The Sword of Destiny

It's a glorious morning, and I'm getting dressed and heading off somewhere in broad daylight.

The stone, well-refined and reborn as a path on the floor, sways as if playing music, and then falls limply like a genius bassist lowering his bow on a violin string.

There can be no moment more pleasant than this.

About five months ago, I asked the Don Quixote family for my new dagger.

The ingredients were also prepared using things that were not readily available.

Idatedium, which is three levels harder than diamond and does not react to anything other than the magic power it recognizes as its master.

And from the centuries, to the ores that are rumored to be hard..

'I've prepared this much, how can I not be excited?'

Suddenly-.

"Don Quixote, come out."

"Oh~~! You're early~!?"

Hazel Don Quixote's workshop is located in the forest near the Don Quixote family home.

'That's why I feel so weak every time I come up like this...'

(The Don Quixote family members spend most of their free time in their personal workshops.)

"You're here."

"Oh, hello, hyung."

Adebite was sitting on a chair right next to Don Quixote, looking at Hayler, as if he had been waiting.

"Some crazy guy was begging me to make him a dagger, so Hazel and I were there helping him out."

(The Adebite family also has expertise in blacksmithing.)

"Oh, you're working hard."

"너 욕하는거야 개새끼야."

As Hayler looked at him, who was flustered, Adebite gritted his teeth and tried to grab the handle of the blacksmith's hammer that was lying next to him, but Don Quixote began to stop Adebite.

"What are you doing!! Hayler is a Marquis, if you touch him you're screwed!!!"

"I don't care if it gets screwed over..!! I'll break that kid's head and send him to prison for murdering a nobleman, or I'll cut his throat, but I'll kill that kid..!!"

"Ugh..."

"Anyway..., you got the result you wanted, so listen to it."

A small one-handed dagger wrapped in an Adebite bandage was held in Hayler's hand.

Sarak——..

When the bandages that had been wrapped around him were removed, a sharp and refined dagger shining in a green light was revealed.

"I've thrown in all the ores and special materials you brought. The basic properties we've confirmed are paralysis and poison. We haven't been able to confirm anything beyond that, so you need to open it."

"Hmm... Okay. Then... shall we begin?"

Idatedium, the ultra-rare mineral used as a material for this dagger, has the characteristic of considering the first person to pour magic into it as their master, and sealing away all other people's abilities and potential without ever revealing them.

'It's literally like fingerprint recognition on a cell phone...'

"...better than using a handle..."

"Huh? What did you say?"

Thump——.

Hayler fiddled with the hilt of the dagger, then gripped the poisoned blade tightly, drawing blood, causing Don Quixote and Adebite's pupils to shake.

"Hey you crazy bastard..!!!"

"Hey hey hey!! Get that hand off me right now!!!"

"Wait a minute, it's going to be fun, right?"

"What.."

As the poison from the dagger spread through the wound where blood began to drip, Adebite shouted and tried to pull the dagger out of Hayler's hand, but made a bewildered expression at Hayler's attempt to stop him.

Clang.

At that moment, the dagger soaked in Hayler's blood began to rapidly absorb the blood that had flowed out, even the blood that had fallen to the floor, as if it was craving Hayler's blood.

"What is this..?"

Adebit and Don Quixote also watched this situation, dumbfounded, as if they were seeing it for the first time.

There was something I thought about as I held this dagger.

Thanks to the dragon heart fed to me by Echidna, whom I had previously misunderstood, pure natural magic has completely melted into my blood and become my own.

What this means is that my entire body is covered in magic.

Clang.

"Wow, you really ate a lot..."

The dagger, which was absorbing all the blood Hayler had shed, showed no signs of slowing down.

Oh, and similar minerals to Iditedium, the ore used to make daggers, can be engraved with magical powers, but there is also a way to engraving them with blood.

'But Idatedium can only be engraved with magic power... But with the dragon heart I ate before, blood engraving became possible..!!'

If only I could discover the special abilities of the Idatedium... now!

Kwaaak..!!

Hayler began to grip the dagger he was holding with a smiling face, and more blood flowed out.

Clang.

He was holding onto himself so tightly that he couldn't even support the dagger, and he absorbed the blood at an even faster rate.

"Ugh..!!!!"

Gugugu...

'Just a little bit...!!! More.!!!!'

Woof———!!!!

'Just a little bit from now on..!!'

Kagakak———.

Thud...

"....Haha.., I've decided. From now on, your name will be named after Destiny..."

Sreung——...

Hayler looked at the silent green dagger blade and sighed softly.

"———<《 Kismet (키즈미) 》> is."