"If Director Rita is interested in treasure, then I could..." Seeing Rita stop to look at his treasures, the minister assumed she had been stunned and was about to say something...
"I don't need the treasure. I'm more curious about those weapons. Those aren't Imperial Arms, are they?"
Rita barely spared the treasures a glance before turning toward the weapons and equipment neatly arranged in a corner.
There were swords, sabers, trousers, clothes, shoes, gauntlets... all kinds of weapons and equipment. At a rough count, there were around thirty or forty pieces.
"They indeed aren't Imperial Arms. The Imperial Arms aren't kept here. These weapons are Ministerial Arms forged centuries ago. I don't have many Imperial Arms in my possession... but I've collected quite a few Ministerial Arms over the years."
"If Director Rita likes one, I can give you one."
Seeing Rita ask about them, the minister laughed heartily and introduced the weapons and equipment.
In the four hundred years after the creation of the Imperial Arms, the emperor at the time had also tried to create Imperial Arms. However, he had never managed to surpass the weapons of old. Viewing this as a disgrace, he mockingly named these weapons Ministerial Arms and had them sealed away.
Yet after the passage of countless years, the Ministerial Arms had been taken out and used once more. Although their performance could not compare with Imperial Arms, they were still highly powerful.
How could the minister possibly let such things slip through his hands?
"Ministerial Arms... we can discuss that later."
Though they could not compare to Imperial Arms, Ministerial Arms were not inferior for most people in this world. For example, the Ministerial Arm Akame had wielded at the beginning, [Kiri Ichimonji], was like a failed imitation of the Imperial Arm