I became the Lord of the Eternal World in Tokyo.

"My lords... please spare my brother... I can..."

"You ugly thing, get out of my way!"

Erchi was kicked to the ground.

She felt her vision filled with a blurry red, and the sounds around her gradually faded away.

Finally, there was the deathly silence of the torrential rain.

Crash.

The coldness of the rain awakened Erchi's dazed mind, and she scrambled to the boy's side.

Then, Erchi felt himself grasping something much colder than rainwater.

She remained silent, letting the rain stream down her face. She simply found the place where the two of them had hidden their wishes, mechanically dug a deep pit, and buried the boy inside.

Whether it was lucky or unlucky, Erchi, who had been drenched in the rain all night, did not die. Instead, he recovered after a low-grade fever.

For the next decade or so, she wandered aimlessly, eventually stumbling back to the dilapidated temple in this village, where she died silently, just like most wanderers.

That's how it should be.

"If only I hadn't felt so powerless back then."

Two feet of thought.

Before she died, a young monk with prayer beads, hands clasped in prayer, and a strange smile approached her and softly asked...

"Little Jiu, do you crave power?"

"Yes...I want it!"

As if in a final burst of energy before death, Erchi, who had not eaten for several days, stared wide-eyed and roared almost hoarsely.

The young monk smiled and said, "As long as you agree to become a Bodhisattva and save the world, you will obtain the power you desire."

Er Chi was stunned.

She stared intently at the young monk, and asked in bewilderment, "What right do you have to convert them?"

The dying girl, filled with raw anger, spoke with unwavering resolve, enunciating each word clearly.

"These guys deserve to die!"

"Is this so?"

The little monk continued to smile, his expression unchanged by Erchi's answer: "I look forward to your next answer."

The young monk left the dilapidated temple.

The girl died.

—The two-foot-tall man, who had lost his memory, rejected the assimilation and power of the power of the will for the first time inside the Ksitigarbha statue, and thus faced his first death.

Then, this process is repeated.

With hazy memories, the two-foot-tall adult repeatedly relives her life as a human being.

But unlike the first time, whenever the emotions change drastically, the memories that Erchi Daren had repeated before will be triggered and appear.

She remembered it.

But just like the first time, the weak two-foot-tall man still couldn't do anything or change anything.

After hundreds or thousands of times.

The smiling young monk looked down at the dying girl: "If you agree to become a Bodhisattva and save the world, you will obtain the power you desire."

Er Chi remained silent.

During the long wait, she gave a vague answer that was different from countless times before.

"I promised someone important that I wouldn't become that kind of person, nor would I accept that kind of power."

"An important person?" the little monk smiled. "Who is it?"

"I have no idea……"

—Uesugi Tetsu looked at the scene in the dilapidated temple and listened to the last words of the girl and the little monk, and was momentarily lost in confusion.

who am I?

where am I?

What's the situation?

But the experienced Uesugi Tetsu didn't alert the enemy. He silently watched the young monk leave the dilapidated temple, ignoring himself standing arrogantly at the door.

Then, as darkness fell again, everything restarted.

"It's still this girl..."

Uesugi Tetsu blinked, shifting his gaze from the two short figures in front of him, and realized that no one around him could see him.

In other words, am I currently in a "ghost" state that cannot be observed?

This special state might be broken when I do something.

Therefore, Uesugi Tetsu did not make any rash moves, but silently watched and collected information, letting everything happen before his eyes.

Soon, Uesugi Tetsu discovered that the flow of time within the Jizo statue was very strange. Although more than ten years had passed, he only felt that a few minutes had passed.

Soon, Uesugi Tetsu, who had silently witnessed everything, saw the smiling little monk for the second time and heard their complete conversation.

Then, everything started all over again.

Uesugi Tetsu opened his eyes and stared at the carefree, smiling little girl.

He lowered his eyes.

He got it.

This is the "dream" in the endless cycle of reincarnation within the Ksitigarbha statue, a means by which the power of vows erodes the will and ego of a two-foot-tall adult.

It's possible that this was also the life of a young man.

Then, Uesugi Tetsu, who had once again seen the smiling little monk in the dilapidated temple, came out and kicked the monk, who only knew how to smile and ask questions, aside.

