I'm a demon in Tokyo!

Chapter 259 The Demon God's Eyes Tremble! Kaga Kiyomitsu, Spiritual Evolution! Karuta, the God of Possibility

"Let's go, Uesugi-kun."

Ignoring all the attention focused on her, Ririko walked off the stage without looking to the side, not even glancing at the other contestants.

the reason is simple.

Simply by no longer restraining her will and aura, no one dared to look her in the eye.

If you don't even have this little bit of courage, then you don't deserve to be noticed by Ririko.

"looking at what?"

Ririko approached the disguised Uesugi Tetsuya and curiously peered out, seeing the LINE interface on the screen and the nickname of the operator named Tamamo whom she had met not long ago.

[Tamamo: Right now, only a few top-tier hotels in Tokyo have rooms available, but the minimum price is over 20 yen per night... Ugh, I'm practically blinded by those prices.]

[Tsuki-suna-chan: Then come stay at my place, it's quite big.]

[Tsuki-suna-chan: I troubled you all quite a bit when we were in Shizuoka Prefecture, so please allow me to extend my hospitality now that you're in Tokyo.]

Tamamo: Yagyu-kun said it's nothing...

[Tsuki-suna-chan: It's alright, there are plenty of empty rooms anyway, and the seed battle is just around the corner. I was even thinking of discussing some training tips with Yagyu-kun.]

"There are too many people in Tokyo lately, and people don't have anywhere to stay."

Uesugi Tetsu asked her, "I'd like Tamamo and Yagyu-kun to stay at our house for a while, is that alright?"

They helped me a lot when I was in Shizuoka Prefecture.

Ririko was taken aback for a moment, which was rare for her.

She stared at Uesugi Tetsuya, who was still replying to Tamamo and whose eyes hadn't even left the screen, and smiled slightly, saying, "It's your own home, why are you asking for my opinion?"

“Of course not.” Uesugi Tetsu shook his head. “Ririko, you’ve lived here even longer, haven’t you?”

"Then what reason do I have to refuse?"

Ririko said, "It's better to have more people to make it more lively, and I'm also a bit interested in that Yagyu Akira."

"Okay."

She walked past Uesugi Tetsuya, her voice coming from ahead: "I still need to go to the supermarket to buy some groceries. Shouldn't we entertain some guests tonight?"

Uesugi Tetsu replied to Tamamo on Line, and soon saw that the other party sent a series of kneeling and thanking emojis.

……

"Heh heh, is this Uesugi-nii's house?"

In the evening, after following the navigation all the way, Tamamo bumped her head on an iron fence. She looked up in pain, muttered something casually, and then froze.

Because a four-story villa with front and back yards stood right in front of her.

Tamamo's first thought was that even if she saved every penny of her salary for her entire life, she still couldn't afford this house.

"Huh? Does Uesugi-nii live here?" Tamamo scratched her head in confusion. "Yagyu, look... did we come to the wrong place?"

Just as she said this, the creaking sound of the axle, along with a warm and gentle female voice, came from behind, dispelling some of the emotions in Tamamo's heart.

"Are you two the operators Yagyu Akira and Tamamo that Uesugi-kun often mentions?"

Ririko opened the iron gate and smiled at the two of them: "Hello, I am Tokugawa Ririko."

She added, "Also, this is indeed Uesugi-kun's residence."

"Yes, really?"

Tamamo put down her phone, her mouth slightly agape in amazement: "I never imagined that Uesugi-nii's strength was so formidable..."

Yagyu Chi then focused his gaze on Ririko, his expression serious.

Because he never sensed the approach of a third person.

The girl named Tokugawa Ririko in front of them seemed to have appeared out of thin air.

Moreover, she managed to warm my heart with just one sentence... This level of mental cultivation is truly terrifying.

Even if one doesn't reach the pinnacle of swordsmanship, it's at least a master swordsman who has refined their skills through countless trials.

"Tamamo, this is a master."

He patted Tamamo on the shoulder as she prepared to take photos, signaling her to be serious and respectful.

Tamamo blinked, looked up at the girl with a high ponytail wearing a short-sleeved shirt, shorts, and an apron, and looked somewhat puzzled.

