The sun is high in the sky, and there are only a few white clouds in the sky slowly drifting by with the wind, and today is really a nice day!

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In the ancient city of Manya, there are many different kinds of shopping streets. The orc inhabitants of all shapes and different faces walked from one end of the street to the other, each of them passing through this street had a trivial task to complete every day, and occasionally a few orcs who knew each other would stop and stand in place when they saw each other, and after they finished talking about the old things, they would say goodbye to each other and leave to complete their daily chores.

In the middle of the crowd of people walking through the street where many orc residents walked in it, a sturdy goblin warrior in tattered leather armor was walking in the crowd of people on this street, and he was holding a werewolf girl who was slightly taller than him in his right hand, walking side by side with him, and they looked like a couple in love.

Led by the Goblin Warrior was a werewolf girl in a beautiful pale pink dress, her short ponytail that had been tied with strings and hung down slightly looked particularly fresh, but that wasn't what stood out about the werewolf girl's hair. On the right side of her hair is tied a pink bow that is only half the size of a palm, and the werewolf girl who was originally very beautiful looks like she looks a little cute at this moment because of wearing this pink bow tie~

"Na~ I said where are you going next?"

Looking at the goblin warrior walking with her left hand, the werewolf girl suddenly leaned into the goblin warrior's ear and asked softly in a sweet voice.

Hearing the werewolf girl walking beside him, the goblin warrior who was only concerned about walking forward seemed to be frightened at this moment, only to see him turn around and look at the werewolf girl who was smiling at him with embarrassed eyes, not knowing what to say.

“...... Going to play... Was that the tournament game last time?" asked the Goblin Warrior, who was still walking, tentatively as she looked at the werewolf girl's still smiling face.

"Huh, wouldn't that be too boring?" After hearing the Goblin Warrior say where he was going, the werewolf girl couldn't help but pout, showing an unhappy expression, and asked the Goblin Warrior holding her left hand.

“............”

The Goblin Warrior, who had just proposed his destination, scratched his cheek with his left hand and smiled awkwardly when he heard the werewolf girl's unhappy rhetorical question.

"Really~ if you want me to say... Let's go to the famous weapons shop, and don't you see the leather armor you're wearing is torn?"

Looking at the goblin warrior's embarrassed smile, the werewolf girl couldn't help but roll her eyes at him, and then she smiled sweetly again and expressed her opinion to the goblin warrior holding her left hand.

"We really... Are you going to the weapons shop?" asked the Goblin Warrior, who was still walking with his feet, a little surprised when he heard the werewolf girl's proposal.

"Of course~ I'm very familiar with the lizardman boss of the 'Tooth Steel Refining House'!If you go with me, he might even give you a discount~" The werewolf girl heard the unexpected voice of the goblin warrior, and she raised the index of her right hand and smiled at the goblin warrior.

"But... Wino...... Wouldn't it ...... to go to that kind of place at the beginning of the date?" the Goblin Warrior still seemed a little apprehensive about what the werewolf girl said, and he looked at the werewolf girl who was still smiling and asked worriedly.

Hearing the Goblin Warrior's question again, the werewolf girl did not hesitate to flick a finger on the Goblin Warrior's cheek with her right hand, and looked at the Goblin Warrior Werewolf Girl, who was slightly in pain, still maintained that smile and said, "Okay! It's because it's a dating relationship, so you also have to look good, right?"

"Let's hurry up~ Time is precious, you don't want to waste time here, do you? Don't forget that this is our second date, Tu Te~"

The werewolf girl who was being held by the goblin warrior and smiled continued.

When the werewolf girl finished speaking, she was originally held by the goblin warrior, and at this moment, she grabbed the goblin warrior's right hand, pulled him and strode forward, the weapon shop she said was "Tooth Steel Refining House............

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Delhi Street, a weapons shop with a big-looking façade. The façade of this weapon shop is engraved with a string of sharp teeth that resemble the mouth of a beast, and the wooden sign of the weapon shop is impressively engraved with four large characters: "Tooth Steel Refining House".

In-store.

