I became the Lord of the Eternal World in Tokyo.

Only sporadic and vague voices could be heard slowly.

As for the workers who were seen wandering around the periphery last time, none of them can be seen now, as if they had all disappeared.

Uesugi Che thought about it, held his breath and climbed up the wall, then climbed up the pipe to the top of the factory and slowly headed towards the source of the sound.

——It doesn’t matter if I die in the ordinary world anyway.

In today's unknown situation, obtaining information is the most important thing.

After a while, Uesugi Che climbed onto an abandoned water barrel, silently stuck his head out from behind the iron railings, and looked at the unexpectedly wide square below.

On the square, rows of workers were lined up in an extremely neat row, which he had not seen outside before.

However, these workers did not stand. Instead, they all lowered their heads to the ground, sitting in a dojo posture and listening to the speech of the man standing on the platform in the front.

Uesugi Tetsu's eyes passed over the identical "exploited factory workers" and came a little further ahead.

In front of the workers stood four strong men wearing yellow vests and white hats.

——[Factory Inspector (two stars)].

Uesugi Che suddenly realized.

It turned out that these four people were the "factory inspectors who were more powerful than her" that the other party mentioned when he first met Nichi-sama.

It now seems to be true.

This factory is undoubtedly a hidden map in the Arakawa mysterious village.

If he had been so reckless as to want to open up a factory at that time, he would probably have been beaten to death by these inspectors.

But nowadays, these inspections are not very meaningful.

But these four inspectors are not speakers.

Uesugi Che narrowed his eyes and continued to look upwards.

Then a handsome face with a gold-rimmed monocle and a gentle smile came into view.

As it happened, he closed his mouth and stopped his original speech.

Then, the man in a clean and tidy suit cast his gaze towards Uesugi Tetsu without warning.

The next moment, the voice that was so gentle that it made people feel a little chilled sounded softly beside Uesugi Che's ear.

"How did a little bug sneak in? I'd like to ask you, what are those three highly paid security teams supposed to be patrolling at this time doing?"

Dead silence.

There was no resistance, no escape, and no negotiation.

Uesugi Tetsu only felt that his thoughts were solidified by an inexplicable external force, and he couldn't even move, as if his soul was forcibly separated from this body.

The world is spinning.

Finally, darkness and doubtful voices came together, and then quickly faded away.

……

On the big bed in the hotel, Uesugi Che suddenly opened his eyes.

"Huh...huh..."

He was breathing heavily, and in just a moment, cold sweat had soaked his back, even leaving a deep mark on the white mattress.

Uesugi Tetsu couldn't remember how long it had been since he was killed instantly like this, helplessly and without any warning.

Absolutely, no resistance.

The last time seemed to be when he first entered the world of Changshi and opened the door of Edo Castle, and happened to meet the final BOSS Fang Xiangshi.

"The factory owner..."

It took Uesugi Che a long time to come back to his senses from the strange state of separation of soul and body.

He recalled the huge label that was red to black that he saw at that moment.

——[Factory Owner Z (Five Stars)].

The factory owner, who was above the two-star inspector, actually reached the terrifying five-star level, even surpassing the ghost level!

No... maybe the factory in Arakawa's strange village is just one of the small factories under the factory owner Z, and he only came here to inspect it because of this large-scale construction with unknown purpose.

This also corresponds to what Erchi-sama said at the time, that the factory owner could only come back once every few months.

Uesugi Tetsu sat on the bed and calmed his palpitations with his breathing.

——For the time being, we cannot take action against the factory next to Arakawa Village.

As long as factory owner Z stayed there, even if he had a hundred or a thousand lives, they would not be enough for the other party to kill him.

But it just so happens that he can focus on strategies for the Warring States Period first.

Uesugi Che rested for a while, and only after making sure that he had fully recovered did he take out the blood-red key of history from his storage backpack.

He slowly injected spiritual power into it.

In an instant, the Key of History burst out with a dazzling blood-red light, devouring Uesugi Che's clear mind!

Under the illumination of the blood-red light, a large number of prompts gushed out like a sea current—

[You have used the special item · Key of History · Second Ring! ]

You are entering the late Muromachi shogunate and the middle of the Warring States period...

[Your special item, Key of History, Shrine has returned to normal.]

[It has been detected that you have completed the first stage of the main task - Admission Ticket! ]

[Reviewing the completion status of "Main Mission First Ring: Admission Ticket."]

You have joined the service of the great daimyo Imagawa Yoshimoto...

[Your influence on history has reached 0.5%...]

[Your Late Muromachi Period/Warring States Period reputation exceeds 1000 points...]

【Review Completed!】

[Please note that the second main quest, Lord of Tōkaidō, has been unlocked!]

Chapter 161 The Lord of the Second Ring of the Tokaido! The predecessor of Honganji Temple, Onmyoji Tetsu, a fraudster!

Imagawa Yoshimoto was very strange.

Maybe it's a woman's natural intuition, or maybe it's some other factor.

She always felt that just after the moment she raised her eyes, Uesugi Toru, who was walking towards her, seemed to have become different.