Is he an expert? I didn't sense it at all.

She's clearly just an 18-year-old athletic, homebody high school girl!
Aside from the fact that he wears an apron, everything else about him is quite unique.

—Because the Arakawa Ward Special Affairs Office was full of people, Tamamo was sweating profusely looking for a place to stay, so naturally he didn't have time to surf the internet to find out about Ririko's news today.

Needless to say, Yagyu Chi rarely browses videos online or siftes out useful information from a sea of ​​junk data.

But even if someone is a master, is he really stronger than Uesugi-sama?

Tamamo smiled and shook hands with Ririko in a friendly manner, then introduced herself to Yagyu Akira.

"You two have been out all day, you must be hungry."

Ririko smiled at them: "Our dinner just finished cooking, if you don't mind..."

While exchanging pleasantries, Ririko turned and led the two into the courtyard, then towards the half-open villa gate.

Tamamo, who was following behind her, let out a surprised and uncertain "Eh?"

She could definitely tell that the girl named Tokugawa Ririko was Uesugi Tetsuya's friend, but judging from the situation, she seemed to know her way around very well.

Could it be that Tokugawa Ririko usually lived with her older brother Uesugi?
In this case, wouldn't it be...

Yagyu Akira instinctively placed his hand on the hilt of his sword, leaning slightly against Tamamo, following behind Ririko as if facing a formidable enemy.

But he soon realized something was wrong, so he had to turn his hands behind his back and use his left hand to hold his right hand to prevent it from moving around.

crunch.

The door opened, and Ririko stepped aside: "You two don't need to change your shoes, just come in."

"Ah... Miss Tokugawa, is this really alright?" Tamamo hesitated.

After all, in Japan, a country that values ​​etiquette and details, you have to change your shoes before entering someone's home, arrange them neatly, and then greet them.

This smooth little combo is already common knowledge.

“Of course it’s alright.” Ririko waved her hand. “And there’s no need to be so formal. Since you’re Uesugi-kun’s friend, just call me Ririko.”

"Then I'm very sorry to have bothered you, Miss Ririko!"

Tamamo stepped onto the wooden floor of the dojo in her sneakers, which were covered in mud and dust. She was a little embarrassed when she saw the footprints she had made.

But she suddenly realized what she had just done after taking one step.

Wait, what's the full name of Uesugi's female roommate again... "Tokugawa Ririko"?
Tokugawa, Ririko!

Tamamo, still staring at the floor, covered her mouth in shock to keep quiet.

She's from the Tokugawa family?!

Yagyu Chi, who stepped in a step too late, stared at the character "武" (martial arts) and murmured a soft exclamation of admiration.
"A fine place."

"Thank you for the compliment." Ririko walked towards the stairs. "Please come up, both of you."

After going upstairs, Uesugi Tetsuya, who was already sitting at the dining table and had his eyes closed while practicing Tiger Leopard Thunder Sound, opened his eyes.

"Tamamo, Yagyu-kun."

He let out a long sigh and gestured with his chin: "Since we're here, let's eat quickly, before the noodles absorb more water and get bigger."

"Oh, here I come!"

Tamamo ran to the dining table, and after quickly scanning the remaining three bowls of ramen, she found a spot that she knew she couldn't miss.

— Diagonally opposite Uesugi Tetsu.

This spot allows you to enjoy your meal immediately, and it's absolutely impossible for it to take up the seat that Ririko wants to sit in.

She silently praised herself as a genius, then took a deep breath of the steaming aroma of the ramen, a satisfied look on her face: "Hehehe, so fragrant, hehe..."

After Ririko sat down next to Uesugi Tetsuya and picked up her chopsticks, Yagyu Akira sat down opposite him.

But as soon as he sat down and was about to scoop up the noodles, Yagyu Chi's expression changed again.

—Within this fragrant ramen bowl, filled with fried eggs and tempura, there was an unmistakable flow of sword intent!

Sword intent can actually be infused into food!?

After silently taking a bite, Yagyu Akira confirmed the fact, which made him even more shocked.

This level of skill is probably what Shi Fandai called the "transcendent realm"... at least something only a sword master could achieve.

