"Then there's the living room and this place," Shinobu Kocho said. "There isn't much here, but I keep feeling that if we search carefully, we might find a way out. I was thinking, since I stumbled across this place, could there be something we haven't found yet?"
Tetsu no Sosuke nodded. "Let's finish reading first."
This Heavenly Artisan seemed to have led quite an eventful life.
Shinobu Kocho nodded and made room for Tetsu no Sosuke so they could read together.
Tetsu no Sosuke picked up where he had left off and found that the Heavenly Artisan had become a man of few words after that.
He wandered Jianghu, living a life of hardship.
Eventually, he met a man who relied on a weapon to run rampant, charging about without restraint. The man himself was not particularly strong, yet with that weapon, he swept through crowds, almost invincible.
The sight left him stunned and shaken.
Only then did he realize just how important a weapon could be to a person.
He had spent the first half of his life destitute, failing at most of the things he set out to do.
He had dreamed of changing the world, only to be beaten back by reality time and again.
One man could not stand against an army, but with a hundred weapons like that and a hundred men like himself, could he turn the tide of battle?
No... perhaps we could dominate the battlefield!
That was what he had thought at the time. He then sought out the man and asked where he had obtained that weapon.
The man was generous and forthright, keeping nothing from him. He gave him directions, and the Heavenly Artisan followed them until he finally found an old man.
He asked the old man for a