I'm a demon in Tokyo!

Chapter 346 Calm Down? You want me to calm down now?! Tell me everything, and let me change everything again!
In the quiet of the night, Motonobu Okabe's question, though not loud, carried far.

At least, so that everyone present, every shikigami, and every sword can hear it clearly.

Ririko recalled the name "Imagawa Yoshimoto" that she had just seen on the encyclopedia, and then looked at Uesugi Tetsu's expression, falling into thought.

Karuto, who was behind him, was slightly startled. He ran his fingers over the cover of the black-skinned book, hesitating whether to take notes as usual.

Xiao Jia was somewhat confused when she saw the older sister who liked to touch her randomly again.

When they last met, it thought that although Motonobu Okabe liked to touch it inappropriately, he was generally a warm and kind older sister.

I even worked with her and arrested demons!

Now, in Kaga Kiyomitsu's eyes, Okabe Motonobu had become a twisted black, emanating a resentment even stronger than that of most demons he had ever seen.

Qing remained silent.

The young master immediately raised his eyebrows and retorted loudly, "Okabe! Lord Tetsuya never abandoned you as you say..."

"Erchi, let's not talk about that now."

Uesugi Tetsu reached out and used his telekinesis to press down on the shoulder of the two-foot-tall lady. After seeing the latter turn her head away angrily with a pout, he shook his head at her.

If we let that two-foot-tall guy respond so angrily, the situation might get out of control and our own home might be reduced to ruins.

Stepping past the two-foot-tall man, Uesugi Tetsuya looked again at Okabe Motonobu's cold, dark eyes.

The trust and appreciation that used to frequently appear in those eyes have completely vanished, leaving only rejection, indifference, and intense hatred.

That's only natural.

Uesugi Tetsu thought.

In Okabe Motonobu's eyes, he must have disappeared immediately after leaving the city wall when the world was about to be revived.

He was reminded of those enigmatic historical events...

We should get an answer tonight.

Uesugi Tetsuya did not offer explanations such as "I didn't" or "I don't want to abandon it."

Such words were not convincing to Motonobu Okabe, who was completely unaware of the situation, and were too weak and powerless to be of any use.

"At the very least, I need to make her understand that I'm a 'walker' who has traveled from modern times back to the Warring States period..."

When faced with a problem, people tend to blame it on "walking," and no one can find the problem.

Anyway, there are probably only five people in the entire mortal world, and I am the only one who can enter the Walking Gathering, and even the only one who has entered the Walking Gathering in recent decades.

In this way, the right to define one's identity as a "walker" and what one does is in one's own hands.

Uesugi Tetsu took two more steps closer, and after thinking for a moment, he subconsciously said, "Yuanxin-nee, you've come at just the right time."

"Let's calm down first. It's time we had a proper talk..."

Snapped!
The small wooden table containing two small cups of barley tea was snapped in two by Okabe Motonobu with a single slap.

Her face twitched, and she shouted angrily, "Who gave you permission to call Yuan Xin 'Sister'?!"

After Okabe Motonobu finished speaking, he wanted to stand up angrily, but his shoulder was slightly pressed down by Uesugi Tetsuya's invisible and intangible telekinetic power.

Uesugi Tetsu raised his clear eyes, looked her in the eye, and said earnestly,

"Sister Yuanxin, calm down."

Motonobu Okabe was so angry he laughed.

"Calm down? You want me to calm down!?"

The two layers of not-so-thick telekinetic energy were directly blasted apart by Okabe Motonobu, causing cracks to appear in the wooden floor beneath her.

Okabe Motonobu finally stood up, staring intently at Uesugi Tetsu's hateful face as he roared, "Tetsu! You told me to calm down... Fine! Then tell me, where were you when those damned Onmyoji cast a curse on our lord, causing him to vomit blood all night?!"

"My lord has contracted an incurable disease of unknown origin. His health is deteriorating rapidly, and he can no longer even utter a complete sentence. Yet every night, he still insists on looking out the window, waiting for you to return. Where are you then?!"

"Where were you when our lord was resurrected deep within the mortal realm, almost turning into a handful of ashes?!"

Okabe Motonobu raised his hand, pointed at Uesugi Tetsuya's nose, and laughed angrily: "What promises did you make to me, what witnesses did you share with the lord? In the end, you just disappeared without saying a word!"

"Che, do you think this game where you've fooled everyone is fun?!"

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Okabe Motonobu reached out and grabbed Uesugi Tetsuya's collar, clutching the fabric tightly.

