Giving a Metal Rod to An Ogre

  Once upon a time, in a village on the outskirts of Paris, there lived a young man, soon to be 24 years old. He was so overwhelmingly strong in martial arts that he frightened others. He had a girlfriend his age. She runs a flower shop.
  One day, the man heard vicious lions had appeared in Paris. He was driven by a sense of duty that he had to take down the lions. He then informed his girlfriend of this. 
"I'm going to go slay the lion. Don't worry, I'll be back."
"Of course I'd be worried, take this with you."
"What is this?"
"This is a cudgel. Use this and take down those nightmares."
"Thank you, that's very encouraging. Peace will return to Paris, I promise."
  The next day he fought the beasts of prey. He got rid of some of them with his bare hands, but for the stronger ones he used that weapon. Using the club, the lion died in an instant. He won outright.
  When he told his girlfriend he had won, she was very happy.
"I owe it all to the cudgel you gave me," he said. "By the way, where did you get this cudgel?"
"You want to know...? I once defeated a tyrannical king. That's when I made this for myself. I thought with this, you could win…"
"You! You're so beautiful! Please share your life with me!"
  Love and peace were spreading across the Parisian sky. The bar still sleeps in the homes of their descendants...

(Kohei Okuma. "Giving a Metal Rod to An Ogre". Wrote on October 13, 2022)