Chapter 14: [Not] School (2)
I launched a patreon I guess… nothing much. It's just that chapters will be put there… I usually write a few chapters ahead… I'll still upload here… just not as much (1/day). Anyway stay hydrated and stay productive! Link is /N8lix. First extra chapter will be up in 12 hours in patreon, webnovel will receive it in 24 hours++ maybe…
Anyway on to the chapter!
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Arriving at the hospital… I was sent to my usual room, it's on the 14th floor of the hospital, and room number 20.
"Hummmm…."
Alice is humming some tunes.. I think I've heard that tune before… But I can't remember where… She's currently sitting next to me, holding my hand. Like it's the most precious thing to her. Yep. She did not totally destroy my hand just to cover up my abnormal regeneration speed!
"Alice…"
"Yes?"
"... Can you release my hand for a bit? I need to go to the bathroom…"
"Nope, you can do your business here! See the doctor's are professional! They're prepared for a situation like this!"
As she shows a tube connected to a plastic container… Nope! Hell no! I still have an inch of manhood left in me to deny her request… I wouldn't want to be the receiving end of abu— * cough cough * tough love in this relationship… And so… Like a man… I hold it in!
"Oh yeah! Liam! When are you going to make my weapons!"
"..."
I'm still stuck here bed ridden and that's the first thing that popped up in your head… Actually that's a good question! When can I go to hell? I miss forge-chan….
"... As soon as that bald headed bastard opens that damn portal for me!"
"OH! Rodin! Wait a moment, I'll give Uncle Nobi a call! Maybe with him we can just go!"
She proceeds to dial a number on her phone without letting go of my hand… I'm not a dog that will just run away when you let go you know!
"Hello, is Uncle Nobi there?"
"Oh, Uncle Proto! You have to help me! You see, Liam's been in Laguna for quite some time, but didn't get me anything!"
"Eh, not that! I don't want his existence erased and his soul imprisoned in tartarus!"
My hair suddenly stood up, my spine shivers… Oi oi oi Alice… What are you talking about… Don't even joke like that please! For the love of … oh yeah whom do I pray for here? God's her uncle, the Demon Lord's her father…
"No, I don't want him to suffer 10,000 years in a second! At least… not without me… hmmm… that may be nice, spending 10,000 years just the two of us… EHHHH! WAIT! listen to me first Uncle Proto! You're always so fast on coming to conclusions!"
My yandere alarm is triggering like no tomorrow… What have I gotten myself into… Moriarty..
[... beep beep beep]
The sound of a broken line played in my head… LIKE HELL I'LL BELIEVE THAT!
[Tch. listen here protagonist-san… JUST DO IT, and stop bothering me… being a criminal consultant is tough work!]
There's a lot of points to retort in that reply, but let's focus on the important thing first… HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO JUST DO IT! SHE'S WAY SCARIER THAN ME! And let's ignore the part of criminal consulting… Yep, my sanity… is getting eroded… Is she an eldritch god? Is Moriarty her herald?
[The less you know the better… but if you insist there's a high probability of fate worse than death for you… and for the record… I'm currently working on my web. I've got an interesting crew… one who wears clown masks and robs banks kind of interesting…]
… They're the PAYDAY CREW aren't they… Raise hell Moriarty… As long as you don't affect our family life… I'll not judge… just give me my own car would you…
[... What am I, awalking bank?]
I'm an idiot sandwich… so pick your poison…
[... I'll stick with the criminal consultant thank you. And good luck. You'll need it. See you in the evening I guess.]
See me in the evening? Oh yeah, I need to also be present in the GATES OF HELL, huh…
"THANK YOU UNCLE PROTO, UNCLE NOBI! *MUAH!*"
EH? What did I miss!? Suddenly a portal, no a space rend opened in the hospital room…
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Is this… the difference in status? Not only do I have to work my ass off at that bar, I'm also tortured for god knows how long… and Alice just needs a call and we're done? Where's my cheat? Hello…
The sounds of clashing metal, and the scorching temperature of Hell. the smell of the furnace, along with the metallic hue… wait a moment… why is it suddenly… all dull and blue? I looked at alice…
"OH? That! I thought It looks much better in blue!"
My silver baby forge is now… navy in color… How does that even work? I don't know… But I can guess with the smug smiling nahabino… they de-fusion… and Nobi-san started reading a book… Eh is that … JOJO? No wonder he always poses… interestingly…
"Young Liam, I've brought you to the forge… You can stay here as long as you want… but I suggest not staying too long, you know what it would do to your… physique…"
"Eh? Can't we do something about it?"
"I'm afraid not… for now… but judging from your request… it should not take longer than a month to complete. Come now Alice, I shall prepare our commodation for a month."
Proto waved his hands and a small house appeared… Yep I'm not going to question that. Did they just left me here? Isn't it better for them to just… I don't know, wait in the real world? It's going to be less than a second for them right? But noooo they have to watch me suffer, and make me envious of the house…
*sigh* oh well… mind as well start… twin katanas and an arquebus huh… I can one up that! I immediately reached for my bag of holding. Yep no inventory cheat for me, imagine that! I had to scour the whole Laguna for this! I turned the bag inside out, as all of its contents were laid bare. A small hill suddenly formed beside me… it's full of golden metallic weapons.
