I'm a demon in Tokyo!

Chapter 213 Demon-Level Eyeballs, Utter Terror! The Hundred-Eyed Demon Begins its Advancement! Tens of Thousands of Battle Sequences

Uesugi Tetsu raised his fingertips.

The scorching white aura instantly enveloped Kaga Kiyomitsu's tail, sending it towards the Five-Eyed Demon in a flash!

Inside the deep tunnel, a sudden burst of gas and sonic boom erupted.

The Five-Eyed Demon, already startled, immediately tried to turn its eyes back upon seeing this scene, and sprinted into the darkness on all fours.

But its speed is nowhere near as fast as Kaga Kiyomitsu's.

If it were just Kaga Kiyomitsu himself, Gomokuki might have been able to escape unharmed into the depths of the tunnel by taking advantage of the distance.

However, with Uesugi Tetsu's relentless compression of his qi, Kaga Kiyomitsu's speed more than doubled!
A hundred meters is a distance that passes in the blink of an eye.

Coincidentally, the direction in which the Five-Eyed Demon was standing was directly facing Uesugi Tetsuya, so Kaga Kiyomitsu didn't even need to turn.

The pale blade struck first, piercing the edge of the scarlet eyeball with perfect precision.

Then, at such incredible speed, it drew a circle with the calm and precision of a scalpel.

Remove the eyeball embedded in the back of the Five-Eyed Demon completely.

"hiss--!"

A shrill, furious roar reverberated from within the Five-Eyed Demon's body.

Instead of turning back to fight Kaga Kiyomitsu, it seemed to activate some secret technique, turning its entire body blood red and fleeing much faster.

Kaga Kiyomitsu only had time to gouge out another eyeball before the Five-Eyed Demon completely disappeared from Uesugi Tetsu's sight.

Buzz!

Little Jia hummed loudly, wanting to cut off the head of this ugly-eyed demon.

Uesugi Tetsuya, however, was moved and forbade Kaga Kiyomitsu from pursuing him further.

"Xiao Jia, come back."

When he emphasized it a second time, Kaga Kiyomitsu finally floated back slowly and reluctantly.

Even though Xiao Jia didn't say anything, Uesugi Tetsuya knew it wasn't happy.

After all, no one would be happy to be forced to go to sleep when they're in the middle of a game.

But you shouldn't chase after someone when you shouldn't.

This deep, eerie tunnel holds too many unknowns. So many demons had just emerged from it, and its darkness and length had somewhat obstructed his vision.

Moreover, he has Tamamo and Yagyu Akatsuki standing behind him, who are essentially his employers.

Therefore, it was impossible for Uesugi Tetsu to just run in with Kaga Kiyomitsu.

But if you add a knife to the small one and chase after him...

Uesugi Tetsuya would never do something so stupid.

—We'll get the eyeballs eventually, there's no rush, and there's absolutely no need to take any risks.

He reached out and caught the two scarlet eyeballs, which were not much different from the ones from before, which Kaga Kiyomitsu had scooped up with the blade of his sword. He patted the hilt of the sword in a gesture of comfort.

So Kaga Kiyomitsu calmed down.

The little guy's emotions always come and go quickly.

Behind him, Tamamo, whose gaze had been drawn away and then pulled back, continued her sentence with a slight stutter: "Big brother, your knife... is both beautiful and clever."

She rubbed her hands together, her eyes pleading: "Can you get one for me?"

To her surprise, Uesugi Tetsu nodded and explained the specific method: "It's very simple, just—"

Under Tamamo's expectant gaze, Uesugi Tetsu smiled and raised his finger.

"If you win the seeding tournament, you'll get a beautiful and clever knife—the Spider Cutter."

Uesugi Tetsu shrugged and expertly carried the water: "Although it's still not as good as Little Jia, it's still quite good."

Tamamo's face went blank upon hearing this, and she silently lowered her hands: "The seeded champion... there's absolutely no hope..."

She glanced at Yagyu Chi, who remained wary of her surroundings, sighed, and set a goal that was neither too big nor too small.

"We... well, if Liu Sheng can make it into the top 32 in the central region, that would be a success!"

But Yagyu Akira calmly retorted, as if stating a fact: "I will get that Spider Cutter."

Tamamo rolled her eyes and immediately waved her hand.

