My 【Repair】Skill Became an Almighty Cheat Skill, So I Thought I'd Open Up a Weapon Shop

That's how I got inside the house, and Garnett urged me to sit on the couch, and I prepared a drink quickly.

I thought it was the usual herbal tea, and what was being poured was a bought wine.

Is it the idea that alcohol would make it easier to talk?

"I've told you many times, I'm not mad at you for anything. I just wanted to know who you are that I don't know."

Garnett seems to have felt the upset inside of me, cleverly peeking over my back and saying that in a teasing tone.

Damn...... apparently I can't get it to end properly.

After I wet my lips with wine, I decided to share memorabilia that I had never talked about in detail.

"... I flew out of my hometown village at the age of fifteen and have been an adventurer for the past fifteen years or so, but personally I think things have changed every five years"

"You mean the first five years and the next, and the last five years?

"Oh. I'm a new adventurer who's been around a lot for the first five years. It's really unusual for a guy like Sakura to go up to C-rank instantly and soon get a B-rank promotion and a second reading stage."

The E rank, which is about the age of late teens, is literally large enough to be swept away and discarded.

It's not uncommon for a guy who hasn't yet acquired a decent skill, and if he's not unlucky or in a hurry for a promotion, it's never possible that he can't be promoted to D-rank on a yearly basis.

"I cared about being made a difference by Travis in his contemporaries, but it was no time to dream that things wouldn't change after ten years. Even with my inferiority to Travis, I wasn't in an extreme rush."

"Playing with Vera from Black Marsh Valley, that's when it happened."

"I was older than you, though. And it didn't last long. I guess I was so early to tell you that you didn't have to go anywhere with me."

"You don't have eyes. It's him."

Garnett got over the back of the couch at some point and sat next to me with wine on it.

"When was that time of year - and I did care about Branch Manager Florence - when I lost to the other adventurers?"

"You remember very well. Half the newcomers based in the same city were concerned about Florence. It's just a good memory because the guy who eventually won was also a really good guy"

But he decided not to tell me again that I had lost my life after ten years out of the city.

Garnett should have known about that, and now it's not the air to talk about it.

"So, which one was first, Florence or Vera?

"Florence was first. Vera and I met after... anyway, I was really crowded at the time. I wasn't playing flashy, I just had a youth as a crowded adventurer..."

"Youth hey... I don't know."

Hearing some self-derisive whining, I finally figured out who the emotion Garnett was.

I'm not jealous of the fact that I've had socials in the past - I can't deny that either - but I can't help it. Distance, or alienation.

Garnett lost her mother at an early age and joined the Silver Wings Knights for revenge.

Even then, it is not hard to imagine having lived an isolated childhood from the world's 'normal', but in the case of Garnett, the fact that the Silver Wings Knights are banned for women makes the situation even more difficult.

The Silver Wings are the Knights who adhered to an old policy of limiting their constituents to men.

Although it was convenient that the Knights Commander was his real brother and the job description was best for pursuing his vengeful opponent (Agate Lamb), there was nothing else for Garnett to belong to than to falsify his gender.

- Of course knights have knightly youth.

But Garnett must have also had difficulty building relationships among such knights in relation to having to falsify gender.

So even when my old topic came up, I probably couldn't sympathize with it and felt something like alienation.

In other words, what Garnett said earlier, "I want to know what your side of me doesn't know" meant exactly as it was.

Then it's up to me to do it.

I just keep talking about my memories of my youth until Garnett satisfies me.

"… the next five years continued to roll around. I don't think this was a waste of time because it turned out to spread the word."

"Didn't you go away or something before that?"

"Of course, there were occasional expeditions. But as a whole, the first five years were based in a particular city, and it was time to sit back and gain experience."

Drinking a little wine, moving the age of memorabilia a a little further.

"But I left the city. I may be paranoid, but I couldn't get promoted to D-rank for long, and I didn't get any new skills, so I got uncomfortable."

"Isn't it the same in other lands?

"You're going to change, this is it. I don't usually bother to find out how many years I've been an adventurer, so it's hard to tell if you keep quiet from someone who's turned over twenty years old and then turned into an adventurer."

Now it was my turn to laugh at myself.

If you put it into words now, it's pitiful.

Because I was just fleeing into a land I don't know and deluding myself of not being good enough.

"Travis and I were exploring a little bit together this time of year, and it was around this time that we met with Dustin and Theodore. I've got a lot of knowledge, so I might have gotten a lot of results."

"How hot were those five years in the middle?

"I knew you cared there too... compared to the first five years. I don't want it anymore."

I accidentally smile bitterly at Garnett for things like intrigue.

"So, the last five years didn't have anything to do with sex sharpening. Totally self-admitting fallout, try to think it's time for your last chance, or give up on not being able to do it anymore... jump to the courageous Falcon's request then, as you know later."

"It was certainly this time of year that I took care of Alexia and Roy in A-rank. What was that all about?

"Oh, or"

Exactly the last five years or so, I remember the specific mood quite a bit.

"Of course I couldn't leave you alone, but I'm sure there was something about 'I wanted to leave something behind'. I was unconscious at the time, but now I think maybe I am"

"Even if I ended up remaining the bottom rank myself, wouldn't it be pointless if the juniors I raised were born... You were pretty stranded, you."

"Not at all. If I'd been calm, I wouldn't have followed Falcon on that condition."

This story, besides Garnett, is not very revealing.

I wouldn't even be able to do it with Travis, who I used to be familiar with.

Instead, I tend to have an attitude towards him that looks like he's going to be strong or dressed, so I might not be able to tell you if my mouth is torn.

An old story because it's someone who can expose all his face and weakness.

For me, Garnett, it's just a memento with one person.

"I'll be sure to say this because this may not be conveyed without words. Sure, I've dated a lot of guys before, but - I knew it was you, Garnett."

"Buha......!

Garnett nearly blew out the wine he was about to drink and looked up at me with a bright red face.

"Oh, stop...! Is that what you call it?

"Thanks to Raw Hate and someone, I just lost face. If you resent me, resent this wine."

I laugh at Garnett's agitation sideways and just do it.

It doesn't mean I'm still getting hit, either.

They showed a cute reaction, so it's enough as a counterattack for what was taken so far by the balls.

"More than that, let me hear your memories, too. It's not fair what I'm talking about."

"Mmmm... I can't really tell you much more about this. I'm not gonna let you leak it outside the silver wing. There's a lot to talk about. Still, I don't mind. - Well, first of all..."

Garnett has carelessly turned his shoulders to me, reflecting on the days he has worked as a Silver Winged Knight.

Even the slightest weight felt lovely and precious to me.