Meikyuu Toshi no Antique Shop

Aria, the bard, hesitated.

I was looking for a good appraiser, and I talked to the lady husband at the tavern where I was going and she introduced me to this store. I'm talking about having an amazing appraiser for everything.

But I came all the way to the front of the store and I ran into something strange.

A warrior armed with full body armor. A familiar figure, he should be a fairly skilled searcher with two names: 'Footsteps of Death'.

You can cross with the Great Ghost (Auga) with your fists, your personality is vicious, ruthless and incomparable. I heard his footsteps in the dungeon, and I followed him, and the two names came from the fact that the monster's carcass was rolling a little bit.

I've also been warned by people I know never to talk to you if we meet. There was once a case of a dozen veteran explorers getting tangled up in drunken momentum, putting it together and making it look like a rag.

But such a horrible 'Footsteps of Death' puts on a frill apron in front of me for some reason and somehow waters the flowerbed. Besides, it was the end of what sounded like a good mood and even a nose song.

"Duh, duh, duh, what shall we do?"

I wonder what the hell you're doing.

I had a horrible feeling about it. Full-body armor, frilled aprons and flowerbeds. It is a disproportionate sight, no matter what you think. You can't just be watering normally. Is it growing dangerous plants like they are forbidden to cultivate? It is also possible that being in front of the store is an associate of this store.

In any case, you must cross this horrible armored monster to enter the store. Don't even say hello. It would suck if you passed by, you'd be killed miserably. Pressure like this wasn't something you could taste in the dungeons.

"Okay, okay."

Aria took a deep breath as she managed to contain the sweat that had boiled out and the fear.

Then he grips his fist, squeezing his courage and turning to his full body armor, he speaks out.

"Oh, uh, excuse me"

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I have nothing to say.

The full body armor seems to be an employee of the store. When I spoke up, he responded with a light and polite response, leading me to the store.

Unlike rumors, he seems like a pretty good guy.

But why is he still wearing a full body armor?

Waiting at the store counter was a young glasses shopkeeper named Fujiwara.

He seemed like a good person, but I have the impression that the lines are thin and honestly unreliable.

I could see signs of sleeping on my cheeks.

Is it true that this man is an amazing appraiser?

The person at the time was blurry, but as soon as Aria made me try to take the example thing out of the box she brought it, she ate it, leaked a weird voice like "Ooh," or a disgusting lukewarm face, and then began to snort and observe it on her own. Sounds like fun somehow.

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"As far as it goes, it looks like it was made in the early days of The Age of the Good Old Mages. I've never seen an 'Awakening Bell' so old. That sounds pretty good, too."

Aria was surprised.

Certainly what I brought is a grant tool (antique) called 'Awakening Bell'.

Granting tools are difficult to appraise, and it is common sense among searchers that they cannot be identified by amateurs. Even though they are appraisers, it is impossible to discern them first at a glance. It should be something you can finally appraise over time using specialized equipment.

But he hasn't even touched it.

I was just observing. Yet this item quickly spotted something.

Besides, I even mentioned quality.

"How did you even know about quality?

"Where was this bought?

The store owner asks questions with a grin and a smile and vice versa.

When Aria told her the name of the store she bought, she nodded happily.

"That's the store under the umbrella of the 'Chamber of Commerce'. The Chamber of Commerce teaches us to ensure that anything of higher quality than" luxury "is handled in this Kiryu box."

The crate containing the item came with it when I bought it at the store.

I didn't realize it until you told me, but the crate does contain the word 'merchant' indicating that it belongs to the 'Chamber of Commerce'.

"Is that what happened to you?"

"It seems very strange or seemingly puzzling, but if you ask about the seeds, it's not a big deal."

Maybe that's true.

I kind of felt like this shopkeeper was suddenly looking reliable. Maybe there's an equally easy way to solve the problems I have.

And I felt like you could tell me that.

"Please. Please tell me how to use this grant tool."

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"Hmm. You know how to use the grant tool (antique) itself, don't you?

"Yeah, I know."

Aria nods.

A grant tool is an item that involves the exercise of certain sorcery.

