Now that my body rested, I can finally do some subjugation quests…. Or not. Even though I feel fine, I totally not fine. I’m still a bit mentally stressed out from my fight with Iris, I need to take it off of my mind. She made up her mind and I should just leave it at that.
Going to the guild, I took a look at the quest board and saw a rather weird job.
Reciful “The Innocent Malice” huh…. That title doesn’t make sense, even name of the job is eerie. The client info is really weird saying a bunch of alarming things. I suppose it doesn’t look that bad. A meat cleaver and a wood cutter axe huh, sounds easy enough. Too bad I don’t have the materials to make one, unless…. I better ask Zagan if he can sell me some.
I head over to Zagan’s forgery to buy some ingots, sadly he doesn’t sell ingots to people and he gets his materials via travelling merchants.
“If you help me on the forge for a whole day then I’ll give you some spare materials.”
Deal. I’ve pretty much worked here before, I know how the ropes go at this point. I better tell Iris I’ll be back my night and not wait for me. I go back to my tavern room to tell her and come back to work.
Night was almost coming and I underestimated the burden of working continuously in a forge. My body is pretty much screaming to rest from the constant stress of hammering armors, weapons, and tools. Glad that’s over with. Zagan gave me the spare iron ingots he has and I went back with them.
Once I got back, Iris was already asleep in the bed. Hope she ate already before hitting the sack. I sat on the bed and the just the mere softness of it is making me drowsy. Damn… my body must be really tired from that. I place the iron ingots on the floor and went to bed as well.
Morning comes and it seems Iris already awake waiting for me.
“Reival good sleep?”
“Hey Iris, yea I slept good last night. Were you waiting for me?”
“Iris wait Reival… Food cold… Iris tired… Iris go bed…”
Did she wait for me to come back and didn’t eat? Sigh… I told her I would be coming back late. Oh well, since we’re we might as well eat a whole bunch to make up for last night. We both go out and order some salmun. Apparently I was really hungry as the salmun tasted really good today.
I went back to the forge along with the iron ingots to start forging the requested wools, Iris followed since she felt lonely yesterday. I felt bad about it so I let her follow me but had her wait outside the workshop since it might be too hot her inside. She only nods and patiently waited nearby infront of the workshop. I head into the forgery and don’t see Zagan, must be his day off. I light up the furnace and start working.
The cleaver is simple enough but the axe is kinda tricky, I need to find a way to may a large hole for the wood handle to insert into. Thinking about it, I don’t have much of a choice and make a long iron beam and fold it in half with a steel rod at the center while folding. Meld the jointed plates and repeatedly hammer it evenly to get rid of air pockets inside the jointed plates, while adding melted iron fillings to tighten the seal. I do so what I had thought off and begin the forging.
Making the cleaver was really easy and quick, but just as I suspected the axe was really problematic and tedious. I heated and hammered it repeatedly while filling it with fillings until I was satisfied. I removed the steel rod I borrowed from the shop and left a decent hole.
Satisfied with the forging process, I tempered both tools and rinsed them on a tub of oil instead. I merely combined the wood handle and cleaver easily, while I had to add adhesive tree sap for the long wood handle for the axe along with reinforced heat, just to make sure the axe head wouldn’t just pop out suddenly.
With this I had made an Iron Meat Cleaver and an Iron Axe.
I gave the tools to Iris and told her to submit the report for the tools. Either her or I will meet the client in the tavern to deliver them.
Iris went to the guild while I went back to the tavern to take a rest.
OC: Reival and Iris
Setting: Scribel City, Blacksmith Worskshop
An Chaotic Request (End)
It was past noon, the Scrible is bustling of many people, both common populace & Adventurer, the city is lively & as festive in a sense.
Inside the
Tavern, a pretty blue haired girl is currently sitting alone in one of the tables. In front of her, above the table she sitting at. A item covered in a cloth wrapping can be seen. The blue haired girl seems to be waiting for someone.
A few minute past, the door of the Tavern opened. A black haired little Girl enters the tavern. Her entire visage depicts the word Innocents, she looks around the tavern, eventually her Obsidian eyes fall upon the sitting Blue haired Girl.... Likewise, the Blue haired girl notice her & she stares back at the little girl.
