Several days passed.
"...Why did you come here?"
"Can't I?"
"It's not that you can't, but..."
Before me stood Aiz, the newest member of the strongest Familia in Orario, demurely as ever.
"So why did you come here?"
There shouldn't be any reason for her to come to me now that I'd found her a place to stay.
"...I don't know."
"..."
How am I supposed to deal with you not knowing that?
"Oh, did the magic sword work out all right?"
"Yeah... it worked really well."
"Want another one?"
"Yeah..."
Magic swords were pretty expensive magical tools.
They were incredibly useful items that let you use a predetermined spell without consuming mind or chanting, but since they broke after a few uses, they sold for a very high price.
But I had the ability to mass-produce magic swords, so I could just hand them over like I was giving pocket money to a younger sibling I knew.
"Here."
I handed her another dagger, this one the same type that released intense heat.
"Then I'm going out for a bit."
"Where to?"
"The Dungeon."
I had to test the weapons I made somehow.
"...Can I come too?"
"..."
Would that be... all right?
The Dungeon was extremely dangerous.
Even if I was only going to the first through third floors, it could still be dangerous for Aiz.
"I've been to the Dungeon before."
"Really?"
Then maybe it'd be fine...
We descended to the second floor of the Dungeon, its walls made of pale blue stone.
"Open your eyes, Tempest."
Aiz was cutting through monsters like a fish back in water.
"...I think I get it."
So that brat had been planning to go to the Dungeon every chance she got in order to get stronger, and the executives had been stopping her, which was why she came to me.
"Haa, should I test the new model?"
"Kiiiii!!!"
I drew the longsword from its scabbard and swung it at a kobold charging toward me in the form of a wolf-man.
"Kyaaa...!"
Gripping the longsword with both hands, I swung at the kobold's upper body, and the blade drove all the way into its lungs.
"Didn't cut it in half."
The kobold coughed up blood, went limp, and died, leaving behind a magic stone.
Deciding that was good enough, I put away the longsword and took out the magic sword I'd made as a test.
"[Blazing Flame]!!!"
When I swung the arming sword engraved with a flame-like pattern at the kobold pack, an excessive burst of fire erupted as the sword shattered and poured down over them.
"..."
The kobolds engulfed in flames turned to ash and vanished, leaving only magic stones behind.
"I made it pretty casually, and it's this strong... As expected, Falna really is something."
"Kekekek!"
"And what are you?"
"Kieeek!!!"
I swung a wind-attribute magic sword at the goblin rushing toward me with that unpleasant laugh, aiming for its head, and with a refreshing gust of wind, the goblin's neck was cleanly severed.
"At this rate... how far will they work...?"
As I picked up the magic stones, I walked over to calm Aiz, who was running wild.