8 Winner! Gagnant!

After accepting the man's request, Camellia continued to watch him skillfully manage his equipment with eyes full of excitement and awe.

'Whoaa! A real sword! Is he a blacksmith or something maybe? I remember reading isekai where they said most warriors know how to manage their equipment, but whenever they didn't there was usually at least one person in the group who could. If he doesn't have a group then he's been taking care of his own stuff for forever. Maybe-

'No no, I'm fine, I want to watch him for a while longer. I can learn a lot from this after all. You know-'

<Alright, good night Camellia~>

'Wait you aren't gonna knock me out are you-'

She did in fact knock her out.

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Mental Journal Entry #1!

***(Jaxx Warning: will definitely be over-exaggerated and filled with bias! viewer discretion is advised)

Since waking up, I can feel my body has become extremely sensitive. Not sensitive in the normal way either, like how a pinch would feel like you're getting stabbed or whatever. Instead, I can 'feel' the elements around me.

"Why don't you seem excited about that?"

You might be thinking. Well, it's because it's not something to be excited about!

All it does is let me know what those damn elements are 'feeling like' or wanting.

"I'm hungry" -Says the fire that's running low on fuel

"Get chilly~!" -Says the wind that flies into the cave

"Quit making me all hot!" -Says the cave floor I'm sleeping on

ITS ANNOYING AND TOTALLY FUCKING USELESS!! 'Power up' MY ASS!! What ever happened to affinity being affinity?! Hm?!

Whatever. I'm not even that mad, totally ok with it... (***I warned you)

Other than that, I've spent my time recovering watching that pervert, suspicious, lecherous, venomous, batshit crazy, lolicon orc guy and I've come to understand a few things about him.

1.}

He has elf ears. That being said, I refuse to call him an elf due to his... everything. Therefore I've labeled him as an orc. Labeling people is always the right thing to do!(*** Please refrain from labeling people)

2.}

He's way too good at making weapons, items and tools. You'd think he's a dwarf or something, he's not stopped making high quality armour, weapons and small tools out of the spider monkey copse I got. Stealing bastard.

That being said, he did make me a seemingly strong sword out of its femurs. He called it a dagger, but it reaches my ankles when held at my hips. (He made me a small hilt by the way. It fits well.)

I have decided to name the sword [Chun]! (after a legendary sword from earth)

Truly a magnificent name undeserving of a measly weapon built by that lolicon, venomous, lecherous... (***She named the same insults as last time, but somehow managed to add more.)

3.}

HE'S FUCKING STRONG.

A handy man has no reason being this strong!!

Since I had recovered enough, he decided to give me the sword so we can start walking back to his village right? And so we had to go walk through this scary ass forest right?

Well, we got attacked a few times over by many scary monsters, like a squirrel rabbit thing(?) that could fly and some stupid looking raccoon. It was weirdly big for something that looked like what I described, oh did I mention it was shrouded in lightning? CAUSE IT WAS!

I mean, if bastard-kun hadn't of one shot it I totally would have killed it, but damn it was scary and fast!(***She didn't notice it till 'bastard-kun' had killed it.)

Even with my overwhelming strength I'm not sure if I could have killed that racoon thing though... It was as big as a grizzly bear, had a huge fluffy tail that it could swing strong enough to knock giant dents into boulders and trees, and to top it all off it had giant teeth that radiated heat. After seeing even bastard-kun take two hits from it I decided that it should never be messed with!

We walked for about three days or so until we finally started to get close to his 'village.' Oh boy here we go, ANOTHER PROBLEM: WE'RE STILL IN THE FOREST?! If anything I think we've somehow managed to get deeper into the forest than before, yet he seems to be getting more and more relaxed! It's true we've started to see some trails and walk along the edges of them, but he still is just ignoring how it's getting more dangerous! I can feel eyes staring at me from the shadows...

This guy has been totally pampering me this whole time by the way! I think it's safe to assume he's completely fallen for me! (***He's simply accepted a fatherly role as of now considering her dire situation) It's totally creepy but I shall accept his help none the less! (***I swear he is anything but creepy)

Ah, I guess we're really close now, I think I see some kind of gate up ahead!

Journal one shall be foreclosed for now then~

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Seeing a thin trail of greyish dirt surrounded by dense large trees that were much closer and larger in number than before, the pink figure cowardly huddled towards the large 'Bastard-kun' like a shy child would their mother. She did this due to the alarming sound she had heard coming from in front of her.

As she peeked out from behind the thick pelt the elf-orc had been wearing, she managed to see a giant wagon that was oversized with a thin but strong fabric covering the top, barely visible from below. It had shields and small fences going around the dense wood walls that made it look like a Viking ship made for land. AND IT HAD ONE OF THOSE RACCOON THINGS PULLING IT!

"Yo, Zeph! Got a new kid with you again? How do you find all of these brats anyways? You got a radar or somethin'?"

Another large yet less bulky, young looking orc-elf peeked his head out from below the fabric while eyeing Camellia up and down with a questioning gaze.

'What you looking at you perv?! You into lolis or something?! Lemme tell ya, you're the type of people I hate the most you know! Get over here and I'll beat your as-.... did he say 'new' kid?'

"Mind your own business, I'll have more weapons ready by the end of the week. Keep your deal."

"Yea yea, sure. I'm a merchant of my word Zeph, you know this! They don't call me Gleemin-Rim for nothin'!"

"No one calls you that."

The merchant stuck his tongue out at the wandering duo before quickly ducking back under the fabric to avoid 'Zeph's' glance.

'More weapons huh? guess he is a blacksmith after all, or at least a Craftsman. Regardless, he has a good job considering all of the free material a monster like him can get from the wild. One spider-monkey corpse was enough to make a set of daggers and probably a whole bunch of other weapons, like kunai and such. Let alone if he killed one of those raccoons, I'd bet their tails and teeth would make for perfect material!'

<Oh~? Does my pretty little salamander want to become a blacksmith~?>

'Well, it'd definitely be a good job to have. There's a reason it's the one isekai protags always go for! It's either blacksmith, alchemist or rune inscriptionist! It's used for a reason... It's broken! Totally OP!'

<Hm~ That so~?>

Why does she sound happy...

'Well it's too bad I'm not a dragon then, I probably would be a super good blacksmith.'

<That's right~ That's right~... But you are a distant cousin remember~?>

BINGO!

'Oh great Miss Mona, there wouldn't happen to be a skill or something my body can do that could help me with crafting would there?'

<Hehe~ of course of course~>

BINGO BINGO BINGO!

'If you wouldn't mind telling me, what would that be? Is it something I can already do?'

<Well~ it would probably take a bit of time to learn... but I'm confident you could do it>

BINGOBINGOBINGOBINGOBINGOBINGOBINGO!!!!!!!!

<Hehe, you might want to hide your greedy expression my dear, that man might notice~>

'RIGHT!'

I've never seen someone sober up that quickly. Even Zeph had noticed her sudden change in appearance and aura enough to look back in a concerned manner.

'RIGHT! RIGHT!'

DING DING! WINNER~ GAGNANT~ (***lotto winner sound in Canada, don't judge)

'Thread....'

<Mhm~! You're welcome dear~>

Loser~ Please try again!

MY WINNINGS! GONE JUST LIKE THAT!

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