“I hate to mar your first impression,” Nanami said, standing before him, “but the Katana Buddha… is chock full of impurities. Maybe it’s odd to speak that way of gold and silver and other treasures, but the point is that it wasn’t purely fashioned from katanas. When you add it up, a hundred thousand swords would never be enough to make a statue this enormous.”

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