In Tokyo, I draw cards and become a big demon

Just when Uesugi Tetsu was feeling puzzled, a pile of unnatural fallen leaves at the foot of the cliff caught his attention.

He narrowed his eyes slightly and caught sight of the yellow drum with black edges in the disguise of fallen leaves, as well as four lifelike puppets hidden beside it.

The entire drum is about two meters in diameter, and is outlined with a pattern similar to black magatama. It is vivid and lifelike, making people feel that the magatama may jump out of the drum at any time.

As for the drumsticks and the wooden stand that should have held the taiko drum, they were nowhere to be seen.

Uesugi Che was about ten meters away from the bottom of the cliff, but this distance was nothing to him. Instead, he could use the acceleration of gravity to swing his sword even faster.

Should I kill the drum first or the puppet first?

Although the taiko drum has a large area and is easy to hit, Uesugi Tetsu always feels that those puppets are the real body of the taiko drum bells.

Because of the taiko bell, the taiko appeared, but there was no sign of the bell.

Faced with this difficult decision, Uesugi Tetsu's choice was -

Want them all!

Only children make choices. If he doesn’t use all the Coronal Breathing and the skilled Natural Reasoning Flow he just learned, wouldn’t it be a waste of his time?

So, Uesugi Tetsu changed his breathing method.

Coronal Breathing, Type 2!

The small ball of corona energy in the body exploded in an instant, and spread throughout the body with a breath, bringing a burning pain while also making Prajna's physical functions reach the peak in an instant.

At this moment, Uesugi Che even felt that his eyes could emit fire!

"call--"

The roaring breath of a lion or tiger echoed in the silent forest.

The taiko bells, hidden in silence, had just heard the sound and hadn't yet reacted.

The cold blade light had already fallen from the sky.

Like a raging fire gathering into a line, Kaga Kiyomitsu's scorching blade cut the huge taiko in half!

The black and yellow drums fell heavily to the sides, and only then did the four puppets see the Laughing Prajna who appeared out of nowhere.

Instead of being afraid, they all took out bells of various shapes and rang them with murmurs of hatred.

Intense pain instantly swept through Uesugi Tetsu's entire body, especially his head, which felt like being bitten by thousands of insects and ants.

But this cannot kill Prajna.

Injuries and pain will only make him, who is already strong, even stronger!

"Bell? I have one too."

Uesugi Tetsu gritted his teeth and finished off the taiko, completely chopping it into a pile of scraps. At the same time, he took out the Komainu bell and shook it quickly.

Jingle bell bell~

Two straw Komainu suddenly emerged from the void where there was nothing. This time, even without Uesugi Che saying anything, they had already identified their target and ran towards the four puppets.

However, the ringing sound that caused Uesugi Tetsu extreme pain seemed to have no effect on the Komainu.

The four puppets were startled and slowed down the speed of shaking the bells in their hands, trying to escape into the depths of the forest.

"Hmph, can you escape?"

With a breath, Uesugi Tetsu, who had transformed the injury into stronger physical strength, had come behind the puppet that had escaped the farthest, and cut it in half from head to toe with a sword as powerful as a bamboo!

The two Komainu did the same thing. They were immune to the bells and soon ran behind the puppets, shaking their heads wildly, trying to tear them to pieces.

The battle situation was going very well. Uesugi Tetsu had never expected that the Komainu would be immune to this strange sonic attack.

He was about to chase the last puppet, but he inexplicably felt an indescribable palpitation.

Uesugi Tetsu stared at the circular shadow among the fallen leaves in front of him.

——That was a taiko drum! It had been placed on the wooden stand at some point!

Chapter 85: The drums keep beating, life and death are at stake

Boom!

Boom!Boom!

Boom!Boom!Boom!

Four intact puppets stood on a towering wooden frame with eerie smiles on their faces.

Two of them used jade-white drumsticks to gradually increase the force of the blows on the strange drum surface, while the other two temporarily hid behind the drums and shook the brand new bells.

Uesugi Tetsu looked back and found that the broken drum fragments on the ground had disappeared at some point, and the Komainu that was originally biting the stuffed doll in its mouth suddenly had nothing in its mouth.

The dull sound of the taiko drums swept slowly across the forest like waves. In just a moment, the two Komainu that wanted to rush forward exploded all over, turning into straw and linen flying all over the sky.

Neither the taiko drum nor the puppet is the main body of the taiko bell?

Uesugi Tetsu's gaze immediately locked onto the exquisite jade-white drumsticks held in the hands of the two puppets, which were clearly out of place with the surrounding environment.

——Could it be that those drumsticks are the true form of the taiko bells?!

"whispering sound."

I didn't expect that a mere non-human ghost could have so many tricks and ingenuity. I have to admit that the taiko bell trick really fooled Uesugi Tetsu.

Although he was shocked and spit out a mouthful of blood, there was no sign of retreat in Uesugi Tetsu's eyes.

Coronal Breathing, Form 1!

The condensed and burning internal energy flows in the body, quickly clearing away blood stasis and repairing injuries.

Faced with the strange tactics of the Taiko Bells, Uesugi Tetsu wanted to proceed as cautiously as possible.

If we are more radical, we may fall into its trap again.

"Hee hee hee!"

"Giggle!"

The puppets laughed in a creepy way and beat the drums again and again, as if they were disdainful of the stupidity of Hannya in front of them.