A middle-aged lizardman covered in scales was standing in front of a shelf of various armor in his store, wiping the dust from the armor, hand armor, leg armor, head armor, and shield of the shelf with a rag in his hand. After wiping the dust off a metal shield in his hand with a rag, the middle-aged lizardman exhaled a breath towards the shield, and as the middle-aged lizardman exhaled a breath to the surface of the metal shield, a thin layer of mist instantly appeared on the surface of the shield, and the middle-aged lizardman wiped the shield again with the rag in his hand, and after wiping, the surface of the metal shield perfectly reflected the metallic luster that only metal would reflect, and the middle-aged lizardman looked at the shield in his hand with satisfaction, and then put it back on the original shelf。

Just as the middle-aged lizardman was about to move to the side of the shelves where the weapons were placed and began to clean up the various weapons placed on it, the door of the store was pushed open, and when the door was pushed open, the bell placed next to the door of the store rang at this moment.

"Uncle, I'm here again~"

A lively voice came into the store from outside the store, and into the store was a werewolf girl wearing a pale pink dress and a bow tie in her hair, and she was leading a goblin warrior in tattered leather armor into the store.

"Oh, Wino, are you here again! this time you're here to buy the weapons you need? Huh... It doesn't look like that'......."

When he saw the people walking into his shop, the middle-aged lizard generously greeted the werewolf girl named "Wino", who had just walked into his shop and had known him for a long time, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he enthusiastically asked Wino if he was coming to buy weapons or if he needed something else this time. However, when the middle-aged lizardman saw the costume that Wino was wearing today and the goblin warrior standing beside her, who was wearing tattered and tattered faces, he seemed to understand something, looking at Wino who was smiling happily and the goblin warrior who was wearing tattered leather armor and his expression seemed to be a little embarrassed, the middle-aged lizardman showed a rare smile, and he was already middle-aged, and he gave Wino and the goblin warrior a thumbs up of his right hand, as if he was blessing the two of them.

"That's... Well, uncle, can you help him choose a piece of armor? The leather armor he was wearing was already torn and couldn't be broken anymore. Hearing the blessing of the middle-aged lizardman boss, Wino's expression instantly became embarrassed, and she pointed at Tut standing beside her with her right index finger with a shy face and said to the boss.

Hearing what Wino said, the middle-aged lizardman boss nodded affirmatively, only to see that the next second he walked up to the goblin warrior standing beside Wino and carefully inspected the warrior wearing tattered leather armor for various reasons.

"Oh...... As a matter of common sense... Your leather armor is broken like this, and you should have suffered several fatal injuries in armor, right?" After inspecting the tattered leather armor worn by the goblin warrior, the middle-aged lizardman boss asked the goblin warrior an intriguing question.

“......”

I didn't respond to the middle-aged lizardman's boss's question, and instead looked at the shelf where the armor was placed on the side of the middle-aged lizardman's boss, trying to escape the question.

"Huh?!"

When she heard the middle-aged lizardman boss say that Tut should have been fatally injured several times, Wino couldn't help but let out an exclamation, and her expression became worried, and she turned to look at Tut who was standing aside and looking away.

"Boy, have we met before?" said the middle-aged lizardman boss who was standing in front of me suddenly slapped my shoulder with his left hand.

“...... Yes, I bought a short crossbow in your shop ten days ago. Faced with the middle-aged lizardman's boss asking me again, I was still silent, and after a pause, I responded to his question about me.

"Oh! You're the goblin of that day?!I'm sorry, I didn't even see ......you at first glance from the moment you first walked into my shop," said the middle-aged lizardman boss with a surprised expression after hearing the goblin warrior's response, and at the same time he apologized for not recognizing me just now.

"It doesn't matter. I shook my head, smiled without any emotion, and said this to the middle-aged lizardman boss to signal him not to take it to heart.

"Compared to that ten days ago, I feel like you've really changed a lot. Hearing what the goblin warrior he knew said, the middle-aged lizardman boss patted the goblin warrior on the shoulder again with his left hand on the goblin warrior's shoulder and said to him.

"It's changed... A lot?" I asked rhetorically with a slightly puzzled expression on my face when I heard what the middle-aged lizardman boss said.

"That's right. You seem to be a lot quieter now than you were 10 days ago......"

In response to my rhetorical question, the middle-aged lizardman had one thing to say, and he said the difference between me ten days ago and me now.

"Okay! let's make a long story short! Now let me choose a piece of armor for you, this is what the little girl Wino asked me for!! The middle-aged lizardman boss withdrew his left hand from the goblin warrior's shoulder as he walked over to the shelf with various armor hanging from it, and as the boss, he did his best to speak to me.

Hearing what the middle-aged lizardman boss said, I decisively took off the leather armor that I was wearing on my body, which no longer had any protective effect, and as the leather armor was taken off by me, the black shirt I was wearing under the leather armor was instantly exposed.