"Calm down... I went through so much trouble to finally find you, and now you want me to calm down?!"

Her eyes were bloodshot and she forced out the words through gritted teeth.
"Che, let me tell you! If it weren't for the fact that our lord kept telling me until his death not to hate you, not to lay a hand on you, and that you must have some unknown, unspeakable, bullshit secret..."

"I want to draw my sword and chop off your head right now!"

Hiss.

She crumpled Uesugi Tetsuya's collar into tiny pieces, which fell down with a soft rustling sound.

Okabe Motonobu gasped for breath, his fists clenching and unclenching several times before finally shifting his piercing gaze away from Uesugi Tetsu, who hadn't uttered a single word.

Behind the broken wooden table, Ririko stared wide-eyed, mouth agape, completely stunned, unable to maintain her usual calm and indifferent demeanor.

—Wow, isn't this melon that fell from the sky a little too big?
—No, does anyone know what's going on?
Karuta, standing further behind Uesugi Tetsuya, also had her mouth slightly open, but she didn't take out her pen to write in the black leather book.

On the contrary, the latter was eager to do something, but she stopped him.

Uesugi Tetsu used his internal energy to sweep away the fragments and sighed silently.

He didn't apologize, nor did he say sorry.

After a few seconds, once Okabe Motonobu's panting, which sounded like that of a giant beast, subsided, Uesugi Tetsuya finally spoke, his voice crystal clear.
“Sister Yuanxin, I am not a person born in the Warring States period, nor am I a great Yin-Yang Master who survived from before the Warring States period to that time.”

When Okabe Motonobu heard Uesugi Tetsu speak, he wanted to turn around and continue cursing.

But as soon as she turned her head and saw that smug face, the words didn't come out of her mouth.

In just a moment, Okabe Motonobu understood the meaning of Uesugi Tetsu's words.

She simply couldn't believe it.

But the bizarre thing that happened is that the lord and I were resurrected in the mortal world five hundred years later.

Uesugi Tetsu nodded to her and continued, "I am a person of this era, born after 2000."

“Absurd…absurd…”

Okabe Motonobu's face twitched, and he chuckled coldly: "Still trying to lie to me even now..."

At that moment, another unfamiliar, cold voice came from Uesugi Tetsuya's waist.

"Lord Uesugi was not lying."

Qing said calmly, "Because Lord Uesugi is a wanderer, he can naturally do such a thing."

Okabe Motonobu shifted his gaze, finally fixing it on Uesugi Tetsuya's right waist, where he met the gaze of those crimson eyes that were fixed on him.

This knife... looks familiar.

She seemed to have seen it somewhere.

A few seconds later, Okabe Motonobu found the picture in his long-forgotten memories, suppressed his anger, frowned, and asked,
"You're Spider Cutter? The legendary weapon from the legend, the one that Minamoto no Yorimitsu used to slay the great demon Tsuchigumo?" Ao was drawn half an inch from its sheath, revealing the azure blade covered in dense spider patterns.
"It's down."

Motonobu Okabe's expression changed again.

She then looked at Kaga Kiyomitsu on the other side.

Xiao Jia's soft, anxious voice quickly appeared: "Master, Master would never lie!"

After venting the anger he wanted to unleash, the young master spoke in a way that wouldn't cause trouble for Uesugi Tetsuya.
"When you and Lord Che were working together, did Lord Che ever lie to you even once?"

Motonobu Okabe clenched his fists even tighter and remained silent.

But these guys are all Che's men, so they'll definitely all speak up for him... just like how I would always speak up for my lord no matter when or where...

"I am indeed a [walker]."

Uesugi Tetsuya took out the silver-black walking token and displayed the front side, inscribed with the word "walking" in a flowing, calligraphic style, to Okabe Motonobu.

He didn't hide it from Ririko, who was sitting next to him.

She would find out about this sooner or later, and the attitudes of Sheng Hai and Tian Hu towards the Walking were also a glimpse into the situation. At least the Walking was just extremely rare, not something that everyone hated.

It wouldn't do her much harm to know.

Although I can't freely spread the fact that I'm a traveler, I can still speak about it at home and in front of people I trust.

Okabe Motonobu stared at the command token, which gleamed faintly in the moonlight, for a long while. After suppressing his anger with great effort, he asked again.

"What does this have to do with your sudden disappearance?"

"Of course."

Uesugi Tetsu pointed to the walking token: "It is because of it that I was able to travel from this era back to the past, back to your Warring States period."

However, because of the five hundred years that lie between us, I would face significant limitations there.

