Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 9] by Umikaze Minamino

Author:Umikaze Minamino
Language: eng
Format: epub

The process of restoring the scabbard was more fun than I had expected.

As I took the battered and bruised sheath and polished it and filled the grooves with clay, it slowly returned to its original form.

It was somewhat ironic that someone who used to do nothing but destroy was now here doing the mending...

Wait, no, I have no definitive memories, so I still can’t really say if I had a habit of breaking people’s gear. And the little girl Nia Liston most certainly hasn’t. That act is still unattempted in this life. Oh no, I said ‘still.’ You know what, let’s move on. My mind was starting to get restless, so I decided I may as well just stop thinking.

“I’ve mostly finished now. What do you think?”

I sat side by side with the middle craftsman in front of a large table, and we’d been working away while being recorded the whole time. The whole process was quite peaceful, with us sometimes talking to each other as we worked.

Most of it would likely be cut in editing, but there was plenty of footage that could be used, I was sure.

I hadn’t been told how to handle the really minute scratches, so my work was done. I told the craftsman that I had finished with the scabbard.

“Wow, this is pretty good...” the craftsman muttered without thinking as he looked over the scabbard in detail.

I had no idea what was good or bad, so I would just take it as him being polite.

“My hands are very skilled. How about your enjoyable sword restoration?”

“Ah, yes, take a look.”

Wow...

When I’d first seen the sword, it appeared quite dull. But its age showed in a way that you could tell its wielder had used it with care for many years. If I put it a bit more bluntly, though, it was just old. I had been concentrating on the scabbard, so I hadn’t been watching the craftsman, but his hands had turned the old, plain shortsword into quite the sight.

Working on the sheath hadn’t been as boring as I initially thought, but I still thought that sword would have been more enjoyable to work on.

The second half of recording proceeded without incident, until we finally reached the grand finale.

“All right, fine.”

We would round off this session with a test of the sword that the elderly man had been restoring in the background.

Round the side of the workshop was an area that they likely used for testing, with rows of pillars that had been lined up and hammered into the ground. One of the younger craftsmen placed a battered wooden shield up against one of the pillars. With the scene set, the old man faced the pillar, and made a downward strike with the longsword.

The blade wedged itself cleanly into the middle of the shield.

Not bad.

“Cut! Thank you very much!” And that marked the end of the recording of the workshop.

All that’s left is for me to say my farewells to the craftsmen, I think? If there was nothing else, that would be the end of that.

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