194 5.83 Akai Hane Kodachi Is Born

It was already past midnight, the crickets were chirping in the dark as everyone had gone to bed except for the 3rd shift employees, of course. An owl hooted in the distance and then it was just simply silence that enveloped the whole little town of Kitakata.

I was tossing around on the tatami mat in my room. It's not because of the stifling warm weather, but somehow it is like something that needs to be done.

What needs to be done still? I was literally placing my head on the Takamura, and the next moment I had held it in my arms. Haiyoo... It is like having too much black coffee that couldn't make me sleep at all!

I was literally unable to bring myself sleep and wanted to check on Inuyasha if he is asleep too. I was tossing around on the tatami mat and mumbling to myself in different other languages. Frankly, those were curse words in Mandarin, Hokkien, Thai, Spanish as Tagalog. Hahahha. It is simply too colourful for me to state it here in this chapter though.

"Sensei, are you asleep right now? I can't sleep and there is something bugging me right now and I can't figure out anything about it... Can we talk for a while?"

"Sure kid, I'm a light sleeper so I don't think I have a problem listening to you. What's seems to be on your mind right now? Is the little adventure that we had back in Tokyo seems to be bugging you, especially the Confrontation with Hiten and Manten?"

"I don't know Sensei, it's like I have to do something which I am supposed to do but I don't know what is the issue. Haiyooo... I never had this type of thing before, it is like an unaccomplished mission or task, but there's no clue to it."

"I think you should have a girlfriend of anything... You had told me about it before right? You had about 3 girlfriends in the past life before coming to this era."

"Hahaha... That's not it, Sensei. It's not about getting a girlfriend or something. It wouldn't even change the future or its course of direction at all in having a girlfriend. If I'm not bound to this body and am a teenager, then it would be something else."

"Maybe you should give Izumi a chance. She has the hots for you, and if I were you I wouldn't give up the chance at all."

"She's 18 la Sensei... And I am an 11-year-old kid at this moment. That's a 7 years difference. Hahahaha... "

"Nah... I don't think it would be the case, but as a friend, I think it should be fine, but in a relationship, I don't think it's feasible and workable. Maybe in a few years to come, but not now though."

"I can't help you too, kid. The thing that's bothering you right now seems rather complicated and it seems that you need to do more adventures to get it out of your system."

"Or maybe you need to get hit on the head a few times to wake up the senses in you... Hahahaha. Just like Inuyasha and Shippo. They seemed to get along quite well, even though it may look rather childish to me. But considering their age, and their background, I think Shippo is looking up to Inuyasha as his elder brother."

"I can't say much about Hachi though, he had been assigned to Hoshi-sama, so what little adventure you might have in the future, the 8 of you would be together as the elite team."

"Kikyo and Inuyasha, Sango and Hoshi-sama, Kohaku and Kirara, and lastly Shippo and me. Everyone had their partner, while little Kaede would be in this little town to assist the preparations of herbs and medicine for the villagers here. Sensei would be left here alone with the Execom members and the 6 Plant Managers."

"Don't worry about the operations of Fasuto Japan, it is already in full progress ahead and the funds we had collected are well enough to sustain this whole little town."

"The corporation alone had already succeeded in the trading district by more than half of their output. This bustling little town had already blossomed from a sleepy village right to an influential business and talking point in Japan alone."

"Go right ahead and prepare your little adventures. You may take along some funds with you, we won't mind at all since you need money while your friends might need some financial support along the way too. Just make sure to be safe and write in a note or two to let us know how you beef doing, that's all."

"You're right, Sensei. Maybe along the way, we might be able to get some clues to what my mind had been bothering throughout this night. Let me prepare some homework first and then I'd inform the rest."

"That's great. And now back to sleep. We both had a long day tomorrow and we see if we need to replenish any of the Refined Steel in our warehouse or not. We need to have a constant supply while you're gone."

"Alright Sensei... Have a good night's rest. Sorry to disturb you and we'd see what we can do tomorrow."

+-==The next following day==-+

I wrote some letters for our destinations which would be carried by the messengers from the Messengers Guild in our village. I planned to send the letters first to the prefecture around our little town and targets the smaller town or villages.

I had summoned the rest of the team and asked their opinions of outreaching to the villages with the intended Prefecture. It may be a lot of work, but we need to know the status of each smaller town and villages, instead of blindly barging or wandering around.

I carefully explained to the team that in the meantime, we could just chill around or maybe train to become stronger than we used to be. I gestured Inuyasha over and whispered that I might present him with a Kodachi that would be useful in the future. He liked the idea and asked me what it would look like and u explain it is going to be about 3 foot in length.

He then asked me what he is going to do with a short blade, and I said the most important factor is its uses and not the size of the blade. He nodded and asked me when I would be doing it and I explained that I need to forge one that might take a day or two.

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Once the meeting had concluded with the rest of the team since they knew that the response would come in a few days time and we could compile the severity of it, or organise it by distance.

We then sent the initial letters to Aizuwakamatsu, Yonezawa, Shibata and Tochigi Prefecture. In the letters, we state that we would like to render our assistance to the settlements as well as smaller villages in case of any trouble from Youkai manifestation.

I clearly state that we would be hunting and exterminating any form of youkai that had been harassing peoples lives as well as livestock and plantations. In the letters, we stated that we do not need any payment for our services but merely to assist people to get back in track in their life and daily activities.

After discussing the matter with the Messenger Guild, I was told it would be sent to over 40 villages, while I went and had it duplicated at Recto Shop. I paid slightly over 4 gold coins for the manual duplication and I handed it to the Messenger Guild and paid in gold accordingly.

