No matter what anyone said, the Rock Pillar remained in tears, making it look as though Tetsu no Sosuke had bullied him.
After a few modest words, the Rock Pillar added, "I heard you recently devised a free-for-all training method. Could the two of us try it?"
"Two people aren't enough," Tetsu no Sosuke said. "We need at least three. In fact, if we could gather all the Pillars for a training session, we'd probably get even better results."
The Rock Pillar considered this for a moment, then smiled. "Then let's forget it."
"That's all right. The two of us aren't enough, but my sister-in-law is free, isn't she?" Tetsu no Sosuke said with a smile. "She can join us. Stay here for a few days..."
He asked Yuichiro for the date and learned it was already the end of the month.
He turned back to the Rock Pillar. "I'll start forging new Nichirin Blades for you and that Swordsman today, and we can train in the meantime. I expect to finish before the month ends. Then we can leave together."
"All right."
The Rock Pillar nodded in agreement.
Afterward, they discussed what he wanted from his new Nichirin Blade.
The Rock Pillar's weapon was probably the most unusual of all the Pillars' weapons.
Even the mechanisms in the Sound Pillar's blades came second.
The Rock Pillar's Nichirin Blade had to be large and heavy: a broad axe and a spiked ball joined by a chain.
It could smash, cleave, and restrain!
With a weapon like this, the finer points of forging hardly mattered. There was only so much anyone could do with the details of a broad axe and a spiked ball.
Tetsu no Sosuke could make every spike on the ball shoot out and wound an enemy... but