I became the Lord of the Eternal World in Tokyo.

Upon hearing Tamamo's words, Uesugi Tetsu remembered that his last meal was grilled bird, which he had eaten with Ririko and Nanjo the night before.

Moreover, although the roasted bird was advertised as a buffet, the actual portion size was ridiculously small.

If the food hadn't tasted pretty good, Uesugi Tetsu would have filed a complaint against the restaurant in the name of the Special Affairs Department.

I really don't understand why just changing "roast chicken" to "roast bird" can cause such a huge change in price and portion size.

This magic is truly amazing.

"Then please."

Uesugi Tetsu put his hands together and said earnestly, "Tamamo-senpai, please give me a delicious and large bowl of ramen."

"Since Brother Uesugi has said so, then we'll leave it to you!"

Tamamo patted her chest twice, letting Uesugi Tetsu call her senpai, while she called Uesugi Tetsu big brother.

—Tamamo is right, the ramen shop is indeed not far from the dojo, it takes about ten minutes to walk there for an average person.

"But who can find the shop in this location?"

After navigating countless twists and turns, Uesugi Tetsuya finally stopped in a narrow alleyway, barely wide enough for two people to walk side by side, somewhat speechless.

He looked up but couldn't even see the signboard with the shop's name printed on it.

In other words, if you don't go inside and ask, you won't even know what's being sold inside, or even if it's a shop at all.

"It's perfect that such a hidden gem of a shop is located in a spot like this!" Tamamo grinned. "Otherwise, if we arrived at this hour, there wouldn't be any seats left!"

"If the boss did this based on your suggestion, he'll definitely be wishing you good luck in his heart."

Uesugi Tetsuya thought to himself, then followed them inside.

Tamamo waved her hand skillfully and sat down on the old wooden chair in front of the counter: "Boss! Two bowls as usual, and the other one extra large!"

Not long after she finished speaking, a middle-aged man wearing a white chef's uniform, a headscarf, and a kind smile came out from inside.

He greeted them just as skillfully.

"Oh, it's Tamamo. How was work today?"

So Tamamo started complaining to the owner of the ramen shop about all sorts of things.

While listening, the owner hand-pulled the noodles, and in just over ten seconds, he had pulled the dough from scratch into a bowl of noodles.

He can be called a ramen master.

Uesugi Tetsu didn't speak.

He stared quietly at the seemingly kind boss, then gently tapped the restless Kaga Kiyomitsu with his fingertip.

Uesugi Tetsu turned his gaze to Yagyu Akira beside him and found that his face also had no extra expression.

"So, after eating at this noodle shop for so long, they didn't even notice the owner's genuine skill in cooking?"

—In Uesugi Tetsu's perception, the seemingly ordinary ramen shop owner in front of him was also someone whose swordsmanship could disrupt his senses, and was on the same level as the instructor from before.

As for who is stronger or weaker, Uesugi Tetsu couldn't really tell.

But now he understood why the owner opened the shop this way... Maybe he just didn't want ordinary customers to come in and bother him.

"Three bowls of chess piece tempura noodles, mildly spicy, please!"

With the boss's booming shout, a large bowl of ramen, bubbling with blood-red bubbles, was placed in front of Uesugi Tetsuya, causing his lips to twitch.

This is supposed to be "mildly spicy"?

Tamamo chuckled and picked up her chopsticks: "Brother Uesugi, don't worry about eating! This meal is on me!"

No, is this a question of whether or not to treat people to a meal?

Soon, the sound of slurping noodles could be heard from the side, accompanied by a girl's cheerful shout.

After Tamamo had taken three or four bites, she noticed that Uesugi Tetsu was still stirring the noodles with his chopsticks, looking hesitant.

So she waved her hand and said confidently, "Don't be fooled by how red this noodle soup is, it's actually not spicy at all."

Is that right?

With a skeptical attitude, Uesugi Tetsu used his blood-red chopsticks to pick up the glistening, piping hot noodles and put them in his mouth.

Tamamo stared at him, chewing on her crunchy tempura as she asked, "How is it? It's not spicy at all, is it?"

"Hiss—not spicy."

Uesugi Tetsu answered in this way.

Then, to prove that it wasn't spicy, he took two more bites, while receiving a nostalgic look from Yagyu Akira.

After a fierce battle where he gave it his all, Uesugi Tetsuya, adhering to the principle of not wasting anything, slammed the bowl down.

He stared at his trembling hands, remaining silent.

Looking at Tamamo next to him, who was chewing noodles with great relish, Uesugi Tetsuya suddenly realized how stark the regional differences were.

If it weren't for Tamamo's Kansai accent, he would have thought she came from the Sichuan-Chongqing region.

"By the way, Brother Uesugi, what's your Special Affairs Bureau code? Let's add each other as friends."

After ordering three more tempura pieces from the owner, Tamamo, who was taking a break, patted her belly, making a crisp "dudu" sound, and then took out her phone.

Uesugi Tetsuya, puzzled, asked in as calm a tone as possible, "What is this?"

"It's a planetary number that's usually hidden in your app profile..."

Tamamo paused halfway through her sentence, swiped Uesugi Tetsuya's phone screen with her finger, and opened her mouth wide: "You don't have the Special Affairs Department app, do you?!"

Uesugi Tetsu raised an eyebrow: "What's the use of this?"

Tamamo felt that her understanding had been refreshed.

There are operators who don't even have the Special Affairs Bureau app? How did Uesugi Tetsuya survive all this time and do so many missions...?