“'Please save me'...you once said that to me.”

Uesugi Tetsu squatted down, grasped the bewildered girl's hand, and spoke gently and calmly to her.

"That's why I've come to save you, Er Chi."

Chapter 280 They deserved it, all were slain! All the power of their vows was absorbed! Their quality was upgraded to that of an eight-foot Bodhisattva!

With his body feeling weak, Erchi raised his head and stared at that handsome, calm, and somewhat inexplicably familiar face.

He said he would save me...

very strange.

She had started over so many times, but she had never seen this man before.

But why do I feel a sense of warmth and familiarity towards this strange man?

In the silence, Erchi closed his eyes, almost greedily savoring the warmth from the palm of his hand, and said hoarsely, "You're so strange... I don't even know you..."

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t know me.” Uesugi Tetsu thought of the little monk with the strange smile. “It’s enough that I know you.”

Within the Ksitigarbha statue, were the memories of the two-foot-tall adult sealed away by this little monk… or rather, by the embodiment of his own will and desires?

"So it's okay, don't be afraid."

Uesugi Tetsu placed his other hand on the two feet of wet, icy head and spoke gently and clearly: "I will take you home."

Come back home?

A sense of absurdity arose in Er Chi's heart.

When did I ever have something so incredibly luxurious?

She struggled to open her eyes, and with her blurry vision, she confirmed that the man in front of her did not seem to be lying. She also caught a glimpse of the little monk slowly getting up from the ground out of the corner of her eye.

—The culprit who, after the end of a long life of suffering, would always stand before me, making me relive so many of those tragedies.

Countless times, countless times.

so tired.

Er Chi thought wearily in his heart.

Home……

Things that only exist in fantasy are better left unsaid.

More than this, I wish I could just sleep forever and never see these sad things again.

"If you've come to save me..."

Er Chi coughed several times, then slightly raised his slender, dirty neck: "Sir, could you please really kill me?"

"I don't want to be tortured like this again and again."

Uesugi Tetsu sighed.

Why does everyone who has suffered so much want to kill them themselves?

Clearly, she came to save people.

—And this time is completely different from the last time.

"This pain will be the last time, I promise you."

Meeting the girl's hopeful gaze, Uesugi Tetsu continued, "However, I will not kill you either."

The hope for stagnation quickly turned into sorrow and despair.

Two feet in diameter, his pupils unfocused, murmured in a blurry, confused voice, "Why..."

"Because you are my shikigami, Nisha."

Uesugi Tetsu lifted the girl's thin chin, using the internal energy that still existed in her dantian even here to reactivate her consciousness, which was about to fall into darkness, and said seriously, word by word.

"You are not allowed to die before I die."

"And those men, those scumbags you met along the way, and that monk over there who tormented you for so long."

Uesugi Tetsu asked in a stern voice, "Nisha, don't you want them to pay the price they deserve?"

"Yes, of course I want to!"

With the aid of her inner energy, the girl spoke clearly for the first time.

But she immediately lowered her eyes again, and said numbly,

"But I can't do it... so many times, so many times... At first I would be angry, I would be sad, but in the end I still couldn't do anything, I could only helplessly repeat everything."

After boundless despair, the girl cried out, uttering names and words that even she herself couldn't fully understand.

"—Lord Che, I can't do it!"

The glistening liquid blurred everything in my vision.

That face, which had been parched for far too long, was finally moistened by tears streaming from its eyes.

Then, Erchi felt warm fingers brushing against the corners of his eyes, wiping away the tears.

"Don't worry, because I'm here."

Uesugi Tetsu smiled and said, "Now you don't have to worry about anything or think about anything. Just get a good night's sleep."

Before her eyes closed, the girl drifted into a deep sleep, listening to words as gentle as a lullaby.

"I will do everything you want me to do."

Carefully placing Erchi on the ground, Uesugi Tetsu turned around and looked at the little monk who was completely unharmed even after he infused his body with his own internal energy.

The little monk maintained his mechanical smile, staring indifferently at Uesugi Tetsuya.

The rustling words rose in its thoughts.

"Outsiders..."

"Unstable factors...remove..."