CH 19TH

"Wow"

I was running around in the spacious backyard, pulling a cart that was much lighter than before.

“Aaahhhh!

It was almost May, shaking her red hair and screaming.

“It's too early, too early! I'm not done yet! I'll cross the line! ”

I didn't expect Mei to be so deft. Although he was blessed with an outstanding master and was born as a dwarf who excelled in forging, he had just started his training a few days ago.I just thought that he would be better than me, I just thought that he would be better than me, who has no experience at all, but the result is this. To be honest, Mei was a genius.

“Ringan ..... The cart was light ......!”

Mei is a six-year-old girl, so her weight should be around 20 kilograms. If you think of a burlap sack as 20 kg of rice, you will know its weight. However, the train is very light! It was so light that it was as if no one was riding it, and behaved very comfortably. This is as refreshing as riding a bike down a slope.

It was dusk, the sun was beginning to set. However, the excitement of finishing this project after a few hours of work is inexplicable, and I vented it by running around with Mei like this.

✳︎

It was noon. After meeting Mai and explaining the work process to her, I took her to the secret headquarters. We arrived at the pit house, which was as majestic as ever, and started our work there.

First, we need to prepare the material. We use metal. But even though we say metal, tin and copper are not good enough. We need iron, which has incredible strength and durability.

No matter how spacious the house of the Farenheit family was, it was a noble residence, so it was not well equipped as a workshop. All it has is a small oven for baking bread and an incinerator for burning garbage. There is no such thing as a piece of iron. There is no such thing as iron bars, let alone iron smelting furnaces.

When I told May that the first thing we needed to do was collect the materials, she said, “Send me!” He looked confident, so I let him do what he wanted.

First of all, Mei showed her dwarf characteristics.Dwarves were a race that originated from a land called the Nord Peninsula, located across the sea in the northern part of the Imperial Kingdom. The Nords Peninsula and the Imperial Kingdom were connected by land, but there were other countries in between, so the only direct route was by sea.

The dwarves living on the Nord Peninsula were different from other types of people because they were shorter, both male and female, and the males were muscular and hairy, while the females were very young.

Gnome is the generic name for spirits that live on earth. They are said to control earth magic, and are said to exist all over the world.I have heard that the master of this gnome is called the mother earth goddess, but I do not know much about the attributes of the earth, but I do not know much about the attributes of the earth, so I'll miss the details.

Thus, because the Dwarven race had a high affinity with these gnomes, the entire race had a high aptitude for earth magic. And it was a universal property that applied even to six-year-old dwarves who were not very good at magic. The story is long, but Meiru Arendal, the daughter of the dwarves, uses earth magic with natural instinct and intuition!

The next moment I inwardly wondered if the dwarf would react to such a lazy spell, and then I was once again annoyed at myself for reacting like that.

As soon as Mei chanted a spell that could not be described as serious or insincere, the ground rose, vacillated.

Is impossible?!

I shouted like a stone-type demon that imitated a tree.

With a random spell, what Mei obtained from the ground was clearly pure iron sand that did not even need to be slashed.

“May. What was that?

"I don't know. Maybe all dwarves can do it.”

He didn't quite understand what he was doing, but it was probably spirit magic. If someone who is not magic gifted can use it, there is no other way. The fact that he was loved by the spirit of the earth shows that it is.

First of all, Mei's magic power isn't that much. He may be older than me, but compared to me, he doesn't have much. Spirit magic requires less magic power because spirits can perform magic with the highest efficiency even with less magic power.

This is not the end of May's terrifying skills. Just as he thought he had obtained the iron sand, he began to recite another spell. The next thing he knew, he cast another spell.

He said, “'please round this iron, and make a scarf"

As expected, the pile of iron sand scattered on the ground began to change shape. The iron does not melt because of the heat, but it forms itself beautifully.

“It's really magical,....”.

I'm sure it's not strange because magic is part of everyday life in this world.I'm not sure how, but as a former Japanese person, I feel a little weird about it.

"Finally, we should attach this ......"

Mei fiddled with the finished part and gradually arranged it into a cushioning shape. I watched her from the side for over ten minutes. Finally, the long-awaited ball bearing was completed.

"Done!"

“It was amazing. …… ”

I checked if it worked well, and it turned out to spin smoothly. Because it was made with spirit magic, the margin of error was much smaller than handmade. It's a mystery to me why civilizations didn't evolve like this before.

After that, we repeated this process three more times to prepare the bearings of all the wheels. The wooden wheel of the wagon was not a proper circle, so we both had to scrape and think about it to get the bearings fitted, and it was almost night time when the wagon was finished.

"Done!"

It wasn't a lot of work, but we're happy with what we've done.I share the excitement of finishing with May. And that brings us back to the scene at the beginning.

✳︎

I was tired of running around, and Mei was nauseous from all the wobbles, so we lay on the floor of the secret headquarters.

“I'm tired of running.....,'”and I'm tired of being swung around.....”.

The kids did noisy things, but this time I thought I was too noisy.

After resting and recuperating for a moment, we discussed our future prospects.

*I think I'll be able to make more money now that I make the cart.” he said.

Now that he's making carts, I think his income will increase, and he might want to make another one.

"So what are you thinking? Why don't you guys set up your own workshop in this secret headquarters?”

"My own workshop?"

Mei's eyes sparkled imagining her own workshop.I guess having her own workshop was one of the craftsmen's dreams. Even if it was a child, it was still a dream.

"I'll hunt demons with the tools that Mei made and make money. And you can use that money to create a lot of new tools. That's how we make more useful discoveries. Sounds really fun, doesn't it?”

"That's great! You are a genius!"

I think May is more of a genius than I am, because she is six years old and has such skills, but I don't think she will understand even if I don't tell her.

Well, tomorrow I'll go hunting demons outside the city. You can think of the workshop I'm going to build here.I'll pay for the material, so you can do whatever you want with him.

"I can't wait for that! Hmm, I wonder what I'm going to do!"

After showing off so many of her magic techniques, Mei's nature was appropriate to her age, and it looked very cute.

If he stayed here, he could practice as much as he wanted, he could learn the knowledge of magic in detail from me, and most importantly, he could gain scientific knowledge about modern Japan. I looked forward to worrying about Mei's future at once, wondering what kind of forger she would be.