I'll have to check out ....... I don't know what the hell happened. If I can, I'm going to do it now.

　The mysterious luminescence that occurred during the 【Restoration】 of the dwarf's treasured famous sword and the 【Synthesis】 of it with Mithril.

　In order to figure out the cause, I first decided to see if it was a phenomenon that occurred even if I handled it normally.

　I touched the sword barrel, grasped the hilt and lifted it up.
　However, there is no noticeable reaction and I can't feel any difference from a simple sword.

''Perhaps there's a reason for the sword's construction. Let's concentrate on [analysis] this time.
You didn't use it earlier?
If you don't activate it consciously, you can't help it. If you just want to get it back on track, it doesn't get into your head every single time. Sometimes it just flows in on its own: ......

　That's why we classify it as a separate ability and call it by a different name than the others.

　No matter if you activated it at the same time, if you could obtain the same effect as 【Analysis】 just by 【Restoration】 or 【Synthesis】, there would be little point in bothering to recognize 【Analysis】 as an independent power.

　I close my eyelids while answering Alexia's question and activate 【Analysis】 with a renewed focus of my consciousness.

　Unlike the garnet sword that Noir created, there are no tricks or processing on the surface.

　However, there is something uncomfortable inside the inner part of the sword's barrel, further back.

　I'm not sure if I should be able to say that there is something thin and intricate inside the sword's body, which should normally be densely packed with constituent materials.

"A three-dimensional magical pattern?　How can you do that ......?
Hey, Mr. Luke!　It's glowing again!　Vaguely, though!

　Hearing Alexia's panicked voice, he immediately opens his eyes to check the current situation.

　Indeed, the sword's body is wearing a pale light like blue flames.

''This ...... is different from the magic power of Luke-kun's skill emitting ...... again, isn't it ......?''
''Yeah, yeah, ...... Alexia, try using [weight reduction] on this guy for a second.
Do you mean like that?

　Alexia grabbed the hilt with a guessing look and activated the 【Weight Reduction】 skill.

　Then, this time, the white and silver sword barrel became tinged with a warm-colored light.

''I knew it. This is reacting to the magic power of the skill.''
'You think so too? Weapons made of mithril increase the action of magic, but they're not supposed to glow in a strange way, so I guess we can see that kind of feature being built into the weapon.

　While uttering such a hypothesis, this time I let the delivered ordinary sword and mithril be [synthesized].

...... No particular reaction. It feels more familiar than ordinary steel, but it should not glow. I'm pretty sure it's the construction of the sword that's not normal.

　As the analysis progressed smoothly, the nature of the mysterious luminescence phenomenon was gradually revealed.

　First of all, this phenomenon is in response to the magic power of my skills.

　Secondly, the cause is not my skill or the metal of the material, but rather what seems to be a magic crests embedded inside the sword barrel - although the latter cannot be said to be completely unrelated.

　The same thing doesn't happen with swords made by normal Newlers, and it's enough to make the mithril more familiar to me than ordinary iron swords, so I can expect a slight improvement in performance.

'And yet, I wonder why it was left to fall to pieces like that. Didn't you put it away for safekeeping for the rest of your life and check the contents ...... I'll have to ask Newlers about that later.
Um, ...... can I ask you something very basic?

　Erica timidly raises her hands at shoulder height, raising her eyebrows a little awkwardly as she asks the most fundamental question of all.

'Honestly, what does it mean to you to glow like this?'
'I wonder what ...... is. It didn't feel weird inside [analysis] either.
'...... I wonder what it is. It's not like [weight reduction] has been enhanced or anything.

　Both Alexia and I could not help but twist our heads.

　If it's a groundless imagination that doesn't even amount to a hypothesis, you can blurt out as many as you like, but I doubt very much that there is any point in doing so.

　If this were a life-threatening emergency, I would choose the most likely one, even if it was less than a hypothesis, but it's not that urgent now.

''I'll ask Noir about it later. If it's a magic crest, it's in the category of the [Magical Tool Making] skill, right?
'Not today. Mr. Noir has the day off.

　As soon as I mentioned the idea of relying on Noir, Erica nailed it ahead of me.

'I mean, if it looks like it's going to take a while, we can do it after tomorrow. Even though it's just that Noir-san is working too hard these days.
I know, I know. It's my responsibility that he's busy ...... and I'm responsible for him being busy, too.

　I am the owner and employer and Noir is the clerk and employee.

　If Noir is in danger of working too hard, then the blame for that lies entirely with the shopkeeper (me).

　I decided to finish my analysis for now, and I put my sword in its scabbard and placed it on the workbench, when Harriet, a branch staff member, appeared from the store.

''Manager-san. It's time for you to go to 'headquarters'. Garnett-kun will be angry.
Oops. Sorry, Erica, Alexia. Can I take care of the rest?

　It seems that I was so focused on analyzing the luminescence phenomenon that I was running out of time until my next appointment.

We'll be fine. I've got two people from the branch office here.
''You're in the final stages of preparing the Order's headquarters. It's not good to keep everyone else who's going ahead of you waiting, and we'll take care of the store.

　While thanking Erica and Alexia for their thoughtfulness, I decided to leave the display and storage of the Newlers' swords to the two of them, while I went to the Knights' headquarters under construction with only the sword for Ezell.

　As everyone says, the preparations over there are finally coming to a close.

　Not all the knights have been dispatched yet, but at least they are getting ready enough to function as a base of operations for the Knights.

　Before I leave the shop, I decide to talk to the staff who came from the branch office as well.

'Sorry that they're busy too,'
No, no. Rather, it was just as well. I was planning to do some shopping on the ground for tomorrow's holiday. I'd like to take a bath in the hot springs here from time to time.
That's right. The big bath over there is supposed to have the same hot water as this one, but it's still lacking in atmosphere.

　Harriet and the rest of the branch staff were happily exchanging smiles as they thought about tomorrow's plans.

　I left the storefront to these girls and stepped out of the store in a hurry while switching my thoughts from the owner of the weapon shop to the Knight Commander.