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Chapter 5

The store was completely empty. I was the only one here and I plan on leaving again when I heard a sound coming from the back. I walked towards it and noticed it was a woman's voice coming from behind the big wooden door that was next to the counter.

"After all the trouble I made to make him that sword, he doesn't even bother to come back now and then to let me know how it felts and what he can do with that sword." She sounded angry.

"And not only that, he even doesn't let me tell someone I made that sword or tell other players I made a sword for him so it doesn't help me get more customers. If I had known this would happen, I never had given him that sword for free!"

The door wasn't locked so I opened it slowly and peaked inside. There was only one person there so she had been talking to herself. I looked more closely and noticed a beautiful girl standing there with a big hammer in her hand. Her outfit looked more like that from a maid then a blacksmith but that hammer in her hand let clearly show that she was one.

"Euh… excuse me. Good morning, is this Lizbeth's smith shop?" I asked nervously and I didn't know what else to say.

She didn't expect me standing there and was so surprised she let the hammer fall out of her hands.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare you."

"It's alright. It's just… that normally… people don't arrive here at 6 in the morning…"

"It's just 6am? I had the idea it was at least 8!" Surprised I opened the menu to take a look at the clock.

She was right. It was 6am. My idea, and Kirito too, that it was already past that when we walked out of the dungeon earlier. That was because the sun was already coming up. The past month it came up around 6am. I checked the Aincrad calendar and noticed the sun today had come up at 5am.

"Again I'm really sorry, after I exited the dungeon, the sun was already up and that's why I thought it was at least past 6am."

"It's alright. The sign says the shop is open so I really can't complain about it right?" she laughed but then she became serious again.

"You just came from a dungeon?!" she asked a little in shock.

"Yes I did. I was there from late last night to train a skill that I didn't want to let anybody know that I used it." I couldn't help but laugh after seeing her being surprised again after hearing what I just said.

We walked back to the store, both still laughing about how shocked she was. She also knew a lot of players would train some skills if no one was around to make sure no one saw there trump-card.

"But welcome to Lizbeth's Smith's Shop, my name is Lizbeth. How can I help you?"

In the store I looked again at the girl. Was she really that skilled as Kirito said she was? And how was I going to find out? If she wasn't, the S-Class item would be destroyed if the process to make it into a sword has failed.

The best thing would be to test her out with my secondary. Because of the high level Skills I used, it showed already a lot of little cracks. I had the metal nessasary to repair it. But if she noticed it was a much lower sword than the one on my back, would she be angry of my doubts in her Skill?

To try this without her finding out, I have to switch the sword on my back with the secondary. That isn't a hard thing to do. Thanks to Sword Birth it only takes one thought to do it, but I don't want her to see me doing it. She would know something is weird about it and I have to tell her about that Skill.

I need to distract her long enough so I can switch them. I looked around and pointed at a decent looking sword behind her.

"I'm looking for a sword. That one behind you looks interesting. Can I take a look?"

When she turned around to look at the sword I pointed at, I quickly switched the swords.

"Well that sword isn't that power full to be honest. I created it for people from the lower floors. It's a bit cheaper so if someone comes here, I have something to sell to them. I can repair the sword on your back if it needs it, or make a whole new one. The price for metal is a bit high now so both wont came cheap. And I have to order the metal because I just ran out of it. So it will take at least a full day to get it repaired."

"Then I would like to let this one get repaired. I also have the material needed to do that so do you have time to do it right away?" I removed the sword with the scabbard from my back and gave it to her. Then I opened the menu and selected the metal and gave it to her.

"Well it seems it is the right material and I don't have anything else to do so I don't see a problem with that.' She looked happy because she had something to do now.

"Please follow me then. Most of the swordsman want to keep an eye on their swords so you can come with me." I walked behind her to the room she was in earlier.

Inside the room was a large furnace used for heating up the metal in order to make it into a sword or to repair a sword. She placed the metal in the furnace and took the sword out of its scabbard.

"Well… it's not surprising you want this repaired. It looks awful. What did you do with this? Fighting a wall or something?"

"No nothing like that. I went to one of the higher floor dungeons to test a Skill I just learned. I didn't know that the monsters there have shields and a Skill hit the shield and cracked because of that."

She took the metal out of the furnace and placed it on top of the sword. She grabbed her hammer and hit the metal until it had the shape of the blade. The system recognized what she was trying to do and the metal and sword became one and made it look as a brand new sword.

"Repairing a sword is a bit more difficult than making a new sword because you have to hit the metal to the form of the blade. If you do this wrong, the metal and the sword will break. But luckily for you, you choice a blacksmith that has a very high Skill to do this." She gave the sword back to me with a face filled with proud.

I took a look at the sword and noticed the stats were higher than before. She noticed me looking at them.

"The reason the stats are higher is because of the rare metal you gave me and because my blacksmith Skill is high."

"I have more of that metal. As a thanks I want to give it to you. That way you can make other players as happy as I am right now."

"That will be too much so I can't accept it. And with my high blacksmith Skill I can easily obtain it myself if I looked for it." Again she was talking about her Skill. Was she bragging or did she now something?

"Still, I want to give it to you. I have no need for it so it only is fair I gave it to you."

"Then I will see it as a payment for the next sword I repair or make for you." She looked right at me with a serious look before she continued.

"I don't like it if people are trying to fool me. The cracks in that sword aren't made because you hot a shield. A sword that hits a shield will only crack or break at its weak point. The cracks your sword had can only be made by using a very high level Skill and I don't believe that a player with a level like yours would use a lower level sword as this one." She didn't looked angry when she said that.

