I became the Lord of the Eternal World in Tokyo.

"Why are you apologizing, Uesugi-kun?"

“Because I’ve dragged you down… I would have said that before.” Uesugi Tetsu grinned at Ririko, who was frowning. “But now, I won’t say that.”

"What do you mean?"

Ririko awaits an answer.

"because……"

Uesugi Tetsu opened his mouth, but just as the reason was about to come out, he put his index finger in front of his mouth and pressed it down.

He chuckled: "It's a secret."

"what?"

Ririko's blood pressure spiked instantly; if you were to poke her skin with a needle right now, it would probably shoot dozens of meters.

Angry! Angry! Angry!

Staring at Ririko, whose face and neck had turned an even deeper shade of red, Uesugi Tetsuya smiled mysteriously once more.

"Once you've figured out how to use the Qi Hai acupoint, I'll tell you the second half of the answer."

A gentle evening breeze made the balcony warm.

Soon, the girl clenched her fists, and even the Great Core within her body almost lost control of the surging blood and qi.

Ririko took a deep breath, but unusually, she couldn't suppress her emotions.

She opened her mouth wide, revealing her fangs, raised her hands high, and charged forward angrily.

"Uesugi Tetsu—I'll bite you to death!"

Uesugi Tetsuya suddenly took a half step back, then leaped away.

"No, please stop!"

"Don't run away—I'll bite you to death! I'll teach you to leave things unfinished and make you a dog that only finishes its sentences!"

……

After a great commotion, Uesugi Tetsuya, gasping for breath, limped back to his bedroom.

Kaga Kiyomitsu, who had brought in the game console along with the TV, was originally fiddling with the controller, playing against a centaur under a big tree, trapping it in a spring and preventing it from getting out.

This ninety-ninth attempt was about to succeed.

When Xiao Jia turned his head, he saw Uesugi Tetsuya grinning and several rows of deep red teeth marks on his shoulder.

Kaga Kiyomitsu flew over immediately, forgetting all about the game.

"Master! What kind of demon attacked you!?"

Uesugi Tetsu, rubbing his shoulder which was almost bleeding, rolled his eyes: "Little Wolf King Tokugawa Ririko."

Kaga Kiyomitsu:? ? ?

Xiao Jia, unable to understand, was completely bewildered and fell into a state of deep thought from which she could not find an answer.

Uesugi Tetsu didn't say much, just scooped it up and lay it on the bed.

Let's play cards, start!

After quickly skipping the plot and other people's lives, Uesugi Tetsu arrived at the Hanafuda shop.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the Onmyoji from the second match turn and leave.

"Let's do the next one."

Led by the fox-faced woman swaying her hips, Uesugi Tetsu once again encountered his third opponent—that highly skilled and mysterious demon.

After a fierce battle, Uesugi Tetsu was naturally beaten up and lost by a margin of ten karuta cards.

Undeterred, he did it again without hesitation.

But this time, things seem a little different...

After fifteen minutes of intense, focused play, Uesugi Tetsuya was astonished to find that he had 26 karuta cards in front of him.

How did I win?

He looked up and saw the enraged demon pounding the ground.

"Damn it! Damn it! I can't believe I made a mistake on such a small matter!"

The powerful demon opponent actually made a mistake during this save/load?

No wonder I didn't feel the pressure of being crushed; instead, I entered a state of flow during the music show.

Unexpectedly, hidden events were triggered during the repeated loading of save files.

A dozen seconds later, the mysterious demon exhaled heavily, cupped its hands in a gesture of respect towards Uesugi Tetsuya and the surrounding guests who had been affected.

"Phew...please excuse my poor performance."

"Although it was a mistake, I have indeed lost." The great demon waved his sleeve and released a memory orb that was also deep purple.

"Six-tailed fox, I won't take advantage of you. How about I use it as my gamble?"

Uesugi Tetsu stared intently, his body trembling.

【The Swordsman's Dream: Kendo Memories】!

It's not because of the prefix "sword master".

Rather... the name "Dream Manosuke" left a deep impression on him!

Chapter 272 All the waiters are the same person! Demon King Xingkuma Doji! Ririko, advancing to the elimination rounds.

Mugen no Suke was a famous swordsman in the late Sengoku period.

Although he was someone Uesugi Tetsu would most likely never meet even if he went back in time, he still studied this nominal "Katori Shinto-ryu swordsman" very carefully when doing his homework.

The reason it is said to be nominal is because although Yume Konnosuke started his career by practicing the Katori Shinto school and obtained the qualification of "Menko Kaiden".

However, after that, the Katori Shinto-ryu style was never mentioned much in the biography of this famous swordsman.

Instead, he first followed the founder of the Kashima Shinryu school, Matsumoto Bizen no Kami, and secretly learned the secret technique of "Ichi no Ken" from the essence of the Kashima Shinryu school.

Then, after being defeated by the sword saint of that generation, Miyamoto Musashi, he wanted to devote himself to researching ways to defeat Miyamoto Musashi.

So, Quan Zhizhu traveled all over the world, studying various schools of thought, taking the essence and discarding the dross.

Finally, by combining spear techniques, knife techniques, sword techniques, and so on, the unique "Way of the Staff" was created!

