>>5965499"What about my cat?!" You are terrified at the thought of Kizaemon fading away into nothingness.
"Ah, do not worry. Avalon has embraced the Relic creature; she speaks! Proof of Avalon's touch and that she's gone widdershin. Speaking of Relics, I have your Tee Bool. It's lasted a night, so it appears to be a proper Relic." Your guide produces from his extra-dimensional pack the Oribe-yaki tea bowl. It hasn't faded away. "Oh, and I have this too!"
The guide brings out a black lacquered mempo face guard. It has to be the one from your house. It has transformed.
"I didn't tell you to steal this," you sigh with annoyance and take the piece of armor into your hands to look at it. The face mask has horns on it instead of a mustache.
"Meep. But you have no harness on your back, Your Majesty. I thought it wise to take it."
'Harness'? Wait, does that mean armour? Well, you can't really argue about that. Gawain gets super cool-looking Knight armor as a magical girl, but you don't? It's an injustice. You place the mask over your face and note that it is a perfect fit. Another clear sign that Avalon has modified it, this armored mask was originally made for an adult man and was too big to fit. You set it aside; you have a Mana Reaper to summon.
Or so you had hoped. The lessons in summoning your Mana Reaper have been an exercise in futility. You burn the daylight hours fruitlessly, attempting to reach within to grasp it until the evening hours. Your frustration at the slow progress is enough for Yatagarasu to suggest an alternative.
"Mayhap we shall have to go to the Sickle Tree to pick a Reaper tool."
For a moment, you imagine a tree with many branches bearing upside-down sickles like ripe fruit. Surely, you heard wrong.
A Sickle Tree?
It sounds ridiculous, but then Yatagarasu takes you just outside the walls of Camelot to show you the tree in question. It literally is a tree, and it has kama sickles pinned all over the knotty bark blade first. Some of these kama sickles look very new, and others are rusty to the point of deterioration. You boggle at the sight of it and take a moment to circle around the tree to see it from all sides. There are at least five of these sickles driven into the tree, and there's a small wooden sign with 'Kamahachiman' written in Japanese. Wait, why is there Japanese writing?!
"Tell me, what is this tree?" You ask Yatagarasu, who begins to pull out the farming implements.
"The Sickle Tree, of course. We harvest sickles from them. Sometimes we reuse the sickles, but other times we melt down the metal and reuse them for other purposes. There's also the Iron Caves, the various Stone Trees, and such."
"This tree is the Kamahachiman altar. The sign literally says that. Sanada Yukimura prayed to Hachiman and.... Wait, can anyone read Japanese?"