Time flew by, five days, in the blink of an eye.
After Sephiroth reluctantly sent off the three Boa sisters, who had set sail again, he used the Doa Doa no Mi (Door-Door Fruit) ability and began rushing between the Umbrella Corporation's stations on different islands, gathering the materials one by one. A week ago, he had instructed the company to collect forging blade materials with all its might.
He was busy for almost the entire day, and that's when he collected all the rare ores on the list of materials provided by Shimotsuki Kozaburō.
The sky grew darker, the setting sun hung on the horizon, lingering reluctantly, and the moon quietly emerged. In the East Blue, specifically in Shimotsuki Village, within the Shimotsuki Dojo.
As soon as Sephiroth walked into the backyard, he met Kuina, a little lolita, who held Wado Ichimonji in her hands, waving it repeatedly, refining her basic sword movements.
Sephiroth unconsciously walked to the side of the little blue-haired lolita. He hugged her arm and said with a smile:
"Practicing with a real sword now seems a bit too early for you...."
Hearing this, Kuina lifted her head slightly and looked at him with innocent eyes, "But I want to become stronger as soon as possible and become the greatest swordsman in the world!"
"The greatest swordsman in the world? Interesting."
The corner of Sephiroth's mouth lifted slightly, and he squatted down, touched the top of the little lolita's head, and said softly, "Then you must work hard! This will be a very difficult path."
"Hmm!" Kuina responded with a raised gaze and a slight nod.
After teaching the little lolita step-by-step how to swing a sword and exert strength better, he got up and walked to a room in the backyard.
Sephiroth had just entered the workshop house with the door open, and a wave of heat instantly assailed him. Immediately, he saw Shimotsuki Kozaburō standing shirtless in front of the forge, waving a large hammer in his hand and continuously folding and forging a red-hot iron bar.
What surprised Sephiroth was that Kozaburō was wielding the hammer and iron bar, intertwined with a hint of Armament Haki? Based on the principle of asking if you don't understand, he immediately asked with a puzzled look on his face:
"Why do you have to wrap your Haki around the iron bar? Doesn't this increase the difficulty of forging and shaping?"
"In Wano Country, top-notch swordsmiths must learn to use Ryuo (Advanced Armament Haki) in the forging process to aid in the tempering of the unformed sword.... Simply relying on excellent sword-making materials is not that easy, and you can forge a sharp weapon of Meitou level. Tell me, how did you collect all the materials I wanted?"
"All collected!"
As he spoke, Sephiroth took the Butcher's Blade from his waist and gently waved it in the void. A "Spatial Door" opened instantly, revealing a temporary space constructed by the Butcher's Blade itself, with four large wooden boxes placed inside. Thanks to Sephiroth's unremitting efforts, the Butcher's Blade can currently consume its own reserve vitality to maintain the existence of the temporary space. However, the larger the temporary space constructed, the faster the vitality stored on the blade will be consumed. If life is not replenished in time, the contents will explode. There is still a long way to go before the permanent condensation space envisioned in his mind can materialize!
After Sephiroth moved the four large wooden boxes to the ground and took them out side by side, he opened the four boxes one by one and displayed various ores of different colors to the other's eyes.
"Fire Stone, Starsilver. Huh!?"
Kozaburō, from left to right, looked at the materials inside the boxes one by one, and when he looked at the fourth box, a confused expression appeared on his face.
"What is this? There's nothing like this on the material sheet I gave you, is there?"
As he spoke, he reached into the chest containing silvery-white cubes, picked up an alloy cube, and tossed it into his hand.
"This is Jim Alloy, a special metal created by the Umbrella Corporation. It has a memory function and can automatically recover after being destroyed. Its hardness and reliability also exceed ordinary materials. I thought, this material might be useful, so I'll show it to you."
"Interesting stuff! I'll try using it." Kozaburō nodded slightly and put the alloy cube back into the wooden box.
After checking that all the materials were ready, Kozaburō began to smelt the ore. To study the Seven-Star Sword, Sephiroth had once done some research on the forging process. He was not a thorough layman. He knew some commonly used forging techniques.
Now Kozaburō, a renowned blade-forging craftsman, was about to start forging a blade from scratch. He couldn't help but have the idea of observing and learning and stealing from the master.
Seeing that the silver-haired youth seemed to have no intention of leaving, and Kozaburō was not impolite, he immediately began to rally the former and asked him to help strike. He did not shy away at all and directly told the other party many key points and techniques. His son Koshiro, although he inherited the dojo and his swordsmanship, was not very interested in his craftsmanship of forging swords. Therefore, Kozaburō's blade-forging techniques have never been passed down. When he saw that Sephiroth wanted to learn, he didn't mind giving him some pointers.
At night, under the moonlight, the sky was full of stars. In East Blue, Shimotsuki Village, in the backyard of the Shimotsuki Dojo.
Sephiroth reached out and wiped the sweat from his forehead, walked out of the workshop house, came to the backyard next to the well, punched a bucket of well water, and washed his face.
It was at this point that he saw a man in a green hooded cloak, open the reception room's sliding door and walk down the corridor. Through the open house door, Sephiroth saw that inside the reception room, Koshiro was kneeling on the tatami, staring at the oil lamp in front of him, as if he was contemplating something.
After a while, the green-robed man walked to the backyard's back door, opened it, and left the dojo.
Sephiroth, standing by the well, had a thoughtful expression on his face.
A moment later, he seemed to think of something amusing, and the corner of his mouth lifted unconsciously. After he released his Observation Haki, and sensed the green-robed man's aura gradually drifting away, he immediately pulled the Butcher's Blade from his waist, drew it out of thin air, opened a "Spatial Door," and walked in.
On a loess road in the East Blue countryside. Wearing a green cloak and a square tattoo on the left side of his face, Monkey D. Dragon walked down the loess road in the countryside. On both sides of the road, there were rice fields that were ripe and waiting to be harvested. When the wind blew, it started to make a "rustling-!" sound.
Uh-huh!
A thin red line suddenly appeared in the void, accompanied by a burst of "Spatial Door" ripples, and the door opened just five meters in front of Dragon.
With a smile on his face, Sephiroth slowly drew his blade into its sheath and walked out of the world inside the door.
"Are you?"
Dragon frowned slightly, and with a serious expression on his face, he stared at the silver-haired young man who had suddenly appeared before him.
"Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Karl D. Sephiroth. Mr. Dragon, I'm interested in your Revolutionary Army, could you talk with me?"
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