Yale thought about how to reply.
After all, there wasn’t any problem with the sword itself; the problem was that Lar shouldn’t be a sword.
"In fact, this sword was once a human..."
When Yale started to speak, the chief’s face changed.
"Really? Did you transform this person yourself? Who taught you?"
The chief seed excited when he heard Yale’s words.
Initially, Yale feared that the chief would be angry, but the chief’s reaction was completely opposite to Yale’s fears.
"Well, I guess you can say I did it myself. She was about to die with her soul dispersed, and it was the only way I had to save her."
Yale couldn’t speak about Alter Yale openly, but both could still be considered the sa person, so it wasn’t wrong if Yale said that he did it himself.
"I see. No wonder this sword loves you so much. Usually, a human converted into a sword would harbor endless hate for the one who did it unless so special processes were applied, but in a situation like that I can see how she is still grateful to you."
Hearing the chief’s words, Yale felt that the chief had a lot of knowledge about the topic, which gave Yale hopes that he knew a thod to revert it.
"You still haven’t replied to my second question."
The chief seed very interested in who taught Yale how to do that, but Yale didn’t know who taught Alter Yale.
"I don’t know. It was sothing I did out of desperation, and I don’t rember how I did it. No one taught ."
The chief looked shocked.
"Very interesting! To think that a re human would execute the weaponizing curse without being taught. Do you know how many million years I spent developing it? Too many to count them! However, you managed to do it so perfectly with just a bit of inspiration..."
In fact, Alter Yale had learned from that chief when he was looking for ways to punish his enemies. The weaponizing curse wasn’t sothing that the chief taught to others, not even within the tribe, but Alter Yale still managed to convince him.
However, although only the chief in front of Yale could execute the weaponizing curse in that universe, there were more experts capable of doing the sa in other universes.
"I ca here with hopes to restore this sword to her human self. The soul inside the sword is already completely healed, so there shouldn’t be any problem as long as I know the thod."
Yale really hoped that the chief knew about the thod to restore Lar.
"I am sorry. It isn’t that I don’t want to help you, but I developed this as a curse, a thod to punish others, so I never tried to develop a thod to undo it."
Yale was disappointed when he heard those words, but the words of the chief made sense.
Seeing Yale’s disappointnt, the chief spoke again.
"I don’t know a thod to return her to be a human, but I know a thod that would at least make her look like one. However, I must ask you a question first."
Yale’s eyes sparkled when he heard that there was another thod. As long as Lar returned to be herself, if she was a human or so other species wasn’t sothing that bothered Yale since he never cared about it.
"Please, ask.
The chief’s face turned serious.
"What is your relationship with the human form of this sword? Your lover? Your wife?"
When Yale heard that question, he quickly shook his head.
"No, nothing like that. She did a favor that I will never be able to repay, which made that we had quite an ambiguous relationship, but she is one of my best friends or like a sister. I know that she had romantic feelings towards , but I never saw her like that."
No matter how pitiful he considered that Lar was, Yale couldn’t force himself to love her like a lover.
"I see, then, this thod may work well for you."
If Yale said that Lar and himself had a romantic relationship, the chief would have never said the other thod, although it would be a matter of ti for Yale to discover it himself.
"What thod?"
Yale was really impatient to hear about it.
"I called it a thod, but in the case of this sword, it is just a matter of ti. Do you know that weapons can develop consciousness and even incarnate in human form? This sword of yours is already at the seventh level immortal level, but it already seems to be starting to develop consciousness. Usually, it is extrely difficult to reach this state before becoming an eighth level immortal. So weapons even needed to be ninth level immortals, while others would never be able to do it."
Yale knew sothing about the matter, but he didn’t feel that the consciousness of a weapon and other living beings were the sa.
"Have you seen any weapon that has transford into human form?"
When Yale heard the question, he quickly shook his head.
"Liar."
Yale didn’t expect that reaction from the chief.
"You have seen them, it is just that you can’t tell that they are weapons, so you aren’t conscious about it."
Yale was shocked and started to guess if soone of that tribe was a weapon that had taken human form.
"As you should be thinking, there are weapons that have taken human form in this village. In fact, except you, everyone in this village is a weapon that has taken human form. We are the Weapon Spirit Tribe."
Yale was just expecting to be so, not that literally, everyone in the tribe was a weapon including the chief in front of him.
"I know you are surprised, but this is the truth. We are all weapons without master that grouped together to live. We are all high-leveled weapons, so a lot of greedy people want to kidnap us, erase our consciousness, and use us as tools. We hated that kind of people, so each ti we found one, we transform them into weapons. Doesn’t they want a powerful weapon, then it is better if they themselves are the weapon."
Yale didn’t feel any pity for those greedy fellows who ended up transford into weapons.
"It is difficult to tell that we are weapons instead than humans, so it is difficult for others to notice, but we aren’t the sa. Our bodies are made out of pure energy, so although we have physical bodies, we aren’t really made of flesh and blood. Of course, we can’t have children. That is why we are so good at smithing."
A weapon that had taken human form wouldn’t be too different as a friend or as a sister, but definitely, it wouldn’t be the sa as a wife.
"I need to tell you that if a human turned into a weapon manages to take human form, although the looks would probably be very similar, the weapon spirit won’t have any mories of her ti as a human. At the sa ti, if you restored her to a human afterward, it wouldn’t be different from killing the weapon spirit."
If Lar managed to take human form, she would be like Lar, but she wouldn’t really be her. It would be similar to reincarnating without mories but without a chance to recover them.
"This sword has already started to develop a spirit, and it will probably finish in a few days since you entered this village. Being in contact with so many weapon spirits will hasten the process, but if you hadn’t triggered it before, it wouldn’t have even started."
A weapon could only develop spirit if the owner had been treating it with a lot of care and that kind of people was always welco to the Weapon Spirit Tribe.
After all, all of them had once a master who treated them with care, so they liked the people who treated their weapons well. However, they completely despised those who just wanted a tool and would consider that a spirit was a nuisance.
"I understand. I guess that being a weapon spirit will at least give her so freedom. She may not rember anything, but as long as she is happy, I won’t complain."
Yale couldn’t stop the process nor had a thod to restore Lar, so that was the only choice he could make.
"I doubt that she will want freedom. We, weapon spirits, love being used by our masters. There is nothing that made us happier. If it weren’t because we all lost our masters, and we won’t accept soone else, we wouldn’t be living here together."
Although making weapons was like having children for them, they never kept the weapons for themselves. They give them to people that seed worth of wielding them or leave the things to fate.
If the weapon managed to awake a spirit soday and take human form, the spirit wouldn’t be willing to separate from the master, so the tribe never looked for them unless they lost their master and needed shelter.
"I see, it seems that we thought differently about it, but as I said if she is happy that enough. If after awakening, she wants to use her in battle, I will use her as much as she wants."
Yale couldn’t fulfill Lar’s previous dream about having a romance with him but using her sword form in battle was a different thing.
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