While Pipra eagerly displayed various materials to enhance Seiji's dagger, her small hands carefully laying out polished stones and shining metal shards, she clung to him, completely absorbed in their task. Her mother watched with a knowing smile.
"Oh, did Pipra tell you she tried her hand at adventuring once?" her mother said with a mischievous glint. "Though it didn't last very long—too lazy for the quests, this one."
Seiji's eyes widened in surprise as he glanced down at Pipra. The idea of this delicate dwarf girl, looking so youthful and petite, charging out into the world as an adventurer was unexpected. He grinned at her, unable to hide his amusement.
"Really? You?" he teased, trying to picture Pipra in some epic battle, wielding a weapon twice her size.
