Chapter 34 - Who wants to be the Devils Lover huh? (2/2)
Logan nodded and went up to a block of wood and carved a beautiful rabbit using the skills and experience he gathered in SAO. He pridefully showed it to the old man who took it and started observing it from different angles and throws it on the face of Logan and screamed: Do I look like someone who was joking when I told you to sculptor something?
The old man raised his hand and a black mass came out and formed a big punch, Logan seeing this formed his skeleton to defend himself and used his chain of gods to bind the old man.
The old man simply punched him destroying Susano and throw Logan miles and miles away destroying everything with the path. Chains didn't do anything and seemed as if they were simple chain which broke apart easily without old man trying.
Logan after falling from a distance stood up, his nanotech started healing his body standing up Logan took out the knife again and started carving another masterpiece with full concentration this time he carved a Dragon he has seen in harry potter world. But the old man again simple throw the sculptor back to him and this time punched him in the stomach. This went on for a few days Logan even decided to copy the old man and sculptured the same sculptor as the old man but the old man rejects him every time without giving him any proper reason and simply shouting at him for being unwilling to learn and being a brat.
Logan feeling frustrated after a while decided to observe the old man as he sculptor. The old man smiled at the plain block of wood and started carving it with care as if each part was a story which needed to be noted as it happened, after observing a while Logan finally understood the difference between him and the old man. He was sculpturing with the heart to fulfill the task while the old man was carving his love onto a block of wood without care for the shape or size.
Understanding the answer, Logan started thinking about love, his love for his parents and family in Sword art online world, his love for Kurama in the next and finally for his grandparents in harry potter world.
He started carving those feeling onto wood but every time he completed a sculptor he felt as if it's missing something. With all the time he had, he started carving each happy memory of his life. Each moment he spends with his loved ones, he felt joy but still, he always felt sometimes was missing.
He observed Old man work every day trying to figure out what he was missing when one day the old man looked at him and said: Just close your eyes and carve your heart out that's what I do.
Listening to the old man, Logan created a blindfold via Arc of embodiment and shut his eyes. He started thinking about happy moments in his life when suddenly the last image of Asura lying on her deathbed smiling at him came to his mind. The knife in his hand started carving on its own, Logan completely lost himself in that image. After a while, he felt a hand on his shoulder bringing his back to reality. He removed his blindfold and saw the old man smiling at him.
The old man: I like this sculptor of yours.
Logan turned back his head and saw Asuna standing there smiling with the same expression he saw her last time telling him, I truly love you.
Logan seeing her broke down and hugged the sculptor he had created and cried his heart out, the old man seeing this smiled and mumbled in a low voice: It seems she truly loved him even more than herself.