My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World: Volume 7 [Complete] by Tamamaru

Author:Tamamaru
Language: eng
Format: epub

The next morning after we finished our daily routine, we prayed to the kamidana, which now had another divine item upon it. The wooden statue reflected the bright red glow of the hihiirokane, and it looked like she was bathing us in ruby light.

Samya stood at the front of the group—she planned to take everyone except Rike and me out on a hunt. Since Helen had just returned yesterday, I asked if she was okay, but she replied with a grin and a flex of her biceps. I slumped my shoulders and shook my head as I sent her and the rest of the household away.

Once I lit the firebed and saw it start to warm, I walked over to Rike to discuss our plans for the day. She’d intended on forging more of our mass produced items.

“Well, I finished the rings, but that’s just the work we were hired to do. I was thinking of making a little present for them.”

“A present?” Rike asked.

I nodded. In fact, I’d already decided on my gift.

“Since you’ll be making it, Boss, will it be from the Nordic region?”

“Yeah. Nothing too grand though.”

“I really can’t take those words at face value...” She looked at me dubiously. It is true that all my custom models have amazing abilities...

I forced a smile. “No need to worry—I’ll be making a normal shortsword this time around.”

“A sword?”

“Remember the one I made for Nilda?”

“Sure do.”

“It’ll be like that, but smaller, the size of a knife.”

“That really does represent us,” she gushed. “Sounds lovely.”

“Right?”

I planned on making a dagger without a decorative hilt as a gift to Marius’s wife, one she could use for self-defense. Back on Earth, some people claimed that blades were bad luck because they could cut through bonds, but defensive weapons could also slice through unfortunate relationships. I’d heard that many women received a blade when they went off to marry, so I’d settled on this as a gift. I thought it best to not inform others of the other saying attached to this blade: “Slash one’s own throat should anything disastrous occur.” In any case, it seemed like a perfect gift from a blacksmith from the Nordic region.

This time around, instead of sandwiching steel sheets with different hardnesses, I decided to forge the blade out of a single sheet of steel. If I imbued it, the metal would become about as hard as it would during the multiple-sheet method.

I placed steel into the firebed and waited for it to grow hot. Since I’d been working on the rings, it’d been a while since I’d had to wait on something to heat up. Once the sheet was hot enough, I placed it on my anvil and hammered down, creating an indent. I was only making one knife out of this sheet, so I didn’t think tsumiwakashi would be needed.

Soon, I reached the sunobe (elongating) step. I lengthened the steel to around twenty centimeters, with a nakago, or tang, jutting out. Then, I sliced off the

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