You have to propagate the magic in your blood to activate it, but amateurs don't have the skill to do that. That's why I needed to cut my skin shallow or something.

"But somehow it doesn't start. No, it seems to be activated, but for some reason, it doesn't sound and it doesn't work."

Maybe it's broken.

But Aria really had an important reason to want to use this.

Sleeping Rat.

It's a monster born in a dark land of 'magic' like a dungeon. I spend the majority of my life sleeping, but once I wake up, I let my red eyes shine and start biting and eating as soon as I get allowances or something close to me. The sharp, pointed front teeth were filled with the venom of sleep and had the ability to provide intense drowsiness so that it was easy to prey on the bite.

It was two weeks ago that the group was attacked in the dungeon.

Only Misanga, who was an avant-garde among his companions, suffers from severe illness and still continues to sleep in the nursing home's bedroom.

The injury was no big deal. Because it was instantly healed by the priest's 'healing' prayer.

But the venom of sleep seems to be all over my body, and I unfortunately didn't see the restoration of my condition even in "Curse" or "Detoxification". I tried all the pills, but the results are the same.

And he was also warned that if he continued in this state, he would drain his health and die soon.

"But with this' awakening bell ', or so I think..."

The "Awakening Bell" is a granting tool that encourages awakening.

If you hear the sound of this bell, even those who sleep like mud will wake up standing by and drowsiness will disappear. It also seems to work for forced sleep, hypnosis caused by drugs, sorcery, etc.

Knowing that, Aria decided to make a debt and buy it.

"Mr. Misanga, that guy, he sheltered me from running late. So..."

Tears were spilling when I realized it.

"Please. Please tell me how to ring this bell."

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"I'm in awe"

When Fujiwara put glasses on her black apron pocket, she took out her hair stopper instead and wrapped her long hair around it.

Remove and attach white gloves and put on monoculars.

"Let's appraise it first. You might know something."

Quickly, turn to the appraisee.

That's a small golden metal bell. It has a bowl upside down shape and has a wooden grip.

The grip was plundering, but the Sanskrit is engraved. Surely that was a letter that meant doom.

When Fujiwara softly touches that grip, she whines a 'transmission' spell small. It is an extremely preliminary sorcery that releases magic. Immediately on the surface of the bell, a blue and white vascular, cracked line runs, spreads, branches apart and draws a strange pattern.

Magic circuit.

A complex and strange abstract painting (art) composed only by magical characters. A contract (testament) to fulfill a paid contract with the 'world' only in letters instead of interfering with gestures, hand gestures, spells, etc.

If this is anything at all faint or uninterrupted, it will cease to function as a tool, but from what I can tell, I don't seem to worry about it. Of course, it is no easier to break than it is a creation of great past sorcerers.

Then the question is, what is the contents of the magic circuit?

The granting tool is not activated if the user cannot achieve the required conditions such as' qualification 'or' price '.

Fujiwara tried to get his face close to the surface of the bell in order to decipher the maze of words that had entered...

"Speaking of which..."

I noticed something and lifted my face and removed my monocular glasses.

I'll look around the counter, but there's still nothing there that's supposed to be.

I flipped through the crate and checked, but couldn't find it.

Could it have originally come in anything other than 'Awakening Bell'?

"Um... what's wrong?

"Is this the only bell you have?

"Yeah" Aria nods with a look of surprise.

As far as it goes. Maybe the client is mistaken in this matter.

The analysis will also be done, but it would be better to confirm that with her first.

"Excuse me, could you ring this bell once?

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In the end, without finishing the appraisal until the end, Aria's troubles were resolved and she left with many thanks: 'Thank you, thank you'.

"What happened after all?

Anemone, who brought a basin with a mug on it, asks. It would be sappy to her that she hadn't heard the upside because she was doing other work.

He wanted to know how he got to ring the bell that didn't ring.

"The point is, it was used incorrectly," Fujiwara explains with a mouthful of coffee.

"How to use it?"

"Yes, but first you have to know that there are two kinds of bells."

Fujiwara puts the mug down and gets up once.

