The scruffy uncle's excessive enthusiasm made Igor feel puzzled. He thought to himself, could this guy just be an apprentice blacksmith? The moment he heard about forging something, the scruffy uncle got excited, which Igor found hard to understand.
"Are you the master blacksmith?" Igor tentatively asked.
"Master blacksmith?" The scruffy uncle seemed to find the title a bit distant, as if it stirred up memories he hadn't revisited in a long time.
"Aren't you?" Igor reminded the scruffy uncle, who had yet to answer the question.
"Oh ho ho haha, look at me, almost forgot you were there. I haven't heard the term 'master blacksmith' for so long that it feels a bit strange to me."
"Huh?" Igor was bewildered by the exchange, finding it all jumbled up and nonsensical.
