Chapter 723 Two Black Swords
Vic and Kuina walked out of Isshin Dojo and did not rush to Kozaburo in any shocking way.
As soon as the two men left, a chattering of inquiries was heard in the dojo. When the master, apprentice, father and daughter met just now, there were quite a few disciples watching. The two men had such a good image and temperament that they were obviously the strongest among the strong.
They didn't expect that these two people, one was their senior brother, and the other was the daughter of the gym owner, that is, their senior sister. For the ordinary kendo gym located next to a small village, this was already big news.
They were naturally most interested in the disciples who walked out of the gym, otherwise there wouldn't have been so many people who admired and imitated Zoro when they saw him in newspapers and wanted to imitate him.
Therefore, they were particularly curious about the two people who looked strong at first glance. Vic started his apprenticeship very early, and these disciples didn't even know that Vic came from the kendo gym.
Although Kuina is very powerful now, she is practicing swordsmanship with Victor and is not very famous in the Grand Line. As for the remote East China Sea, information is even more isolated.
In recent times, Morgans' Seagull team has expanded, which has increased the size of the newspaper and included ordinary people from all over the world in the client list, but the previous news can no longer be called news. In addition, Vic is low-key and dormant, and his photos will not appear in the newspaper, so these little brats don't know Vic and Guina.
Ignoring the chatter in the dojo, Vic and Kuina headed towards the blacksmith shop in the deep forest. They had walked this road so many times that they could reach their destination even with their eyes closed.
Before the two of them even arrived there, they heard the clanging sound of iron hammering. It was true that Kozaburo loved this line of work so deeply that he couldn't let it go even at such an old age. Could it be that he still wanted to forge an unrivaled sword in his lifetime?
With Vic's current strength and countless intelligence, it is difficult to collect top-level forging metals. Those top-level metals are really used less and less. In the past, many mediocre swordsmiths wasted a lot of top-level forging materials.
As for the place with many top-level metals that Alan mentioned last time, Vic has never found it. It is really difficult to find it because the information is unclear. There are too many strange islands on the Grand Line, and it is a place that is difficult for ordinary people to reach. It is difficult for a team to find it, so Vic can only find it by himself.
"Grandpa! I'm back to see you!"
When Kuina came to the blacksmith shop, she was obviously in a more relaxed mood. Vic could clearly sense that Koshiro's words still had a great impact on Kuina. Even though she was now a super strong man in kendo, she still couldn't let it go!
It will be difficult to untie this knot in a short time unless she becomes the new world's number one swordsman. Wick also wants there to be no barriers between the father and daughter, but Kuina is now determined and it is not so easy to change her mind, so she can only do it slowly.
"Who is this? Whose little girl is lost in the forest? We need to send her back quickly. Since Vic left, there have been many more ferocious beasts in the forest. It's too dangerous to let a little girl walk through the forest alone. We need to send her back!"
Hearing the unfamiliar girl's voice, Kozaburo quickly put down the work in his hands, and walked out of the blacksmith shop muttering to himself with a worried look on his face. He never thought that it would be his own granddaughter who came back.
A girl's voice will change as she grows up, and it is normal for him to be called grandpa at his age. However, when Kozaburo walked out of the blacksmith shop, he was stunned. A very familiar smiling face and a somewhat familiar pretty face appeared in front of him.
In an instant, Kozaburo remembered whose face that somewhat familiar belonged to, and then he froze in place. The surprise came too suddenly, and his old body couldn't react.
"Grandpa! I'm back to see you!"
Kuina was also very excited. She rushed over and hugged Kozaburo. Tears finally rolled out of her eyes. When she left her father and grandfather, she was only 11 years old and was still an innocent little girl. She had been away for ten years. How could she not miss her relatives?
It was Kuina's inner determination that caused any other girl to cry and shout to go home, but now that she saw her close grandfather, she finally showed her little girl's attitude.
"Guina! Vic! You finally came back to see me. I thought I would never see you again in this life!"
There were also tears in Kozaburo's eyes. The closeness between grandparents is not just talk. Kozaburo may not like his son Koshiro very much, but he definitely likes Kuina.
If Kuina died like in the original text, Kozaburo would definitely be heartbroken, but he would not have any other thoughts about it. When a person dies, he is dead!
But now Kosaburo knows that Kuina is still alive, but they were still separated for ten years. The longing for her has already piled up like a mountain, and he even has some resentment towards Koshiro, the one who started it.
If it weren't for Koshiro's thoughts, Kuina wouldn't have followed Vic to leave Shimotsuki Village to prove herself. Seeing the grown-up Kuina, Koshiro couldn't help crying anymore. He patted Kuina's back while crying. How could this be a swordsmith? More like an old man who longed for family affection.
It took Kozaburo a long while to calm himself down. He let go of Kuina in his arms, covered his face and wiped away the tears. When he put down his arms that were covering his face, one could still see a trace of embarrassment on his face. It is easy to be emotional when you get older, and it is even more so when facing your own granddaughter.
"Brother! Let's go back to the gym. Kuina finally comes back. Let's have a good time together. Her father is waiting for her."
Vic saw a hint of embarrassment on Koshiro's face and quickly changed the subject, saying that the old man looked a little embarrassed for showing his emotions, which made him look cute, but they couldn't waste time here any longer, as Koshiro was still waiting at the gym.
"Yes! Grandpa! Let's go back to the dojo. I will be staying at the dojo these days, so you can stay there too!"
Kuina also said that she heard from her father that her grandfather was still forging swords at this age, and she didn't want her grandfather to work so hard. She would live in the dojo these days and could find a reason to let her grandfather have a good rest for a few days.
"Vic! Your knife!"
However, Kozaburo seemed to be distracted by something at this moment and did not hear his granddaughter's words at all. He quickly rushed to Vic, staring at the two knives on Vic's waist, with an excited look on his face, and asked Vic with some uncertainty.
"Yes, it's what you think!"
Vic drew out Blood Ku and Allen from his waist and handed them to Kosaburo. Kosaburo stretched out his hands and took the double swords with some trembling. With a serious look on his face, he placed his right hand on the hilt of the dragon-shaped sword, hesitating, not knowing whether he should draw out the blade to see if there was the ultimate goal that the swordsmith longed for.
Although the ultimate goal of a swordsmith is to forge a supreme sword, in the eyes of those swordsmiths who have forged a supreme sword, the black sword is their secret ultimate goal.
Because the number of black swords is even less than that of the Supreme Sword, and they are indestructible and can be passed down forever. They are also the weapons that swordsmiths want to make but can never make. They can only rely on those powerful swordsmen to help them realize their dreams!
You have to know that the Black Sword Shusui is a sword that is regarded as a national treasure of Wano Country. So for a heir of Wano Country's swordsmithing family like Kozaburo, he is naturally very excited. Although these two swords were not made by him personally, he was the one who taught Vic the swordsmithing skills, so the emotion is naturally different.
"Sure enough...it's a black knife! And...two of them! This...this...is so rare!"
Kozaburo finally pulled out the blades of the two knives. He was so excited when he saw the black knives with the familiar blade patterns on them!
Wano Country is a country with a tradition of black swords, but even in such a country, there is only one black sword, Ryoma's Shusui, for so many years. You can imagine how rare black swords are. Now he has two in his hands, how can he not be excited? Fortunately, his body was treated by Vic, otherwise he would really faint.