Sebas - Sword Inspection

The old man gazed first at the grip, then at the blade, of the sword he was handed. “I see... Is this a spare weapon?”

“How did you know?!”

“So it is, then? There’s a dent here.”

When he closely examined the place the old man was pointing at, sure enough, the blade had a slight ding in it. It must have struck something in an awkward way during training.

“How embarrassing!” Climb was so mortified he wished he could disappear.

Because Climb was aware of how unskilled he was, he paid an obsessive amount of attention to his weapons to gain even a little bit of an edge. Or at least, up until that moment, he’d thought so.

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Volume 5, Chapter 4.2