10 Talking Sword(2)

"Boy!!! Are you looking down on me?!" 

Morsan's weapon, Tizona, asked him in a stern voice. 

"N-no, not at all," Morsan stammered, feeling intimidated.

"I am just confused. I don't know what you are made of. You look heavy, even heavier than lead, but I can't feel your weight. It's almost as if I'm holding a feather instead of a great sword that's bigger than me. It feels unreal." 

Tizona let out a sigh and tried to explain,

"Ah, that's why. You don't have to worry about that. As I said before, our souls are bound to each other. The soul and body are deeply connected, more than you could think of, similar to blood and flesh. What am I saying?! It's not like a kid as young as you could understand it. Simply put, now I am a part of your body." 

Tizona skipped most of the details about the soul bond and soul sea that Morsan wanted to know. He had a lot of questions about whether it was possible to break the soul bond with this weapon or not. But he held himself back since he had the most important question. 

"Could you please tell me how you appeared out of nowhere and formed a soul bond with me?"

"To be honest, I am not entirely sure. I was trapped in a space for a long time with no means of escape. One day, when I was about to lose my consciousness, I saw your pure soul in that space and I forcefully initiated a soul bond with it."

"When I finally regained consciousness, I found myself in a completely different world, bound to the soul of a child. It was hard to believe that such a world even existed! I learned more or less about this world using my little bit of remaining power. I was relieved that I had managed to escape from that despicable person's grasp. However, I am certain that some unknown power or entity had a hand in bringing us together. It's possible that this entity was even more powerful than 'that asshole'."

Tizona muttered that last sentence in a complicated voice. 

"You saw my soul while trapped in a dark space. How is that possible? Can you at least guess, what kind of power or entity could be responsible for this?"

He suddenly remembered the strangeness he experienced before when he was yelling loudly in pain while undergoing mutation, no one heard his screams as if he was separated from the world he knew of for a moment.

"..I don't know."

Tizona said after thinking for a while. He wasn't disappointed at all, since he expected this answer somehow.

Morsan sat on his bed, pondering his situation. He still couldn't find anything about the trial and assessment referred to by the mechanical voice.

He wonders if this assessment had any connection with the catastrophe that was about to happen in the future.

Right now prophecy of calamity hasn't shown yet.

According to the story of Tate no Yuusha prophecy will be given through saints of each country about the end of the world before the first wave.

Then many waves will appear, and wash over the world, again and again, until nothing remains.

Unless the waves were repelled and their accompanying calamities avoided, the world was doomed.

"Hey boy.. nothing will change by thinking about it.. didn't you have a more important thing to do than that, right now? look only a little more than 20 hours left... or perhaps you didn't mind offering a little bit of your life force to me?.."

Morsan heard the voice of Tizona inside his head while he thinking deeply about his next course of action and their potentially possible consequences.

"huh?!..."

[20 hours, 01 minutes, and 20 sec...]

When he hastily looked at the timer he realized more than half an hour had already passed just like that.

"Damn! That's fast...!! So... what kind and how much blood do I have to offer as a sacrifice?"

"Hahahaha!... Even in this situation, you can think calmly... No matter how much I look at it, you didn't look like a kid at all! I have been watching you since the moment you woke up, I saw how you calmly analyzed your situation without flustered. You impressed me!!... I thought you'd run to the nearby church when you heard my voice, but you didn't. You are an interesting one, boy."

Morsan's body flinched slightly upon hearing the Tizona. He recovered his composure before Tizona could notice him.

"If I'm not mistaken, your world is filled with many ferocious creatures known as monsters, right? Since you're still young, I'm willing to accept any kind of monster that has blood. You're fortunate that I have a soft spot in my heart for promising children like you, boy. Therefore, I'm going to lower my requirements temporarily until you become stronger. I'm also willing to teach you the swordsmanship I've created myself. In exchange, you'll have to make a lot more sacrifices in the future. How does that sound?"

After a moment of hesitation, he accepted Tizona's offer. Although he didn't know what "a lot more sacrifices" meant, he decided to take the offer since there was no visible danger for now. He was so confident that he could become a lot stronger when he needed to fulfill his deal in the future.

"I'm counting on you, Tizona!"

"Haha, you will realize how fortuitous our meeting is, in the future."

Once he made a deal with Great Sword Tizona, once again a dark red scratch mark appeared on the back of his right hand. It absorbed a whole great sword before disappearing.

With his new partner Tizona by his side, he headed from his room straight to the southern gate of Castle Town after he stored all of his necessary items including cooking necessities. He bought some fruits and bread on the way for his breakfast.

First, he headed to the territory of Eggug monsters.