Finding Avalon: The Quest of a Chaosbringer Volume 2 [Complete] by Akito Narusawa

Author:Akito Narusawa
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 16: New Weapon

The three of us walked through a path in the school grounds lined by cherry trees. The cherry blossoms had all fallen, and green leaves sprouted on the branches. Even though it was past 4 p.m., the sun was still high in the sky, shining brightly through the trees. This part of the school included the factory complex. Delivery personnel and corporate workers streamed in and out, and I could hear conversations and the sounds of metalworking, especially at the busiest time of day.

We walked another hundred meters and reached the factory where I’d requested my mithril ore’s refinement. I stood at the entrance and called to let them know I was there, but nobody responded. When I looked inside, I couldn’t see anyone. I started looking around outside, hoping to find someone.

Oomiya told me she’d heard people talking and pointed me toward a storage area by the side of the factory that had raw material and other items stacked up. I went over and found the large student I’d met the other day talking with a few others with a huge grin.

“Check out my new weapon!” the student said, swinging the weapon to show off in front of his younger friends.

“Awesome!” one of his friends marveled.

“How much did you have to pay for it?” another asked.

I noticed the weapon comprised of mithril alloy. Don’t tell me... “Excuse me,” I butted in. “I ordered the refinement of some mithril alloy the other day, and I wanted to check on its progress.”

With that, he finally noticed me. The student grumbled, looking annoyed that I’d interrupted his boasting.

He gets no points for customer service, I thought. And he should remember that I’m paying him. I retrieved the refinery request contract from my bag and handed it over.

The student flicked the contract with his middle finger, snorted at me, and said, “This is a counterfeit. I have half a mind to bring you in front of the student council.”

I had a bad feeling when I saw him boasting about his new weapon, and his reaction confirmed it; he’d used my ore for himself. And so I decided to point this out to him so he could grovel at my feet and apologize for his thoughtless action. Then, and only then, might I consider letting him off the hook.

“Um, no, actually,” I said. “You wrote it out for me yesterday. If you look closely, you should recognize the handwriting, seeing it’s yours.”

“It’s not stamped, so it’s not valid,” he argued and continued to do so to prevent me from piping up, trying to intimidate me. “Besides, you’re from the first-year Class E. How’d a loser like you get their hands on mithril ore? I’ll tell you: you stole it.”

The thief’s threatening attitude had stunned the two first-year students behind him as well as Oomiya and Nitta.

Mithril ore was expensive, but not prohibitively so. Moreover, mithril ore and alloy were common in the factories since many orders for weapons went through. Pointing all this out to him would be a waste of time.

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