"How could anyone possibly get it?!"

She retorted, "Yagyu, you have no idea how many powerful figures there are in the Central Region! Don't even mention others, you couldn't even beat Uesugi-sama!"

Tamamo stuck out her tongue and made a face at him: "Instead of starting to fantasize, why don't you learn Uesugi-nii's flying sword technique first!"

"I must learn to fly sword, and I must also win the championship."

Yagyu Akira glanced at Uesugi Tetsuya, his eyes gleaming with a burning desire to learn.

Then he spoke clearly and calmly: "If you don't want to strive for first place, you'll never achieve it."

"If you don't even believe in yourself, knowing all your efforts, sweat, and hardships, then who can you expect to believe in you?"

Uesugi Tetsu smiled at him: "I like what you said... Besides, there's still a lot of time before the seeding battle, so it's not entirely impossible."

"Until the moment the battle ends, anything is still possible."

That's impossible.

Tamamo sighed softly, thinking helplessly to herself.

Because of her job position, no one knew the gap between the central government, namely Tokyo, and the local young geniuses better than her.

The difference is so vast that describing it as an insurmountable chasm would not be an exaggeration at all...

The brief conversation came to an end.

Next, as previously agreed, Uesugi Tetsu led the way, charging deeper into the tunnel.

That's right, it wasn't infiltration.

Instead, it was killing... or more accurately, "cleansing" would be a more vivid description.

Under Yagyu Akira's gaze, Uesugi Tetsu's internal energy and spiritual power seemed inexhaustible, easily unleashing a vast expanse to dissolve those weak demons.

It's like using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

But it seemed like the cannon had an endless supply of ammunition.

Confusing.

—Whether it's the bloody handprints appearing on the tunnel walls or the ghosts that suddenly emerge from various places.

She is still extremely dangerous; her cries can be heard before she is seen, and if placed in a city, she could kill hundreds or thousands of ordinary people in an instant with her cries.

They were all reduced to ashes by the intense, blazing energy, and by the lightning that made Yagyu Hatsune's hair stand on end just by looking at it.

It's obvious that Uesugi Tetsu's level has far exceeded the upper limit of this Juntō-gun tunnel; he's a high-level player who's just smurfing.

"However, these low-star demons really drop very few Soul Points..."

After Kaga Kiyomitsu delivered many more blows, Uesugi Tetsu stared at his Soul Points, which had only increased by a dozen or so points, and fell into deep thought.

Similar to handprints, the sheer number of low-star demons like the undead is so large that killing just one won't even give you a single soul point; you have to kill a whole group to gain one or two.

Moreover, they had been walking for almost half an hour, and Uesugi Tetsu had not yet found a second demon carrying eyeballs.

The five-eyed demon from before... now it should be called a three-eyed demon, it has never appeared again, not even leaving a trace.

I don't know where they went.

The only good news is that the headlamp that was recently revealed is quite good.

Standing deliberately to the side and in front, Uesugi Tetsuya stared at the bloody handprints that were nowhere to be seen under the illumination of his headlamp, raised his fingertips, and destroyed them with fragments of lightning.

—This headlamp is not only bright enough, but it can also illuminate all the demons and monsters within its range!

At least, that's how the user experience has been so far.

Tamamo, turning her head at a fixed frequency to ensure no part of the tunnel ahead was missed, clicked her tongue and poked Yagyu Akira beside her.

"Yagyu...are we really going to fight this monster?"

She first put on a layer of armor: "It's not that I look down on you, it's just that we're really not on the same level at all."

"Just to my liking."

Yagyu Akira silently drew his sword, slaying the bewildered ghost that had emerged from the ground with a single strike: "Isn't it a good thing to have a tall mountain standing before you, allowing people to stop and climb?"

Tamamo opened her mouth after hearing this, and then clicked her tongue.
"I don't understand what you martial arts practitioners are thinking."

About twenty minutes later, Tamamo suddenly felt the bundle around her waist vibrate.

She immediately shouted:

"Brother Uesugi, this is it!"

Uesugi Tetsu looked around and found that there was nothing strange about this section of the tunnel.

Also, this Jundong County Tunnel is a bit too long... It seems that its abandonment has caused some subtle changes in the space inside.

