Tetsu no Sosuke had his doubts about this too. He came from a later age, after all, and what strange things hadn't appeared in its novels?
Forget killing someone with the edge of a blade. A mere look could do it.
In those stories, someone could glare hard enough to get a person pregnant. Killing them was hardly a stretch.
Yet the engravings on both sides of the door weren't so simple. From beginning to end, they seemed to recount, in a matter-of-fact way, a story that might not even have happened in this world.
And somehow, the story was hard to doubt.
Until this scene appeared.
Standing around speculating wouldn't get them anywhere, so Tetsu no Sosuke said to Yuichiro, "When we get back, you can try making a weapon his way and see whether it can really kill someone from a distance."
"And who do I test it on?" Yuichiro asked, getting straight to the point.
Tetsu no Sosuke considered it. Neither he nor Kanae would do, and making Yuichiro test it on himself would be downright cruel. Everyone at Hammer Hut had a role to play, and though they worked here for him, they weren't his subordinates... Then he spotted Big Hammer lying by the door, belly up in the sun.
He rubbed his chin. That might work.
Big Hammer had been sleeping soundly when a wave of malice suddenly washed over him. He rolled to his feet in an instant, baring his teeth as his fur bristled.
After a long look around, he found no one lurking nearby and relaxed a little.
The three of them kept looking. In the images, the young man took the blade and descended the mountain. What followed could be summed up in a few words: whenever he saw injustice, he