"Do you want steel upper body armor?" asked me as the goblin warrior took off his leather armor, and the middle-aged lizardman boss asked me with a finger pointing to a thick cuirplate forged from steel on a shelf.

(Compared to the leather armor I was wearing, the defense was there, but ...... ）

[It's too bulky, right~]

It was as if hearing my inner thoughts, and Fringerd's laughter came out of my head in the next second.

"It's probably a bit of a faux pas... But let me take the liberty of asking, boss, do you have any armor that doesn't get in the way of action in battle, and if you can, it's better to be lighter......"

I lowered my voice, and in a calm tone, I told the middle-aged lizardman, the owner of the Tooth Steel Forge House, the type of armor I wanted.

"You have to fight without hindering your flexibility...... And it also needs to be lightweight?...... Not. By the way, would you like to try armor forged from the Entes Mine with the Noble Wind Ore and the lightest metal in the Forged Metals rankings, Light Steel?"

"What's that?"

I couldn't help but be a little confused by the idiosyncratic noun that came out of the mouth of the middle-aged lizardman boss, knowing that I didn't know anything about the ores and metals used to forge armor and weapons.

"Haha~ Come with me!"

Seeing that the goblin warrior was puzzled by what he said about the metal and ore, the middle-aged lizardman boss couldn't help but laugh, and then he beckoned his right hand to the goblin warrior and Wino to let them follow in his footsteps.

Seeing the gesture of the middle-aged lizardman boss, Wino and I followed behind the middle-aged lizardman, walking past the shelves where various armor were placed, and we stopped at a shelf that was completely different from other shelves in terms of material.

The shelves are not too unusual, hanging on the shelves is a set of armor that looks like it is forged from some kind of metal, although the surface of the armor is a dull gray, but from the upper body armor, lower body armor, arm armor, and leg armor of this set of armor, it has a metallic luster that only metal reflects.

I don't know if I'll be able to move flexibly with this armor on, but there's no doubt that this armor is much better than the leather armor I've been wearing.

Sure enough, I bought it!

"Boy, do you want to buy it?" the middle-aged lizardman boss asked with a smile as if he saw the goblin warrior's eyes looking at the armor intently.

"Well, I'm going to buy it!" I nodded in affirmation to the middle-aged lizardman.

As I spoke, I opened my old fanny pack with my left hand and tried to take out the money to buy the armor, but when I opened it with my left hand, I was stunned. There was nothing in my fanny pack except for a few things that seemed useless, and it could be said that I was a penniless pauper with my penny empty in my fanny pack now.

(Ha~)

I remembered that ten days ago I had stopped the Khe duel on Derry Street in the ancient city of Manya in order to save Gulay Til and Tina, which led to me being captured by the vigilantes of Ked and sent to the Darktooth Prison. Thinking of the memories of being sent to the Dark Fang Prison, I couldn't help but smile indifferently with a face that couldn't see any emotion, and at that time everything I was carrying with me was seized by those security soldiers, and it can be said that the money was "confiscated"......

Standing next to the shelves for a while, I should have generously taken it out of my waist bag to buy armor, and I instantly didn't know what to say to the middle-aged lizardman boss next, looking at the middle-aged lizardman boss who was looking at me with peaceful eyes, I could only laugh slightly embarrassed, to be honest, I didn't dare to turn my head to look at Wino who was looking at me with a slightly puzzled expression.

The middle-aged lizardman boss standing by seemed to understand that this goblin warrior did not have the cost to buy this armor, and according to his usual temper, he would be angry and drive such a time-wasting customer out of the store mercilessly, but he did not do it...... Why? Because this goblin warrior is Wino's boyfriend, and he has always had a good relationship with Wino, a little girl, so he naturally wants to give her a face.

(He doesn't have any money, does he?...... ）

Wino, who had been holding Tut's right hand since the meeting just now, naturally noticed the unnatural expression on Tut's face, and watching Tut's delay in paying made Wino even more convinced that Tut had no money on him.

"Uncle, how much does this armor cost?"

While I was still there smiling awkwardly, Wino's pleasant voice came from behind me, and she let go of the hand she was holding me and asked the middle-aged lizardman boss about the price of the armor with a serious face.

"Wei... Wino!"

Hearing what Wino said, I subconsciously turned my head and called her name, but when I turned my head, I saw Wino and she was showing me an innocent smile, and I couldn't help but close my mouth when I saw the smile on Wino's face.

