"Hello, Master Kurt—or should I say... Master Von Finkelman?" Lin Yun greeted the blacksmith, who had returned to a middle-aged appearance. Though he was surprised, he quickly smiled and bowed.
"Those titles are from years ago. You don't have to call me that." Looking at Lin Yun, the blacksmith wore an instinctively troubled expression.
"You're Master Finkelman?" Lirket, standing nearby, seemed... astonished.
Clearly, he knew the name of this so-called master, but had never realized that the old blacksmith who had been right beside him was such a renowned figure.
"What's the matter, Lirket? Is Kurt famous?" Gazi asked, baffled. He blinked his one eye at Lirket.
"Master the Craftsman Finkelman was famous for making extremely precise weapons and all kinds of firearms. He used to be Nurn's chief engineer. Oh, right—Master Finkelman first became famous for making a series of prosthetic firearms and weapons. I should have figured it out sooner. But I heard he offended the Elector Count and was driven out of the Wissen Territory." Lirket still looked astonished as he explained.
"That was all a long time ago. Anyway, you didn't come here to dig up my past, did you? So, can you tell me what you're here for?" The old blacksmith clearly knew better than to think they'd brought such a grand "gift" without a reason.
"This was my weapon. I paid a great deal to have a master forge it, but... it broke for certain reasons." Tachi Bro looked helpless.
Still, he took a small leather pouch from his Dimensional Bag. Inside were the fragments of the Ember Youkai Sword.
The sword seemed to have brought him nothing but bad luck, but it was still a Nodachi he'd gone to great lengths to obtain from Chunzheng.
Besides, Nodachi were relatively "fragile" weapons to begin