Following Tamamo's instructions, Uesugi Tetsu entered a line of code and then downloaded the Special Affairs Bureau app with the black icon from the store.

Uesugi Tetsu seems to vaguely recognize this icon.

A while ago, when Kitano Runa was testing her qualifications, she seemed to have downloaded it to see the treatment for those with S-class potential.

However, he really didn't pay much attention to it.

The Special Affairs Department's app was downloaded quickly.

"Click this first, then this one, and finally this one..."

Like a simplified tutorial, Tamamo saved Uesugi Tetsuya a lot of unnecessary troublesome steps and took him directly to the login screen.

"Then you can just scan your face."

As she spoke, three steaming golden tempura pieces were placed in front of Tamamo. She licked her lips and pounced on them like a ferocious beast.

Uesugi Tetsu followed the procedure to scan his face, but a prompt popped up on the screen: "Please release your spiritual power to verify the spiritual power fluctuations."

The Special Affairs Bureau really has a lot of high-tech stuff; they can even verify the authenticity of spiritual power through a mobile phone.

Without much thought, Uesugi Tetsu placed his finger on the screen and channeled a wisp of spiritual energy into the Yin-Yang formula that had disappeared after the prompt vanished.

【Respected Special Affairs Officer, Uesugi Tetsuya, welcome to our login page】

"Huh, what kind of prefix is ​​this?"

After being reminded by Yagyu Akira, who was further away, Tamamo tilted her head and asked vaguely.

She then turned her gaze to "Uesugi Tetsu" in the upper left corner of the app's main page.

The name is followed by a golden suffix: "Seed".

The girl was startled: "Nanjo Manami values ​​you that much!?"

Red indicates a security level, gold indicates a potential level...

Tamamo was speechless when she thought about how she had worked like a super ox in the Special Affairs Department for three or four years, yet her two ranks were still only white.

Even the highest grade of white cannot hide the fact that it is mediocre.

Uesugi Tetsu glanced back and forth between the two profiles: "Is there anything different?"

Life is tough, Tamamo sighed.

"The gold suffix is ​​a color that can only appear if the regional head or the Yin-Yang Grand Master actively vouches for it..."

Look at Yagyu; his name also has "seed" in its suffix, but it's white.

"I see, thank you for the explanation."

Uesugi Tetsu raised his hand, preparing to tap away all the red notification dots on the screen as usual.

"Don't order, bro!"

Without thinking twice, Tamamo grabbed his wrist tightly with her greasy right hand.

At this moment, Uesugi Tetsu's finger was still an inch away from the "Weekly Confidential Incident Broadcast" section.

Upon seeing this, Tamamo breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

She rarely suppressed her smile and earnestly warned, "Brother Uesugi, don't open things like this in public places in the future."

"If an operator like me with insufficient security clearance sees something I shouldn't, they might have my memory erased using strange methods."

Tamamo shrank back: "I don't want to be brainwashed."

There's actually such a thing.

Uesugi Tetsu apologized and, after giving his personal identification number to Tamamo and Yagyu Akira, began to study the Special Affairs Department's app.

[Forum], [Demon and Monster Catalog], [Task Announcement], [Related Logs], [Current Benefits], [Anything That Can Help You]...

The app has a full range of functions.

Everything is clearly marked, from the treatment and salary, the required intelligence, to when and where to go, which local operators can be contacted, and how long it will take to get support.

If it were an ordinary Special Affairs Officer, seeing these features would definitely make them feel much more at ease.

He fiddled with the app for less than ten minutes, and then Yuzhao put his chopsticks on the bowl and said to the owner, "Thank you for the meal."

The three of them walked out of the empty ramen shop. Tamamo crossed her arms and smiled at Uesugi Tetsuya, "How was it? Was the ramen shop we recommended delicious?"

It's delicious, it really is delicious.

Just don't ask for "mild" spice next time you come...

Uesugi Tetsu could still feel a fire burning in his abdomen, almost as if he had put the feather of the Ubume inside him.

—Upon returning to the dojo, he found that Master Fan was personally and earnestly instructing a disciple who was not much different from a novice.

Uesugi Tetsu observed from a distance for a while, then shook his head with a smile: "Let's not disturb Lord Saionji for now."

It's just a footwork technique; I can learn it tomorrow or the day after. It won't make a difference if I wait a little longer.

Anyway, there was no requirement for him to play in the next couple of days.

Upon hearing Uesugi Tetsu's address, Yagyu Akira silently cast a glance his way: "Uesugi-kun, have you added the teacher's representative on Line?"

Uesugi Tetsuya was stunned for a moment.

"The old man actually uses Line?"

"Yes, the teacher training college started its temporary assignment even earlier than mine."

Upon hearing this, Uesugi Tetsu looked again at the instructor dressed in a simple, plain-colored monastic uniform, who was meticulously and strictly instructing those disciples who might never even touch the threshold of skill and theory in their entire lives.

"Okay." He nodded, scanned the QR code, and sent a friend request.

So what should we do now?

Tamamo had already sat down on the bench next to her, scrolling through her phone.

She looked at Uesugi Tetsuya, then at Yagyu Akira, but didn't get a clear answer.

"Tch, it's time for us to step in at a time like this!"

With a series of phone vibrations, Tamamo quickly spoke up like a machine gun: "Brother Uesugi, our teammates who are tackling the dungeon are still recovering from their injuries, so they can't go for the time being."

As for taking a vacation during such a sensitive time…

She pouted, "Even if I wanted to divorce him, Yagyu wouldn't agree, would he?"

"Then, the destination is clear."