In Tokyo, I draw cards and become a big demon

However, in just a few seconds, Uesugi Tetsu felt that his originally calm state of mind, like the surface of a lake, was now as still as if covered by a thick layer of ice.

It was as if he had been practicing this skill wholeheartedly for more than ten years, mastering it perfectly and applying it in his spiritual state of mind.

【You have learned the skill of Zanshin.】

【Canxin】

[Effect: Maintains mental stability. Immune to most control and charm effects.]

[——A swordsman should always be vigilant and alert.]

No wonder Katsumi said this was what he needed - immunity to control skills, which was extremely important for swordsmen like Uesugi Tetsu who could only cause damage at close range.

"Boss Katsumi."

Uesugi Tetsu emphasized: "I accept this kindness."

Katsumi folded his hands, as if singing a Noh play, and said, "I hope you will bear with me in the future."

"However, this skill can probably only protect against spiritual attacks below the level of ghosts and gods," Katsumi warned. "Please do not overly rely on or be superstitious about its effects. Just learn from its essence."

Prevention is below four stars... For me now, isn't this equivalent to mental attacks being ineffective?

Now, perhaps I am unable to deal with love and separation from a spiritual perspective. As for why I say perhaps, it is because love and separation is one of the eight sufferings, and cannot be generalized with ordinary monsters and ghosts.

Uesugi Che was secretly shocked. Maybe Katsumi just picked up a random item from the treasure house and didn't think it was a big deal, but this favor was indeed a big deal for him.

"Thank you for the reminder." Uesugi Tetsu said goodbye in a slightly formal manner, "Boss Katsumi, see you someday."

"Goodbye, my lord."

Katsumi stared at the back of Uesugi Tetsu who had turned around, humming a tune and hesitating about what to say in blessing. When he saw a pair of cold steel arm armor placed in its original place on the table, he happily tapped the fan against his palm.

The next moment, his long and graceful voice came out from the tile house.

"—Then I wish you good fortune and prosperity in the next few days!"

Uesugi Che, who had already walked far away, paused for a moment, because a prompt suddenly popped up in front of him: [Soul ash acquisition efficiency +2% in the next three days, rare equipment drop rate +2%]

"Good fortune and prosperity..."

Uesugi Tetsu repeated this sentence.

Is this the power of a ghost-level existence? Just one sentence can give you such a buff.

Or does it mean that this actually has nothing to do with the ghost level, and it is just that Sheng Hai's existence is special?

Apart from Katsumi, Uesugi Tetsu has not formally come into contact with any other ghost or god, so he is not sure which statement is correct.

But one thing is for sure.

That is, his goal these few days is to earn enough soul ashes to buy those two sets of cold steel arm armor!

"The current soul ash count is 533... still over short."

With such a huge gap in soul ash, it is definitely not enough to rely solely on the income from killing monsters at Ruyue Station. Grandpa Gaosu on the other side is not absolutely sure himself and may even lose his life in vain.

In the real world, you can't just accept supernatural commissions whenever you want, and the target demon may not appear immediately. It would be too slow to communicate with the client before getting rid of the demon.

The only remaining option is...

"Edo Castle."

Uesugi Tetsu held Kaga Kiyomitsu tightly around his waist.

He thought it was time to go back to the four-star map where any demon could kill him with a kick, and this time, he would never be beheaded by the wandering warrior again.

But before that, let's try to use the Life and Death Drum to attract the group of demons to kill them and see how much soul ash we can get, and whether it will be different from the naturally generated group of demons.

He didn't call out Lord Erchi, who was about to recover his one-star strength. He could do this simple task alone.

Coming to the railroad tracks in the middle of the avenue, Uesugi Tetsu sat on the ground with the snow-white surface of the Shengsheng Taiko facing up.

Then, he gently flicked out his fingertips wrapped in the corona energy.

thump...

In an instant, hundreds of overlapping drum beats drifted towards the mountains, forests, and the sky in the distance.

Uesugi Tetsu put away the life and death drum, closed his eyes, placed his hand on the hilt of the knife, and carefully sensed the number of demons appearing around him.

Hundreds, three hundred, seven hundred, thousands...

