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“An opportunity to meet like this…”

Orha once again spoke for me.

Jukel chuckled as he watched Orha, who had been openly raising expectations for the dwarven woman for a while.

“Hehe, I’ve heard that other races are curious about dwarves, but it’s fun to see it in person.”

“Kuhm….”

Orha must have been thinking about his body pain, so he quickly cleared his throat and pretended like nothing had happened.

“I don’t know what you’re expecting, but it’s probably better not to have high expectations. That brother has no eyes for women! Haha!”

‘I don’t think this is something a dwarf who is still single would say…’

I looked at Wayne’s expression. It was a face that was thinking the same thing as me.

“Anyway, what’s left is Red Diamond. Well, it may be difficult, but you can find it.”

“How long will it take?”

“If it’s this size, I think it will come out within half a year.”

Half a year. By my standards, it is just a moment.

Of course, since this was my standard, I also had to listen to the opinion of Orha, whose time is the most precious among us.

Six months wasn’t a very long time even by human standards, but it wasn’t short either.

“Good! Considering that I may not be able to see dwarves for the rest of my life, I think I should take advantage of this opportunity to see them a lot.”

Fortunately, Orha’s response was positive.

“It’s late today, so let’s sleep and visit my sister-in-law’s house tomorrow.”

Another day passed by so helplessly.

The next morning. Instead of entering the mine, Zukel led us to an acquaintance’s house.

“Here. Sister-in-law! It’s me, Zukel! Are you inside?”

The dwarf called Brother was probably a dwarf after all, so he would have stamped his attendance at the mine early in the morning.

That would mean that his wife was the only person in the house, but Jukel didn’t care and knocked on the door.

For humans, it would be quite a strange situation, but for dwarves, it doesn’t seem to be a big deal.

“Jukel? What’s going on this early in the morning?”

A woman’s voice coming from beyond the door. It was definitely a female dwarf whom Jukel called his sister-in-law.

“Yes. You know the people who saved us this time, right? I came here because I wanted to ask my sister-in-law for help.”

“Ah, please come in. The door is open.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Jukel opened the door.

Eventually, what I saw before my eyes was a dwarf whose appearance was completely unexpected in many ways.

“Hello, Jukel. Nice to meet you saviors too.”

A small woman with long white hair.

The eyes, which were not a clear and distinct red, but blood-red enough to cause fear, overall pointed to one fact.

Albino.

I completely understood that they couldn’t even go outside because they were vulnerable to sunlight.

“Um….”

The appearance of the albino was so obvious that I couldn’t take a closer look. To put it in a word, it was fascinating.

It is true that he was small enough to be called a dwarf, but he did not look like a child either.

The extremities of the body, such as the hands and feet, were large like those of a normal adult, and the face was also the same size as an adult.

To put it simply, it is a mysterious feeling as if you are seeing an SD character in real life.

One way or another, it was clear that the appearance was not within the expected range.

“Hot, hello! My name is Orha. She is a human saint.”

Like me, Orha, who belatedly came to her senses after staring at the appearance of a dwarf woman I had never seen before, greeted me first.

“This is Wayne. I am in charge of the hero of the time.”

“Nice to meet you. So, are you the god that men these days are talking about as the god of alcohol?”

“That’s right…”

I trailed off. I had no intention of denying that he was the god of alcohol. This is because it is kicking faith in the foot.

It was just because I didn’t like it and I wasn’t used to spitting informal language at people I was just meeting for the first time.

It was painful to suddenly become a cocky bastard just because being polite seemed unreliable as a god.

In a way, this is all my fault.

A god as powerful as Prinia doesn’t have to worry about his tone of voice, but his visible force seems to be great.

In fact, she was able to use polite language without any worries, and I was in the funny position of being envious of it.

Being polite to others is not a duty, but a right. In many ways, the world of the gods runs counter to common sense.

“I have lived my whole life inside the house, but it is an honor to be able to witness God in person during my lifetime.”

I could tell that she wasn’t saying anything out of her heart as her faith came in, even if only slightly.

“Thanks to you all, all the dwarves in the village were able to be saved. If my limited abilities can be of help, I will do my best to help.”

“Ehehe~ Sister-in-law. In times like this, you should look at my face and say that you will do me a favor.”