We went back to our own homes and perform our own individual tasks while waiting for the results to come in. At the meantime, Hiko-sama and I were fervently churning out the Refined Steel in order to raise the capacity in the warehouse and we did manage to get the storekeeper busy once again in making crates and stocking them up.

We had made over 200,000 pieces of Refined Steel Plates that would supply the demand from the Blacksmith Alliance from the Prefecture concerned. With that, Hiko-sama asked me to draw some funds and make it into float cash and I am advised to carry a least a 1,000 gold coins with me.

He showed how he would be able to hide stuff in his sleeve and was told to improvise it with the tailor. I had all my kimono to have a bottomless hidden compartment in my sleeve, just like Hiko-sama did.

Since I would be making trips around the prefecture, I won't be carrying so many good coins with me. So I decided just to carry 2 bundles of gold coins that mounted to 40 altogether. Furthermore, there would be a lot of fruit-bearing trees around and we could forage the forest as well as fish in the rivers to satiate out meals and hunger.

There's plenty of float cash and I told Hiko-sama that it would be solely used to pay the salaries as well as the food supplies for the employees. We checked the float cash and find that we have around 10,000 gold coins safely hidden inside the pottery pieces in the storerooms.

I assured Hiko-sama that we won't be gone long, and most probably would be about a week. I had packed a large tarpaulin in case we would be caught in a rainstorm and could use that as a temporary shelter. Along with the tarpaulin, I packed some rope and a small dagger.

After I had packed it I left the bundle at the corner of my room and I remembered that I had promised Inuyasha something. So I meditated and went into the Realm of Mind and there I visualised a mould for a 3-foot Kodachi. I smelted some iron ire, coal and limestone and removed the slag and impurities.

After I had removed it, I visualised another smelting pot that was lower than the present one and I slowly poured the contents into the new smelting pot. This way I was able to "toast" the Molten steel and further remove any slag and impurities.

I repeated this a few times before I pour it into the mould of a Kodachi. I forced cooled air through it, and after a while, I poured water over it that made it screech loudly as the water hits heated steel.

I removed the piece slowly and submerged it into the water and when I took out, it had taken a form of a 3 foot shaped blade with an extension of 8 inches for the handle. I then visualise the latter smelting pot back to where it comes from and a Blacksmithing tool that I had not been using for a very long time with a 30-pound hammer.

I pumped its bellows and the bed of coals turned red-hot, while the piece of metal that was roughly shaped was also being heated up. I picked it up with a tong and started hammering. This blade is going to be a double-edged Kodachi, which is the same as mine too.

After pounding at it and inserting it into the furnace once more, while repeating the whole process repeatedly for 3 hours, I managed to shape it into the design that I wished for. All I need to do right now is to blade wash it and make a sheath for it.

The blade was a bit uncentred for its balance, and I took a handle and an oval handguard earlier on from the pieces that Hiko-sama had picked in the initial stage while scrounging at the duelling area. After inserting it, I find the blade was equally balanced and it felt comfortable when handling it.

After carefully examining it, I started the pedal powered grinding stone and sprinkled some water on it. The moment the blade touches the grinding stone for the blade washing process, sparks flew magnificently as if it was fireworks. It was a straight-bladed kodachi shaped like a short sword with a short pointed end.

I blade washed it from the middle to make it flat and then on its sides. I turned the blade around and repeated the procedure until u had made its edges very sharp. I kept at it for nearly 1 hour and a half before I stopped and looked at the masterpiece.

"This Kodachi is great but it still needs it's finishing touches. It needs a scabbard and a spiritual binding." I murmured to myself as I held the blade before me horizontally and visualised a plain scabbard with a cavity in the middle just wide enough for the blade to silently insert and withdrawn.

It finally materialises and when I inserted it there was a click sound as if it was locked in place. However, when I withdrew it, it made a long metallic sound, "sheeeeennngggg..." as if it is a sign that whenever this blade is withdrawn, someone is going to get hurt real bad!

I brought it up to the real world after I had logged off from my meditative state. It was almost dinner time and I didn't realise that I had spent a very long in the Realm of Mind.

In my room, I unsheathed the Kodachi and place it on my lap. "Now it is time for me to spiritually bind this for Inuyasha. I hope he can handle its prowess of the Kamehameha, just like he handled the Tessaiga. This blade is also used for those who would be kind to humans and would not be used to hurt others in any way. Right, here goes... "

I meditated and held the Kodachi on both hands as I summoned the energy that's around me to create a Kamehameha that would be slowly imbued and be permanently etched within the blade."

"I summoned a binding for the Kodachi for the wielder to have a kind heart towards human and not to use this to perform evil. The binding would be enhanced with a youkai spiritual strength and would only show its full potential when it's basic criteria is met."

By now the blade was being touched at two ends by just my forefingers and a swirling Kamehameha energy began to evolve and revolve over the blade as my forefingers acted like a magnet in lifting it.

I finished my meditation and the binding of the Kamehameha and looked at the blade that had been resting in my lap. The blade had turned red, as red as the Robe of the Fire Rat Inuyasha was wearing. It looked pretty harmless right now.

I carried it outside the house after inserting the Kodachi back into its sheath. Time for me to put it to test. I pulled the Kodachi out by its handle and the "sheeeennngggggg" metallic sound was heard when I pulled it out.

The blade was still in red colour and I held it in my hands like I'm holding a kendo stick and then it suddenly burst into flames and the flames were steady and were not hot to the wielder.

The flames encircled the Kodachi and when my mind said "OFF", the flames that slowly extinguished and the blade was cool to the touch. It was as if the flames were non-existent.

This is great! Time to call the others to present this Kodachi to Inuyasha. I got a messenger to pass a message to Miko-sama to pass the message to the rest of the elite team to gather for dinner and also for a surprise.