In other words, he glanced at Ririko out of the corner of his eye, who was slurping noodles with gusto, revealing absolutely no evidence of her strength.

Is this girl a swordswoman?

No wonder he's Uesugi-kun's friend.

After finishing every last noodle with a grateful heart and expressing his thanks, Yagyu Akira finally heard Uesugi Tetsu ask from across the table,

"By the way, Yagyu-kun, are you guys going to have some regional ranking matches in a few days? How about we arrange the order of play?"

"That's right, it seems the competition venue is Sky Dome One..."

At this point, Yagyu Chi paused, then pointed upwards with his finger: "I heard it's the one that flies in the sky?"

"Yeah, I've been up there before, it's incredibly stable, no need to worry about a crash,"

Uesugi Tetsu thought for a moment, then stood up and suggested, "In that case, it's perfect. Yagyu-kun, me, and Ririko, let's exchange some questions and insights about cultivation."

Lili stretched and used her fingertips to flick away the four bowls with her inner energy: "Then consider it a digestive exercise."

Seeing that the host had made such a suggestion, Yagyu Chi, who had originally had similar thoughts, naturally had no objections.

So the three of them, like Minamoto no Shizumi, Saito Ryuichi, and Takizawa Kai before them, prepared to stand and discuss their doctrines.

"what about me?"

In the silence, Tamamo, who was lying happily in the chair, squinting her eyes and patting her round belly, turned her head.

Uesugi Tetsuya, who had just drawn Kaga Kiyomitsu and let it float behind him, raised an eyebrow: "Why are you meddling in this mess when you haven't even trained?"

Under Tamamo's resentful gaze, Uesugi Tetsu waved his hands repeatedly.

"Go away, kid, go watch TV."

"Tch, fine, I'll watch it!" Tamamo glanced at the nearly 100-inch TV in the center of the living room and snorted.

Ignoring Tamamo who was pressing the remote control hard, the three of them went downstairs and began to ask and solve problems for each other as they walked.

During this process, Uesugi Tetsu and Ririko were even able to maintain a low intensity of training, leaving Yagyu Akira, who was so preoccupied with thinking about problems, speechless.

Hours passed in the blink of an eye, and the silver moon seemed to change from translucent to shining brightly in the blink of an eye.

Time flew by during the "discussion," and it was only Kaga Kiyomitsu's abrupt change that pulled Uesugi Tetsu out of his state of mind, where thinking, answering, and practicing were one.

"Xiao Jia, what's wrong?"

He looked at Kaga Kiyomitsu, who was floating beside him listening to the lecture, and was astonished to find that the entire sword had been enveloped in a pale blue light.

A message suddenly appeared above its head:
[Your knowledge, accumulation, and understanding of Kaga Kiyomitsu: The Blade of Parting have reached their limit, and you are undergoing autonomous spiritual evolution!]

……

at the same time.

In the depths of the unknown core factory of the eternal world.

That crimson eye, capable of spreading its will for hundreds of miles with a single thought, and causing the earth to tremble with every move, was bowing low to the ground, showing no trace of the majesty of a ghost or god.

Directly in front of it, a man dressed in a tuxedo was rapidly flipping through half a quarter's worth of reports.

Snapped.

Two minutes later, the report was closed.

The man didn't look at the trembling eyes, but simply asked softly, "I heard that the core of the factory in the logistics factory in Arakawa Village 'mysteriously' disappeared?"

"Yes, Lord Z." Despite the extreme fear in his scarlet eyes, the answer was still crisp and decisive.

"I arrived above the factory in a second, but I couldn't find any trace of the thieves within a radius of thousands of miles, nor did I leave any trace of ghosts, gods, or absurd spirits at the scene..."

Finally, apart from the disappearance of the factory core, all the sequences were intact, and the production line remained undamaged.

After reporting the situation, Scarlet Eyes remained silent and did not add any further speculation.

After listening, the man, Z, the factory owner, lowered his eyes and fell into a very brief moment of contemplation.

—Specializing in stealing the core of factories?
—And they even went to such a remote and almost unknown place as Arakawa Village to steal it?
Logically speaking, such a remote and impoverished place would not attract the attention of powerful figures.

