[...]

Insightful as always. [quietly. it's true. dedicating yourself to this one thing for the entirety of your life, ever since you were a child, makes it nearly impossible to envision a life without it.] I was a blacksmith's apprentice first. Long before I dared call myself a proper swordsman. If my master will still have me, I do think I would like to return to his workshop.

[a bit of fondness, mixed in with something bittersweet. the forge is still home, but it's also a matter of whether or not mizu still has a place there after everything is said and done.]

... Very well. In the meantime, know that I expect to hear stories of your nation when we meet again in our next afterlife.