"Thank you......"

I felt embarrassed, and I lowered my head, not daring to look at Wino, and thanked me in a moderate voice.

"Ahem, I sell this armor for 1,000 grams, but this little girl is a regular customer of mine, so you only need to pay 800 grams. The middle-aged lizardman boss deliberately interrupted the conversation with Wino by coughing twice symbolically, and he politely stated how much Wino would have to pay for this armor.

Hearing what the middle-aged lizardman boss said, Wino did not hesitate to take out a banknote only the size of a palm from the cloth bag on her back, she handed the banknote printed with the iconic pattern and symbol to the middle-aged lizardman boss, looking at the banknote handed by Wino in front of her, the middle-aged lizardman boss unceremoniously took the banknote and accepted it.

"Wear it through, Tut!"

Wino, who had paid for it, smiled at me as he pointed to the armor hanging on the shelves.

"Okay!"

I nodded at Wino's gesture, my eyes turning into anticipation.

"Okay, boy!" Hearing what the goblin warrior said to Wino, the middle-aged lizardman boss immediately took the upper body armor hanging from the shelf, handed it to the goblin warrior, and said to him warmly and generously.

"Hmm!"

I hurriedly took the upper body armor from the middle-aged lizardman boss, and the moment I took the upper body armor from the lizardman boss, I was stunned as if I was in a daze.

I thought to myself in disbelief.

[Of course, partner!haha~ After all, this is just something forged from "Qingse Steel" and "Nuofeng Ore"...... While I was still surprised, Fringeld's voice came out of my head, and he snickered disdainfully at the upper body armor I was holding.

I ignored the laughter in my head and skillfully put on the upper body armor I was holding in my hand, and the middle-aged lizardman boss saw that I had put on the upper body armor, so he handed the lower body armor, leg armor and arm armor to my hand in turn, and I took the armor from the middle-aged lizardman boss in turn, and I unhurriedly put on the rest of the armor.

When I put the last armor on my left arm, I saw Wino standing next to me smiling happily, and I was embarrassed to scratch my cheek with the index finger of my right hand.

"Well, that makes him look like a real warrior!!," the middle-aged lizardman boss said to the goblin warrior with a hearty laugh as he looked at the goblin warrior with the entire armor on.

"Thank you, boss. "Looking at the middle-aged lizardman boss who was smiling heartily at me, I politely thanked him for his age and was about to bow to him.

"You're welcome!"

Before I could bend down and bow, the middle-aged lizardman boss stretched out his left hand on my shoulder to stop my intention to bow, and I looked at the lizardman boss who put his hand on my shoulder with a calm expression.

"Goblin Kid, what's your name?" the middle-aged lizardman boss patted me on the shoulder and asked me.

"My name is Tut. ”

Faced with the middle-aged lizardman boss's inquiry, I didn't hesitate to say my name to him.

"You're called Tu... Special... Ah ......: "Hearing the goblin warrior say his name, the middle-aged lizardman boss muttered the goblin warrior's name as if he remembered something.

"Boy... You're the goblin leader who stopped the Khech duel on the streets of Derry?" After muttering the name 'Tut' a few times, the middle-aged lizardman boss snapped wide, his eyes wide, and he asked me in a slightly louder voice.

Hearing the middle-aged lizardman boss's inquiry, Wino's expression next to me immediately changed, and as a warrior, she looked at the middle-aged lizardman boss with a cautious expression, for fear that he would act unfavorably to Tut.

"Uncle, Tut has been pardoned by the patriarch, so ......?!"

Just as Wino opened her mouth to speak for me, I stretched out my right hand to protect her who was standing next to me and wanted to speak for me, and I raised my head and looked at the middle-aged lizardman owner who had been running the Tooth Steel Smelting House for I don't know how many years.

"The chief goblin warrior who stopped the duel in Keh was me, yes. "Compared to Wino opening his mouth to explain to me, I looked at the middle-aged lizardman boss and simply admitted that I was the goblin warrior captain who stopped the Kéch duel.

"Oh~ The legendary goblin warrior who stopped the duel in Kech is really you! don't look at me like that, I have no ill will towards you. ”

Hearing the goblin warrior captain named "Tut" respond, the middle-aged lizardman boss couldn't help but look at Tut with a surprised expression, and at the same time, he spread his hands and made a gesture that was not malicious to Tut to show Tut that he had no ill will towards Tut.

Hearing what the middle-aged lizardman boss said, the slight hostility in my eyes that existed for a while was let go at this moment.