“Looking at Jukel’s somber face? Do you think I will refuse even a request to grant you?”

“Huh!”

A dwarf woman casually stabbing a dagger into her chest with a smiling face.

It was my first time meeting them, so I couldn’t jump to conclusions, but despite my soft appearance, I thought she was a dwarf, even though she had a strong speaking voice.

“Ah, my introduction is late. My name is Azur. My husband, Hellund, is indebted to me greatly.”

Hellund. It was a name I heard while coming and going from a drinking party.

“I want to make a ring that looks like this, can you help me?”

I showed the design I had drawn myself. Azur accepted it with serious eyes and looked at it with the intention of piercing a hole with his gaze.

“It won’t be easy.”

“I see….”

“But it’s not that difficult either.”

“Oh, really?”

Azur seemed to find my mixed reactions amusing and burst into laughter.

“Hehe, I wonder what on earth this item is for and why the Great God is showing such an immediate response.”

I had no intention of saying something like this out of respect, so I answered confidently.

“Hmm. This is the ring to use for confession.”

“Go, confession? Are you saying that God is entrusting me with making the ring to be used in marriage…?”

At Azur’s puzzled expression, I nodded and clicked.

“Okay. I want to make the prettiest ring possible.”

I didn’t say it was a ring that would impress me.

To put it bluntly, Arjen would be impressed even if I picked a flower and tied a flower ring to it.

So, I wanted to give him a ring that was even more valuable and rare.

If you were going to like something no matter what you gave it, you had to give it something special and unique.

So that it proves that our love will be special and unique.

“I am honored to be able to help in even a small part of such noble work! We will definitely work hard to achieve success!”

Azur clasped his hands, which were extremely large for his size, and had a determined expression on his face.

As I was perplexed by her taking on more responsibility than I thought, Jukel was nearby and gave me a tip.

“Among dwarves who practice jewelry, making jewelry to commemorate important things in life is considered the best job.”

“It’s an important thing in life…”

“Yes. For example, birth or marriage.”

In that case, it was understandable that he was so happy. In addition, there is a premium attached to it as it is something that God will use.

“Incidentally, I consider cutting jewelry for artifacts to be engraved with magic spells to be the most trivial and tedious task.”

“Now, Jukel, stop talking strangely and quickly go to the mine and find the red diamond.”

As if he didn’t like the idea of people talking about something related to him for no reason, Azur gave Jukel a congratulatory order.

“Oh, I was already planning to go soon. Please give my regards to Brother Helund.”

“God, can we talk for a moment? I’d like to ask about the details about the ring.”

“As much as you want.”

“First of all, the frame that will be used for this ring… So what metal will you use for the ring? The drawing only said it was a silver-white metal.”

“First of all, I was assuming platinum, but is there anything else you would recommend?”

“Platinum is also good. Or, similar products such as rhodium or palladium would also be good.”

All three are platinum group precious metals. Memories about my major that I had forgotten for a while came to mind.

“Then rhodium would be good.”

There is no particular reason. Since all three have similar colors, I just chose the one with the best heat resistance.

Of course, Arjen couldn’t melt anything if he decided to do so, but he still wanted to keep it from being damaged as much as possible.

“Okay. Next is the arrangement according to the color of each diamond…”

For a while, I continued discussing the rings to give to Azur and Arjen.

The expert certainly seemed to be an expert, and he was reliable in pointing out details that I had not even considered.

“…Then now all we have to do is procure the ingredients.”

“That’s right.”

“Jukel gave me other rough diamonds. All that’s left is Red Diamond, but I wonder how long it will take…”

“It doesn’t matter.”

It was obvious that if you replaced it with ruby because it was difficult to find, the owner of that color, Rube, would get upset.

“It’s almost evening time.”

Wayne, realizing that the conversation was over, mentioned the time. The sun was already setting.

” As I was talking calmly, the time has already passed.”

It would soon be time for the owner of this house to come, so it was right to go back to Jukel’s house without causing any further trouble.

However, for reasons that were completely unexpected, we were unable to return home.

Coo!

This is because I felt something large approaching from far away, a dense presence that felt like it was weighing heavily on my heart.

“What is it…?”

It was a similar feeling to feeling Mana for the first time and meeting Kaela.

“Dragon?”