In just five or six minutes, the number of demons that Uesugi Che roughly sensed had reached over four digits, and was even growing rapidly.

The nearest half-star demon was only a few meters away from him.

"Using inner energy to strike the drum once can create such a spectacular scene. The effect of Taiko drumming is truly beyond imagination."

The swordsman, who had just acquired the skills of Zanshin and Iaijutsu and was itching to practice, happily stood up, slowly drew out the legendary katana, and exhaled his already scalding breath.

Uesugi Tetsu grinned and said, "Come, let me see if you are qualified to be wooden dummies."

Then, the evil spirits rushed over.

Not far away, Ye Chun, who was sitting in the back seat of a car in a dishevel, heard rustling noises around him and couldn't help but roll down the window to look towards the source of the drum sounds.

Then, Ye Chun saw countless translucent monsters that almost killed her rushing towards it like a surging tide.

For a moment, there was an opening between the trees, allowing Ye Chun to see Prajna, who was laughing loudly and dancing like a dragon in the center of the group of demons.

She couldn't help but show fear in her eyes: "If I meet this evil ghost, there will be no way to survive."

……

【You have gained 57 soul ash points.】

Uesugi Che let out a light breath, opened his eyes, and saw Lilizi staring at him blankly from top to bottom.

She glanced at the sky outside the window and couldn't help but sigh, "Uesugi-kun, you're sleeping so soundly. The club activities are about to start. If you don't wake up, I'll have to carry you out."

The effect of the stability-maintaining spirit brought by Zanshin was particularly good. Uesugi Tetsu, who had just been drowned by the group of demons again, sat up calmly and said, "If that's the case, then why are you still staring at me?"

"That's because I heard your breathing suddenly become disordered." Lilizi chuckled, "I thought you were unlucky while you were asleep and were about to save someone."

Uesugi Tetsu was speechless: "Not everyone is like you..."

"I'm just afraid you'll try to force yourself to imitate me."

Lilizi stuck out her tongue and clicked her tongue unhappily: "Because I get mad when I think about Runa doing homework next to me while I was taking a nap, even though my grades were terrible back then."

The saying "The sound of my roommate flipping through books keeps me awake at night" is exactly like this.

"It was just a nightmare."

Uesugi Tetsu yawned, and was annoyed when he saw Lilizi constantly spitting out tiny air swords in front of him, but he still said, "Lilizi, don't push yourself too much, you will be exhausted."

"Then who will make up for the lack of strength I have? Will you compensate me, Uesugi-kun?"

Lilizi snorted and poked Uesugi Tetsu in the waist with her elbow.

In response to Lilizi's Hell-killing Knife on the head, Uesugi Tetsu pondered for a moment and said casually:

"——It's just an inexplicable feeling, as if something is always chasing you from behind."

Lilizi's steps froze for a moment.

Chapter 90 A Little More Than a Ruthless Person

But it was only a moment later that Lilizi said sinisterly,

"If you don't reach the level of Sword Heart Enlightenment before you turn eighteen, then you'll have to go back to your family and marry the useless second generation ancestor of another big family. Hehehehehe..."

Seeing Uesugi Tetsu's strange look, Lilizi spread her hands.

"Isn't that how it's written in scripted games? Most stories are clichéd."

Uesugi Tetsu was too lazy to reply to her. He simply concluded that this person was someone who had read too many light novels and The Return of the Dragon King and was beyond help.

"By the way, Uesugi-kun, would you like to come back to the Special Affairs Office with me when you leave school?" Ririkko came over, raised her fist, the muscles in her forearm clearly defined. "We can have an extra practice session tonight."

"If you don't think I was beaten enough this afternoon, just tell me."

Uesugi Che rolled his eyes at her and said, "I'm going to have a good sleep when I get home."

——Going into Edo Castle and collecting soul ash can be considered a good night’s sleep, there’s nothing wrong with that.

Lilizi tutted, turned around and continued walking beside Uesugi Tetsu.

However, this time the distance was not a clear half meter, but two fists with a somewhat blurred boundary.

"Sister Manfuyu is already waiting for us at the door. What's up? Do you want to get in the car?"

