I'm a demon in Tokyo!

Chapter 137: Movable Shrine, Please Let Me Recognize You as My Boss! (5.6k)

The footsteps were very light and slow, as if a lighter person was walking on tiptoe. If it weren't for the quiet surroundings, even Uesugi Che might not have noticed it.

He listened for a while and found that the footsteps had always been in this house...

No, after observing for a while, Uesugi Tetsu realized that this place should be called a warehouse to be precise - and the footsteps had been lingering around the warehouse, with no intention of coming in immediately.

He was a little puzzled.

There is no other footsteps or breathing sounds around. What is that guy outside doing? Is he entertaining himself?
In short, Uesugi Tetsu, who was tied up with this fragile straw rope, was not very worried about his current situation.

Instead, he had to carefully control the strength so as not to accidentally break the rope and lose the events that might be triggered by the current opening.

"Let's clear the red dots first."

Uesugi Tetsu used his mind to move the prompt line in front of his eyes, and then his pupils shrank slightly.

[Your special item, the walking clock, has been activated! ]

【Walking Clock (Special Item)】

[Effect: Accurately measure the impact of the act of walking in the world itself on history. Current impact: 0%.]

[——Respected Changshi Xingzhe, please maximize your influence on history and leave your mark on history.]

[Warning: Do not expose any information directly related to "walking" or "future" to avoid any unknown consequences.]

How much influence did it have on history…?
Uesugi Tetsu frowned slightly in confusion and looked at the area tasks below.

[Currently unlocked area: Modern World - Warring States Period (three stars)]

[The first ring of the current main mission, the admission ticket, has been unlocked.]

[Ticket: Choose to join any daimyo's army, or choose to start your own.]

[Task time limit: None]

[Note: If this task is delayed for too long and not completed, subsequent tasks may be skipped directly.]

A main quest guide that was completely different from the three maps unlocked previously popped up, leaving Uesugi Che silent for a moment.

Looking at the mission introduction and the panel of the walking clock, it seems that after using the key of history, I have entered the real Warring States period in the past history.

Rather than entering a region related to the "Warring States Period" in the ordinary world.

"But how is this possible..."

Uesugi Tetsu first muttered subconsciously.

Then he remembered Okita Souji, whom he last met in Fishing Master, and the street scenes and crowds he saw in the Zancemaru Trial that were no different from the real Edo period.

It seems that time travel is not impossible.

What's more, this "Key to History" is a mythical item handed to him by the God of Huojin himself.

If you think about it this way, things seem to make sense.

They come, the security.

Uesugi Che put aside his unnecessary guesses for the time being, carefully felt the concentration of the spiritual energy of the surrounding heaven and earth, and then was stunned.

The concentration of spiritual energy in the Warring States period was too thin.

Not to mention comparing it with the current ordinary world, it can't even be compared with the world before the wave came - to be more precise, the concentration of spiritual energy in the previous world is less than one tenth.

"No wonder there weren't any particularly famous ghost stories or monsters during the Warring States Period. I feel like that's the reason."

Uesugi Tetsu recalled the Oda army he had seen in the historical projection, which did not even have a three-star general, and he suddenly understood.

Generally speaking, changes in the concentration of spiritual energy cannot affect the speed at which people practice breathing techniques.

But if it is too low - this is when we have to bring out the sea level theory that Nanjo Aimi mentioned before.

If the concentration of spiritual energy between heaven and earth is too low, the "sea level" will correspondingly drop, becoming the upper limit of this world.

I think "Three Stars" should be the restrictive pass between heaven and earth today. The closer you are to this pass, the slower your cultivation speed will be, and it will be even more difficult to cross this pass.

Uesugi Che blinked. With a strength of about three stars, doesn’t that mean he is already a great master in the chaotic Warring States period?
However, if you follow the main mission, you may not just be fighting one-on-one, but hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people.

So it’s better to keep a low profile - Uesugi Tetsu, who was drowned by the sea of ​​chi, doesn’t want to experience this kind of death again.

Gua ...

The hoarse sound of the door opening drew Uesugi Che's attention back.

He immediately looked towards the door with an expressionless face, and then saw a child with messy hair, pale face and thin body, wearing a coarse cloth jacket and a pair of rotten straw sandals on his feet walking in.

The child's eyes lit up when he saw him wake up, and he ran over impatiently.

Is this a child?
Uesugi Tetsu was a little unsure about the age of the other person who was a little over 1.3 meters tall - because people of that era were probably that short, and many of the foot soldiers in the Oda army were of this height.

