In Tokyo, I draw cards and become a big demon

Uesugi Che blinked in surprise.

How efficient is that.

You know, it’s not as simple as missing one piece of these two pieces of equipment, but it’s a small problem that they are all electrocuted by thunder.

He estimated that even a Zashiki-warashi who was Tiangong's apprentice might not be so efficient.

Seeing his expression, Qingshan Yi couldn't help but laugh: "Uesugi-kun, what kind of skills do you think I have that allow me to take on all the artisan business of the Arakawa District Special Affairs Office by myself?"

He pointed at himself, puffed out his angular chest, and made a "six" gesture: "The weapons and equipment that have passed through my hands, at least that number."

Six figures...

Uesugi Che was speechless - this Qingshan-kun either started learning at the age of three, or started forging as soon as he opened his eyes every day. His enthusiasm for practice was comparable to that of Ririkko.

"Let's not talk about me anymore." Qingshan Yi spread out the palace official's robe and took a look. After confirming how to repair it, he asked, "Didn't Nanjo say he would add spirit to your weapon?"

Uesugi Tetsu nodded, then took out the foot soldier's spirit and the piece of "strange metal that even the Hundred-Eyed Demon had never seen before."

He was about to speak when he heard Qingshan Yi's exclamation.

"Suitable Spiritual Gold!?"

I saw Qingshan Yi throw the small hammer aside, and with a wave of heat, he walked around to Uesugi Tetsu. He didn't even look at the foot soldier spirit, but stared at the small golden ball in his hand and said in shock,

"Although it's a little small...but I'm 100% sure I'm not seeing things!"

As Qingshan Yi's words fell, the panel of the golden ball in Uesugi Che's eyes immediately changed.

【Suitable Spirit Gold】

[Quality: Epic]

[Effect: Forging it with weapons and equipment will produce several unknown beneficial effects based on the current properties of the weapons and equipment.]

【——Adapt, integrate, evolve.】

Qingshan Yi stared at the qualified spiritual gold for a long time before withdrawing his burning gaze and coughing twice.

"Uesugi-kun! This is an extremely rare and precious 'spiritual metal' of very high quality, something I've only seen in ancient books."

Qingshan Yi said seriously, "If this spiritual gold is forged with a weapon, it can enhance or compensate for its shortcomings according to the weapon's 'inherent will,' achieving a tailored and maximal improvement."

"——Uesugi-kun, what weapon are you going to incorporate it into?"

Uesugi Tetsu first placed the suitable spiritual gold in Aoyama Yoshi's hand for him to take a closer look. After satisfying the latter's curiosity and thirst for knowledge, he took out Kaga Kiyomitsu from his waist.

"Is this Kaga Kiyomitsu?"

Aoyama Yoshitsugu raised his eyes and stared at the hilt of Kaga Kiyomitsu's sword and asked.

"No, it's a replica."

Uesugi Tetsu shook his head, causing Kaga Kiyomitsu to tremble in dissatisfaction.

This shock almost shook out the overflowing sorrow of separation.

"Xiao Jia." Uesugi Tetsu immediately tapped the hilt with his knuckles and frowned, "This is in someone else's workshop, and the person in front of you is the craftsman who will help you strengthen it later."

Hearing this, Kaga Kiyomitsu immediately and honestly retracted all the sorrow of separation into the blade without leaving a trace.

"Spiritual weapons!?"

Qingshan Yi was drooling at the corners of his mouth when he saw this scene.

He suddenly felt a little hesitant to take this "Kaga Kiyomizu imitation".

Originally, whether it was qualified spiritual gold or spiritual weapons, he had never seen the former and had not handled the latter much.

However, relying on his terrifyingly vast forging experience, Qingshan Yi can still be said to be sure of success.

But it's different now.

Suitable spiritual gold + spiritual weapon.

This eye-catching and extremely precious combination made Qingshan Yi want to pick up a big hammer and forge them the next second.

But the two are too rare, and the difficulty of forging is also very high. Qingshan Yi is not very sure and can only shake his head and sigh.

"Uesugi-kun...I don't think I can help you with this."

He reluctantly put the qualified spiritual gold back into Uesugi Tetsu's hand, turned his head away and said, "My level is not good enough, I am afraid of damaging the spiritual gold and the weapon."

Is that so?

"Then I'll leave this spirit in your care. By the way, please help Xiao Jia take care of it."

Uesugi Che only took back the appropriate spiritual gold.

——Since the master craftsman in charge of the weapons of the Special Affairs Office in the entire Arakawa District said frankly that he was not sure, it seemed that he had no choice but to go to Tiangong.

But the natural workmanship in modern times and in the ordinary world can only be encountered by chance.

——Well, it won’t be too late to go back to the Warring States Period and ask Imagawa Yoshimoto if he has any news before looking for Katsumi.

Aoyama Yoshi nodded heavily, and held Kaga Kiyomitsu gently and carefully in his big hands.

"Okay, then Uesugi-kun, come get your weapons tomorrow."

He grinned, picked up a cigarette, and said, "It's a rare opportunity to encounter a spiritual weapon. I will definitely give it a full body treatment with all my heart and soul!"

Kaga Kiyomitsu hummed twice, as if to express slight fear and dissatisfaction.

Uesugi Tetsu thanked him, "Thank you very much."

buzz-

Amidst Kaga Kiyomitsu's shock, Uesugi Tetsu and Nanjo Aimi, who had a faint mint scent on her body, left the forging room together.

……

"Permission to enter the data room has been granted."

Not seeing Xiao Yuelan at the door, Nanjo Aimi didn't say much.

