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Don't mess with this umbrella!

Is this the sound thread?

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Looking up from the designs she set them aside for a moment and picked another request from her pile at random.
It was a bulk order of small swords, axes, shields and spears for the other magician, miss Alice.
She always made such big orders for her dolls and gave intricate instructions for cute little designs for each weapon.
Some of the swords had a straight edge with decorated handguards while others were curved or with engravings on the blade itself.
Axes ranged from two handed and one handed hacking axes to even throwing axes with markings on both the shaft and blade.
Each shield seemed to have a design of miss Alice's own making, some of them seemed to tell entire tales by themselves and some deigns were downright terrifying. Kogasa made sure to note down the scary ones for her own research.
Spears were also similarly ornate with markings and illustrations along the shaft while the ends of the spears were mostly all the same with a few of them having extra pointy bits where the shaft and blade met.
It was a lot of work to get all these complex designs into the small weapons, but Kogasa liked this order.
She would imagine the legendary battles the dolls would get into using these mighty weapons when miss Alice next gave one of her puppet performances in the village.
Kogasa had once asked if the weapons really needed to be so deadly if all they were used for were performances.
Miss Alice had responded that the real sound of metal on metal was needed to provide a suitably realistic atmosphere for her plays.
Kogasa couldn't turn down such an earnest request and was smiling already just thinking of making all these tiny weapons.
As this was a regular order Kogasa had already gotten her payment of cloths and silk in multitude of colors.

With that Kogasa decided the third order to work on would have to be the large nata she had gotten from the kind old granny.
She had promised Kogasa plenty of freshly cut meat in return for polishing and repairing her old nata.
Normally the granny apparently did this herself, but she had a run of bad luck and managed to break the nata bad enough that a proper blacksmith was needed.
It was rather obvious that the meat cutter had instead been used as a blunt object against something hard as it had been bent completely out of shape.
Kogasa had asked the nata for more details, but all she had gotten for answers were vague statements about pesky crows and a misplaced rock getting in her way.
With that Kogasa had decided not to pry too much and to get the nata back into tip top shape.
Kogasa wasn't sure where miss granny lived however, maybe she could ask Aya when she next visited since she seemed to know everyone.

With the orders set aside Kogasa stood up and had her umbrella start preparing the forge.
It seemed her forge would burn brightly for a while with all this metalwork ahead of her
As she waited for the heat to rise she gave a last look at Pick and Spade and told them to sit tight, she would make sure they would be fit for fighting dragons in no time!

I want to see more of blacksmith Kogasa.

Kogasa is a hardworking youkai and a friend to humans.
Please treat her nicely and do not bully her.