Tamamo immediately took out a brand-new array plate from her pouch and dripped the blood that had been drawn from the syringe onto the very center of the array plate.

— Biting your fingertip to draw blood is such a painful and stupid thing, probably only prehistoric humans would do it.

In an instant, a faint light burst forth from the gap in the palm-sized array plate.

Uesugi Tetsu's pupils flickered slightly as he glimpsed an extremely faint Yin-Yang symbol emerging on the ground of the tunnel to his right.

This technique is layered and incredibly complex, the kind that even ten Uesugi Tetsuya tied together couldn't understand.

So, how could an ordinary person like Tamamo possibly understand this?

It wasn't that he doubted Tamamo, but rather that the Yin-Yang Technique was something that was difficult to achieve anything with just theory and no real practice—the inability to sense the flow of spiritual energy was a major problem.

Tamamo, holding the array plate, coughed twice and stepped forward: "Brother Uesugi, I can handle this."

Uesugi Tetsu asked, "Don't you need me?"

The girl shook the array plate: "This thing is bound to me, so only I can set it up... and it will handle the rest."

"I understand."

Uesugi Tetsuya withdrew his gaze and narrowed his perception range, limiting it to a radius of thirty meters.

He gripped Kaga Kiyomitsu, ready to unleash the Three-Stage Thrust and the Mysterious Sword at any moment: "Don't worry about safety."

Tamamo squatted down in front of the Yin-Yang incantation and breathed a sigh of relief.
"I feel relieved to hear your words, brother."

Yagyu Chi stayed close behind her, serving as the last line of defense.

With a crisp sound as the array plate hit the ground, Tamamo began to silently chant some incantations.

A strange surge of spiritual energy erupted, causing the darkness deep within the tunnel to churn violently.

Uesugi Tetsu raised his eyes indifferently, and dozens of pale, rough bolts of lightning shot out from his body into the restless darkness.

A terrible scream erupted.

With just that one move, the surrounding commotion subsided considerably.

Uesugi Tetsuya, who had consumed nearly half of his spiritual power in an instant, quickly and silently activated his Spirit Control Technique, thinking that the effect was quite good.

If the demons on both sides of the tunnel really swarm in, it's hard to say whether he can block them all.

Time passes by.

Uesugi Tetsu could clearly feel that the strange spiritual energy fluctuations behind him began to subside.

It seems this tunnel trip is about to end peacefully...

"Brother Uesugi!"

Kaka!

Tamamo's exclamation and the stiff, stuck sound came almost simultaneously.

The girl, who had been knocked to the ground by the shock, didn't care about anything else. She first placed her hands back on the array plate, and then said in a very fast voice, "Brother Uesugi, come here!"

"Xiao Jia, expand the area."

Uesugi Tetsu released Kaga Kiyomitsu, leaving him suspended in place. He then took three steps at a time to reach the incantation emanating from Tamamo Kazusa, which was emitting pure white light.

Tamamo continued, "Big brother, could you use your spiritual power to connect to the array plate and help me clear out the demons on the other end of the spell? If I go, I'll probably just be a sitting duck."

The demon on the other side of the spell?

Uesugi Tetsu immediately realized—this technique could be considered a passage, an entrance, between the mortal world and the present world?
"Okay." He immediately placed his fingers on the array plate, and his spiritual power surged out rapidly, following Tamamo's guidance to enter the array plate and the spell.

Wow!
In an instant, Uesugi Tetsu found himself suddenly brightened up.

When he opened his eyes, he found that the dark tunnel, the array formation, and the calm-faced Tamamo had all disappeared.

Only pure white.

As far as the eye could see, an endless, solid, pure white passage stretched out without end.

Beyond the passage, the sound of surging waves echoed more clearly than ever before.

Uesugi Tetsu looked down and realized that he was there in a special state.

—He didn't bring any of his equipment with him, but he inherited all of his four-dimensional attributes, as well as his internal energy sea, qi, and spiritual power.

He didn't have time to think about the reasons or how the concept of "incredibly sturdy" came to his mind.

Before Uesugi Tetsuya's eyes appeared a bio-mech about one and a half times the height of a person, with its outer shell made entirely of brass and its interior filled with scarlet flesh, spewing out scalding steam.

It was lying on the half-closed spell, forcibly hindering Tamamo.

