Sports festival arc was about making some progress between the prince and Iris.
So we begin a new arc and it seems to be about Kururi's blacksmithing again?
I got bamboozled, I actually thought the ice queen dwarf girl was the real Barun. Knowing JP pronouns aren't as gendered as English is, I thought the "him" and "Mr." was a TL mistake since "-san" can be Mr. or Miss but that ended up working against me since in the end she wasn't the original Barun after all.
So the legendary blacksmith was originally her father, and she just assumed his name and continued the legend because she wanted to keep his smithing legacy alive. That comic sketch on page 21 was a sorry sight, don't make Eliza cry like that. So she was talking about her own dad after all, not some premonition of Kururi's ruin scenario.
She's funny. Too bad she's leaving already and I don't even think Kururi learned much from this.
Alright, she's gone like a storm and we didn't even get to know her real name. So this isn't a new arc like I thought since I don't think she's showing up again after a while. Felt filler-ish, but she'll likely play a role in the future, right?