The sea urchin...

　As I looked at the pile of sea urchins (the remnants) in the kitchen, I was secretly depressed. I guess this is no surprise, since all the sea urchins I thought I'd enjoy a few more times are gone.
　There are still some tuna and other fish left, so we can enjoy a seafood bowl with them on top, but I didn't expect the sea urchins to disappear so quickly, so the damage is surprisingly significant.

"Tenma-sama, how are you doing?

　As I was looking at the pile of sea urchins (leftovers) in a dejected manner, Aina appeared in the kitchen by chance.

'No, not really... but I wonder if sea urchin shells can be used as fertilizer? I just thought.
You're lying.

　I lied on the spur of the moment, but it didn't seem to work with Aina. However, the shells of the sea urchins probably contain calcium or something like that, so I'll keep them dried for experimentation.

I've never seen a sea urchin before, but whoever ate it for the first time has a lot of nerve. Normally I wouldn't expect to be able to eat something like this.......but when you try it, it's delicious. I think I can understand why Temma-sama is so depressed. So let's talk to Maria-sama about it.

　With that, Aina took the sea urchin shell and headed for the room where Maria was.

'Excuse me, Maria,'

Aina, did you find Tenma?

　As soon as Aina knocked on the room, Maria-sama opened the door with a worried voice. And when she saw me behind Aina, she looked at me.

I'm sorry, Temma.

　He apologized to me. The story that followed was that Maria knew I was depressed, and reminded me that people from the royal family used to eat and drink at our house. Well, Maria doesn't often come to eat, but Tida and Luna, as well as the king, Ernest and Lyle, come over there often. I've brought some food, and Caesar has paid for Tida and Luna, but I've also taken out some of my own food. Most of the food that I took out was obtained while I received a request from the guild, but there were some rare ingredients that I bought in the south, so I'm spending a decent amount of money. I'm sure you'll be surprised to know that Tida and Luna often come over to the restaurant to have a meal, but I've heard that they've been there a lot more often than I expected.
　When I regretted eating too many sea urchins, Aina and Grandpa told me what the kings had done, and I was so angry and apologetic that I didn't know what to do, so I asked Aina to check on me.

''Maria-sama, I have a proposal to make about that.

　As she was unsure of how to respond to Maria's apology, Aina held the sea urchin shell in front of her.

'Aina what's wrong with that?'

　Maria-sama looked a little annoyed that Aina had interrupted her from the side, and there was a slight spike in her voice.

'Actually, it seems that this (...) is what the sea urchin you just gave me is, but isn't Maria-sama familiar with this (...)?'

　Maria-sama looked closely at the shell of the sea urchin on her palm as Aina told her to, and she seemed to recognize the sea urchin and made a surprised expression.

''This (...) is that sea urchin... was this kind of (...) that good?''

'I knew it.

'Yes!　That would be great!　Temma, I don't know if this will ever be an apology, but I'll make you bring a bunch of sea urchins from my home town instead!

　When Maria-sama found out what the sea urchin was, she suddenly got high and shook my hand violently several times.

''Uh ... what the hell is that?''

　I couldn't keep up with the sudden turn of events, so I asked Maria to do so, but she began to write a letter furiously, as if she had forgotten about me... well, she was in too much of a hurry, so she crumpled up and threw away the letter she had failed to write so many times, but .........

'So, Aina. How did Maria come to this?

As a matter of fact, this sea urchin creature is treated like garbage in Mary's homeland.

　Maria's hometown is a duke's territory that faces the northern sea, and it seems that the fishing grounds owned by the duke's territory are swarming with sea urchins, and the people of the territory don't recognize them as food and they interfere with the fishing industry, so they regularly remove them and dispose of them.
　Aina said she didn't notice the contents of the sea urchins alone, but when she saw the shells of the sea urchins, she realized that Maria-sama would be able to get them easily.

'It's done!　Aina, hurry up and arrange for this to be delivered to my parents' house!

Yes, sir.

　When Aina received the letter, she went to give it to Gosha, who was waiting outside the mansion, with instructions to take it to the royal castle.

'Now you can have all the urchins you want!　Maybe eventually my father and brother will realize how good sea urchins are and move to make them a specialty, so before they do, let's claim credit (and ingratiate ourselves) for discovering that they are edible so we can make sure we get them!　And some kelp, too!

　Maria says that nobody eats sea urchins (even in the surrounding territories and neighbouring countries), and if this is accepted, it's sure to become a big industry. They're going to sell this information to Maria's brother (the current Duke) and father (the former Duke) so that they can get my share of sea urchins for free in return.
　Maria was so excited that she took my hands and began to dance. It's not a ballroom dance, but it's not the kind of dance that a drunkard would do in a bar, but in spite of that, Maria-sama's movements were somewhat elegant.
　But in spite of that, Maria's movements were elegant in some way, and when she hugged me at the end of the dance.