And the other person's face was sunken because of hunger.

Even though Uesugi Che had good eyesight, he couldn't tell the age of a short skeleton soldier from the Warring States Period at a glance.

Uesugi Che, who didn't have much information, didn't say anything, but quietly looked at the child with a gloating expression, and after humming twice, he sat in front of him.

Then, he muttered a lot to him.

Uesugi Tetsu:?

The child was also stunned when he saw the confused look on his face, and then changed to another gibberish language and repeated what he had just said.

Uesugi Che still didn't understand what he was saying.

After repeating this seven or eight times, the child, who was proficient in so many languages but still couldn't communicate successfully, finally couldn't bear it anymore.

He slapped his thigh suddenly, pulled out a short knife with a cold glow from his waist, and put it against Uesugi Che's neck, revealing a ferocious look.

Wow, this knife is real.

When Uesugi Tetsu saw the knife, his gaze moved to the child's waist - in addition to the short knife, there were also two kunai and some strange things that he could not recognize.

Ninja?
It turns out that I was tied here by a ninja.

But he had just arrived and was most likely asleep in the wild or in the forest before. Why would this little ninja choose to go to the trouble of tying him up?

Uesugi Tetsu looked up and down at the slender little ninja, and he guessed that he didn't know how much effort it took for him to drag himself over.

In that case, doesn't that mean he should be grateful to the other party for not leaving him out in the wind and sun?

The little ninja stared at Uesugi Tetsu for a long time without any expression change, and then discovered a fact.

——That is, the guy in front of him didn’t take himself or the dagger at his neck seriously at all!

damn it!
It was with great difficulty that I dragged this fair and tender warrior master back from the road outside.

Not only was there a language barrier, but the other party was also suspected of having practiced the legendary "breathing method" - otherwise, how could anyone not be afraid of a knife held to their neck!

"Dead ball, this is a huge loss... How about just pawning this thing and leaving?"

The little ninja murmured softly, touching the bone key with a lining as smooth as jade, accidentally revealing a corner of it.

A prompt immediately popped up in front of Uesugi Tetsu's eyes.

Key to History: Shrine

[Effect: Equivalent to a normal shrine, but can be easily moved.]

[——Please give it to someone you trust, otherwise…]

Has the key to history become a shrine?

Seeing the familiar noun, Uesugi Tetsu didn't think much about it and subconsciously wanted to reach out and light up the shrine, but he forgot that he was still "firmly" trapped on the pillar.

popping.

The fragile straw rope couldn't even hold out for a moment before Uesugi Che broke it into pieces that fell to the ground.

Before the little ninja could react, Uesugi Tetsu had already snatched the key to history back into his hands.

[You have lit up the key to history, the shrine.]

After seeing this familiar prompt pop up, Uesugi Tetsu noticed that his arm was already hanging in the air.

He was silent for a moment, looking at the little ninja who was so scared that he sat down on the ground.

The scene was extremely awkward for a moment.

"that……"

Before Uesugi Tetsu could say a word, he saw the little ninja's hand reach for his waist, and then he threw out a handful of quicklime.

Uesugi Che narrowed his eyes and pinched his nose.

Without a second thought, the young ninja bolted for the door.

— Are you kidding me? He can break free from the wet ropes with his bare hands. What kind of monster is this?!
"Two-foot sir, block the door."

A faint sound came from the still floating quicklime.

The next moment, the little ninja suddenly found that the half-open door suddenly became dark.

He looked up blankly.

A huge monster over two meters tall, almost as tall as the roof of the warehouse, blocked the door without warning, staring at him with a smile.

"Wow! Wow! A monster!"

The little ninja was so frightened that he screamed, collapsed to the ground and began to tremble wildly - the eight-foot-four-meter-tall master was indeed too terrifying for the people of the Warring States Period.

He shrank back. "Don't eat me! Don't eat me!"

Uesugi Tetsu actually understood what he said. He plucked a string in his heart and signaled Ershaku-sama to bring the little ninja to him. "po~"

The two-foot-tall master, who had rarely recovered his eight-foot form, stretched out his hand, which was even bigger than the little ninja's head.

Just as she was about to lightly lift his collar, she found a dagger emerging from her palm.

A slight pain came.

Nishaku-sama blinked, raised his hand, and pulled out the short sword while looking down at the little ninja beneath him.

But the strange thing was that not a drop of blood flowed out of the wound. Instead, the pierced palm quickly returned to its original state.

The little ninja, who originally had a fierce look in his eyes, was stunned when he saw this scene, and felt that his worldview was overturned.