"........"
"........"
They gaze at each other in complete silence.
Eventually, the Black Haired little girl walks towards the blue haired girl, still gazing at each other's eye. & Setting in the same table upon the empty chair, Facing each other.
"......."
"......."
Another complete silence.
Somehow the cozy tavern is shallowed by a eerie & cold ambience, before everyone awareness.... Fortunately no one is inside the tavern at this hours.... Except Rosa the Tavern poster girl as the sole witness of this encounter.
*****
As the Cold & Eerie ambience battles each other, continuing to torment the cozy light atmosphere of the tavern. The eternity like silence finally broke after a few minutes.
" Hi "
" Hello "
They spoke at the same time.... Now cold & eerie ambience, vanished like a bubble. & Painted over by a very awkward atmosphere, as the two struggles to keep each of their own poker face expression.... Desperate, they spoke any words that came to their mind first, just to escape the awkwardness.
" Reciful "
" I'm Iris "
Finally managing Introduction... They fell into silence again.
Reciful: "...... Ordered "
Iris: "The Quest?"
Reciful: "Yes"
Iris: "Here"
Reciful: "This?"
Iris "Un-"
Reciful: "Weapons, two?"
Iris: "Weapons two"
Reciful: "You create?"
Iris: "Iris did not "
Reciful: "Who?"
Iris: "Reival!"
Reciful: "Reival...who?"
Iris: "Iris Partner!"
Reciful: "Partners?"
Iris: "Partners!"
Iris: "You, did you also have one?"
Reciful: "Partners?"
Iris: "Yes"
Reciful: "Reciful did not, have... But-- "
Iris: "But?"
Reciful: "Reciful had a best friend"
Iris: "Had?"
Reciful: " Yes.... She is gone"
Iris: "Gone where?"
Reciful: "Heaven"
Iris: "...sorry...Iris didn't know"
Reciful: "It's fine... Reciful don't mind "
Iris: " Is it... sad? "
Reciful: " Unbearably"
Iris: " What will you do? "
Reciful: " This "
Iris: " Huh?... This? "
Reciful: " Yes"
Iris: " Iris, did not understand "
Reciful: " This means Vengeance "
Iris: " This items? "
Reciful: " Yes"
Iris: " For Revenge?"
Reciful: " For Revenge"
Iris: " To whom?"
Reciful: " The gods, the heaven, the world, the humanity "
Iris: " Everyone? "
Reciful: " No... Only the baddies "
Iris: " The bad guys only "
Reciful: " The bad guys only "
Somehow despite two's awkward way of speaking and very few words, they manage to have a fluent conversation that only they can understand.
Reciful: "Here, Reciful shall test this... Please wait Reciful shall give full payment later"
Iris: " Ok, but Iris will watch, Iris.... makes...sure you won't run"
Reciful: "......... Ok... You watch "
Now, they don't have a scary or awkward atmosphere like earlier. they normally talks to each other now.
The black haired Little girl Reciful & the blue haired Iris went somewhere..
A few hours later they came back as the taverns poster girl Rosa watched...
Reciful the black haired girl & Iris the blue Haired one...... Thought one of them, the
black haired one is covered by Slime goo & blood of giant rats from head to toe.
Reciful: " Its a good item... Here full payment."
Iris: " Iris Reival is the best blacksmith "
Reciful: " Tell him.... Reciful say thanks"
Iris: " Un"
Reciful: " Here take this "
Iris: "Huh... Whats this? "
Reciful pass A Ominous Red symbol.
Reciful: " Umm... this is Reciful sign"
Iris: " your sign?... For what? "
Reciful: " Reward.... Use this, if you meet a great evil somewhere, sometime..... Use this to call, Reciful... Reciful shall answer & Devour the Evil... Just once"
Iris: " You eat evil "
Reciful: " Yes "
Iris: " Ok "
Thus, they partway just like that.....
All while the Tavern poster girl.... The sole witness, cannot process what just happened.
OCC: please say if I mess up her Personality.... And if i did I'm sorry I did not know.
(PS: thank! For doing her quest!)