As expected, a notification popped up above the bio-mech's head.

——【Battle Sequence Prototype 072 (One Star)】.

Combat sequence?

Factory owner?
Katsumi's words flashed through Uesugi Tetsu's mind.

But he didn't think too much about it. He activated the "Lin" technique and raised his hand, sending a sword of ignorance landing inside the bio-mech.

—Given the stability and width of this passage, it could probably send at least several thousand demons into the mortal world in a single day.

So in this critical situation, we need to resolve this mech issue as quickly as possible, because who knows if the factory owner has any backup plans.

Boom!

Before the bio-mech could even react, the entire mech exploded into a bloody, molten mess, plummeting downwards.

Immediately, Uesugi Tetsu could feel the remaining half of the spell disappearing at a visible speed.

He let out a soft sigh: "Now..."

The idea has not yet been implemented.

Uesugi Tetsu felt a chilling coldness rise from the base of his spine and up to the top of his head.

terror!
Great horror!
Something is coming this way!

He immediately turned his head and looked into the distance, where he saw a bio-mechanical machine that was almost identical to the one he had seen before, far beyond the white passage.

But there was more than one.

One unit, ten units... hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands.

The endless array of bio-mechanical machines seemed to sense the impending closure of the passage, and were frantically marching towards it.

How many are there?
One hundred thousand?

Or more?

Even if these things are just the bottom-tier items among half-star and one-star, what would happen if they could launch some kind of ranged attack together?

Looking at the notification that filled the entire field of vision and could trigger trypophobia, Uesugi Tetsuya swallowed hard.

"Tamamo, hurry."

A faint voice came from the other end of the array: "Brother Uesugi, what did you say...?"

—The vast, ocean-like notification slowly disappeared.

Behind it, an eyeball was visible.

An eyeball, so large it blots out the sun, crystal clear, radiating a terrifying, godlike pressure.

It was indifferently casting its gaze downwards.

As if supervising the project.

"—I said, shut it down at full speed!"

Uesugi Tetsuya felt a chill run down his spine and raised his voice three octaves, startling Tamamo, who was operating the array plate, into screaming.

But immediately, the closing speed of the surgical channel increased by one, no, two steps!

Tamamo hissed, "Brother Uesugi, you have to come back! The passage is about to close!"

Uesugi Tetsuya was about to dive back in when, as his fingertips touched the entrance to the passage, he inexplicably turned his head back.

That eyeball didn't notice itself.

This is a golden opportunity.

Uesugi Tetsuya held his breath, thinking subconsciously.

This distance is achievable by using the invisible blade in hand as a base and employing flying sword techniques without regard to loss.

The worst-case scenario is that we lose the substitute doll and gain nothing.

But if successful, Hyakume-ki will be able to eat a portion of the eyeball of a demon god.

So, what should we do?

The technique behind him had closed down to only one-tenth of its original size, leaving no more time for Uesugi Tetsuya to think and make a choice.

The decision can only be made in this instant.

Uesugi Tetsuya's thoughts almost froze.

He plunged headlong into the final magical passage.

Then, when consciousness was swallowed up until only the head and hands remained.

Uesugi Tetsu clenched his fists with all his might.

They didn't even need to use their internal energy or flying sword techniques.

As his gaze fell and his mind became clear, the invisible blade that had been in his hand suddenly appeared directly near the eyeball, defying all logic.

Then, without the eye being on guard, the profound meaning of the Unknown Sword was revealed.

Click.

A sound like an illusion shattering rang out.

As if pierced by a tiny needle, the eyeball that had been suspended in the air above the pure white passage, gazing down, paused for a moment.

In the next instant, it locked onto Uesugi Tetsuya's position.

There was no anger, no murderous intent, and no warning whatsoever.

A red light, representing destruction and death, emerged from nothingness, annihilating all matter there into nothingness.

But by then the technique had been completely shut down.

……

The white light vanished, and deep darkness and a blinding beam of light once again enveloped Uesugi Tetsuya's consciousness.

"Brother Uesugi..."

Tamamo's face turned pale.

Almost.

It was just a hair's breadth away from unleashing something terrifying.

She gripped Uesugi Tetsu's shoulders tightly with both hands, her voice trembling as she asked, "What was inside the other end of the spell just now?"

