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"Mister Ars, what are you doing, that you are?

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"Well, I think it's time to get my Valkyrie equipment in order."

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"Valkyrie equipment, that it is. Are you going to make armor for the beast, that you are?

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No, armor would cost a lot of money. I have other things I need for the time being, so I'm going to make them.

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"Hmm. And what does Valkyrie need, that it does?

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Of course it is. A saddle and stirrups.

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　After finishing the paper, my next task was to make the saddle and stirrups to attach to the Valkyrie.

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　In this area, there are a wide variety of messenger beasts, and they are ridden by messengers of all shapes and sizes.

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　Therefore, it was common to make saddles and stirrups for them.

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　I once thought of making one, but decided against it at the time.

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　It would require a specialized craftsman in town to make a saddle for each beast, and there was no one available to make them.

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　But now it is different.

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　The grandson in front of me is a rather good all-rounder, and all of his products are very high quality.

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　I was drawing on the newly made paper to tell him what I wanted and have him make it for me.

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"But I'm sure that Mister Ars can ride a Valkyrie without such a thing. I am not sure if it is really necessary, that I am not sure.

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"Well, now that I can ride too, I thought I wouldn't need it. I thought I didn't need it now that I can ride, but then I realized that I want it on the battlefield.

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　I can ride a Valkyrie without a saddle or stirrups, thanks to the many times I have trained to ride one.

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　But I realized that I still needed them when I fought Raymond in Fontana's army.

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　Raymond attacked me with his ice sword, and I was knocked down to the ground from the back of the Valkyrie.

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　But I wonder if it would have turned out differently if I had been in the stirrups at that moment.

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　If I had a proper saddle and stirrups, I would have been able to exert myself more with my feet, instead of the riding position I was holding myself in with my legs between them.

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　When you are mounted and wielding a weapon, the stirrups would have allowed you to transfer the power of your lower body to the weapon.

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　I realized this in that battle.

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"Besides, I would like to increase the number of people who can ride other than me and my brother Bite. It will definitely be easier to ride if they have saddles and stirrups.

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"I see, so you want to build a riding squad.

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　That's right.

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　I find it inconvenient that I am the only one who can ride.

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　I have heard somewhere that speed is important in battle, and having a squad that can ride would surely be a great boost to our strength.

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　A Valkyrie with horns can be a force even without a rider, but it is a kind of a backstage move.

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　In terms of the total number of Valkyries, the horned Valkyries are more numerous, so we would like to put people on them and use them as a force.

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　That is why I decided to make saddles and stirrups.

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"Here are the drawings. But please make it so that it is as easy as possible on both the rider and the Valkyrie being ridden, Gran."

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"I understand. I'll leave it to you, that I will, Mr. Ars.

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　After completing a rough drawing, I asked Gran to make the saddle and stirrups for me.

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　I asked Gran to make the saddle and stirrups for me.

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"Well, there's one more thing we need."

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　I continued to work on Valkyrie after sending the order to Gran.

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　It was because there was one more thing I wanted to make.

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　Horseshoes.

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　I think that in my previous life, I had attached iron parts to the hooves on horses' feet.

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　The hoof on the horse's foot gets scraped off as it moves.

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　If the horse is just growing up in the wild, there should be no problem with a little shaving, as it is balanced by the natural growth of the horse's hoof.

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　However, if a horse is used to carrying people or cargo, the hoof will be shaved faster than the natural growth rate, so it is necessary to install hoof irons, which are shoes for horses.

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　Until now, we had not paid much attention to this issue, because we had just sold the hatched Valkyries and that was the end of it.

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　However, the situation is a little different from now on.

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　We do not know when we will have to introduce Valkyries into the workforce, and when they will be used to transport people and cargo.

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　We cannot predict how much burden will be placed on the legs of Valkyries.

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　That is why I decided to prepare for it while I still can.

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　I ask one of the Valkyries to stay still while I observe their feet.

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　I had suspected this for a while, but I was convinced that the Valkyries have a certain characteristic.

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　That is, all of them have the same body size.

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　There was a difference in body size between the first one I hatched with my own magic power and the one that was born from the egg of the Valkyrie itself.

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　That is why I did not notice it until now.

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　But now, most of them are hatched not by me but by Valkyrie with horns.

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　And the body size of the newborns is the same for all of them.

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　Then, it's a simple matter.

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　I decided to make horseshoes out of hardened bricks.

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　If the size of each individual is the same, then I can make the perfect horseshoe out of hardened bricks and make a spell out of it.

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　Then, from now on, I would only have to cast a spell to make a horseshoe that would fit Valkyrie's foot perfectly, even if it was not mine.

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　I decided to make shoes of hardened bricks that would fit Valkyrie's feet.

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　Unlike wild horses, Valkyrie can understand what I say.

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　If there was the slightest discomfort, he would immediately shake his head in protest, so I continued to work through trial and error to create a shoe that Valkyrie himself would be satisfied with.

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　The saddle and stirrups for carrying a person were completed, along with shoes specially designed for Valkyrie, which could run on dirt, on roads, beside rivers, and at the bottom of rivers without any problems.

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　Thus, little by little, the Valkyrie was equipped.　

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