Caen then explains to me how he was able to obtain the armor in the first place. Surprisingly, the method of Caen obtaining this rare armor was pretty simple, as he said that he bought it from a traveling merchant a few years ago at a very high price.
"Isn't it a bit weird for a traveling merchant to have this armor? Because the armor was supposed to be given to the Narma Crusaders only..."
"I do feel a little bit weird as well... but after asking a few questions. I could confirm that this was indeed an authentic Narma Crusaders Silver Armor."
"So how much do you pay for it then?"
"Around 7500 gold coins, if I remember correctly, it's rare armor after all," Caen said.
"What?! 7500 gold... that's a large sum of money." I said that as I was shocked to know that the armor was around that price... as I thought it would be around 3000 gold coins only.
I suppose my estimation was wrong... but still I doubt that this was indeed the original armor. As it does sound sketchy as heck.
"Caen... Could I take a close look at the armor?"
"Sure, you also could touch it if you like... that will be no problem for me at all."
After having the permission of Caen, I approach the Narma Crusaders Silver Armor and use my item description to see whether this was indeed real or not.
With a tiny voice, I activated my item description skill upon the armor, and finally, I could see its description.
-Custom Iron Armor (Non-Enchant) (Heavy) = A basic iron armor that was customized in style to make it look different from others. While the appearance might be intimidating, it still offers the same protection as the others iron armor in the world.
Seeing that on my item description, I immediately realize that the armor that Caen assured me was real is actually a fake one. But to think that it was an iron armor, I thought it might be made out of steel but iron... it's not bad but for 7500 gold... that's a bad trade indeed.
The problem now was how do I actually tell Caen about this stuff. As there's no way I simply tell him that the Narma Crusaders Silver Armor that he bought was fake... as surely he thinks that I'm just joking with him.
This is hard... But when I think about it, why should I even bother? This armor was simply for display and not for use so nothing would go wrong at all. Besides, the design of this armor was a perfect imitation of the Narma Crusaders Silver Armor... Even though I am having a hard time differentiating it.
It's because of my description skill I was able to know that this one was fake.
Caen does tell me earlier that there are some other rare armors as well. Might check onto that as I doubt that rare armor of his was a real one, surely they're fake just like this one.
"So what do you think about this armor?" Caen asks me.
"It's good... really like the armor." I simply said that as I don't know what answer should I have given because I had known that it was a fake one already.
Caen looks at me as if he wanted to say something towards me, it took him a couple of seconds until he utters the thing he wanted to say.
"Might I ask you something, Yei?"
"Sure... but if it is something personal, I might not be able to give you the answer for it."
"Is asking why you like knight armors a personal thing?" Caen said.
"No, you could certainly ask that." I paused for a bit to prepare my answer, "I just like knights... they're very cool looking. Of course the armor and the weapon they're wielding... Is that enough reason why I like it?"
"I see... All girls do like knights, they're strong and have a lot of charms that could attract women. Surely girls don't like a weak guy like me." Caen said all of that suddenly.
Hearing it makes me feel a bit weird... Why does Caen suddenly say that?
"Hey, that's not true... you might be weak but at least you had the looks. I doubt all of the knights had a pretty face and that's why they were all hiding their faces under those helmets... So don't look down on yourself Caen."
Caen's expression brightens for a bit after hearing what I had said to him.
"Really? But surely-"
"Don't be that negative Caen... I'm sure a lot of women out there would like to go out with you. I can guarantee you that." I said that while giving a thumbs up towards Caen.
After I said that, there was silence between us as no one dared to say a word. But suddenly Caen utters the thing that I do not want to hear the most.
"So would you go out with me?" Caen said that out of nowhere.
I was very shocked as I didn't expect that to happen. As the earlier conversation was about armors so I thought it would stick to that matter until the end of the tour.
But to think that what Elina said to me was true... I couldn't deny it anymore that Caen does have feelings for me as there's no way he would be doing this just to prank me. We aren't even that close to doing that sort of stuff.
How am I supposed to answer that kind of thing? Should I plainly reject it as I do not harbor feelings to Caen whatsoever? Yet it would be cruel for me to just do that after saying that all of the women do want to go out with him.
Somehow this was very difficult for me. Besides I had no experience in this sort of stuff as no one ever confessed to me before...