■Dungeon Knife:
A rundown of the knives that met their end during Season 1 through the first half of Season 3.
■Knife Number One
●First Appearance: Wof, 13 Years Old ⑤
●Sacrifice:
The very first knife I owned.
It was cheap, but I'd sharpened it in my own style and used it as a kitchen knife too.
●Cause of Death:
It snapped with a sharp crack when I got distracted.
Some parts of the leather armor I was struggling to remove had metal in them.
The blade caught on it in a weird way, went pop, and that was that.
■Knife Number Two
●First Appearance: Ash Flower (3) — Holy Edge.
●Sacrifice:
I bought this one after the first knife broke.
It looked similar to the previous one.
●Cause of Death:
First, I took the egg container out of my pouch.
Cracked the contents over the blade. The wet knife gleamed as it caught the light.
As a result, it couldn't cut anymore.
■ #3
●First Appearance: The Quiet One ④
●Sacrifice:
The knife I splurged on for 20,000 oro.
●Cause of Death:
Wof accidentally erased it with the Relic [Banish].
■ #4
●First Appearance: Crown of the Wonderland ④
●Sacrifice:
A secondhand knife.
Simple and thick build. A little heavy. Sturdy.
●Cause of Death:
The enemy lunged with a thrust, but I calmly blocked with my knife.
When their blade made contact—my knife's blade was severed.
—!?
No, that's not right. I could tell. It wasn't severed. It was erased.
■ #5
●First Appearance: The Reopened Junkyard (3) — Rend Flesh, Gouge Marrow, Shura's Hunting Hand.
●Sacrifice:
A knife I found in the Junkyard. Some tribe's knife.
A single-edged black blade with a pronounced curve. A round sword guard. It resembled a katana's tsuba in a way.
The grip was smooth white stone. The sheath was hard wood.
●Cause of death:
But Body A twisted its left arm around and used it like a blade.
It swung down mid-charge, and I stepped forward to catch it with the knife.
The moment the two made contact, the knife's blade melted.
■Number 6
●First Appearance: Tassan of the Ring (2)
●Sacrifice:
One of three I bought for 50,000 oro.
A simple knife. Actually, a knife from the Standard series.
●Cause of death:
Piers raised his sword, and I caught it with the knife again—then released it instantly.
With a crunch, the knife that had caught the blade fell, and I leaped away.
I just left the knife where it dropped and forgot about it.
■Number 7:
●First Appearance: Cat and Dog ⑥
●Sacrifice:
The second of the knives I bought for 50,000 oro. A strange knife with a single edge that curved upward.
A bit heavy, but thick and with plenty of power.
●Cause of Death:
Only the hand holding the knife had been encased in ice.
Wh-why!?
—Damn it, why is it only this one?
Seething with irritation, I used Banish. If I didn't hurry, I'd get frostbite.
The ice on my hand and the knife's handle vanished.
The blade fell.
●Resurrection:
After that, Pakira found it and handed it to Wof.
It was reborn as a new double-edged knife.
■Number 8:
●First Appearance: Grave of Death ④ — Yomido's Saturnus. Grave of Death ⑥ — Rest in Peace.
●Sacrifice:
Elixir knife. A knife coated in elixir, turned into an anti-undead weapon.
●Cause of Death:
Used Silent Move during the fight with Saturnus.
The elixir knife had broken. I'll repeat that. The elixir knife had broken.
The elixir knife I'd been gripping so tightly had almost no blade left.
It didn't snap cleanly in two — it broke somewhere in the middle.
It was broken diagonally and heavily from the base. A huge chunk of the blade was simply gone.
■Number 9:
●First appearance: Rank V Delver(1)
●Sacrifice:
Agaro's knife. A wide, long knife with a red blade.
●Cause of death:
The blade wavered in a double flicker, and Riv charged in.
She struck downward while simultaneously blocking with the knife.
A powerful impact and pressure — I felt an odd heaviness in the knife at that moment.