The echoes of the drums accumulated more and more in the mountains and forests, and the damage became higher and higher. If it continued like this, even Uesugi Tetsu, who had the talent for berserker combat, would not be able to continue to hold on.

"Want to piss me off?" Uesugi Che slowly assumed a three-stage thrust stance and sighed, "Unfortunately, you chose the wrong person."

In the gap between the last time the drumstick fell and was raised, Uesugi Tetsu stepped forward without hesitation, inhaling and exhaling the hot internal energy, and withstood the reverberating sound wave attack to send out Kaga Kiyomitsu!

puff!

The sturdy taiko drum suddenly made a sound of leaking air, and the sound waves that were originally echoing and overlapping suddenly stopped and broke off.

But instead of being frightened, the four puppets showed a wild laugh at the same time, as if their evil plan had succeeded.

“Hehehe——!”

Uesugi Tetsu stopped swinging his sword, opened the blessed folding fan in his hand, and looked at me with a cold look: "You think you can use the same trick on me a second time?"

The breeze slowly started to move, causing Prajna's figure, which was suspended in mid-air, to move three meters to the left in an instant.

The next moment, a piece of intact black and yellow leather drum surface slammed heavily on the damaged drum surface, repairing the leaky drum.

If Uesugi Che had been unlucky enough to be hit, he would probably have been sealed in the drum by now, and would have been shattered by the sound waves that could echo thousands of times in an instant.

"Huh--?"

The puppets stopped beating the drums and stared in surprise and confusion at Prajna, who did not die as expected.

——There is something wrong with this demon.

——Or, let’s kill it together with Bakabaji someday?

Taiko Bell had already begun to think of retreating at this moment. Although it still had many killer moves that it had not yet used, there was really no benefit in fighting a life-and-death battle with such a foreign demon without knowing the reason.

Uesugi Tetsu would never allow this to happen. Taiko Bell had severely injured him, and he still wanted to run away?

But he guessed that Taiko Bell might still have some tricks that he hadn't used yet, and it would be difficult to defend against them all.

"In that case, let's make a quick decision to avoid any further complications."

The chief priest's robe fell on him without warning, making the taiko drum bells even more powerful.

Just as it asked the puppet to shake the bell, wanting them to carry it away quickly, a bolt of lightning landed accurately on the drumstick.

Stab it!

Whether it was the drums, the bells, or the puppets, their movements all stopped for a moment.

Sure enough, the two drumsticks are the main body and core!

Uesugi Che once again maintained the three-stage burst posture and rushed forward, but this time his speed was far beyond what he had before. If one listened carefully, one could even discover that Prajna squeezed the cold air to produce a series of harsh bubble bursting sounds.

In the mountains and forests, Prajna flashed and rushed forward like a ghost.

Coronal Breathing, Form Five!

——No matter how much corona energy is left in the body, it will be consumed in a single breath.

Thus, an unprecedented all-out attack was unleashed!

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

After the taiko bell came back to its senses from its brief paralysis, it felt the threatening shadow of death pressing down on it like a sky curtain.

Under pressure, it had no time to think or fight back, and could only rely on instinct to throw the huge drum to Uesugi Tetsu like a consumable.

Crack!

With the first sword, Kaga Kiyomitsu tore and burned through the taiko drum from the center, while the expressionless Prajna continued to close the distance between the two.

"Squeak!"

The four puppets quickly merged into one, transforming into a drummer who was over one meter tall and had a hideous face, countless stitches on his body.

But before it could pick up the drumstick and start hitting them against each other, Kaga Kiyomitsu's blade had already arrived.

With the second sword strike, Uesugi Tetsu dodged the flying wide wooden frame and the drummer's grab like a dragon.

He half-crouched down, allowing the sword blade to penetrate the drummer's entire head from bottom to top, burning it to ashes.

In the open space not far away, only two lonely jade-white drumsticks were left, desperately trying to escape into the distance. Although the regeneration of the puppet and the drum only took a short time.

But the speed at which this demon attacked was too fast, too—

Taiko Bell's thoughts came to an abrupt halt before he could utter the curse in his heart.

The third sword, Prajna, came like a storm.

The cold blade light meandered and attacked from the side and rear, but in an instant it pierced through the two drumsticks that were not in the same straight line!

——Natural rational flow·Three-stage breakthrough!

After the last sword thrust, the two drumsticks let out a confused whine, and the originally faint and strange echo suddenly dissipated.

——Taiko bells, exorcism!

Uesugi Tetsu's five senses immediately returned to normal.

He looked at his hands.

Kaga Kiyomitsu's blade vibrated happily, draining the two exquisite and beautiful drumsticks into ashes in a short while.

Uesugi Tetsu stood there, blood seeping out from under the mask, and he was breathing with some difficulty.

After the battle, the physical pains came back like a tide, especially since he had just used the complete three-stage thrust and the fifth form of the Corona Breathing Technique for the first time.

The power of these two skills used at the same time is too strong, both for oneself and the enemy.

Just running and wielding the sword just now almost made his body collapse and he fell halfway.

Uesugi Tetsu felt that this could almost be called a secret.

But it's all worth it -

You killed the two-star ghost story "Taiko Bell" and obtained 340 soul ash!

[You used Kaga Kiyomitsu·Imitation to kill "Taiko Bell", Kaga Kiyomitsu·Imitation's quality has been slightly improved.]

[Your skill, Corona Breathing proficiency +92! ]

[Your skill, Natural Rational Flow proficiency +94! ]