Time passed and dust was beginning to collect on Tafu's grimoire form. She was well known for being useless to everyone that normally came across thus they did not even both giving her a second look.
"Finally about to get rid of this useless thing as it cost a fortune to buy only for it to be a massive sinkhole of money. Just keeping it here is draining on our resources after all" a mage said
Part of the group that brought it back to Valia after it was purchased. Only to wish that they never had done that though as they were one of the lucky ones that managed to keep their position in the mage division though that was only because of their original position and status. It was high enough that the hit their reputation took that they demoted all the way down to mage recruit. Having to work their way back up from square one as a result of the possible damage they cause to the mage division and Valia as a whole
The only reason the group screw up was not made public was that there was no way the Valian mage division would admit that one of their own had been tricked. Tricked into spending a vast amount of money on a grimoire that was worthless. What kind of image would that show for their homeland that was supposed to premiere in both magic and magical research. Getting scammed like that would just open the door to others attempting to do the same possible or slight loss of standing in the world.
Just as the mage was thinking about how to get rid of the useless grimoire when they noticed Lutz and a smirk appeared on their face.
'Two birds with one stone' the mage thought upon seeing him
Thus Tafu's grimoire was given away to Lutz as seemingly good riddance present as he was getting dealt with as well. They did not need or want either of them going for a novelty that they were just dealing with to help foster at least a good image with those that did not know any better or at least when they were not wanted. There was a limit to how many they could tolerate keeping failure around for their surface image before they started to damage it slowly over time.
It was while Lutz was looking through the grimoire that it happened as Tafu was not a normal grimoire after all. She was a sentient weapon in the form of a grimoire. However just as unique as her form was since she was not a traditional weapon of some kind any king really. Sure some became wands and staff, however, those could both still be considered weapons as their many purposes might have been to help with channeling magic and other thing
A staff was still a staff and could be used as a melee weapon when the owner was pushed. Same with a rod as it was possible to beat someone badly even cause them fatal injuries still way. As they both could be used as blunt weapons after all though the strength of the wielder would depend on how well this strategy would work out for them.
Even in her current state, Tafu could be used as a weapon if used in that manner as nothing was stopping her wielder bashing someone in the face with her front or back side. Nor was there anything stopping them from using her side to give them a good chop like attack to the neck or something. Other than common sense and a few other things mind you but then again against could be a weapon if you want it to be. Yet just because anything could be a weapon does not mean it should be used as one given the effectiveness of it in combat. Keeping your options open could lead to options you would have never seen before otherwise.
Anyway turns out Tafu was a unique case in not only the form her soul took as it was smelting and processing into a sentient weapon. This was also the case for how she was able to manifest as well compared to the normal way of doing things. Normally sentient weapons would assume a humanoid form with only one aspect of their true weapon form being present while they are in such a state. However, Tafu was different as she never acknowledged anyone as her wielder when the leftover shell that once her body and mind cracked revealing her weapon form.
Given there was a different standard for someone to be her wielder which Lutz managed to fulfill as he was busy combing through what pages within her grimoire self were present with vested interest and wonder. So when he questioned something present within herself but he was not such where to look this is where she manifested in her humanoid form for the first time.
It was not a complete manifestation as she was not able to truly regain a fully humanoid form like most of her kind could. Instead, she manifests more as a transparent metallic floating spirit in a sense as she could not interact with the world around her yet the only things she could do so with would be herself. She was able to interact with her grimoire form as that was considered a part of her after all.
She grabbed it and floated over to her owner pointing at what he wanted to know earlier but was not able to find on his own. Tafu had awakened but her memories of her past life as a human seemed to be wiped at the moment. Her eyes might have shown signs of intelligence again but they were lacking any sense of self though. They were still vacant otherwise only able to seemingly carry out one goal that is to answer whatever question or desire her owner(Lutz) had in regards to herself.