It felt dangerous, and I tried to pull back, but my body wouldn't move.
The blade's wavering came to an abrupt halt.
"Crash Edge."
The knife shattered.
●Resurrection:
A mysterious nanomachine capsule from Riv's belongings.
Placing the knife fragments and Anobtanium inside, it became Agaro's Knife, Mark II.
■Number 10
●First appearance: Arc Lab④
●Sacrifice:
A beat-up knife found under a piece of wood.
●Cause of death:
What's going on here? Well, I guess I have no choice but to believe it for now.
When I walked, I heard a crunching, snapping sound under my feet.
"What is it?"
"What's that?"
I looked down and saw wooden planks. Fragments from wooden crates.
Underneath those fragments was the rusty knife.
It was so worn down that it broke just from being stepped on.
■11th Knife
●First appearance: Prelude(1)
●Sacrifice:
A plain knife picked up from the storage room of the church in the deepest part of the Tomb of Death.
●Cause of death:
A barbecue party at Arc Lab.
A completely ordinary knife from the deepest part of the Tomb of Death, but nothing special about it. Alright. I'll use it then.
The meat was cut thick, so it'd be better to thin it out. I took some width to work with, and the meat looked a bit tough too.
In that case, I'd just swing down in one go.
"Wait up! That meat's got a bone in it!"
With a grinding crunch, the blade bit hard into something solid.
I pulled with all my strength to free it, and at the same time—the knife split diagonally with a sharp crack.
■12th One
●First Appearance: Gentle Hydrangea ⑥ — Dog Searching.
●Sacrifice:
Vermilion-sheathed short blade: a straight blade with a black-lacquered hilt. The hamon pattern was inverted clove.
Double-edged knife: black semicircular guard and pure white hilt.
The double-edged blade had a metal ring fitted to the pommel. It cut well.
●Cause of death:
Startled but acting on instinct, I swung the short blade at Arveld.
"[Crash]"
The short blade shattered.
Standing there dumbfounded, I found Arveld right before my eyes.
Reflexively, I slashed at him with the double-edged knife.
"[Crash]"
The double-edged knife shattered.
■13th One
●First Appearance:
Attendant
⑨ — Training Begins.
●Sacrifice:
Knife Goddess's charm knife: a beautiful knife that looked like pure white feathers.
Souvenir of Breaking 10 Knives.
●Cause of Death:
The Chimera's eyeball is big. Roughly the size of a baseball.
The knife melted when I tried to extract it.
"………"
I had a bad feeling. I really did.
So when I tried to pry behind the eyeball with the Knife Goddess's charm knife—
Globs of dissolving fluid came oozing out of the gap with a hiss and a cloud of smoke, so I pulled the knife back.
The blade was dissolving with a sizzling, smoking sound.
I panicked and tossed it away, and it dissolved completely.
■Number 14
●Debut: Late-Night Festival (3) — Final Battle.
●Sacrifice:
Agaro's Modified Knife: a blade like blue flame.
It rippled like an LCD panel.
It could cut through phenomena and concepts.
●Cause of Death:
Once they closed the distance, they casually swung Sombre Gladius in a way that was so unlike them.
The slash churned black.
I blocked with "Agaro's Modified Knife." The blade vanished in an instant.
"Wait."
The blade tip had vanished, as if tracing an arc.
■Number 15
●First appearance: Late-Night Festival (3) – The Final Battle.
●Sacrifice:
A thick, square knife: when drawn, the handle was warped into a shape like a cleaver.
Housed in a leather sheath, and when pulled out the blade was pitch-black and square.
●Cause of death:
The second black vortex slash cost the knife he'd just bought.
■Number 16
●First appearance: Late-Night Festival (3) – The Final Battle.
●Sacrifice:
A silver cross-shaped knife: something he'd found in a desert dungeon.
●Cause of death:
The third swirling sword slash annihilated the silver cross-shaped knife.
I pray for their eternal rest.