301- Black Blade!

Ethan didn't care about the pirates leaving the island and picked up the Ōdachi he had thrown earlier and then looked at Egginhard., "Don't worry I won't kill you!"

Although he felt relieved that he was not going to die, he raised his head and looked at Ethan cautiously.

At this moment, Emma and Shakky approached Ethan.

"Arthur-sama, you were great!" Shakky quickly approached with shiny eyes. She realizes that there is a stranger near Ethan so she does not address him by name.

Emma had a beautiful smile holding her daughter but as she looked at Ethan she noticed that the Ōdachi blade was black causing her to open her eyes in shock because she was sure that this blade was white and also Ethan was not using Armament Haki at this moment.

Emma gestured to the Ōdachi and said in surprise, "The Ōdachi has become a black blade!"

Egginhard who was looking at Ethan cautiously around his eyes toward the Ōdachi after hearing Emma then rubbed his eyes in disbelief. "Impossible! How could this happen?"

"Yes, I turned this blade into a black blade." A proud smile appeared on Ethan's face as he raised his Ōdachi to look at the black blade.

"Arthur-sama is an amazing person who can do anything." Shakky doesn't know what the meaning of the black blade is, but she knows from the expressions of Emma and Egginhard that what Ethan has done is unbelievable.

"what do you mean?" Ethan was talking as if he could turn any sword into a black blade which made Egginhard feel that his hearing was impaired due to the battle. "The sword blade can only turn black after fighting countless battles, but the Ōdachi in your hand looks completely new and not many battles have been fought with it and it's also just an ordinary nameless sword."

"What you say is not wrong!" Ethan's smile widened as he put the sword back into the scabbard, "But I discovered something interesting."

"If you want a sword blade to turn black, there are certain conditions for that. First, the sword must be of exceptional quality. Second, the sword bearer must have very high skills in swordsmanship and haki."

"The third and final step is that one must fight many battles with the sword in order to strengthen the bonding between the user's will and the weapon's will."

"When the user reaches a certain level of bonding with the weapon's will, the blade will turn black."

Ethan laughed lightly while covering his eyes with his palm, "At first I thought that to turn the blade of the sword black, the haki must be pumped into the weapon for long periods and after many battles, the weapon will become saturated with haki, which will turn it into a black blade."

"But this concept is wrong, no matter how strong a person uses an Armament Haki and no matter how long they use it on a particular sword, it will never turn into a black blade."

Although Armament Haki is one of the prerequisites for a blade to turn into a black blade, using only Armament Haki will not make the blade turn into a black blade.

Egginhard listened to Ethan silently and then slammed Ethan, "You are contradicting yourself, the Ōdachi in your hand is not a sword of exceptional quality which means that the first condition is not met."

"Although the second condition is fulfilled, the third condition has not been fulfilled either. You only had one battle with this sword!"

Ethan chuckled, "I just have great talent so I can bond with Sword Will very easily. As for why I can turn this ordinary blade into a black blade, it also depends on will."

Emma's eyes sparkled as if she had realized what Ethan was saying, "Everything in this world contains a will, even inanimate things like rocks."

"But for a sword, the higher its quality, the stronger will be its will, which makes the will easier to feel."

"You're right! As expected of my dear Emma." Ethan wrapped his hand around her waist and gave her a quick kiss on the lips and then said, "But the stronger the sword will, the harder it will be to bond so it will be rare to see a black blade."

"There are currently four known grades of Meito. Supreme Grade, of which there are 12; Great Grade, of which there are 21; Skillful Grade of which there are 50; and Grade, of which there is a currently unknown number."

"For Grade Blades, the percentage of someone being able to turn the blade into a black blade will be greater than Skillful Grade Blades, and The success rate will decrease as the quality of the Meito becomes higher."

"Probably, Yoru, the strongest sword in the world was Great Grade Blades before it turned into a black blade."

"But now I am wondering if a grade above Supreme Grade Blades will be created if Ace or Murakumogiri is turned into a Black Blade."

Egginhard gritted his teeth, "Are you saying you had the talent to sense a weak sword will and then bonded with it so easily?"

"You're wrong. I did something different." Ethan waited a moment and then spoke, "I destroyed the will of the sword!"

"NANI?!!!" Emma and Egginhard both opened their mouths wide while looking at Ethan in disbelief.

Ethan was satisfied with Emma and Egginhard's expressions, "Yes I did and then I planted my will inside the sword instead."

Ethan could have made his will linked to the will of the sword but he only wanted to test what would happen if the will of the sword was destroyed and replaced.

Although there was a high possibility that it would destroy the sword but Ethan didn't care because the sword he used was just an ordinary sword he had just borrowed and nothing important.

After Ethan finished his explanation, he looked at Egginhard with a gentle smile, "Now let's talk about what will happen to you from now on."

For some reason Ethan's gentle smile didn't make him feel comfortable but it did make him nervous, "You said earlier that you didn't want to kill me, did you? What do you want from me?"

Ethan ignored Egginhard for a moment and took his daughter by Emma and kissed her forehead and then looked at Egginhard with a sly smile. "Your race is on the verge of extinction. Have you ever thought about reviving your race?"

As if he understood what Ethan wanted, he started screaming, "I'm not going to have sex with women who aren't of my race."

If he does, the offspring are just hybrids and their offspring will weaken over time. But he does not think about this that, in fact, he had already tried and had sex with many women but to no avail none of them got pregnant and then later found out that he was sterile.

"Looks like you misunderstood me." A smile widened on Ethan's face, "I didn't mention anything about sex with women because I have another good way to get your clan back."

"It's just that this is very painful, especially because you're a man." Ethan sighed and patted Egginhard's shoulder, "But you have to put up with all this in order to revive your race that is about to be extinct."

Egginhard doesn't understand what Ethan is trying to do but feels bad, "I have no desire to revive my race. I decline your offer."

"I'm not asking you to, but I will force you to have children." Ethan chuckled and then looked at Egginhard sharply, "This is also your punishment for trying to kill me."

Ethan took out a bottle with a strange liquid inside and looked at Eigenhard with a sly smile, "This liquid can make any woman pregnant within moments, but it has not been tested on males before. I wonder, will a uterus be created in you after drinking this?"

Although he didn't understand most of what Ethan said, he knew that Ethan wanted to make it a guinea pig, so he tried to escape quickly, but Ethan caught him.

"WAIT, I DON'T WANT THIS!"

"DON'T DON'T!"

"AAAAAAA!!!"