She tossed me the ID card hanging around her neck. "Just use my card to get in. Remember not to be too rough, and return everything to its original place after you're done looking at it. Otherwise, the administrator will be annoyed and it will be difficult to get in next time."

"So fast?"

Uesugi Tetsu was a little surprised, as this was a report from Nanjo Aimi.

In the past, wouldn't it take at least several hours to get a reply?

Nanjo Aimi shrugged: "Because you just won the real sword test today, why don't you show some appreciation to the higher-ups?"

Now, Uesugi Tetsu felt more clearly what Nanjo Ai said to him before the real sword test began.

——Show your potential and strength to the world, and then things will go according to your wishes.

Because only single entry was allowed into the information room, Nanjo Aimi only took him to the door and went off to do her business, telling him to just return the ID card to her after he finished looking through it.

drop.

After a crisp sound, Uesugi Che saw the alloy door, which was tens of centimeters thick, slowly open to both sides.

In an instant, a data room of at least several hundred square meters opened its arms to him.

Everywhere you look, there are rows of identical alloy bookshelves.

Immediately afterwards, the scent of old paper lingered at the tip of my nose.

He was familiar with this smell.

If you forget your school textbooks after graduation and leave them there for a year or two without using them, they will start to smell slightly like paper.

The entire information room was filled with this smell.

Following Nanjo Ai's instructions, he walked to the right first, put on shoe covers, and then asked softly, "Excuse me, is the administrator here?"

Uesugi Che waited for a while, and then saw a slender, white, jade-like hand slowly emerging from the bookshelf in front of him, as perfect as a work of art cast from mutton-fat jade.

It tapped the edge of the alloy bookshelf twice with its fingers to indicate that it heard it.

He froze for a moment.

“Mr. Administrator” is actually a palm?

Uesugi Tetsu: "Could you please take me to where the files from the Warring States period are stored?"

Although I don’t know whether this administrator is a man or a woman, or how capable he is, it’s definitely not wrong to use the honorific “you”.

His hand first turned back and gently closed the half-read file, then moved it horizontally from the bookshelf to the ground, and then began to lead the way.

Uesugi Tetsu followed the administrator without saying a word.

After walking for a distance, the administrator stopped at the bookshelf marked "61", then ran to the bookshelf marked "95" in the distance and knocked on it.

"You mean to say that all the files here are about the Warring States Period?"

Make a fist to show affirmation.

The corner of Uesugi Che's mouth twitched. There were at least hundreds of files on this row of bookshelves. How long would it take him to find them all by himself?

Fortunately, Sister Nanjo told me in advance that if I couldn’t find it, I could ask the administrator.

He was puzzled at the time, but now he understands.

It was said that the files of the Special Affairs Office had many omissions. There were actually tens of thousands of files from the Warring States period alone.

Uesugi Tetsu thought for a moment and said, "I want to find files about Imagawa Yoshimoto, the Mikawa uprising in the second year of the Koji era, and Hattori Hanzo."

The administrator, like an AI search machine, didn't think much about it and simply climbed onto Uesugi Tetsu's shoulder to point him in the direction.

Uesugi Che followed the direction of the finger and soon found what he wanted.

[Biography of Imagawa Yoshimoto].

【Matsudaira Motoyasu and Hattori Hanzo】.

[Speculations about several uprisings in Mikawa Province during the reign of Imagawa Yoshimoto].

Uesugi Tetsu opened the first book first and found that it was indeed very different from what Wikipedia said.

This "biography" not only clearly states that Imagawa Yoshimoto worked hard to govern the country, reduced taxes for merchants, vigorously developed the economy, and brought the Imagawa family to its peak, but it even points out that Imagawa Yoshimoto was actually a woman.

He was also mentioned as "Yiren Che", a powerful Onmyoji who lived in seclusion.

He flipped through it a few more times and wrote down some of Imagawa Yoshimoto's habits and preferences, intending to verify whether they were true when he returned to the Warring States period.

Next came the second volume, which was about the ninja he had seen before leaving, who was covered in black and called "Hanzo" by Imagawa Yoshimoto.

After looking through it for a while, Uesugi Tetsu muttered to himself,

"So, Hanzo is not actually a retainer of Imagawa Yoshimoto, but a close confidant of the old Tokugawa, a retainer of a retainer?"

My retainer's retainer is not my retainer.

This sentence also applies to the Warring States period in Japan - the words of the lord are more useful than the words of the lord's lord, or even the words of higher-ups.

Apart from this, Uesugi Tetsu didn't find anything, but he understood that Tokugawa Ieyasu and Hanzo should have a good relationship.

Very good!

He kept Hanzo in mind and opened the third volume.

As soon as I opened it, a big red warning caught my eye.

——[It seems like there is a big demon causing trouble]!

After this, the entire file first presents in great detail the causes and consequences of the riots in the Sanhe area.

Then, the irrationality of the multiple riots in Sanhe area in a short period of time was analyzed and explained from various angles.

The final file ends with an unverified conjecture:

——[The senior officials of Sanhe State seem to have been bewitched by a great demon].

It turned out that it was not the expected big demon who massacred the village and the city, but a big demon with both the ability to bewitch and high intelligence who instigated riots.

This was indeed difficult to do in that era when Onmyoji had not yet appeared.

Uesugi Che's eyes were cold.

Therefore, we must find it out when suppressing the riot for the first time and then eradicate it completely.

Snapped.

Uesugi Che closed the file, looked back at the atomic clock hanging at the door, and found that he had finished reading the three files extremely quickly.