Melsa put a stem of an Over on the table. She had brought it back as material from Imperial Japan. The sound of something heavy hitting the table was supposedly something which was impossible to have come from a plant, despite that plant being a monster.
William picked up the Overâs stem from the table and observed it.
âItâs very light despite how hard it is⊠The stemâs structure is similar to bamboo, isnât it?â
The stem of Over was hollow on the inside and had nodes with even spaces. Under the weight of the seeds and leaves, the stem gradually grew supple until the seeds were ready for germination. Then, when they were ready for germination, the leaves, which act as weights, would fall off the stem at once, causing the stem that had been bent to its limit to recoil and scatter Overâs seeds in the process.
The scattered seeds had the same attack power as a catapult, and their landing would create an impact which would crush any foreign objects standing in the way of its germination. Roofs could easily be destroyed by the flying seeds.
âHow was this stem cut? Every part of Over is hard and should have been impossible to cut.â
William asked Melsa as he looked at the stem that had been cut to a transportable size.
The dreadful thing about Over was how it couldnât be cut down. Even so, a cut Over was now there before his eyes.
âThis is the Over that was cut with one of the national treasure swords of Imperial Japan⊠Itâs a katana made by a man named Nagasone Okisato(?), or so I heard. Imperial Japan keeps several first-rate swords as their national treasure, and some of those swordsâ blades were able to pierce through Over.â
Nagasone⊠OkisatoâŠ?! Emma, a.k.a Minato, a history nerd in her past life, suddenly stood up and exclaimed, âM-Mother!!! Isnât that Kotetsu?!â
âKotetsu?â
âMother, who else can it be? What other katanas do they have? Masamune? Muramasa? Kanemitsu???â
[T/N 1: They are all the names of Japanâs famous swordsmiths. Nagasone Okisato and Kotetsu are the same person (Okisato is his birth name, and Kotetsu is his Buddhist name)]
The family only tilted their heads in confusion in response to Emmaâs enthusiasm. No one seemed to 100% remember their previous lives after all.
âI wonder what the other katanas were called? They didnât say⊠But they told me that the katana went blunt after slashing through Over once, you know?â
Imperial Japan gave Melsa all the information about Over, but they didnât tell her the names of each katana that cut it.
âHow wasteful!!! What a waste of Kotetsu!!!â
Only Emma received a shock upon hearing Melsaâs words.
âSo I guess this Kotetsu(?) thing Emma was talkinâ about is a Japanese katana with super cutting powers? If thatâs so, wouldnât it all be resolved if they made a lot of those super cutting katanas and cut Over downâŠ?â
âAllâs good if they can cut Over, no?â George added again.
âNii-sama⊠How can a first-rate katana on the level of a national treasure be made so easily? Also, you heard Mother say that it would turn useless after one slash, right? âŠYou will probably need a certain amount of skill to use that kind of katana too⊠So even if they can cut Over, I think they can only clear out several trunks.â
âThink for a moment before you speak, please.â Emma frowned at her older brother.
âBut hey, knowing that it can be cut is also a fruitful discovery, you know, Emma?â
ââŠThatâs true. But Father? The Kingdomâs swords probably canât cut through it, and almost all of Imperial Japanâs national treasures have gone blunt. If Overâs propagation has covered half of Imperial Japanâs land⊠Even cutting it will be a little difficult, no?â