"Well you see…. Euh… I…" I didn't know what to say.

"But there is one thing I would like to know. The one reason that kept me from kicking you out of my store for doing this. When you walked in, you had a different sword on your back than that sword. How did you switched them that quickly in the second I wasn't looking? I didn't hear the menu open so you didn't do it that way."

Busted! She knew all along! And that's why she was talking about her Skill this whole time. She knew I wasn't here to just repair this sword.

"I'm really sorry for doing that. I did it because a friend recommended you as a very good blacksmith. I only let this sword get repaired too see if he wasn't lying and now I know he wasn't. The reason I had to do it is because I have a really rare material that only can be made into a sword by a very high skilled blacksmith. I couldn't take that risk."

"I see. It's not that I don't understand. A lot of male players think I am a bad blacksmith just because I'm a girl you see. But I will forgive you this time."

"Thank you. And if there is one thing this world have taught me, it's that woman aren't as weak as some people dare to say. I have fought next to girls on the front lines that are as or even stronger than me so I would never think that for the rest of my live."

I opened the menu again and searches for the materials hoping to changes the subject before she asked again after my Skill. I opened a window in front of her so she could see the items I selected. The moment she saw the list, she took a few steps back with a shocked impression on her face.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"I can make a sword from the S-Class material but I won't make one from the other. I already made a Dark Repulsor and it won't be fair to him to make another for you."

"The friend that recommended you to me was that player. Kirito knows I have this material and he is fine with it. Mostly because I only want to let it made for a back-up sword in case the other breaks."

She looked surprised at me but seems to believe me. She took another look at list and was thinking about something. Then a smile appeared on her face and she looked at me.

"I will make both swords on 1 condition. You don't need another back-up weapon because the one on your back when you walked in was strong enough for that. Based on the look of it I would say it's an obsidian sword and will be as strong as a Dark Repulsor. So if you want me to make these swords, you have to tell me how you switched the swords and tell me why you needs 3 swords. You switched the subject just now so there must be a reason that you won't tell me it."

"Is there not another way you can make the swords?" I asked hopefully.

"No. Unless you tell me, I will also tell all the other blacksmith about your S-Class material and how you switched swords in a second but wouldn't want to tell me how you did that."

She had me there.

"Fine. But I want to make 1 thing sure. What are you going to do with this information?"

"I won't sell it if that is what you think. And I won't tell anybody. Not only on how you did it, or your swords. I only hope that if someone asks you where you got that sword, you will tell them I made it for you so I would have more customers. For that I will keep it a secret. Deal?"

"I can live with that. I have an extra Skill. It is called Sword Birth and it let me switch swords and Skills without using the menu. It also let me use Dual Blades for example and that's why I need 3 swords."

"You can do what?! Can you show me?"

I turned around and raised both hands to show I wasn't using the menu. I switched the repaired secondary I still had on my back with the black Exidator I loved. The moment I did that I heard a second scream of surprise.

After I did it a few more times to let her make sure I did it without the menu she believed me and we went to work on the swords. Before we tried to make the S-Class sword we made looked at the Dark Repulsor. The information said that you could make a stronger one if during the time the material was hot, you added 2 dragon ingots. You could also add them after you had made it but it would be a little lower in stats. But we had the materials to make 2 and we needed to do it with the S-Class anyway we gave it a shot.

I didn't had any Skill in blacksmith so the only thing I did was to handed her the things she needed to make sure the process wouldn't fail. It only took us one try to make it work and we both jumped around from joy.

"Wow. Look at this sword. It's amazing!" I raised the Dark Repulsor in my hand and let it swing to the left and right. I looked at Lizbeth again.

"I have held Kirito's one and it felt amazing, almost as if there was a soul into it. But this one feels even better! Almost if it is a part of me. How did you do that?"

"Just like with the one I made for Kirito, I put my heart and my feeling into the hammer." She was blushing while she said that.

I couldn't help myself. It looked like she had the same feelings as I have. I realized it when we were making this sword. If I really think that way about her, this is my only change to make it work.

"Well… since it's already 1pm… Can I… Would you…" I took a deep breath.

"Would you like to go to lunch with me?" I asked nervously.

"Are you… asking … me out on a date?" Her face was completely red now.

"Yeah… I am… would you like that?" now my face became red too.

"I would like that." She said with a smile and I smiled back to her.

"But can we do that after we made this sword? Because if we do it now, we have to look at the time to make the other sword." she asked.

"That's maybe a better idea yes. And we can celebrate the completion of the sword after dinner."

So we went back to work. Every time or eyes met we both started blushing again so we tried to avoid that. After we had heated up all the materials, we put them together. The Dragon Soul in the middle and on both sides a Crystallite ingot and the 4 Dragon ingots in front and behind them. Because of the heat they melted together and the last thing to complete the process was to hit the Dragon Soul with the hammer to make it flat. She took the hammer from me and on that moment or hands touched each other. She turned her face to me.

"Do you really like me or is it just to let me make you a sword?" she asked.

I really liked her but didn't know what to say. My mind was going crazy thinking of an answer. Then I realized something. In these kind of situation you shouldn't think with your mind but with your hart. That moment I knew what I needed to do to show her my feelings.

I took a step closer to her and took her head in my hands and moved my lips to hers. I never would have guessed a kiss could feel anything like this. After I moved away a little a tear came out of her eye. She turned again towards to table and hit the materials with her hammer.

After 3 hits, a white light appeared and the materials formed a single sword. It looked really power full and the name Sentinel Repulsor appeared in a window together with its stats. But I didn't looked at them, instead I moved again towards Lizbeth and again we kissed for a long time.