He scrambled towards the window on the other side: "Ah! Monster! Monster! I'm going to die!"

Then it hit Uesugi Tetsu's abdomen hard.

thump.

Uesugi Che lowered his head: "You can speak human language, why didn't you say it at the beginning?"

The little ninja shook his head quickly, thinking that the scary monster was right behind him, so he wanted to run away without saying a word.

But Uesugi Tetsu would never let him get his wish.

He stretched out his hand and easily lifted the other person up, causing the little ninja to look back with a frightened and anxious expression.

"You idiot! Can't you chop my head off later? Can't you see the monster behind you!?"

The words were spoken very quickly, and Uesugi Tetsu didn't understand many words, but he probably understood that he seemed to be very afraid of Nishaku-sama.

Uesugi Tetsu turned around and said to Ershaku-sama, whose head was almost touching the beam, "Change your form. Don't scare this kid to death. I still have to question him."

"Pooh..." Lord Erchi was a little disappointed, "But since it's Lord Che's order, then let it be."

As soon as he finished speaking, a white mist burst out from the body of the two-foot-tall man, and then he changed back to the two-foot form, and his height was suddenly only half the height of the little ninja.

"what?"

The little ninja, whose feet were flapping in the air, was stunned. He looked at Ershaku-sama, then at Uesugi Tetsu, and then he couldn't help but screamed in shock.
"——Dead Samurai! Are you the master of that monster!?"

This time, at least Uesugi Tetsu understood the three words "dead samurai".

Uesugi Che raised his eyebrows, thinking that even after he caught this little Karami, he was still so rude. Was he not afraid of death?
But forget it, he was an adult and didn't care about the child's mistakes, let alone an illiterate refugee ninja child who probably couldn't even recognize a single word hundreds of years ago.

Throwing the little ninja to the ground, Uesugi Tetsu said slowly, word by word: "Don't move, and I won't kill you."

After these few sentences of conversation that he sometimes understood and sometimes didn't understand, Uesugi Tetsu finally understood - in fact, he and the little ninja were speaking the same language at the beginning.

It's just that the other person's accent was a bit heavy, so he couldn't understand some of the words that were spoken too quickly.

When the little ninja heard what Uesugi Tetsu said, he immediately showed an expression of disbelief.

He stared at Uesugi Tetsu coldly: "You're talking nonsense... Samurai like you kill people for fun every day, how could you possibly let me go!"

After saying this, he closed his eyes and revealed a determined look: "Kill me if you want! I won't beg for mercy like a dog!"

Uesugi Tetsu stared at the little ninja for a while, and when he realized that he didn't seem to be joking, he asked in confusion: "How did you know I was a samurai? When did I ever say I was a samurai?"

The little ninja's brow twitched.

——Does the dead warrior need to speak for himself? Look at his height, his handsome fair face that can be picked out in a crowd at a glance, and his neat white teeth!
Besides that, there's also this neatly trimmed hair and incredibly fair skin. If she hadn't grown up in an aristocratic family, how could she have such skin?!
——You still say you are not a samurai!
Even if you lie, you have to tell something credible!

If he wasn't a warrior, he would have eaten with big mouthfuls without any hesitation!
"Hey, didn't you hear Master Che asking you a question?" Master Erchi, who was standing aside, kicked the little ninja's foot with some dissatisfaction, making the latter's expression stiff again.

Even though it had become smaller than him, the little ninja could not forget the giant he had just seen.

Seeing his expression, Uesugi Tetsu pondered for a moment before speaking, "I am indeed not a samurai, but an Onmyoji. Have you heard of Onmyoji? This one is my Shikigami."

He said this, then raised his finger, causing a little flame to shoot out from the tip of his finger.

The little ninja was stunned for a moment. He stared blankly at the flame on Uesugi Che's fingertips and moved closer out of curiosity.

Then, he actually felt the heat!

"Is it really fire...?" the young ninja muttered in disbelief, looking at Uesugi Tetsu, who put away the flames and then flipped his palm to let a ball of water float in it. "The legend is actually true. There really are Onmyojis alive in this world."

Uesugi Tetsu sighed helplessly: "Now you finally believe that I am not a samurai."

——If this little ninja was not the first person he met when he came to the Warring States Period, and was actually saving him in disguise, Uesugi Tetsu would not have talked so much nonsense with him.

He had already transformed into a four-tailed fox and cast a soul seal on it.

However, this is the limit of his patience. If he continues to fight, don't blame him for using extraordinary measures.

The little ninja poked the water ball with his finger and said with a complicated expression: "Okay, I believe you for now..."

