[ Is the stabbing really accidental if you want to do it? Put your heart into it, kid. Stab him because you want to. ]

Enough for you to not be excited that someone's telling you the tool's making your work sloppy. [ You can and should be proud of your work. That blunt tone from earlier is still there: evidenced by his plain refusal of the New Age practitioner's tools, and the unhindered compliments for the parts of her work he does approve of, artifice just isn't his nature. ] I made swords my whole life. Nobody ever complains that my blades aren't sharp.

[ And one day, he'll forge a sword that can cut anything. Musashi already cut through the void with his blade... but that might have been more on the merit of her swordplay than his blade. He can make something better, surely. A sword that splits karma, severs destiny, cuts through fate itself. He just needs a hot enough fire and the right materials. ]