Chapter 57: City of Canals (part four)
The passers-by who passed us were looking back with a glance.
Their line of sights was pointed towards the black figure walking next to me.
Both the mantle and the gloves were black.
Moreover, his face was wrapped around with a cloth like a bandage.
Thick and long arms, an extraordinarily wide shoulders.
Somewhat stooping attitude, awkward footsteps.
That giant looked like the monster that seemed to come out in a classic mystery novel.
On his left hand was a slightly larger alchemists’ bag.
His right hand was holding my hand.
A familiar voice echoed from the side covered by bandages.
『Aren’t we becoming more conspicuous like this, Erica?』
“Still, it should be better than the original figure.”
Towards my reply, Tirnanog groaned and I thought carefully.
This time, he used the deformation mechanism of the star steel armor and disguised himself as a human being.
Extended his limbs by enlargement, kept upright posture, shortened the length of his tail and neck.
At the last moment when the silhouette looked like a human being, she hid the armor with bandages and mantle.
At least, with this he didn’t look like a homunculus.
The purpose of this disguise was to have a role of a guardian.
If I had an adult with me, I might be able to smoothly negotiate rather than if I went alone as a child.
Also, since the disguised Tirnanog looked very scary, most of the troubles could be avoided.
“Look, some people have similar appearances with you.”
『Umu. When you say so, that’s true.』
Looking around, we could see someone who covered their armor-like limbs with clothing and bandages like Tirnanog.
Many of them were dressed as miners, sailors, soldiers, and so on.
They were wearing prosthetic limbs that were diverted from golem technique to replace their limbs that were lost in an accident or war.
It was an expensive high-performance artificial limb unique to alchemy.
Tirnanog would be seen as a person who had experienced a fierce battle or a major accident.
『Now, daughter. Where should we go first?』
“Dad, I want to repair and charge the wands. Let’s head to 〈Crucible Street〉.”
With a parent-child roleplay in between, we aimed towards our destination.
We took a horse-drawn cab instead boarding the small boat at the boat boarding area, and got off at the alchemy area, Crucible Street of the Town of All Kinds of Goods.
Specialty stores such as materials for alchemy and finished wands were lining up.
The name of the store of our destination was Tulum Wand Store.
It was the store that my friend that I made during the Spring Festival, Tricia, had recommended to me.
From its name, it was likely to be a family store of the famous Tulum family.
It seemed that they not only sell, repair, and charge wands, but also create custom-made wands.
This time, due to the limited money we had in hand, we would only repair and charge the wands as planned.
Beautiful signboards made with brass and white tin were lining up at the shop front facing the street.
It seemed that there was an arrangement to set up a signboard related to handled goods in Town of All Kinds of Goods.
Crystal and pickaxe for the ore stores.
Unicorn and others for the magical beast material stores.
Material stores for potions had a lily of the valley in front of it.
And of course, the wand stores had the design of a wand.
In addition to basic designs, some shops sometimes combined symbols representing the origin of their own houses.
For example, Tulum’s family stores had a moon and a tower on it.
The moon represented their ancestors who came from Harvan’s mages, and the tower represented the origin of their house’s name1.
『Ooh, Erica. Isn’t it here?』
I looked up at the signboard in front of the store pointed by Tirnanog.
A tower made of white tin in an oval crescent made of brass.
On top of the tower were two crossed brass wands.
Apparently, it seemed that we could arrive at our destination without any trouble.
The shop was small, but it was made of fine quality stones and looked nice.
Since the door was open, it should be open, but there were no shoe marks in the mat in front of the store, indicating that there were only few visitors.
It was supposed to be a recommended shop, what a strange store.
When Tirnanog and I were observing about the state in front of the store, loud voices came from the inside.
“……What was that?”
『It seems like a fight or an argument.』
We hid the sound of our footsteps somehow and sneaked into the store without anyone noticing us.
Sure enough, I couldn’t see any customer.
Was this a small scale shop that wasn’t very popular?
When I thought so and looked again, everything was a product that seemed to be valuable.
The quality of the wands that were decorating the inside was also good.
As expected of the Tulum’s company.
There were only an old man and a boy inside the store.
The shopkeeper and his grandson?
Apart from those two people, I couldn’t see the clerk.
The boy had a burning red short hair.
With large almond-shaped, intense dark green eyes.
He was wearing a dark green outerwear that matched the color of his eyes perfectly.
He was about 5 cm shorter than my height.
He had a youthful face that was appropriate for his age.
The old man was balding and the remnant of his hair was pure white.
Sharp eyes behind the eyeglasses, deep wrinkles carved between his eyebrows.
He was a hard-hearted and obstinate old man.
The good quality silk shirt he had on was another top-quality woollen fabric that was likely to be the best.
The worn arm cover indicate that he was a craftsman.
“Master, this design, why not!”
“Harry, your wand is outstanding, but the safety is too low. It cannot be on sale.”
“It’s because you are this hard-headed that your real son ran away, Master!”
“This and that are different stories!”
The old man and the boy kept on arguing without noticing us.
I exchanged looks with Tirnanog.
『Teacher and student disagreement, huh.』
“We heard the family situation of others that we shouldn’t listen to.
We shouldn’t bother them, shall we go out before they noticed us, Tir?”
『Umu, we will visit again later, or we should go to a different shop.』
The redheaded boy and the balding old man who were in a disagreement turned around at the same time.
Uh, they noticed us.
“Welcome to Tulum Wand Store!!”
“Welcome, are you here to repair your wands?”
The boy went into the entrance side quickly and spread both hands.
It might be a welcome pose, but it also seemed to be a gesture to not let his prey escaped.
The old man went towards us swiftly as we could no longer move anywhere.
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