"What do you want to ask?" The little ninja looked up. He knew that people like him had no other use.

Uesugi Tetsu put away the water ball and said, "First, what's your name?"

"Bai Shi." Bai Shi clicked his tongue, "Why are you asking this?"

Shiraishi is a very common surname.

Uesugi Tetsu pondered for a moment and decided to first figure out the current time point - if the Battle of Okehazama had passed, then he would take the opportunity to join Oda Nobunaga's army and then try to reverse the key event of the "Honnoji Incident".

Because after the Battle of Okehazama, the power of the Oda family began to expand rapidly, if he went to other daimyo to fight against the Oda family, he might not succeed.

After all, the general trend is not something that one person can easily change, so it is better to be as steady as possible in doing things.

He also had contact with Oda Nobunaga and found that he was a pretty good person and not as self-destructive as history said.

And if the time for the Battle of Okehazama hasn't come yet... then let's wait and see the situation and don't make a decision in a hurry.

So he asked, "I have been secluded in the mountains for a long time, practicing Buddhism. What era is it now?"

Without thinking, Bai Shi answered, "The second year of the Hongzhi reign."

The second year of the Hongzhi reign? What kind of year is this?

The history-blind Uesugi Tetsu only remembered the AD years corresponding to key events, and had no interest in the era names that changed every ten or even several years.

He smacked his lips and continued to inquire, "Do you know Oda Nobunaga? What impression does he have in the eyes of the world?"

Bai Shi looked at him deeply, then sneered and said, "Who doesn't know him? The big fool from Owari is famous!"

I see. The battle at Okehazama hasn't started yet.

Otherwise, Oda Nobunaga's nickname would not have continued to be the ironic "big fool".

This timing is not bad.

Uesugi Tetsu touched his chin in thought.

Maybe he could join the Takeda family, which is known to have the strongest cavalry, or have a chat with Uesugi Kenshin, who is from the same family.

Secondly, it is not impossible to find Ririko's ancestor, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who will unify all of Japan in the future, but it may take a lot of time and effort.

But forget about Imagawa Yoshimoto.

Uesugi Tetsu, who had just finished the Battle of Okehazama, had no good feelings towards the Imagawa army that dispersed as soon as they charged, and he did not see the leader Imagawa Yoshimoto until the end of the battle.

The retainers and the army are still fighting, but I have already run away. What's the matter?

This guy is not very good, so I won’t consider him.

Leaving this fat, short-legged "Number One Archer of Tōkaidō" out of consideration, Uesugi Tetsu asked, "So where is this place? Are there any major cities nearby?"

First know the time, then the place, and then you can get started.

When Shiraishi opened the door, Uesugi Tetsu looked outside and saw only a wasteland, without even a single person in sight.

So he guessed that the surrounding area might be a deserted wasteland.

Shiraishi replied, "It's called Yuto Village. It's a small village not far from Sunpu Castle."

"You're lying to me." Uesugi Che narrowed his eyes and smiled. "Is there a village with only one house?"

Bai Shi was startled and quickly added,
"This is a shabby wooden house next to Youdu Village... Not many people usually come here, so I dragged you here and wanted to strip you naked."

Shiraishi immediately covered his mouth, realizing that he seemed to have spoken too much.

He laughed awkwardly twice to try to get away with it.

Uesugi Che didn't think it was a big deal.

It is very normal to rob in this war-torn era. Bai Shi is very conscientious if he doesn't kill after robbing and wipe out the enemies completely.

So he took out some compressed biscuits and mineral water from his storage backpack, which he had put in there at some point, and handed them to Bai Shi after tearing open the package.

"What's this……"

Bai Shi looked alert, but was not surprised by what Uesugi Che suddenly conjured up. After all, it was normal for the legendary Onmyoji to have some strange and tricky skills.

"Food and water." Shangshan Che said, breaking off some compressed biscuits and throwing them into his mouth, and then took two sips of water. "Looking at you, you must have been hungry for a few days."

Bai Shi swallowed hard, and after seeing him eat and drink first, he took the two things doubtfully.

He stared at the compressed biscuit in his hand for a long time, and then, as if he had made a great decision, he took a big bite.

silence.

Uesugi Che looked at Shiraishi who was silent for a long time after taking a bite of the compressed biscuit, and was about to touch him to see if there was anything wrong.

The latter suddenly raised his head with shining eyes, stared at him with piercing eyes and asked seriously: "If I recognize you as the boss, can I eat this every day from now on?"

(End of this chapter)