Beast Axe

Beast Axe is a weapon in SINoALICE.

Weapon Story
The king of a frontier country that had been suffering chronic food shortages underwent dramatic reform with a wise prime minister. The idea was to fell a large forest that occupied about 20% of the kingdom and convert the whole area into agricultural land.

The king went to those who lived in the forest and explained his deforestation plan to them. Each person reacted differently. But the king sincerely listened to all of their feedback and demonstrated that he understood how the common folk felt. Among them, one lumberjack stubbornly refused to leave.

The woodsman was a respected holy man, said to communicate with all manner of beasts. The king's minister warned that if the woodsman continued to decry the move, he might undo all of the efforts they'd spent convincing the people otherwise. The king heeded his minister's counsel and ordered his men to kill the woodsman and stage an accidental fire, burning the houses and the forest to the ground.

When the deforestation had finished, the king and his minister went to the fields with tools in hand. Dusk fell, and an envoy came from the castle to escort them home. What awaited them instead was the gruesome sight of the king and his minister's bodies, gruesomely cloven in two as though by some heavy object. To this day, parents from this country threaten their children to behave, lest the holy man with an axe comes to punish them.