"Cough... urk..."
My mouth tasted of blood, and a splitting headache throbbed behind my eyes.
Then, as if I'd been hit by a bomb, pain began to spread through my entire body, and even my vision blurred.
"...You damn blacksmith!"
Through my hazy sight, I could see the woman gasping for breath after losing her sword.
"Aiz."
"Leave it to me."
Aiz grabbed the hawk sword and charged straight at the woman.
"Kuh..."
"Surrender quietly. Or die."
"[Sword Princess]!!!"
After drinking the mind potion I'd kept in my pocket, my vision quickly cleared.
"..."
While watching the fight, I suddenly noticed the brilliant golden sword the woman had dropped.
"Ghk...!"
I tried to get up and grab it, but the moment I put strength into my legs, pain shot through them.
"Trace on..."
With no other choice, I projected a longsword and used it as a cane to walk toward the sword.
"Die..."
"Kuh...!"
The woman was too busy dealing with Aiz to notice me approaching the sword.
"Got it."
"...What?"
I succeeded in grabbing the sword.
And then,
"Gah!"
Aiz's sword pierced straight through the woman's chest.
"Kuh... Hand over the sword!"
Even with a hole punched through her body, the woman paid it no mind, shook off Aiz, and rushed at me.
"Go ahead and take it."
I threw the sword as high as I could.
The woman leaped with a desperate expression to catch it, and
"Die."
seizing the moment, Aiz split the woman's head open with the hawk sword still lodged in her chest.
"Ah... I'm tired."
After tying up the woman's corpse with its split head, just in case, I examined the sword she had been carrying.
"...Magic stone?"
It was a very beautiful sword, radiating a bright, dazzling light, but oddly enough, there were signs that it had been artificially modified.
Looking more closely, I saw several vividly colored magic stones embedded in the hilt, and a plant I had never seen before had taken root in the crossguard.
"...For a [weapon rack] form, it's pretty strange."
I'd know more once I took it apart.
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