There was a locked gate at the entrance to the underground water system.
　Mr. Linial unlocked it and opened the gate.
　As soon as he entered, he locked it from the inside and closed the gate tightly.

'I'll lend you one of these keys,'
Thank you.
Give it back to me when you're done.

　When I received the key that was handed to me, the words "can be made" appeared.
　........It would be better not to lose it, but it would be better to destroy it once, in order to put it away in the item box.

　It's probably because of the guild card that I can hand over the key like this.
　It seems that all the personal information on the guild card is shared by all the fairies.
　I don't know how it works, but it seems that people who register with a guild card once cannot escape from the fairies' pursuit unless there's something very wrong.

　After receiving the key, I descend the stairs leading to the underground waterworks with Linial-san.
　The underground aqueducts are dimly lit, and I can finally see what's ahead using the lights of my magic tools.
　I receive one of the lights that Linial-san had prepared for me.

　It's an expensive magic tool in its own right.
　I've often heard of noblemen's homes and traveling merchants carrying them around, but they have yet to spread to the average household.
　There is still not enough technology to mass produce them.
　However........it seems to be possible to produce them. Shall we secretly destroy it later?

Do you have any magic stones?
Um... yes, I've got it.

　I put my hand in my back pocket and took out a magic stone from the item box.

''The back of the handle is open, so just put the magic stone in there and you can use it.
I understand.

　As you asked, I opened the back of the handle part.
　Then I put the magic stone inside and it flickered several times.
　Is this magic stone not good enough?

　The moment I looked into it, it emitted a strong light.
　It hit me directly in the eye, and as I winced, I heard Linial-san's little laugh.
　When my vision recovered, Linial-san's expression had already returned to a somewhat unwilling expression, as if she was miffed.

''Ri, Linial-san just laughed!
A little.
Well that's just awful, isn't it?
That's bad enough that it blew itself up.

　Remembering, Linial-san relaxed her mouth a little again.
　.........well, did we get a little closer?
　Me and Mr. Linial walk down the path by the underground waterworks using the light.

　Me and Linial-san walked side by side, and the path is just barely clear.
　Considering the fact that we're even going to be fighting, it's going to limit our movements to just the two of us.

'What kind of fighting style do you have, Linial-san?'
I'm going to hit you with this stick.
Yeah.

　Linial's motivational words startled me.
　She lightly turned the staff she was carrying on her back before placing it on her hip.

''My divine weapon is this one, but I prefer to fight in close quarters.
...I see.
Yeah. So, I'll take care of the close quarters combat.

　...Some people's divine artifacts are not what they dreamed of.
　It's the same for me.
　I wanted a crunchy, crunchy combination like Linn.

　But in reality, I'm a blacksmith. ........No, I don't feel bad about this profession now either.

　There are probably people in this world who have obtained divine weapons and professions that are different from what they were intended to do.
　........Weapons, huh?
　Is it really not necessary for a blacksmith to make weapons?

　If a person wants to fight but can't, only a blacksmith can provide him with the right weapon for him, can't he?
　But, well, I'm very aware that the divine weapons are too good for ordinary weapons.

　If we can make a weapon that is good enough to match the divine weapon, or maybe the story will be different.



　Mr. Linial's mouth twitched.
　Over there, a barrier like a square ward was unfolding.
　There was one bloodmouth desperately flailing inside the barrier.

　On the floor, there was food on the floor to catch the bloodmouth.
　The bloodmouth must have been eating it.
　There are food particles on the floor.

'Here's the trap. When the Bloodmouth steps on this magical stone placed under the bait, a small ward is activated.''

　Linial-san points to a flat magic stone placed on the road.
　........I see.
　It seems that that warding device can also be mass-produced. As expected, it's small in size, so it won't be that useful, but I'll ask you to secretly lend it to me later.

All we need to do now is break the warding and defeat the Bloodmouth.
...Okay. That sounds like a lot of work.

　Mr. Linial points his hand at the warding device.
　I draw my sword and look at Bloodmouth.
　The moment the warding device is released, the Bloodmouth runs away. I go around to the end of it and swing my sword down.

　I severed the body of the Bloodmouth.
　As expected, Linial-san let out a breath of relief when he saw Bloodmouth stopped moving with it.

''After all, it's a lot different with two of us around.
''........When Linial-san was on her own, did you go to take her down after the wards were lifted?''
Yeah. So I could get away with it sometimes.
That was pretty hard to do...
Yes.

　Mr. Linial sighed lightly and then looked at me.

'At this rate I'll go check all the warding devices.
I understand.

　After that, he and Linial-san went to check the rest of the warding devices and successfully killed the five Bloodmouths.
　Still, the Bloodmouths still seemed to be everywhere. I was checking and counting them with my visual enhancement, but I got so tired of it that I stopped.

'I'll set up a new ward again.
''Well I understand that, Mr. Linial. I have an idea.
What?


　I take out my own divine weapon, a hammer.
　Looking at it, which is small enough to handle with one hand, Linial-san tilts her head.

''Poison?　But I thought poison didn't work on demons?
''No, that's what worked for the goblins and other demons. So I thought that if I could mix the poison with their food, maybe....
''...I see. It's going to take a long time to do it this way anyway, so maybe we should give it a try.

　Mr. Linial hands the bait to me.
　I grabbed it and then pretended to tap it with the hammer.

　Of course, my divine weapon has no such ability, but it's easy to fake it if I say, the power of a divine weapon.
　The poison attack was granted while I was holding it.

''Now we just need to lay these out in a few places.
Yeah. And we'll set up the wardrobe as usual.

　In case I fail, I'll just have to hunt as usual.
　But I've already experimented with it.
　It should be fine.