Hey, Aina my son, what do you think the right reaction is to see this scene?

"...wouldn't it be nice to laugh?

　Aina, who was looking at me and Maria-sama with a blank expression, and Lyle-sama, who seemed to have detected something tasty with her unique sense of smell, were at the end of the voice.

''......................''

　The four of us stop time for a while. Lyle-sama didn't know how to react, Aina didn't give a d*mn, and Maria was embarrassed to be seen frolicking, while I tried not to say anything unnecessary until someone else started to move, resulting in a strangely tense space.

'Lyle!　Sit there!
Oh, well...

　It was Maria-sama who first started to move. When her name was suddenly called, Lyle-sama sat there (in the corridor) quietly, as if she was going to do as she was told, for the time being. And that's when the sermon started. Half of the sermon must have included Maria's embarrassment. Well, half of the sermon was actually nearly double the content of the original sermon, since Mary's shyness was added to the original sermon.

'Temma I'm seriously sorry.

　Lyle apologized to me for my past drinking and eating, about three hours after Maria began her sermon, and until then, Lyle had been sitting upright in the corridor while she lectured him.
　By the way, as a result of the sermon, Lyle's monthly allowance has been reduced even further as a result of Maria's management of Lyle's salary.
　By the way, Lyle came to my house expecting to eat, but after Maria's sermon, he couldn't tell me to eat, so after apologizing to me, he immediately went back to the castle with Tida and the others. Now they're going to have a second sermon with the king. In addition, I heard later that since Ernest was not there for the second sermon, they had to add him to the sermon as well.


　The day after I served Maria and the others a bowl of seafood.

This is the armor I'm going to give away to Amy. It's my old one, so it's scratched, but it's a good one, light and strong, so it's good enough to use with a little repair work.

　Although it was later than planned, I decided to give Aimee the armor and other items I had in my magic bag.
　This is the armor that I used before I was active in Gunjo City, and it is made from the leather of the Lizardman, a bipedal lizard monster. It was said to be made from good parts, and was the pride and joy of the craftsmen, but because they insisted on making it from good parts only (...) it was too small for an average adult male to fit into it, and even for a female to fit into it.
　Thanks to that, the price was what I could afford, even with what I was making at the time. Well, the people at the store were suspicious that it was stolen money, but they thought it was better to pretend they didn't notice and sell it than to just leave it there. After all, it was too tight even for a woman to wear it, and it was a size that only a child would be able to wear.
　It was my favorite piece of protective gear at the time because it was light, strong and easy to move around in, but after about a year and a half it got so tight that I changed to other protective gear before the second year. Even after changing to the other armor, I brought it to a craftsman several times to see if it could be repaired, but the materials were not available and the craftsman's skills were not as good as they could be, so it had been sitting in a magic bag.
　Such was the Lizardman's armor, but there is a reliable craftsman (Kelly) in the King's Capital, and there are materials of wyvern variants and earth dragons for repairs.

'It should be a better armor than the one I was using.

Brother, if you're going to go that far, I think it would be better to build one from scratch using materials from a wyvern subspecies or something.

　Luna, who was pecking at the Lizardman's armor behind Amy (it was yesterday, today, and she hadn't learned her lesson), nodded her head and expressed her doubts, but there were a few reasons for that.

It's not a good idea to make a new one from scratch with the material of a wyvern subspecies or something like that, because one of the reasons is that it's too hard to move when it's new. The one I used to use is older but less damaged, and it's been stored in a magic bag for a long time, so it's still hard enough to use. Secondly, it's too expensive and dangerous to make out of an almost wyvern subspecies or earth dragon material.

　If it turns out to be an expensive material, there will surely be someone who will try to take it away from Aimee and sell it, or break it up and use it. It's okay if it's enough to injure Aimee at that point, but we can't have someone thinking of killing it quickly and then taking it away from her. In the meantime, I've given Aimee a golem for protection, but with the inexperienced Aimee, she's probably more likely to be caught by surprise. So I'll make her think it's a good armor, but not something that's worth the risk of forcing her to take it (or even killing her to take it away), and I'll use expensive materials to repair it only in inconspicuous places.

''Well, if it's only a school exercise, the lizardman materials alone should be enough.

　I haven't been told in detail what kind of exercises they'll be doing, but I'm told that at most they'll be going to a nearby forest or meadow.

'Thank you, sir!

　Amy seemed mildly excited to have her own armor, and her voice was more bouncy than usual.

'I guess I don't mind the weapons we have here, but I think it's better to look at them at Kelly's place before I choose them anyway.

