Ten Years to Sharpen a Sword

Listen to Adventurer [117293|Ishlar Jyaa's] Concerns

Sigh...

In my many years of adventuring, I spent ten full years collecting materials and grinding away, finally making this precious sword. Look, the light reflected from its blade can drive back a monster, not to mention what the blade itself can do to them. However, it has brought me some other concerns...

Let me put it this way. If you can kill a monster with only one slash, or scare it away, you would get no real sense of battle, neither could you improve yourself. Therefore, in the battle with the pirates, even though they are guilty of the most heinous crimes, I didn't want to kill them immediately, hoping I could have chance to capture them alive, but...

Now I can only leave the sword at home, so it won't get me in trouble. But if so, why did I spend 10 years of my life on it?