「Like I said, it was stuck. The 'Hero’s Sword’ was stuck into the bottom of the pool—and pretty deeply, at that.」

Kumagawa-kun used gestures to demonstrate—he laid one hand flat to represent the bottom of the pool, and used the other hand’s index finger to stab it in between the first hand’s fingers.

「—So it was stuck into it like this.」

“Stuck into it… So it wasn’t that the 'Hero’s Sword’ was put in a scabbard and placed into the pool, but that it was actually stabbed into the concrete?”

「That’s right. From what I could see, about half of the blade was buried in the concrete. I couldn’t spot a scabbard at all—it’s pretty likely that the scabbard was never 'established’ in the first place.」

“And the reason you were empty-handed… That was because you couldn’t pull out the sword?”

「Don’t make it sound like I’m some kind of weakling. It’s just impossible, doing something like that.」


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