　So, we decided to move to Kelly's workshop as soon as possible. The fact that Teada and Luna are with us means that Chris-san, who was following us as our escort, is also with us.

So we have a large group, huh?

　When we arrived at the workshop, Kelly, who had counted our numbers, welcomed us with a dumbfounded voice.
　Since it's a large group, the first members who came to the workshop (me, Tida and the other three, and Chris-san), plus Amour, Jeanne, Aura, Aina, Shiroumaru (who is moving out of the bag at Chris-san's request), and for some reason Albert and the other three idiots, were also there.
　Amour starts getting ready as soon as I say I'm going outside, Jeanne and Aura follow me because Aina will be tighter when I'm gone, and Aina is going to join them as a watchdog (actually escorted by Tida and Luna).
　I can understand that much, but the reason the three idiots were here was because they happened to find us while they were trying to play somewhere, so they forced us to join them because it looked interesting.
　It's a good idea to have a good time with them, but it's also a good idea to have a good time with them. In addition, because of the fact that this is a man who approaches Amy, Tida has been wary of Leon since a while ago.

I'm sure you'll be able to find out more about this, but I'm sure you'll also be able to find out more about this, and I'm sure you'll be able to find out more about this.

　With that, and with Amy's approval, Kelly wrote down Amy's measurements on the wooden board. At that point, Tida was about to sneak a peek at the wooden board, but Aina had grabbed her arm tightly. Incidentally, only I, Aina and Chris noticed that. Aina and Chris took Tida to a corner of the workshop and preached to her so that everyone else wouldn't find out. After the sermon was over, Tida was so ashamed of what she had done that she followed up by saying that it wasn't surprising that a boy would want to know about the girl he liked, but Tida asked me if that was the case with me, and I replied that it wasn't (in this life), and I ended up stopping her from doing the same thing It's not a good idea.

　The depressed Tida was left to her own devices and armor, and Aimee consulted with others to decide on adjustments to her equipment and armor. It's a good idea to have a good idea of the color of the armor.

'I want my armour to be bright red!

　I said. And when that voice echoed in the workshop, the one who reacted the most was Tida for some reason. The important thing is that Amy seems to be on board with the suggestion.

'Why do you want red?'

　When I asked Luna why she recommended red for the time being, she said it was because it was the same color as her armor, no matter what.

The red that Luna-sama refers to has a special meaning in the royal family. Red as you say, Luna-sama, has a special meaning in the royal family.

　According to Aina's explanation, royal men wear 'blue armor' like the blue mail in their name, while women wear 'red armor'. Although some gold and silver are said to be used for the armor, it is almost exclusively red, and while other noblemen are not prohibited from using it, if they want to use the same color for their formal armor, they will use almost half of the other colors as a courtesy. However, it seems that there is no need to worry too much about color when it comes to armor used by ordinary people.

''I see... but, you know, you shouldn't use red.''

　Hearing my words, the one who was most surprised was Tida. Probably, she was imagining Amy wearing the color of her counterpart. It's a good thing that you're not going to have to worry about it. In contrast, Luna and Aimee have a strange look on their faces, but they don't seem to think anything more than that. By the way, Amur and Aina looked at my words with a natural expression, while the other members looked like they didn't understand why.

'Amy's going to be an adventurer in the future, isn't she?　In that case, red armor is too conspicuous. On the other hand, there are some guys who say that conspicuous armor attracts enemies and targets, but adventurers should use armor of a color like black or brown so that they won't notice you.

　For example, in dungeons that Amy will use most in the future, there are many dimly lit areas, and colors such as red are easy for enemies to find. The same is true for the grasslands, and even if you try to aim at your prey, the red color is noticeable, so it's easy to escape and be attacked by monsters that can fly.

It's a good idea to be aware of what you're doing. To our allies, I'm fighting here too, and to our enemies, here's the head you guys want.......

　Amy looked surprised when she heard the story and immediately said she would stop with the red. As if caught in the act, Luna also said she would change to another color, but Aina warned her that it was a royal duty.
　In the end, Aimee decided to change the color of her armor to a light green with brownish hues (or greenish-olive as it was called in her previous life).
　By the way, as far as armor colors go, Aina and I are black, Jeanne and Aura are steeplejackets, Chris-san is white, Amour is a black and yellow tiger pattern, Albert is indigo, Cain is gray, and Rion is dark green. The last three don't seem to have decided on these as their official colors, and they just happen to be the colors they currently like.
　And about the color, Luna said that Amur's tiger pattern stands out, but she was convinced when she said that that pattern has camouflage effects on animals (including animal-type demons) and is also a magic item with a cloaking effect... or rather, it's just a bother to think about it. He seemed to have decided that since it was a magic item, that's what it was.

