Cursed Broadsword, Tsujigiri

**Cursed Broadsword, Tsujigiri** is the cursed broadsword that Kurono obtained when he exterminated the goblins near the Fountain of Light along with Lily.

## Appearance

Its appearance is described as a big broadsword that is black from the tip of the blade till the pommel and appears to be extremely sharp and releases a dark sinister aura similar to a Black Magician's black magic power.

## Personality

As a part of "her" curse, "she" desires to cut living beings and absorb their blood. "She" also seems to hate cutting creatures without blood like Skeletons but shows an intense liking to the blood of powerful living creatures, particularly Apostles.

"She" believes that if its wielder is sad, in pain, or hates someone, its wielder should just kill them cruelly and gruesomely without any hesitation, mercy, and compassion.

"She" can also be quite moody whenever Kurono left "her", literally flying into him after being separated from him for a long time and does not allow anyone else aside from Kurono to touch "her".

## History

A long time ago there was a beautiful girl living in a remote village. Not only was she beautiful but also smart and talented, being learned in medicinal knowledge and talented for swordsmanship. Yet she possessed a calm and gentle personality, as the daughter of chief of the village she was always at the center of attention and was loved by all. She was the very picture of the ideal girl.
She was content with her life and didn't held any particular dissatisfaction towards her engagement to the strongest warrior in the village.

One day a young magician came to the village after accepting a quest to defeat a powerful monster that had started appearing in the area, despite being a rookie as a magician the boy burning with a sense of justice accepted this quest with mismatched risk and reward where no one else would feeling it to be his mission. Thus the boy went to the mountain to exterminate the monster together with the warriors of the village.

But the monster was not only powerful but also cunning, using a pack of small monsters it commanded it launched a surprise attack on the boy the warriors. Due to the surprise attack the warriors were routed and the boy escaped to the village barely alive after not being able to attack not even once due to having his chanting by the small monsters.

The boy was healed by the girl who had medicinal knowledge but at the time her feelings were almost identical to the disappointment of all other villagers at this unsightly result. The boy’s injuries were healed but he had completely lost the confidence of the village.
But even so he didn’t give up. Undaunted by this defeat and despite not getting any cooperation at all from the villagers the boy went to the mountain alone to once again attempt to exterminate the monster. Naturally, he was unable to defeat the pack of monsters and returned to the village injured. The girl once again healed the boy and the villagers again scorned the boy for his unsightly performance.

And yet the boy didn’t give up on defeating the monster and saving the village. After his injuries were healed he went to the mountain once again. And thus he repeated this cycle of being defeated, healed the girl and once again challenged the monster countless times.
The boy gradually gained strength in his battles against the monster and steadily whittled down the number of small monsters. But the boss monster remained undamaged and from the point of view of the villagers he accomplished nothing and so their confidence in him wasn’t restored. But the girl who healed him every time he returned injured started to have a better opinion of the magician boy who refused to give up.

One day after healing the boy once again she brought a hatchet with her and asked him to bring her as well to fight the monster, at first the boy refused but she rebutted his refusals saying she also wanted to fight to save the village, that she was confident in her skills with the sword, that the village head wouldn't find out because she brought a hatchet not the sword and so on until the boy gave in to the girl’s enthusiasm.

However, by this time she was strongly attracted to the boy and just wanted to help him. The village was just an afterthought.
With the help of the girl his combat power greatly increased and the two of them steadily drove the monster into a corner and after exterminating the pack of small monsters they confronted the boss monster to a last battle. After a fierce battle that lasted a whole day they finally succeeded in defeating the monster.

The boy was happy because he finally saved the village however the girl was happy just because the boy was happy. By this time the girl was so madly in love that she could think of nothing else but the boy, and everything else seemed worthless. The days she had spent fighting with the boy had been the most fulfilling of the girl's life.

The two returned to the village and told them the monster had at long last been defeated. However, the villagers scorned and looked down on the boy to the point of no return and just complained saying it was too late, they also had been angry at the boy for involving the girl in a dangerous battle and drove him away from the village. Hearing the boy's sad words of apology the girl snapped and the villagers become as enemies more unforgivable than the monster to her for hurting the boy’s feelings.

She then slaughtered all the villagers starting with her father and fiance using the hatchet that had been strengthened from the boy's magic and the slight magical energy from all the monster it butchered.

It became cursed after the girl massacred all of the villagers and the youth that she loved.

## Abilities

As a named cursed weapon, it is comparable to high-quality magic weapons. It is sharp enough to easily slice a goblin's head like butter, cut wooden sticks that Kurono enhanced using Blackening which is durable enough to not be cut by ordinary weapons, split Kurono's shield halfway through, and durable enough to easily withstand Kurono's magic bullets at the time without being damaged. When enhanced with Blackening, it becomes capable of bisecting a Dagger Raptor and low-rank defense magic into two without any resistance and easily slicing an iron plate and chainmail like paper and durable enough to easily withstand Sariel's Sagita that is capable of easily breaking Kurono's shield at the time and withstand an attack from a spear materialized by Sariel using her White Magic, with Sariel noting it to be quite hard. It also has the function of giving the user knowledge on how to skillfully wield the broadsword even without having trained how to use it. As a Cursed Item, it is capable of absorbing the blood of its victims to use it as a catalyst for it to evolve and become more powerful, changing its shape and name along with it.

* **Berserk** (狂化 (バサーク), lit. "Mad Influence"): A Bad Status that the broadsword inflicts on its wielder as its curse. It greatly enhances all of the user's physical abilities and removes their ability to feel pain in exchange for driving the wielder mad. Whenever the user is in a Berserk state, their eyes gleams in a red light. Because Kurono uses Blackening on the broadsword, this doesn't normally affect Kurono.