OH FORGE HEAR MY CALL!
The forge, built from the core of a dying star, came to life. The barren wasteland suddenly went up in temperature as even my skin feels like it's melting.
" I'm not the renowned blacksmith, Muramasa…
Nor am I the dwarf king who eclipses the gods , Etri..
But I won't even let the God of forge Hephaestus deter my determination! "
My surroundings turn charred as a wave of ultra-violent heat pulses from the forge, melting all the weapons I got from laguna. In a wave of my hand, the earth moved, as a container made out of an unknown material encapsulates the molten weapon, bringing it near my forge.
"I once sought to forge the ultimate blade.
Not a sword that cuts through flesh, bone, or the living.
I sought a blade that terminates enmity...
A blade that severs bonds, severs fate, severs karma.
to free one of one's destiny."
I offered a prayer to the forge, as I molded a frame for the katanas. With each dull *clang* I was brought ever closer to my ideal shape, Symmetry? Can it be eaten? Nope! With each hammer brought down, the shape of my ideal katana is coming more and more into reality.
"Upon one's arrival are countless tools."
*clang**clang**clang*
"Carved over a thousand blades, creating a graveyard of blades."
*clang**clang**clang*
"This is the place where all paths crossed"
*clang*
"This is the place where all desires flow"
*clang*
"This is the place where all death's await."
*clang*
"My whole life, for this single creation!"
*clang*
"This is thy heart of thy blade!"
*clang*
The light of the forge, eclipses everything that I've ever seen before. As even my hand whose forged countless blades in this forge burns. But I care not for the pain, as this is the most crucial part of the process.
"Come to life, I beseech thee name, [TSUMUKARI MURAMASA] !"
*clang*
*ding*
The light engulfed me.
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I don't know the amount of time I spent marveling at my creation… it's a katana, no doubt… it has a crimson red blade. With a golden guard, and a matching red handle… it's sheath is black, with golden markings, it has this eldritch feel to it that I couldn't put my hands on… This truly is my best creation yet…
"WOW! IS THAT FOR ME!"
"... Yeah it's for —"
I stopped at that as I saw her figure… she's only wearing her … is that a swimsuit? And I have to say she's got the right bumps in the right places…
"What? Oh this puppies?"
She emphasizes her chest. Yep 10/10.
"You can play with them later… but first… my katana! But why is it only one? "
"Hohoho… That's where you're wrong!"
And just like said, Once Alice touched the blade, she transformed… eh? Why did you transform? She's suddenly wearing old Victorian style clothes…(WN: violet evergarden violet's clothes.)... and eh? The blade's color transformed to navy… what in the … you know what you do you!
"WOW! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!"
A blue-blonde blur tackles my body, as I fell down.
"... Alice…"
"Yeah? How did you know my sizes!? Don't tell me you find out only by looking!"
Nope, the transformation is only for you! I only did the blade, not the clothes!
"And can you make me a tricorn hat like mother Maria's ?"
Wait… Maria with that clothes and tricorn hat, dual blade… IS SHE SUPPOSED TO BE LADY MARIA OF THE ASTRAL CLOCKTOWER? The realization… wait wait wait… Alice is her biological daughter right… or … Alice, alice, alice, where did I hear that name in the soulsborne universe… oh is she Gascoigne's little girl?
F***! My soon to be girlfriend is an eldritch powered vampire is she not?
Suddenly a tricorn hat appears on top of her hat! … I did not do that! I looked around, and there's no one there… YEAH LIKE I'll BELIEVE THAT! I know it's your doing GOD!
"Alice…"
"Yeah…"
She asked cutely as she hugged me tighter…
"... did you know that the blade have additional functions!"
"Oh? And what's that!?"
"Try channeling a bit of mana into it!"
Suddenly the katana changes into… a gatling arquebus… YUP! It's not a bunch of arquebus stitched onto a rotating core, yeah nope!
"WOAH!!!!"
"Do it again!"
The gatling gun, turned into two blades, one is a golden navy blade, the other is a purely black blade…
"THIS IS AMAZING! Don't tell me there's also another form!"
"Well, it's not a form per se… try pumping a bit more mana…"
And she did, once she pumped in more mana… the whole area changed.. Colorful mushrooms grow, as cards come to life, is that a chirsche cat I see? It's like an acid trip… not that I know about it… and where did the music come from?
"Liam!"
"Yeah?"
"This is the best gift ever!"
"Want me to make it even better?"
"HUH YOU CAN MAKE IT BETTER!?"
"Of course I can!"
I said that, as I got on my knees…. I gathered all my mana, as I condensed the blade, the whole area turned back into a barren wasteland. The blade materialized in my hand. I used a bit of my mana to re-shape it into a ring… the ring itself is like a wedding ring, with a sapphire.
"Alice"
"... Yes…"
I held her snow white hand with my charred hand.
"Will you —"
"OBJECTION!!!!"
A wild demon lord appears.