'What about the weapon?'
It's single-edged like yours, but shorter.

　Apparently, sword-shaped weapons are in vogue at the school these days. Well, Amy said she would prefer a single-edged weapon even if it wasn't in vogue, but Kelly had a difficult look on her face.

'Well, it's fine if you insist, but you know what?　More and more people have switched their weapons to swords since the Tenma came into play, but most of them have switched back to the weapons they originally used.

　I'm sure you'll be pleased with the results.
　There are many second- and third-rate swords, but even first-rate swords are said to have been forcibly struck by other swords because they don't know how to use them, causing the blade to chip. And it is said that there were adventurers who were impoverished by the cost of repairing the blade.
　It's a good thing that you're able to get the most out of your time and money. But apparently the blacksmiths ended up with an overwhelming victory...
　Incidentally, the blacksmith was an experienced swordsmith, and the practice swords he made were usable, if not top-notch, and according to a southern peddler (a raccoon beastman) who happened to be passing by, "There's no way you could buy a sword of this quality for that price.

"So you're Lani,
It's Lanitan.

　First of all, without a doubt, the peddler would be Mr. Rani. He'd noticed that swords were starting to become popular and was probably looking around to see if they were good for business.

'Well, the final decision is Amy's, but if it's a sword, I won't be striking it. At least, I can't strike at the level of something to sell.

　I decided to give some advice to Amy, who was wondering what to do after Kelly told me.

'Amy, if you don't want a sword as long as it's single-edged, there are weapons shaped like a sword.

　He took a blade from the workshop shelf and showed it to Amy.

'It's a machete. It's a companion to this one, called 'Ken-nata', and if you only look at the shape, it resembles a sword and is very useful.

　The people who failed to switch to the sword were probably the ones who used it to strike down instead of pulling and cutting. There are many people in this country who use the weight and momentum of the sword to smash through, and it's actually easier and doesn't require much skill to do so. But with a blade as thin as a sword, I don't see how it could be broken or bent that way.
　By comparison, a machete can be struck like when chopping wood and it's thick, so it won't break or bend even if you handle it a bit roughly. It's a good idea to use the peak of the blade to make it look like a blunt instrument, and depending on the length of the blade, it can be used like a knife for cooking or as a tool.
　I'm sure you'll find a lot of people who are interested in it, and I'm sure you'll find a lot of people who are interested in it, but I'm sure you'll be disappointed to know that we don't have it. I'm not going to be able to get a good feel for it, so I'm going to be able to proceed in the direction of the weapon being a ken-nata.

You can use the one I have for the material.

　When Amy and Kelly's conversation got to the material, she handed Kelly a dimension bag containing the items she was going to get rid of. Kelly looks into the bag she was given and pulls out a few things that could be used.

'I could use this one, this one, and this one too,'

　Kelly took out weapons and armor made of magical iron, and she's going to reuse them to make a few sword machetes. While Kelly was selecting the materials, a female dwarf employee had Amy hold sticks of various lengths and used weights such as sheet lead to determine the rough center of gravity of the sword-nata.

'We'll have a prototype of the sword machete ready in the day after tomorrow or so, so you should come around then. The armor will come after that.

　Kelly said she was going to start preparing for production now, so I gave her the deposit and we all left the workshop. According to the female dwarf who came out to see me off, she said that she hadn't had many customers lately and had been bored, so the sword machete would be finished in about tomorrow, not the day after tomorrow. Well, he said the day after tomorrow, so I don't think he'll be coming tomorrow.

''If you don't have anything to do from now on, let's go to the guild!

　A short distance away from the workshop, Rion made such a suggestion.

''It's fine but what about you guys?''　

　When I asked them that, they all nodded their heads, so we decided to continue on our way to the guild.
　We finally arrived at the guild and hurriedly entered the guild to get away from the cold, and went straight to the tavern for a warm drink.
　There were a few adventurers drinking in the tavern, but Chris (a knight of high rank), me and three idiots (a nobleman) were there, so no templar adventurers who messed with children appeared.
　When each of us ordered a drink of our choice and took a break, I looked at the request form posted on the bulletin board, but again, due to the time of year, there was no easy request.

'Hey, would you like to take this?'　

　When Leon said that to Albert and Cain

'Sorry, I've got plans tonight.
Me too.

　He immediately refused. Then he turned his attention to me.

It's too cold.

　I told him no the moment our eyes met. I don't want to go out of my way to work in the cold.　
　This is how I ended up leaving the guild right away, but the plans Albert and Cain were talking about at this time were actually going to involve a woman, and apparently Leon was depressed for a few days.