Then I made him line up the counter with the two tools I brought from the inventory.

They're both little bells.

The shapes are similar to each other, and are of a specification with a handle held upside down.

"These two look, similarly, but each is a different item. One is The Sleeping Bell Instrument (Handbell). The other is the same 'wake-up bell' as earlier. The materials are not very different either. But the two are completely different things. The former is the type made in the western countries, called table bells and bell instruments that call for servants, etc. The latter is the type of bell that is built in the East to inform you of when to wake up or eat in a temple or something."

"They're both alike, but they're built in different places."

"Yep. Above all, there's a definitive difference between the two... right. Mr. Anemone, could you actually ring each bell?

Anemone, a native of the West, tries to 'wave' each of the two bells.

"Sleeping Bell Instrument (Handbell)" sounded pleasant with Karakaran.

But on the other hand, the "wake-up bell" naturally doesn't sound at all.

…… "Anemone leans her neck and flips the 'Awakening Bell'.

"You look broken."

"That's not true, is it?

"But look, isn't this bell hollow?"

"The Eastern bells are basically not 'tongue (zetsu)' attached. Lend it to me for a second."

When Fujiwara receives the bell, he strikes it "this way" with the tree he had hidden in his apron pocket. Then - corn. The loose sound of shaking my sleep wooded spirits.

"This is how Eastern bells are called."

In the end, this is why Aria couldn't ring the bell.

It's a trap where you don't know the difference, but you fall for it. It's a simple story as long as you know why, and you're likely to notice that difference more soon than not with 'tongue' on it.

But perhaps she mistakenly thought that the "Awakening Bell" was a granting tool, so if she had magic, it would have made a sound.

If I stick it in, I don't give a lot of explanations about the product, and I also feel that there is a downfall on the part of the store where I sold it without preparing a hammer.

"Well, whatever it is, it's a pleasure to have solved her problems."

"By the way, Store Manager"

"What is it?

"That customer is' he '."

"... you must be lying"

Fujiwara was a little weak.

It was very unlikely that the beautiful girl with the thin and weak sushi line was a man.

"Even if it's true. There was a throat buddha and I'm sure of it. Sorry to hear that."

As I'm dropping my shoulders, Anemone puts her hands down to tease me.

"And the fellow sleeping for me to deduce would be a woman"

"... what makes you think that?

"No matter. If it's a man who tries to wake up to sleep, it's because the sleeping partner has a fixed price with the princess. And in this case, the story ends happily"

Fujiwara laughs bitterly when she hears Anemone's reasoning, that it won't come true.

Surely that customer will do well.

Is it the treatment center by now?

"Awakening Bell" is a difficult tool to use. But I specialize only in reminding you of sleep.

I'm sure your people would have recovered before it was too late.

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"Awakening Bell (Luxury)"

"Thou shalt tell the song, and offer thou a sobering inquiry, and the world shall devour fine sleep, and devour dreams, and drink up the death of the temporal beginning, as the tongue of Kuzousut."

They say every time you enter the annual Cause of Death Worst 10 ('union' research) in the dungeon is an enemy attack in the camp. The watchman rushes and guns down frying pans and such, but you think the guys are tired and hard to wake up?

It is this' Awakening Bell 'that I recommend to those people.

Once you ring it, the powerful awakening action contained in the sound of the bell will wake even those who sleep like mud. Of course, drowsiness blows up somewhere, too.

It even disables sleep due to magic, drugs (whether sleep inducers, hypnosis), etc., so it's also effective in cases where your buddy falls asleep after being attacked by a monster.

Even if you are preventing your ears, you can expect effects even if you are wearing earplugs, because the sound itself, which contains magic, comes into contact with and permeates your body.

There are about two precautions for use.

First of all, I don't think you're very familiar with those from the West, but this bell is the type of thing that rings. Don't forget that after magic, you need to beat it off with something.

And the second point, when using in the dungeon, it is advisable to check the surroundings carefully. If there was a sleeping monster nearby, it would definitely wake you up. Please be careful what you do when you find yourself surrounded by a large number of monsters in an attempt to wake up your people.