Even if there is only a one in a million chance of it happening, there is absolutely no need to risk offending the factory owner to steal a "battery" that is even circulating in the market.

Stealing the factory's core components is an activity where the risks and rewards are completely disproportionate.

Could it be... that the master craftsman has returned?
Factory owner Z adjusted his monocle and asked, "What about the townhouse I specifically kept? Has anything changed?"

The scarlet eyes immediately replied, "Nothing has changed; there isn't even a footprint on the dust."

It would be strange if it hadn't changed.

Moreover, with the clues gone, the factory's core components are definitely lost... but that's a minor issue.

The key question is, what exactly was the purpose of the person who stole the factory's core equipment?
Factory owner Z frowned unusually, his fingers unconsciously tapping on the steel handrail, producing a soft sound that sent shivers down his spine.

Perhaps the lost core is just a facade.

In fact, the thief had already achieved his real goal.

"call……"

Factory owner Z exhaled slowly, feeling an inexplicable mental exhaustion.

He had cleared the area for miles around, and placed other treasures disguised as valuables in various places to satisfy any powerful individuals who passed by. His own flag was also planted above the factory...

Even in this state, there are still powerful individuals coveting this seemingly ordinary logistics factory.

Amid the long, monotonous pounding, the intensity of his crimson eyes grew ever stronger, until eventually his entire body trembled slightly.

Factory owner Z suddenly broke the thick, sticky atmosphere: "Is there a problem with the mold?"

His scarlet eyes twitched suddenly, then he replied in a completely flat tone, "Never seen the light, and perfectly intact."

"What about photocopies with an accuracy of 99.999% or higher?"

"Such high-precision photocopies have never been produced in that logistics factory before."

After hearing the two simple replies from Scarlet Eyes, Factory Owner Z felt a huge weight lifted from his shoulders—if these two things hadn't been exposed, then there wouldn't be any major problems.

—Because many factory owners have the idea of ​​restarting the Karuta project, but if they can't produce highly precise parts, it's just a joke in the end.

"That's alright then." Factory owner Z waved his hand casually. "It's just the core of a factory, nothing special."

"However, that logistics factory was no longer of much use, and the assembly lines inside were replaced with normal ones."

Halfway through his sentence, factory owner Z seemed to realize it was inappropriate and changed his words,
"No, let's just abandon this factory."

—It's already halfway done, and it's good that the plan to reshape Karudo hasn't been exposed.

That makes sense. Only the factory owners were qualified to know about the "Galuto Project," and even among the factory owners themselves, not everyone knew it very well.

In the logistics factory of Arakawa Village, the only important thing is that mold.

But if it were other factory owners sending their men to investigate, how could they ignore the molds and instead steal the factory's core components, causing such a commotion?

That's impossible.

So, it was just a simple coincidence that the core of the factory was coveted and, most likely, stolen by a powerful figure from an ancient era.

Thinking of this, factory owner Z felt relieved.

If only we could recreate Karuta before the second wave.

Even incomplete songs can help you choose the optimal solution from countless paths and choices.

And this is just the most insignificant role of Karudo.

He raised the glass beside his left hand, took a sip of the pale golden liquid, and looked past the huge floor-to-ceiling window that stretched for over a hundred meters, his gaze falling upon the sun, which was imprisoned in the abyss by a magnificent black machine.

Factory owner Z sang silently.

"Karyuta, Karyuta, the god who governs possibilities and branches..."

When will I be able to sign that contract with the reconstructed Kadoya that cannot be changed by external things or thoughts?
By the way, in the words of Onmyoji (a powerful Japanese spiritualist), "signing a contract" is called...

Contractual Shikigami.

……

In the present world, several hours later, the three had finished their "discussion on the Dao".

Behind Uesugi Tetsuya, Kaga Kiyomitsu, who had been silent for a long time, finally let out a clear and pleasant sword cry.

He took a deep breath and turned around, slightly agitated.

Xiao Jia, you've just earned 2000 Soul Points through your thrifty lifestyle!

[Your Kaga Kiyomitsu: The Blade of Parting's autonomous spiritual evolution is complete. Please check!]

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