Bonus Story:
New Weapons
“I’ve made a new weapon,” Mile suddenly announced.
“What’s that now?” sighed Reina, weary as ever.
“What did you make? Is it some kind of magical wand that zaps all your clothes off for a transformation scene, like last time?” Mavis’s tone was joking but only because she had not been the one to suffer the fallout of that invention. For Reina and Pauline, however, it brought back dark memories. Even though they knew Mavis was only joking, their faces both soured.
“No, it’s a sword this time. The shape is just like your current sword, but it’s made of a completely different material. Try it!” said Mile, drawing a sword from her inventory and handing it straight to Mavis. “My Superalloy, Powerful Nouveau Z is complete!”
Previously, when Mile had crafted her giant golem, she had given it a similar name. It was a pretty good name…
“Okay, so I get the ‘superalloy,’ the ‘powerful,’ and the ‘nouveau,’ parts, but what’s with the ‘Z’?” asked Reina.
Mile puffed out her chest and replied, “It’s a super-powered sword, equal to both god and devil!”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about!”
It made sense that Reina would not be able to make heads or tails of this, given the diminishing number of people in even modern-day Japan who would have had any idea at all what Mile was talking about. Then there was the fact that this name seemed so desperate to distinguish itself from one thing, that it nearly ran clear into another conflicting brand entirely…
“Mile, are you sure about this?”
“About what?”
“I mean, the imbalance of this thing might make someone mad…”
“Yeah, like all the pros…”
“It’s fiiiine, don’t sweat the small stuff!”
“This is not a little thing! This is a huge problem!”
Finally, setting everyone’s anxieties aside, Mavis went into the forest to try out the new sword.
“Special technique, Iron Cutter!”
“Scrander Cutter!”
Mavis sliced clear through a tree with the blade.
“This thing is godly …”
“Why are you calling it ‘iron’ when I told you this was the Superalloy, Powerful Nouveau Z?”
“Now that you mention it, what is that ‘Scrander’ thing about?”
“Don’t sweat the small stuff!”
“So what do you think of the sword? This alloy is made of a brand-new element I recently discovered from the magma layer below Tils—I call it ‘Tiltanium!’”
“I’ve never heard of that!”
“Reina, Mile didn’t just say it was discovered—she said she discovered it!”
“Wait you did?!”
Mile just changed the subject. “Wh…what do you think, Mavis? With this blade you could even cut an opponent’s sword in two!” Mile said confidently. But then…
“Pass!” came Mavis’s coldhearted reply.
“What?! Wh-why?! You don’t want a sword that could cut through an opponent in a single blow?!” Mile did not—could not—believe this response.
“It’s not a match if you can cut through your opponent’s weapon on the first move…”
“What?! That’s quitter talk! Taking pity on the enemy is just rude to your opponent!”
“No, what I’m saying is, if I catch a blade coming toward me, and this sword cuts immediately through it, that part of the sword that was cut off is still going to keep coming down, right toward my body, won’t it?”
“Ah…”
“Over! This experiment is ooooover!” Reina loudly declared. Mile collapsed, defeated.
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