156 – Urethra
“What’s next… “I’ll do it after the confrontation is over.”
This was so unexpected that I couldn’t even nod or say yes, but just stared at Elaine blankly.
Then Elaine tilted her head and asked me if something was strange.
“… What’s the matter? “You’re not saying anything?”
“No, I’m just a little embarrassed. I didn’t expect Elaine to suddenly kiss her….”
“Yes…. Actually, I want to do other things too… “Rain said that people who do things like that before marriage are shallow people.”
While Jessica, who had suddenly become a shallow person, narrowed her eyes, Elaine, carrying a large backpack several times larger than her own body, stood up.
“… Well then, I’ll go now. “I will write to you often through Lane, so please reply often.”
“…… Uh.”
After Elaine crossed her front door and saw her off until she was out of sight, I turned her head and carefully looked at Jessica.
However, even though I tried to keep an eye on her, although her expression was not as expressionless as Elaine usually was, I could not feel any significant emotional ups and downs, so I did not know what to do.
“Jessica, you said you wanted to go on a date then, right? Should we go now?”
I tried my best to make her feel better, but Jessica just shook her head.
“I’m tired today and I’m not in the mood. And I like dates like this that are properly planned and not thought up spontaneously.”
“…… Plaguy.”
“What did you say just now?”
“No, I didn’t say anything.”
Jessica didn’t seem particularly angry, so she turned to go back to her mansion, but Jessica suddenly grabbed my hand and stopped me.
“What’s wrong?”
When I turned her head, Jessica, whose bodies were almost pressed together, lifted her heel and kissed me.
Even though he kissed her, it was not a deep kiss like the day before, but a light kiss like the one he had with Elaine.
This seemed to be the best Jessica could do, as her face was as flushed as it looked before kissing her.
“Jessica?”
After a while, Jessica opened her mouth and turned her back on me, probably not wanting to show her embarrassed face, and took a step toward her mansion.
And just before she left the garden, she spoke softly, still with her back turned to me.
“… “If she does anything with another woman in the future, she has to do the same with me.”
“Huh?”
Looking at the fact that she did not call Elaine by name and referred to her as another woman, does this mean she can have as many women as she wants in the future?
While she was thinking about such a possibility, Jessica, as if reading my thoughts, turned her head and shouted at me.
“Don’t be mistaken because I’m not saying you can have as many women as you want!! Okay!!”
“… Okay.”
The couple said they had all their hearts, but when they figured out my thoughts up to this point, I felt scared.
So Jessica returned to her mansion to rest, and after returning to her room and unpacking her luggage, I headed to her workshop to say hello to Hori.
However, when I visited the workshop, Hori seemed nervous and engrossed in his research, as if the research was not going well, so he was in no mood to talk to him.
I decided to say hello later and headed back to Otar’s blacksmith shop.
It’s a greeting to say he’s back, but as a parent who gave birth to Jinta, I wanted to show him the new born Jinta.
“Let’s go.”
Not long after returning, Silence glared at me, as if she was so anxious to be manipulated again, but that was all, and she obediently gave me her back.
[Master, are you going to that blacksmith shop from now on?]
“Yes, it’s like your parents’ home to you guys. Do you have any feelings about it?”
[…] No, I’m sorry to him, but he doesn’t really have any good memories.]
[To be honest, I also felt uncomfortable because I didn’t want anyone other than the owner to touch the sword.]
This is not some kind of teenage daughter….
No, since Nanga and Jinta are not humans but swords, she should not be viewed on the same level as humans.
In the first place, it was created by a horse, not from nothing. It was smelted from iron and woven into a sword, so it was strange to call it a parent.
“Still, let’s go there once. How can an ordinary sword… Should it be called a spirit sword? Anyway, I’m also concerned about how humanization became possible.”
[Yes, I don’t care where I go as long as the master orders.]
[Me too!!]
The two swordsmen also said this, so we visited the blacksmith shop to say hello, and as usual, the sound of iron being struck could be heard even before we entered.
“I’m going in.”
Instead of knocking, he said a short word and went inside. As always, Otar continued to knock on the iron without looking back, and instead Hardy waved his hand happily.
“You came back earlier than expected? “But what is the sword on your belt?”
“Youngta… No, I am Jinta, born again and given a new name.”
Saying that, he pulled out Jinta and pulled it out to Hardy. Otar, who just a moment ago had been pounding on the iron as if possessed by something, suddenly turned around as if she had been hit in the back of the head.
“That sword I’m holding now… “What is this?”
“I came here because I wanted to know that.”
When Otar came to his senses and briefly told him what had happened, he and Hardy looked at me blankly with an expression of bewilderment.
