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After the morning assembly ended, there was a brief break.
Ellen and I headed to Mr. Effenhauser’s private room, ignoring the curious glances from our peers that seemed to ask, “What on earth did they do?”
“The Temple has created an environment in which the sword cannot exert its power, and the sword is currently being researched thoroughly by multiple mages,” he said.
The Temple was being extremely cautious to ensure the curse from the sword could not affect anything else.
“To put it simply, the sword still currently belongs to you, but there is a high likelihood that it might not remain so,” Mr. Effenhauser said.
The Temple was essentially appraising my item on my behalf. The reason why they might not acknowledge my ownership of it any longer was if the item was so dangerous that no individual would be allowed to possess it.
I understood the reasoning behind this, since the sword had decimated an entire village and had raised the dead in a large area around it as zombies.
Still, this item had not appeared in the original story. If we had not resolved the incident of the cursed sword, someone else would have eventually taken care of it. Although the cursed sword was dangerous, we had managed to handle it ourselves. If someone more skilled than us had been brought in, they would have found a way to resolve the situation somehow.
Of course, there were many complex layers to the situation, but I did not feel that it was a situation that no one else but us could have resolved.
It felt like we had just resolved an issue that would have...
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