He also developed the secret technique, the Cross Pass, which is said to be able to defeat Miyamoto Musashi, whom he once encountered, and established the Shinto Musou-ryu Staff Style!

Unfortunately, after that, Kensuke never met Miyamoto Musashi again.

Therefore, the world would have no way of knowing who would win if the two were to fight again.

But at least in the heart of the dreamer, Kensuke has defeated Miyamoto Musashi, whom he met that day and who had defeated him mercilessly, and he has also defeated his past self.

that's enough.

Later, Shinto Musou-ryu stick style was further developed and even became the designated stick style within the All Japan Kendo Federation in modern times.

However, since this method was created by the dream-loving Gennosuke specifically to deal with human swordsmen, it is somewhat ineffective when dealing with demons and monsters.

Therefore, very few extraordinary individuals who have truly fought against demons and monsters are proficient in this art.

Uesugi Tetsuya was not one of them either.

"Pity……"

Although the swordsman's memory orbs are excellent, neither Katori Shinto-ryu, Kagami-jima-ryu, nor Shinto Musou-ryu staff-doing has anything to do with the Natural Rishin-ryu he practices.

If you were to read through this memory orb, you might gain a lot of experience in swordsmanship.

But that's all.

Unlike when I watched Tokugawa Yugoro practice the Myo-gawa Breathing Technique, I didn't gain much from it.

After all, different sword styles are clearly distinct, and Uesugi Tetsu didn't have the extra energy to delve into other styles and their secrets.

Uesugi Tetsuya put away the memory orb of Dream Konnosuke with a backhand, already deciding in his mind where it would go.

—Sell this orb to Sheng Hai the next time you see him.

Although Uesugi Tetsu himself did not know any masters of Shinto Dream School Staff Path, Katsumi definitely did, and had channels to sell them.

These memory orbs are incredibly valuable in the hands of certain groups of people.

"My lord, congratulations on winning the third round of the World's Number One Song Tournament."

The fox-faced woman's melodious and vivid voice pulled Uesugi Tetsuya back to his senses. She knelt down and leaned close to Uesugi Tetsuya's ear, whispering her congratulations.

Uesugi Tetsu raised an eyebrow: "When did my address change from 'sir' to 'sir'?"

"Now that you have won the third round," the fox-faced woman said with a smile, "please follow me upstairs to continue the fourth round of the competition."

In this card-playing shop, those with high card-playing skills have high status, right?

Uesugi Tetsu chuckled. He still remembered the first time he refused three invitations to play cards outside the Hanafuda shop, and then his vision went black.

Following the fox-faced woman, whose tone and movements had become even more lively, Uesugi Tetsu bypassed the countless a cappella singing of waka songs and the battleground filled with the smell of gunpowder, and stepped onto the stairs covered with a soft red carpet.

The stairs are normal stairs, with only thirty or forty steps after turning a corner.

But as soon as they stepped onto the second floor, the noise in the lobby below vanished completely, as if it had never existed.

Uesugi Tetsu looked up and saw rows of antique-style private rooms marked on plaques in ancient characters he didn't recognize.

"Please follow me, don't wander off."

The fox-masked woman lowered her voice and slowed her footsteps.

She hadn't gone far when she stopped in front of a private room whose decor was clearly from the Heian period.

"This is the arena for the fourth round of competition." The fox-faced woman bowed. "I can only go this far. Please, sir, push open the door and enter yourself."

Uesugi Tetsu glanced at the fox-faced woman bowing at a ninety-degree angle, and after a calm response, pushed open the creaking wooden door.

The interior was not the Heian period residence he had expected, but rather trees, rubble, weeds, wasteland, and...

A one-horned demon was sitting cross-legged on a boulder, drinking wine in large gulps from a bowl.

This one-horned demon was tall and muscular, with its entire upper body exposed, only its heavy chest wrapped with a few bandages.

This was the first woman, whether human or demon, that Uesugi Tetsu had seen in the Hanafuda shop, aside from the waiters.

Uesugi Tetsu turned his head again and saw the attendant standing next to the unicorn demon, wearing an exquisitely crafted blue fox mask.

This mask looked much more sophisticated than the fox-faced woman who had brought him up.

"Nice to meet you, sir."

The fox-masked waiter spoke, bowing slightly to him, which made Uesugi Tetsu nod inwardly with suspicion.

He sensed that this was not his first meeting with the fox-faced servant, but rather that he had seen him many times before.

What confirms this is that Uesugi Tetsu had previously felt that all the waiters in the Hanafuda shop's main hall seemed to be the same person, no different from the fox-masked woman.

Now, he's sure.

His intuition repeatedly reminded him that it would be foolish of him to ignore it.

So he spoke up: "Didn't we just see each other outside the door?"

The fox-masked waiter paused slightly, then shook his head in denial: "Although we wear similar masks, my identity is completely different from that waiter's."

I don’t think so.

"All right!"

With a crisp crack, the dry wine bowl shattered.

“So what if it is, so what if it’s not?”

The one-horned demon casually wiped his mouth and raised his chin at Uesugi Tetsuya: "Don't worry about these trivial matters, Six-Tailed Fox. Didn't you come here to play cards?"

"bring it on."

The unicorn demon casually grabbed a stack of song cards and, using some unknown method, arranged them perfectly neatly on the stone floor in an instant.

"It's been such a long, long time since I've lost..."