"Huh?"

When I let my guard down, the middle-aged lizardman boss held out his right hand to me, and it seemed that he wanted to talk to me... Shake hands?

Seeing this, I also stretched out my left hand and steadily held the right hand of the middle-aged lizardman boss's skin covered with scales and wrinkles, when the skin of my palm and the back of my hand came into contact with the cold scales on the lizardman's skin, this touch was naturally not too comfortable, but it was still acceptable.

"Tut. My name is Helaire, and I'm the owner of the weapons shop Tooth Steel. If we can, can we be friends? I know I'm a lot older than you, but... Do you want to be friends with me?" Looking at the goblin warrior named Tut, who was staring at his eyes, the middle-aged lizardman boss first told Tut his name, and then he said to Tut with a solemn face.

"Yes. ”

Hearing Hulyer's plea, I didn't say any more nonsense, but agreed to Heulaire's request in the briefest of words, and took his hand and pushed a little harder.

"Haha! You're a goblin who doesn't care that I'm an old man and agrees to be friends with me. Hurael laughed knowingly when he heard what I said, and when he was done, he let go of my hand and nodded to me and me and Wino .

"Well, I'm friends with you from now on!" I said, standing in front of Hurare, with a smile on my lips.

Since I was born by Winya (Mom), I've met many people older than me, like the old Goblin Elders like the Black Frame Elders...... But my relationship with them is just like that of elders and juniors, and this relationship is not like that of friends and friends. However, the relationship with Hulyer, the owner of the "Tooth Steel Forge House", is new to me, and it feels like a person who is the age of his father suddenly becomes friends with you... Well, I can't tell you what it feels like.

"That's... Boss Hulyer, I and Wino left first, and I'll come back next time I have time. I took Wino's right hand, which was still standing on the shelves, looking at the shelves, and then looked at the middle-aged lizard man who was the boss of Helair, waved his right hand at him, and said goodbye to him, and after saying goodbye, I took Wino's hand and turned around to walk out of the door of the "Tooth Steel Refining House".

"Hahaha! Goodbye, Goblin Kid!"

Seeing that Tut and Wino were about to leave his shop, Helaire smiled indifferently, and he said goodbye to the two who were about to leave in a hearty voice.

"Wino, you and your boyfriend must be happy, Tut is a very good goblin warrior leader, I believe he can give you happiness!"

Just as Wino and I were about to walk out of the Tooth Steel, Hulyre's voice suddenly came from behind us, and he blessed Wino and I with a tone of being a passer-by, 'We must be happy as lovers'.

Wino, who was holding my hand, blushed and embarrassed at first when she heard Hulyer's blessing, and then she raised her head and gave Uncle Hulyre a thankful thumbs up.

(So he had already seen the relationship between me and Wino?)

"Tut, if you can in the future... Marry Wino, she's a good marriage partner!" Uncle Hulyle said to me in his somewhat vicissitudes of voice as he finished wishing Wino's blessing to Wino.

Wino and I, who had just wanted to walk out of the door of the "Tooth Steel Refining House", each heard Uncle Hulyre's blessings for me, and we subconsciously stopped our respective steps, and Wino and I turned our heads slightly to look at Uncle Hulyer who was still smiling at the two of us.

"Well, I'm sure Tut can give me happiness. ”

"I'm going to marry Wino. ”

Only a second later, Wino and I coincidentally said a sentence with a different text but a very similar meaning.

When we each said what we wanted to say, Wino's face turned red like a ripe apple, and I was holding Wino's hand and lost all my emotions when I heard what Wino had just said, and I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed at this moment.

"Haha! Are you shy, it's good to be young!!," looked at Wino, who was flushed, and Tut Hurare, who looked a little embarrassed, laughed and teased.

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The ancient city of Manya, inside the city.

A goblin warrior wearing a new armor is leading a werewolf girl in a skirt on a bustling commercial street full of shops and shops, which is the "Derry Street" in the ancient city of Manya.

"What's next... Where are we going?" asked the werewolf girl whispering into the Goblin Warrior's ear.

"Hmm......"

When the werewolf girl asked this, the goblin warrior was silent for a while, with a little headache.

"I said~ Do you want to visit someone we know again?" Seeing that the goblin warrior fell silent, the werewolf girl continued in a beautiful voice.

Hearing the werewolf girl's proposal, the goblin warrior didn't say anything else, and he nodded and agreed to the werewolf girl's proposal......