Uesugi Tetsu answered with actions.

After a while, the two of them walked to the school gate and saw the battle-scarred van.

The window of the van was rolled down, so from a distance one could see Shizuma Mafuyu, dressed in an office lady outfit, fast asleep on the steering wheel, with a can of black coffee next to her hand.

Lilizi sighed, "Drinking coffee and sleeping at the same time, isn't that fighting poison with poison? And if you can't sleep well and you can't be energetic, isn't that just torturing yourself?"

"I can tell you're not a coffee-drinking office worker."

Uesugi Tetsu sighed with empathy, "You know, sleeping in the first few days after drinking coffee is the most efficient way to wake up refreshed."

"I don't care. It's definitely dangerous for Mafuyu-san to drive this sleepy."

Ririkos frowned and just as she walked to the car, she saw Shizuma Manfuyu suddenly raise her head and look at her intently, with two dark circles under her eyes that were extremely conspicuous.

"There will be no danger, Ms. Tokugawa."

Shizuma Manfuyu spoke in a daze, and took out a Nanjo doll from her pocket that looked familiar to Uesugi Tetsu, a doll with rough and broken strings.

Just when the two people outside the car thought she was going to perform some Yin-Yang magic, Shizuma Mafuyu poked the doll's forehead with her finger.

Then, as if some mechanism was triggered, the doll slapped Shizuma Mafuyu twice in the face!

The sound was crisp and loud, and the attack was completely merciless.

It is hard to imagine how the doll could use its two soft and weak little hands to slap someone so cruelly and loudly.

The two people outside the car were stunned.

Lilizi swallowed the words "That's totally unconvincing!" that were about to come out of her mouth and couldn't help but give two thumbs up: "Sister Manfuyu, you are really a ruthless person."

Uesugi Che's eyebrows twitched wildly, and there seemed to be a phantom pain on his face: "Pure werewolf, a little more than a ruthless person."

The two get in the car.

After deciding to send Uesugi Tetsu home first, the girl sitting in the passenger seat couldn't help but say, "Sister Manfuyu, why don't you learn some breathing techniques from me? Otherwise, I think your fragile body will die suddenly in the early morning hours of overtime work sooner or later."

Shizuma Mafuyu pursed her lips and concentrated on driving: "Let's forget about this..."

This will affect the Nanjo clan.

"This will affect Nanjo-sama-san—that's what you think, Ms. Shizuma, right?"

Shizuma Mafuyu gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands, while Ririko looked at Uesugi Tetsu who was fiddling with the battle-damaged seat belt in the back seat with a puzzled look on her face.

Lilizi first stared at Shizuma Mafuyu's profile for a while, then turned around and asked in shock, "Could it be that Uesugi-kun has also learned the Yin-Yang technique of reading minds?"

After discovering that the seat belt buckle was malfunctioning, Uesugi Tetsu didn't tolerate it. He tore it off and threw it on the seat before saying, "It's simply because Ms. Jingjian's thoughts are written all over her face."

"oh oh!"

So, Ririkko turned around, and during the 100-second red light, she held Shizuma Mafuyu's hand and said seriously, "Don't worry about this, Mafuyu-sister. Nanjo-san won't take care of such trivial matters, and I'll take care of Kondo-san's side."

"——If you, Mafuyu-san, really ended up in the emergency room because of working all night, Manatsu would definitely cry too."

"what……"

Ms. Tokugawa is so cunning that she even brought Manatsu out!

Shizuma Mafuyu rarely showed her annoyance in her expression. She scratched her hair hard, feeling her thoughts in a tangled mess.

So she took out the Nanjo doll again and used the same trick.

After two crisp slaps, Shizuma Mafuyu felt the swelling on her face and nodded silently: "I'll learn."

Because if he couldn't make his physique stronger, he wouldn't be able to withstand even two more slaps from the doll that Nanjo-sama gave him.

If this goes on, how can she help Lord Nanjo share the work!

Ririko looked at the silly Nanjo doll, then looked at Shizuma Manfuyu who was slapped but still full of energy, and thought to herself that it turned out that Mafuyu liked this way of playing.

"In that case, I will teach you well, Mafuyu-san!"