"If I have to." He'd rather not have to; that much is obvious by his tone. And for all that greatswords have a reputation as weapons of execution, especially those in the hands of dark blades, it's not the weapon he actually used for that.

He lets the blade dissolve into shadows again, and says, "We do have some monsters, but mostly in the wilderness. These days I mostly spar with other blades and their partners, and plenty of them have weapons just as absurd. The Aegis' swords aren't much smaller than this and Lloyd uses one in each hand."

Lloyd Irving is an absurd maniac but also walking proof that blade weapons don't really play by the same rules.