"..."
After the deed was done, I closed my eyes for a little while, and before I knew it, the sun had risen.
"Aiz, wake up."
"Mm..."
"Is there anything you want to eat?"
"Potato dango..."
Did I have any red bean paste left?
[There's about 300 grams left.]
I still had a little cream left too, so I could make it.
I quietly slipped out of bed and headed to the kitchen.
[So your memories really did come back?]
"You're still on about that?"
[An old friend's memories came back. I can ask a few more times.]
"Fine, what do you want to ask?"
[How many women did you seduce?]
"Have I ever seduced any women?"
[So you really are back.]
After washing up quickly and frying the potato dango, Aiz came into the kitchen.
"Bellf."
"What?"
"Where are you going today?"
"I've got something to make, so probably somewhere."
"I see..."
...
"Aiz."
"...What?"
"Once I'm done, want to go on a date?"
"Okay, let's go."
[Hey, that's a flag...]
Shut up.
[You remember saying that before, right? You got hurt almost to the point of dying.]
That time and this time are different.
[They look the same to me.]
You don't have eyes.
[...]
The special ore brought from the Spirit World, a branch of the World Tree, and the flame cultivated at the cost of my life.
As far as I remembered, those three interlocked, and with Urus added at the end, Excalibur was forged.
"So this time, I'm going to try to recreate it as closely as possible."
The ore from the Spirit World was easy enough to get.
The flame cultivated at the cost of my life was... well, if I pushed myself, it was possible.
But the problem was the World Tree branch.
Even when I was Crozzo instead of Bellf, I had only barely managed to get one after being cut off by the elves.
"So can you make me a tree?"
[...You're the only one who would ask me for something like that.]
Since I didn't want to go through that troublesome process again, I asked Pandora for a tree.
"What's the big deal? It's the sword you're going to end up inside anyway."
[...]
Pandora made a small tree grow beside me.
"This is enough."
[Will you make it now?]
"I'm making it right here."
[Here...?]
"Yeah."
I set up the anvil and portable brazier I'd brought, then lit the fire.
"Oh, right. If you leave, what happens to the Dungeon?"
[It will probably remain as it is. I have already prepared the system for research.]
"Really? Then can you also shrink yourself?"
[I can, but... ah.]
As if realizing something, Pandora immediately shrank her body to about 1 centimeter in size.
The materials were all ready.
Now,
"It's been a while since I did something like this..."
it was time to create the masterpiece that would never come again in my life.