Warning: This Smith Repairs Cursed Tools

Kento keeps making the kind of tools people do not notice until they break in their hands. When a royal school hires him to repair cursed gear, he has to work with shaking hands, old shame, and a craft he can barely afford to trust. A broken lens, a sealed spirit-bell, and a woman who watches his work from too close pull him back into the world he tried to leave. He wants one clean repair and one quiet exit. Instead, every fix drags him deeper into the people who have already used his blades in real wars. The hardest part is not the metal. It is the one lesson his master still has not chosen to teach.