Azazel grinned, "Not bad. What you're holding is named, originally enough, Mana Steel. It's the most common magical metal in the world since its derived from the imaginatively named Mana Iron. Just iron that's been exposed to a massive amount of mana and absorbed some permanently. It's mined, purified, and processed into steel. It has enough raw mana in it that anything made from it automatically qualifies as a magical item. Obviously not a strong item without some help, but still technically magical."
Junichiro nodded in acceptance. The Mana Steel contained more mana than anything he'd made so far using his two techniques. He couldn't help smiling as he imagined how much stronger the Mana Steel would get once he applied his own techniques to it. Before he could get too far down the rabbit hole, Azazel pulled his attention back, "All the money you gave me was spent on procuring these ingots for you."
Azazel gestured to the table where a mere three more ingots sat. Four ingots cost him ten million yen! Over six months of steady work, expensive custom orders, and tons of effort, had netted him just four ingots, FOUR! He couldn't even begin to imagine how much higher tier stuff would cost him! On the flip side, anything he made with the ingots would, by necessity if nothing else, be ungodly expensive! Given the size of the ingots, he could probably make several smaller items from each one, if he was careful he could probably make half a kitchen knife set with each ingot. Not that he would waste them on that!
On the bright side, it looked as if Azazel had hooked him up with plenty of other metals to work with, all nicely labeled in a rather large storage area. Azazel had clearly left the Mana Steel out to show it off to him. Once he inspected everything in his new workshop, he turned to face Azazel, "This is perfect. Thank you."
Azazel waved the comment off, "No need to thank me. I'll be sure to make you pay me back in full, with interest!"
Given the wicked smile Azazel was sporting, Junichiro had no doubts about how serious Azazel was about that. As they left the workshop, Azazel dug into one of his pockets and pulled out an older model flip phone and held it out to Junichiro, "This has both Milly and my contact information stored within it. Though I only expect you to contact me with emergencies, I'm a busy man you know!"
The scoff from Mittelt went ignored as he plowed on, "For day-to-day stuff you will contact Milly here." He looked between the two with a grin, "I'll head out now. Milly has the paperwork for all of your stuff. Oh! I also had a bank account set up in your name, so you don't have to hide millions of yen in your mattress. I think that's everything for now..." He shrugged when he couldn't remember anything else, "I'll leave you two to it!"
With that, Azazel vanished with the flash of a magic circle. Junichiro looked over at Mittelt as she stared back impassively but clearly unimpressed with her new assignment. She huffed out a sigh and walked past him toward where Azazel indicated the living room was, "Come on, let's get this over with."
Junichiro followed Mittelt and couldn't help wondering when she could leave so he could run back into the workshop and get to work on that Mana Steel! He couldn't wait to see what it was like to work with. Yes, the future was definitely looking bright!
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Shit! Did he just jinx himself?!
Junichiro followed Mittelt through the house to a room she identified as an office. Inside she showed him through a collection of documents that gave him all the information he needed for his new situation, his new bank account information, and all the paperwork for his identity. That last one kind of scared him a bit. From what he could see, Azazel was able to hunt down everything about his life that Junichiro himself was aware of. This did not include the identity of his father.
His mother was... promiscuous, and he'd leave it at that. He did, however, know his father was not a supernatural being of any sort. He wasn't some shonen protagonist with a deep hidden past. He knew this because he'd checked pretty early on after becoming and Artificer. It was easy enough to do. Aside from that, awakening his magical core should have awoken any supernatural traits he would have had as well. Since nothing changed and his magical detection failed to find anything, he rightly concluded that he was purely human.
After showing him all the legal paperwork, Mittelt gave him a bored stare, "That about covers everything Azazel-sama wanted you to know about. Oh! The property has some minor aversion wards around it, but if you want anything better Azazel-sama said 'do it yourself,' got that?"
Junichiro nodded, "Got it. Just curious but will you be manning the surveillance systems in the house or will Azazel?"
Mittlet scoffed, "Azazel-sama has better things to do than watch... I-I mean..." Clearly looking nervous and slightly upset, Mittelt tried to give Junichiro her best 'adorable' look, though the twitch in her eyebrow kind of gave her discomfort with doing so away, "W-what surveillance systems? There's no way Azazel-sama would spy on you!"