The next day at work, while I was working on the sword, my uncle suddenly interrupts me to tell me that there’s someone at the door looking for me.Somewhat confused, I went to the door after putting on a shirt I found on a chair and there I saw some skinny dude about the same age or younger, with dirty …
Chapter 9: Defending each other’s back
The next day at school, I looked absentmindedly through the window at the gray sky throughout the whole classes until we were about to leave, when Alice came to me and asked concerned, “Leon? You’ve been staring at the sky the entire day. Did something happen? Yesterday you left without saying a word, you know?” “Hm? Ah, nothing. I just …
Chapter 8: Working hard, making money, and… then what?
Alright! Now we’re talking! Ten whole hours passed with a few food breaks and I finally finished purifying the sword and give it the desired shape. I raised it in the sky and looked at it satisfied. Now it’s time for some finishing touches for the blade then I can start with the guard and~… Hm? I placed the sword …
Chapter 7: Self-made happiness
Chapter 7: Self-made happiness “… Did something happen’? What’s with that grin?” As I was preparing my tools, my uncle asked me after he just got out of the shower, now walking around with only a towel around the backyard in his lower part like it was summer. “Hm? Was I grinning?… Maybe I was thinking of something funny.” …
Chapter 6: Learn the rules To Know how to evade them
After the second class finished, I quickly rushed outside the building and down below my window to search for my blades. When Simon tried to report me, I already threw them and made sure to drop them in the bunch of gathered leaves beside the trees. “Leon? Why did you rush here?” “Huh? You again? Didn’t you say you hated …
Chapter 5: Stubborn girl, Troublesome blacksmith
The next day I went to school just like normal, but at the entrance the girl from yesterday seemed to be waiting for someone, this time wearing our school’s uniform. I didn’t mind her and simply went on forward. Just as I went past the gates, through the babbling from my earphones I heard a girl calling out to someone. …
Chapter 4: Annoying first encounter after a new start
I walked calmly toward the school’s gates as a new year started, fallen leaves covering the road from the tall trees here and there. Many students with the same uniform as I were either dropped by their parents, came in pairs, or simply came alone like myself, but their eyes shone with excitement and expectations, unlike my bored expression. “Oy, …
Chapter 3: A blacksmith’s haven
-CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!- As I entered the courtyard, I heard my uncle working on another piece of armor behind the house, having all his tools there together with an old-style furnace made of stone and bricks, but one that worked on gas and coal. After I dropped my backpack in my room, I would occasionally stop by his workshop and …
Chapter 2: When it rains it pours
Not even waiting to finish class-… Rather, not even going back to class, I went outside the school’s gates and towards my uncle’s home without even taking back my bag. I didn’t have his number and neither did I wish to have too much to do with him, father normally telling me that he wasn’t too much of a great …
Chapter 1: Foretelling Disaster
In Middle-East Europe, inside a small city that’s almost like a town, autumn just settled, and at the edge of this town, sounds of metal hitting metal resounded. A fit yet rough man with messy hair and dirty jeans turned black from the dust was hammering with a stable rhythm behind his rundown house and near the heated furnace made …