It's very different.

The young head of the Imagawa family repeatedly looked at Uesugi Tetsu who was slowly walking towards him, pinching his chin with his index finger and thumb.

——Could it be that because Che is so handsome, my attitude towards him has changed unconsciously?

After all, he had never seen such a handsome and steady boy before.

The key is composure.

Imagawa Yoshimoto liked his calmness of "no matter what happens in the outside world, I remain unmoved", especially his smile as faint as a calm lake.

It gives people a strong sense of security.

"But that won't do."

Imagawa Yoshimoto thought coldly in his heart.

She is the head of the Imagawa family, the common master of the three countries of Mikawa, Totomi, and Suruga, and is the daimyo who will surely rule the world in the future.

Therefore, she cannot have any private feelings that could affect her self-judgment.

Imagawa Yoshimoto looked at himself from a third-party perspective.

She had to ensure that no matter what means she used to win over this Onmyoji Che, no matter how she behaved towards him, or how she acted in the outside world—

Ultimately, he needed to maintain calm judgment from beginning to end, so as to maximize the role of Che, a rare Onmyoji in the world.

As for those personal affairs between young people, it is not too late to discuss them after you become the master of the world.

After a good self-examination, Imagawa Yoshimoto regained his inner peace.

Then she said to Hattori Hanzo who was kneeling on one knee facing her and looking behind her,

"Hanzo, this is the Onmyoji Che I mentioned earlier. There's no need to be shy. It just so happens that he's here to listen."

After saying that, Imagawa Yoshimoto smiled and waved towards Uesugi Che, pointing to the small rattan chair beside him and said, "Mr. Che, please take a seat."

After staying in the gray "time still" state for a long time, Uesugi Tetsu came over only when all the "aftereffects of time travel" disappeared, without saying much.

He sat down next to Imagawa Yoshimoto under Hanzo's indifferent gaze.

Then the girl curled her lips slightly, raised her hand and said to Hanzo,

"Go on, be thorough and detailed, leaving out as much detail as possible, and mark any uncertainties."

Wrapped in black, Hanzo nodded silently.

He lowered his head, recalling the image of Uesugi Tetsu that was deeply imprinted in his mind.

——Onmyoji Che.

The moment I looked at him just now, his aura suddenly became much stronger. Was it a show of force?

A lot of information related to Uesugi Tetsu suddenly emerged in Hanzo's memory, and he naturally remembered what his lord Matsudaira Motoyasu had said to him a few days ago.

Che is undoubtedly an Onmyoji with rich skills.

But when I looked at him, I saw a body of strong and explosive muscles underneath his thin clothes.

Moreover, his skin seemed to have been specially tempered, and perhaps even ordinary swords and knives could not cut into it.

Hanzo even discovered that there was a constant flow of air surrounding Che's body, which seemed to be the "internal energy circulation" that could only be achieved by a warrior who had practiced to an extremely deep level.

Is this the Onmyoji who "can only rely on Onmyoji techniques and Shikigami, but whose body is extremely fragile"?

——This Che is definitely not as simple as he appears.

I have to tell my lord.

Hanzo finished his thought, lowered his head, and spoke in a hoarse but clear voice, "This riot was mainly caused by the local powerful families of Mikawa Province."

Imagawa Yoshimoto raised his eyes and responded,

"Is it the Okudaira, Saigo, and Toda gang again?"

These guys had just rebelled a year and a half ago, and were easily suppressed by her.

She murmured doubtfully, "Could it be that my punishment was too light, too merciful?"

"During this time, at best, I've just been letting those rural warriors from Mikawa and Owari wear down each other's strength, but I haven't even changed the taxes."

Imagawa Yoshimoto concluded: "There is no reason for a rebellion that is bound to fail."

"What about the Matsudaira family? Are they just going to watch?"

she continued to ask.

Uesugi Tetsu didn't say anything, but just collected and organized the current information.

He heard Hanzo's reply: "The Matsudaira clan and their subordinates, the Sakai clan and the Honda clan, have taken some measures, but they have mostly remained indifferent. Apart from reporting it, they have acted as if nothing had happened."

By doing superficial work, one can express one's attitude without being overly targeted by local powerful families afterwards.

——If Matsudaira Motoyasu had not been held as a hostage of the Imagawa family in Sunpu Castle, there is a high possibility that the Matsudaira family would have joined this riot in the Mikawa region.

Imagawa Yoshimoto heard the Matsudaira family's behavior, which could almost be described as lip service, but he did not get angry. Instead, he asked the two most important words about this incident.

"What about the 'great demon'? What's the situation with the great demon? What did the head of the Jodo Shinshu sect in Mikawa say?"

Hanzo: "The news about the great demon came from the mouth of that master."

Imagawa Yoshimoto stopped talking, she narrowed her eyes and fell into deep thought.

Uesugi Tetsu raised his eyebrows in surprise - Jodo Shinshu, these four words left a deep impression on him after he had cram school on the knowledge of the Warring States Period.

Because the predecessor of Honganji is the Jodo Shinshu sect.