I'm a demon in Tokyo!

Chapter 36: Immortal Eight Bitterness, Different Sword Heart

Ouija board?
Kondo Tomoya frowned: "Mr. Nanjo, I haven't heard of anything related to this."

"Because this is a half-star incident." Nanjo Aimi crossed her arms and yawned. "The only demon in the entire incident was a half-star vengeful fox-dog raccoon dog, and by the time we arrived, it had already been exorcised."

She pointed at Uesugi Tetsu: "It was even this Uesugi-kun who said something was wrong with the Ouija board and suggested we bring it back."

Kondo Tomoya was speechless. He usually didn't care about events below two stars, let alone a mere half-star ghost story.

"-Perhaps this Ouija board is very important to Aibieli, and she doesn't know that it is in our hands now, so she went to find the two survivors of that incident."

Nanjo Aimi: "This explanation is very reasonable."

No one objected.

Because apart from this, there is no other explanation that can explain the strange behavior of Aibieli.

"So what's taken so long?" Ririkko tapped the table with her fingers and asked, "Has anyone told us what the two victims' love and separation are? A demon? A strange story? Or something else?"

Kondo Tomoya was about to refuse on the grounds that the less he knew, the safer he was, but Nanjo Aimi had already spoken: "Have you heard of the Eight Bitternesses?"

"—Birth, aging, sickness, death, separation from loved ones, reunion with those we hate, failure to obtain what we desire, and the prevalence of the five aggregates."

He slammed the table and stood up: "Young Master Nanjo!"

Nanjo Aimi had a blank expression on her face as she confronted her boss: "If you don't tell me now, do you think I'll tell you in front of their graves?!"

"They've already experienced the separation of love up close, Kondo Daizu." Nanjo Aimi said word by word, "You have no right to deprive those involved of their right to know."

Kondo Tomoya's face flushed with anger: "You——!"

But he could not refute what Nanjo Aimi said because this was one of the basic regulations of the Special Affairs Office.

——[Anyone who comes into contact with it will know].

Ririkko remained silent as she watched this scene. She remembered herself asking Nanjo Aimi what the friendship club was.

But what Nanjo Aimi did at this moment could be said to be completely opposite to what she did that night.

Therefore, even Ririkko had to admit that Nanjo Aimi was really responsible, both to herself and others.

Nanjo Aishi stared at her boss with a ruthless tone: "Don't treat them as ignorant little brats, and don't think you can protect everyone by yourself."

"—Kondo Daizu, has too much power given you too much arrogance?"

Kondo Tomoya clenched his rough fists, speechless.

He sat down slowly and admitted his mistake: "I'm very sorry."

Nanjo Aimi continued to explain to Uesugi Tetsu and the others, "Although the so-called Eight Sufferings are a concept proposed by Buddhism, the negative emotions of people in the human world—or in the present world—objectively exist and accumulate."

“When these negative emotions accumulate to a certain level, a certain opportunity will cause a large part of them to be extracted and form one of the eight sufferings.”

At this point, Nanjo Aimi also sighed: "This is also the reason why Yaku can never be killed."

Uesugi Tetsu, who was numb from listening, guessed, "Because even if they are killed, at some point in the future, prompted by some opportunity, a new Eight Sufferings will be born."

"Yes."

Nanjo Aimi nodded.

Uesugi Che didn't know what to say. The name sounded like a super BOSS. How come he encountered one before he even left the novice village?

Kondo Tomoya closed his eyes and said, "This generation's love and separation doesn't look like a new generation. Can I ask how you two survived her clutches?"

Uesugi Che glanced at Nanjo Aimi, who was smacking her lips and reaching into her pocket for a cigarette pack from time to time to satisfy her craving.

If Nanjo-san hadn't been standing here, he believed Kondo Tomoya would never have asked in such a polite tone.

So Uesugi Tetsu had already thought about the wording in this regard while he was on the road.

"Because I carry the precious sword passed down in my family."

He placed Kaga Kiyomitsu, who was leaning against the chair leg, on the table, laid it flat, and slowly pulled it out.

Kondo Tomoya's pupils shrank, and he blurted out, "Kaga Kiyomitsu?!" Nanjo Aimi couldn't help but glance over at the famous katana in history: "The one Okita Souji used? But it's said to be broken, isn't it?"

Uesugi Tetsu responded fluently: "So it's a replica, but even so, it can still cause considerable damage to demons. I've been carrying it with me lately."

His explanation was very reasonable and successfully diverted Kondo Tomoya's attention to the katana. He touched and looked at it, and repeatedly praised it as a good sword.

However, Kaga Kiyomitsu did not move and seemed to be unimpressed by Kondo Tomoya.

After returning Kaga Kiyomitsu to Uesugi Tetsu, Kondo Tomoya reluctantly looked away.

A swordsman is like Aquaman. Even if he already has a favorite sword, no swordsman would complain about having too many good swords in his hands.

So, the next pressure fell on Lilizi.

Uesugi Tetsu also looked over.

In fact, he was also quite curious about how Lilizi took down Aibieli's clone without any injury - judging from the soul ashes that exploded from the clone, it was almost at the level of a one-star demon.

Even though Lilizi's swordsmanship level and realm crushed him, her physical fitness was still within the range of ordinary people.

Lilizi: "I didn't kill that clone, but she realized she couldn't affect me and dissipated on her own initiative."

"Impossible." Kondo Tomoya interrupted, "Even if Aibieli only uses his clones, it's enough to control dozens or even hundreds of ordinary people at the same time. Only when one reaches a level of enlightenment beyond the reach of ordinary people can one be free from this control."

“So I’m not an ordinary person.”

Lilizi raised her calm eyes and looked at Kondo Tomoya: "The sword heart is clear? Me too."

The conference room fell silent instantly.

Uesugi Tetsu stifled a laugh, thinking to himself that Lilizi was both skilled and cool, even more so than pretending—you think it's hard to be a clear-minded person? But sorry, me too.

Kondo Tomoya didn't need to tell whether Ririkko's words were true or false.

Because at the moment of their eyes, he had already caught a glimpse of the girl's brilliant sword heart that was constantly sharpening itself and slowly expanding.

It's just like a vibrant newborn star!
Different from his insightful view of everything in the world, this... Miss Tokugawa Ririko's direction in cultivating the swordsmanship seems to be more self-centered and pure.

"Become stronger."

That's it.

Such purity prompts her spirit and consciousness to become more refined and more powerful than the previous moment at every moment.

But if it is not controlled and allowed to expand——

At that time, the overly powerful spirit will not only destroy herself, but also destroy all the people around her who are attracted by this dazzling brilliance.

Kondo Tomoya, who was a little worried, moved his eyes away from Ririko's eyes, and was stunned when he saw the girl's childish face.

He suddenly realized that Tokugawa Ririko seemed to be just a high school student?

"Excuse me, Miss Tokugawa, how old are you this year?"

"eighteen."

"Where is the master?"

"If I had to say, my school's kendo club instructor, Hideya Kondo, would be one of them."

Kondo Tomoya's thoughts froze when he heard his brother's name in an unexpected place.

He remembered that his brother had no talent for transcendence, so he became a physical education teacher. Even today, he was still stuck at the stage of achieving unity between man and sword...

——In other words, without any exposure to supernatural skills, Tokugawa Ririko single-handedly broke through this natural barrier that had stifled countless people?!
Moreover, he was only eighteen years old.

Realizing this, Kondo Tomoya swallowed hard, and his voice subconsciously softened.
"Ms. Tokugawa, would you like to join the Special Affairs Office? I can be your half-master."

Tokugawa Ririko frowned when she heard this.

(End of this chapter)