“No, where did you go and play the game?”
“It’s infuriating that a guy who doesn’t really matter has to bow his head a bit, so he comes out in a low posture and starts talking about me thinking that he really is superior.”
“That’s because you just didn’t pass the ordeal… No, it’s done. You weren’t the kind of person who would understand through words. Recently, I thought it had become a bit rounder, but it has become….”
“Ah, anyway, why is Jinta suddenly able to humanize her?”
“You’ll know that when you see it.”
When I handed the Jinta to Otar and Hadi, they stared at her Jinta blade and quickly came to one conclusion.
“This is not a spirit.”
“Yeah, it’s definitely not a spirit.”
They said that for a sword to become a spirit, it takes a lot of time regardless of the quality of the material.
“When Jinta was moved, her spirit’s blood was on it. Isn’t there a possibility that something changed because of that?”
“There are so many swords in the world that cut down spirits. If a spirit was born with some spirit blood on it, you would have known about it long ago.”
Well, I have never heard of a new spirit being born from a sword stained with spirit blood in the original work.
“Then what is it? “Why are you asserting that it is not a spirit?”
“To put it bluntly, Jinta is not the spirit of the sword, but the sword.”
Ureath (妖刀)
It is a sword that only appeared in the original work as a setting but never actually appeared. It is a sword that has a personality like a magic sword due to the owner’s grudge.
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In the East, it was rumored that this sword was ominous enough to be compared to a magic sword and that it would bring disaster to its owner and those around him.
“I heard that for an ordinary sword to become a sword, a deep resentment must be imbued with it….”
“Yes, it is as you said. So, if you don’t hold a grudge, there is only one thing left.”
[…] ….]
If I had not held a grudge, Jinta would have resented something and turned into Yodo, even absorbing the souls of all the swords around him.
It is unknown who Jinta, the swordsman, resented, but what is certain is that the resentment was deep enough to transform an ordinary sword with no power into a sword.
To be honest, I really wanted to ask what the grudge was, but I hesitated to ask because I felt like if I asked too quickly, I would touch a bomb that didn’t need to be touched.
“Anyway, congratulations on getting a urethra. This is the first sword I’ve made that has a urethra, but I don’t know if I should be happy about it or not….”
Generally, the birth of Yodo meant that the owner died with a deep resentment in his heart, so it was not something to be happy about.
However, since no one has died and it is just a rumor that the yodo brings misfortune to its owner, wouldn’t it be okay to just be happy?
“I’m just happy. As a result, we didn’t lose anything.”
“Okay, let’s just be nice about it. “But this is a bit disappointing.”
“What do you mean?”
Before Otar opened his mouth, he took out a sword wrapped in a cloth from a box placed behind him.
“I forged a reverse-edged sword for when you came again, but now it’s useless!!”
The moment I saw the reverse bladed sword wrapped in a cloth, my hand moved faster than I thought.
As I snatched the reverse blade sword from Otar’s hand without saying a word, Otar and Hardy looked at me with a puzzled expression.
“Hmm…. When I saw the reverse bladed sword, I unconsciously reached for it and stopped it… “I will keep this for myself and later pass it on to my children.”
“Ha! “Do you think you can give your sword to someone else just because you’re a child?”
To be honest, I am not confident. No matter how much of a child I am, I can’t believe I’m passing on my sword to someone else.
How is this any different from selling heroines in web novels?
But my future self will definitely love my children and be able to endure that much.
Maybe… ….
*****
Afterwards, after checking on Nanga and Jinta, I returned to the mansion as the sun began to set.
When I returned to the mansion, I saw Hori leaving the workshop looking very tired, holding a large bundle of paper that appeared to be research material.
“Horiya!!”
When I waved my hand to say hello, which I had not said before, Hori blinked, looking like someone who was still half asleep.
“Ian, are you back?”
“So, are you on your way back to the mansion now?”
“Yes…. “I’ve been up all night these past few days.”
Hori’s face looked very tired as she yawned while saying that, but just looking at her complexion, it was surprising that she didn’t collapse at once.
“You shouldn’t have taken it easy, there’s no such thing as a deadline.”
“You can’t do that from the perspective of receiving money. Moreover, with just a little more, the invention of the century will be completed….”
Plague… What kind of medicine are you planning on giving me this time?
I was just skipping it because it was necessary for the battle, but I didn’t understand why I had to pay my own money and suffer.
“I’m trying to make something weird again…” So, did anything happen while I was gone?”
“No big deal? Not really… Oh, it didn’t happen at the Academy, but there was one.”
“What is it?”
“That… “I’m not sure because I only heard rumors, but the prince’s mother passed away.”