Ririko, who had been listening in a daze, couldn't help but let out an "Ah!"

That spider cutter calls him Lord Uesugi?
Walking command?

Time travel? Back to the Warring States period five hundred years ago?

Now, women from the Warring States period are coming to our door again?

No, what is all this about?
Are you guys writing light novels with titles longer than thirty characters and making melodramatic idol dramas?

Ririko was momentarily stunned. She thought that if she were drinking water, she would definitely spit it out.

Uesugi Tetsu stared at Okabe Motonobu, whose face also showed disbelief and struggle: "I have been to the Sengoku period twice before."

"I first met Lord Yiyuan in Youdu Village; the second time was when I solved the Sanhe problem with you; until the world was restored, I had to leave when I returned for the second time."

These words reignited the anger that Okabe Genshin had been suppressing for five hundred years, causing her to glare angrily at Uesugi Tetsu.

If looks could kill, Uesugi Tetsu would have died a million times over.

Faced with Okabe Motonobu's earnest words, Uesugi Tetsuya spoke seriously.
"But at least I can go back once more and try to change the situation you're talking about."

Motonobu Okabe immediately closed his eyes, took several deep breaths, and then slowly, as quietly as possible, uttered the words.
"Che, tell me in detail."

"it is good."

For the first time that night, Uesugi Tetsu laughed.

"Then, Sister Yuanxin, please sit down."

Ririko had already swept away the broken wooden table and its remains at some point, and then brought over a new wooden table. She also quickly took out two brand-new small teacups and brewed two cups of real hot tea.

She sat to the side, licking her lips, the initial bewilderment in her eyes quickly replaced by eager anticipation.

Her exceptionally strong inner strength allows her to quickly accept the raging storms that unfold at any time, in any place, and in any field, and to immediately accept realities that defy common sense.

Okabe Motonobu sat down, looked at the steaming tea with its aroma, and then at Ririko, who was completely different from before.

After a long pause, she managed to squeeze out two words.

"Thank you."

"It should."

Ririko tried her best to keep her tone calm, but a "Wow, so cool!" look appeared in her eyes.

This is such a big juicy story, she's definitely going to listen to it properly from the VIP seats!

Uesugi Tetsu sat down opposite Okabe Motonobu, glanced at Ririko out of the corner of his eye, and slowly began to speak.

He explained in detail why he would suddenly return to the Warring States period and then suddenly disappear, making [Walking] take the blame for everything, and also said that he could not control when he appeared and left.

"I went to that era to change the original course of history and to fight for the world."

Uesugi Tetsu looked at his reflection in the tea: "Actually, knowing the history, I wanted to join Oda Nobunaga or start my own faction."

"It's just that Lord Yiyuan impressed me, which made me choose to believe her."

After listening for a long time, Okabe Motonobu asked, "What was the history between our lord and the Imagawa family before you went there?"

"During his march to Kyoto, due to carelessness and underestimation of the 'fools of Owari,' he was defeated and killed by Oda's army on a rainy night in Okehazama. Few people in later generations even know who Oda Nobunaga's opponent was in Okehazama."

Okabe Motonobu couldn't help but tighten his grip on the teacup.
"You mean, these two trips back have significantly enhanced the lord's reputation?"

Uesugi Tetsu nodded: "Theoretically, yes, that's what I did too."

Motonobu Okabe remained silent.

Uesugi Tetsu said softly, "So, Yuanxin-nee, changing everything that has already happened is also my goal."

"You tell me everything that happened after I left."

He gazed into Okabe Motonobu's eyes, gently clenching his fist, causing the qi and spiritual power—enough to obediently gather within it in an instant—that could destroy several streets in a single moment.
"And I will erase all regrets without leaving a single one, and I will never let anything happen again."

Even after hearing this, Motonobu Okabe still found it unbelievable.

To change what has already happened and reverse history?

Is this really possible?

But her intuition told her that Che in front of her was not lying, and that he completely believed what he said.

Moreover, everything Uesugi Tetsu said was logically sound and consistent with the facts she had witnessed.

—Compared to this, it's even more unrealistic to believe that Uesugi Tetsu has been alive for four or five hundred years and is not a ghost or god.

The moonlight shone on Okabe Motonobu, then slowly moved past, illuminating the surface of the water in the teacup in front of Uesugi Tetsuya.

"I believe you, Che."

Okabe Motonobu downed his tea in one gulp and then spoke again to Uesugi Tetsuya, enunciating each word clearly.

"I'll trust you one last time."

(End of this chapter)