"Hu-hu-"

Uesugi Tetsu was breathing heavily.

He stared at the tunnel before him, thick with demonic energy, yet strangely giving him a sense of security.

Successful.

Although his inner energy and mental strength were completely depleted, he narrowly escaped death in a very short, almost immeasurable amount of time.

Furthermore, he successfully plucked a piece off that demon-level eyeball using the Nameless Sword!
Exhausted, Uesugi Tetsu glanced at his storage backpack out of the corner of his eye and said in a low voice, "Let's go outside first. It's not convenient to talk here."

Seeing his appearance, Tamamo and Yagyu Akira had no suspicions. After Uesugi Tetsuya struggled to his feet, they quickly headed towards the tunnel exit.

The road we came on was clear, with almost no demons blocking our way.

The few remaining spirits that appeared were quickly dealt with by Kaga Kiyomitsu and Yagyu Akira.

In less than half an hour, the three of them returned to the tunnel exit and saw the sun already high in the sky.

A gentle warmth poured down, dispelling some of the unease in Tamamo's heart.

She first confirmed once again that the Special Affairs Department's recovery vehicle was on its way, and then took out the barrier scroll from her bag and tore it open.

An integrated early warning and defense barrier was deployed.

At this moment, Tamamo turned to Uesugi Tetsu, who looked visibly exhausted, and asked again, "Brother Uesugi, what was inside just now?"

Uesugi Tetsu sat on a rock, pinched the bridge of his nose, and thought that this was a good opportunity to reveal all the information about the factory.

So he began with the briefest, yet most important, piece of information.
"At least tens of thousands, with no upper limit, of bio-mechanical units ranging from half-star to one-star from the Changshi Factory, and an eye that is not weak even among the Ghost God level."

Tamamo, who was about to take notes, paused, her fingers hovering above the keyboard for a long time without falling.

Gulu.

Tamamo's lips turned pale.

She looked at Tsutomu Uesugi, and then heard him repeat it word by word.

Immediately, Tamamo wanted to collapse and everything to go black, hoping that someone would wake up and tell her that it was all a dream.

However, Tamamo's excellent professional skills made her think more calmly and clearly, and she typed every word truthfully on her phone.

She asked in a hoarse voice, "Is there anything else...?"

Uesugi Tetsu continued speaking, revealing everything.

Hearing these words, Yagyu Akira, who was standing to the side, tightened his grip on the hilt of his sword.

"Now, who knows how many more colleagues will die..."

five minutes later.

"Report it first!"

After confirming that everything was correct, Tamamo stamped all the documents with a blood-red "Top Secret" seal.

The document was then divided into three parts and sent to the Shizuoka Prefecture Special Affairs Office, the Arakawa Ward Special Affairs Office, and the Five People's Association's mailboxes respectively.

After finishing her work with utmost care, the petite girl collapsed to the ground.

She cursed fiercely in a Kansai accent, "This is fucking terrifying! We almost died a horrible death!"

"Damn, there's been so much crap going on lately."

Tamamo hugged her knees, resting her chin on them, and muttered as if reciting a familiar list: "It's the Sengoku Mystic Realm phenomenon again, the Tokoyo Train, and all sorts of urban legends reviving one after another, and now there's this Tokoyo Factory Owner..."

She grabbed her hair, looked up to the sky, and screamed.
"Ugh! This is so annoying!"

Upon hearing the keywords, Uesugi Tetsu didn't ask directly, but instead opened the Edo Castle gacha page.

—The Hundred-Eyed Demon had already eaten the two eyeballs he had thrown in earlier, and now the progress bar above its head had reached [86%].

Uesugi Tetsu then turned his gaze to the palm-sized fragment of the eyeball that he had just desperately scraped off...

Or perhaps the outer skin of the eyeball is a more appropriate term.

Since it's just the outer skin of a demon-level being, it's not really an item or material, so no interface pops up on it.

I wonder what surprises it might bring me.

With a slight thought, Uesugi Tetsu threw the small fragment in front of Hyakume.

Then, Uesugi Tetsu saw the Hyakume-ki loli standing there, staring at her intently for a long time before finally showing a shocked expression for the first time.

In the blink of an eye, the progress bar, which was previously at 86%, was filled.

Hyakume-ki's ascension has begun.

(End of this chapter)