Renner smiled sweetly, but honestly speaking, Climb had no clue as to whether or not it was good; only that something brewed by Renner could only be delicious.
That was when, suddenly, he heard a flat, emotionless voice.
“—Tia should be collecting information today. The three of us was supposed to visit the palace today, but our evil boss suddenly ordered a job. Everything is the evil boss’ fault.”
Needless to say, it was Tina’s voice. Climb averted his eyes away from Lakyus’ frightening smile and asked.
“I see… Should there be an opportunity, next time, I would like to meet her at least once.”
“Climb, Tina-san and Tia-san are twins; even the length of their hair is similar.”
“So if you just see one then there’s no problem.”
Although whether or not there would be a problem wasn’t the issue, Climb showed that he understood.
Nevertheless, Climb felt embarrassed by Tina’s merciless gaze. As he was about to ignore it, the thought that she could have spotted something that he lacked prompted him to ready himself and ask.
“What is it?”
“Too big.”
“…What?”
He didn’t know what she was talking about. As countless question marks floated above Climb’s head, Lakyus apologetically intervened.
“It’s nothing. She’s just talking to herself. Don’t worry about it, Climb. No, really, don’t worry about it. I’m serious.”
“Yes…”
“…What is she talking about, Lakyus?”
Although Climb was forcing himself to agree, a confused Renner interfered. Lakyus watched Renner with a sour expression.
“Really, you, whenever it’s about Climb…”
“Ah, I meant—“
“—Shut up, Tina. The reason I didn’t bring Tia was because she was going to say something strange to Renner. Can you understand that and stop talking?”
“Got it~ evil boss.”
“…Lakyus, what was she going to tell me?”
Lakyus’ face turned stiff at Renner’s interrogation. She even looked like she was suffering.
As Climb thought about whether to intervene, Lakyus quickly turned her eyes.
“Huh… Climb, you’re using that armor.”
“Yes, it’s an incredible armor. Thank you.”
Although it was a forced change of topic, as to not embarrass the guest, Climb responded and moved his hand to the white full plate armor that he received from Renner. Forged with a great amount of mithril — with a bit of orichalcum — the armor had various magical enchants on it that made it surprisingly light, tough, and easy to move in.
The mithril for forging the splendid armor was provided by the members of Blue Rose. No matter how much he gave his thanks, it wouldn’t be enough.
As Climb was about to bow his head, Lakyus stopped him.
“You don’t have to worry about it. We just gave you the leftovers from when we made our own mithril armor.”
Even if it were just leftovers, mithril was a very expensive material. One would be able to afford a mithril full plate armor once they reach orichalcum rank. A mithril rank might be able to afford a mithril weapon. Only a person in the adamantium rank would be able to just give it away.
“I just can’t say no to Renner, after all.”
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