26. Apology, Sword, Rembrandt's Dark Side & Past and Registration as Merchant Complete

After healing Lime's men they were sent back and the next few days after that were filled with Lime Latte apologizing to Rembrandt while Rembrandt keeps sending him away, and finally gives in even though he wants revenge for what happened to his wife and daughters but didn't since he knows that Lime didn't know the fact that the shaman didn't do according to their agreement.

In the end Rembrandt gave Lime 'limitations' as punishment making sure he won't do something messy next time.

As Tomoe is on her way to deliver the sword as replacement for Lime's broken one she remembers the past during when the dwarves were just starting to create a prototype katana.

[flashback]

" You need more than the memories to make it?" her Master asks while drinking tea and eating sweets.

" The dwarves were complaining that there wasn't enough reference Master, so is there any way you can help?" she asks hoping to get a positive answer.

Her Master surely didn't disappoint her as she answered, " I have three katanas to with different qualities, two were made by a swordsmith in the past and one made by me."

her Master opened an eye-shaped portal and three katanas were laid out in front of Tomoe's shining eyes, she was about to speak but her Master cut her off " You will not use them as your weapon, these are memento from a very distant past, I don't want the few remaining objects of my past to be broken."

Tomoe has no choice but to trust in the dwarves crafting abilities to make a katana for her and instead asks her Master about the history of each one of them.

Her Master paused for a while and then started to tell her about the first and second katana, " The first one was made by the swordsmith when he was young, the quality is barely good but it was proof of his efforts that time. Decades past by and the young swordsmith become old master swordsmith, the second katana in the middle is his best work and he named it Amenoma Kageuchi. It was made by a Samurai's request to him, the man wants to defeat a Tengu with this sword. I do not know if that Samurai succeeded to do so, but I know that this sword was made by that swordsmith during his peak. The last one was made by me and I named it Mistsplitter, during my time when I was just a warrior training to get stronger. I also made another one of this and gave it to a mortal who proved his skills in the sword as worthy, I heard it was broken and had to be reforged."

she was fascinated by the tale of her Master's past and she chose to take the first two and said, " I will only take this two Master, the dwarves may take a long time ogling at the Mistsplitter than making a katana. I'll be going now".

[flashback ends]

When Tomoe reached the guild she heard that Lime decided to quit and went out to find him. She found him at a hill with a tree on top while looking at the orphanage that he cares about, told her about the problems orphan turned to adventurers had with their lacking education and proper basic skills training. Tomoe gave the katana to him as he stares at the sword with awe, and she decides to take in Lime to work for her as a spy for now as she needs to train him some more to be presentable enough in front of her Master.

After that she surprised Rembrandt's butler Mr. Moris as she decides to look at both master and his butler's memories and her face turned serious about what she was able to find from their memories.

When she came back she asks Ei, " Master, are you already aware about that Rembrandt guy?"

Ei who was meditating answers, " Yes Tomoe, a powerful merchant like him are bound to have one or more skeletons in his closet. As long as he doesn't cross the line then I will do nothing, and I am sure he himself won't do so after being aware of mine and both you and Mio's adventurer lvl. Anyways Tomoe, you and Mio will be my representative for our Narukami company. Mio will take care of the paperwork and you are in charge of the rest, understood?"

Both Tomoe and Mio nodded.