I'm a demon in Tokyo!

Chapter 160 Factory Owner Z, the second ring of the main mission is released!

"This ordinary-looking man is Uesugi Tetsu?"

"Well, he's the winner of the True Sword Trial held by the Oborozuki Hall in Yokohama a few days ago. He's proficient in the techniques of the Suqiang technique, the Tianran Lixin style, and the Leifa technique. He even achieved a breakthrough during battle, completing a Gangqi cycle in less than a minute. He also possesses a strangely mutated Kaidan Hachishaku-sama."

"—He is undoubtedly a Hexagonal Warrior and one of our greatest enemies in this Seed War."

On the rooftop of a high-rise building in Shibuya district, Tokyo.

Amidst the layers of barriers, a man and a woman were looking down at the blurry water mirror emerging from the intricate Yin-Yang array pattern.

The young man was wearing a casual sports shirt with his hands in his pockets, but spiritual power as deep as the ocean was slowly flowing around him, maintaining the operation of the water mirror technique in front of his toes.

He was actually an Onmyoji with profound attainments in astronomy.

The girl had her hair tied in a simple ponytail and was carrying a katana that was almost as tall as her and was wrapped in layers of bandages. She crossed her arms across her chest with a questioning look in her eyes.

The main perspective in the water mirror is Lord Erchi.

——For some reason, I don’t know, but I always fail when I try to use Yin-Yang magic to directly spy on Uesugi Tetsu.

So he could only set his sights on his Shikigami.

At this moment, Uesugi Tetsu, who was sitting opposite her, was smiling gently and pushing the juice handed by the waiter in front of her.

This look doesn't look like "a terrifyingly talented all-rounder" or "one of the brightest rising stars in the Eastern Region."

Instead, he looks like an old father who is a little too young.

"Saito, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to guard against a guy who doesn't even have the aura of a strong man."

The pale girl said lightly.

The young man called Saito, whose full name was deliberately chosen as Saito Ryuichi, shrugged.

"I think that before the sword test began, the three people from Longyuetang should have had the same idea as you."

He winked at one of the daughters of the Yuan family and couldn't help but smile: "Yuan Jingshui, guess who won the real sword test?"

Yuan Jingshui was silent for a long time before he frowned and said,

"I'm different from those ordinary guys. I can defeat those three people from Longyuetang with just a real sword test, and I can even do better than him."

"What's the difference?" Saito Ryuichi asked back, "If you ask me, you already have all the qualities to become a qualified stepping stone for the rise of a genius."

He gestured with a smile: "Yuan Jingshui, you are now like an old general on the stage, with flags symbolizing 'failure' stuck on your back."

"..."

The girl herself had always been praised as a genius by those around her since she was a child, so she was very angry about Saito's words.

Yuan Jingshui's chest heaved.

After a while, she closed her eyes and said loudly, "I know. I will never underestimate him! And what about Tokugawa Ririko? Isn't she a swordsman?"

"Swordsman..."

Recalling the description of the "swordsman" mentioned in ancient books, even the resourceful Saito Ryuichi couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows.

The so-called swordsmen are mostly very pure people.

And precisely because of his pure strength, he is even more difficult to deal with - no matter how many tricks he has, the other party can break them with just one sword.

And it's outrageous. Even in his father's generation, there were very few people who could be given the title of "Swordsman". He was considered the most outstanding group of people.

Now they say that some of their peers have become swordsmen.

Although it seems that he has only reached the realm, his strength has not yet reached the level of a swordsman.

But even so, it's a bit outrageous.

Isn't this vaguely comparable to the eldest daughter of the Minamoto family... What on earth was the Tokugawa family thinking, letting her stay out there and even letting her join other forces?

Saito Ryuichi's face was solemn: "There's no better way. I think you can only practice more with your sword and defeat her head-on."

He paused, then pondered, "Perhaps I could contact the Tokugawa family and see what the situation is..."

"No need."

Yuan Jingshui interrupted him.

She stared at Uesugi Che's blurry face in the water mirror, her eyes unwavering as she spoke word by word.

"I will personally make them both stepping stones on my path to becoming a swordsman."

……

Why do I always feel like someone is spying on me?
Uesugi Che turned his head left and right, but did not detect any signs of abnormality or spiritual fluctuations within a hundred meters.

"strangeness……"

After quietly watching Ershaku finish the children's meal without leaving a single grain of rice, Uesugi Tetsu stood up and took her to a taxi without saying a word.

But just as he got into the car and hadn't said a word, Uesugi Tetsu clearly felt that the very faint sense of being watched suddenly disappeared.

What does it mean?
Knowing that you have discovered the peeping, you simply stop looking?

Uesugi Tetsu was silent for two seconds, randomly told the driver the address of a subway station, and then asked Nishaku-sama to return to the Ksitigarbha statue.

After joining the crowd at the subway station, Uesugi Tetsu immediately transformed into a four-tailed fox and casually molded himself into the appearance of a stranger.

I took the subway to the station and then took the Shinkansen to leave Tokyo.

And along the way, Uesugi Che did not feel even a little bit of being watched, as if the feeling just now was just an illusion.

After randomly finding a hotel to stay in, Uesugi Tetsu took out the divine fortune stick to see if the matter would be auspicious or not.

After a while, a slender and round divine fortune stick fell into his palm.

Uesugi Tetsu turned over the bamboo stick, and the two words "Xiaoji" in a neither deep nor shallow manner came into view.

[Royal God Lot·Xiaoji]

【——Curiosity satisfied, nothing happened.】

Uesugi Toru raised his eyebrows.

——This means that the guy who is spying on me with Yin-Yang magic somewhere is probably doing it purely out of curiosity?
There are people like this... There has never been one before.

It is most likely due to the real sword test a few days ago.

It seems that being too famous is not a good thing.

But since the divine fortune stick said so, it meant that the matter was over and there was no need to worry about it anymore.

Uesugi Che didn't think any more and just lay down on the bed and closed his eyes.

wow-

The heavy water pressure enveloped Uesugi Tetsu and sent him to the mysterious village of Arakawa, which he had not visited for a long time.

Boom! Boom!
Before he opened his eyes, Uesugi Tetsu had already heard the loud noise of engines coming from outside the thatched hut, which could only be produced by giant machines working.

Of course, there is much more to it than that.

Thick dust and the smell of warm, fresh motor oil seeped into the house through the cracks, now filling Uesugi Che's mouth and nose, completely obliterating the original thatch smell.

The mysterious village of Arakawa has undergone a dramatic change.

As for the culprit, Uesugi Tetsu knew without a second thought that it was the factory not far from the village.

He transformed into Bai Prajna, pushed open the shabby wooden door, and his pupils shrank uncontrollably.

——Because apart from that factory, where else could the local monsters and demons create these bipedal robots that are several meters tall and full of diesel punk flavor.

That’s right, these!
Under the silent gaze of Uesugi Tetsu, who had climbed onto the roof, gigantic robots, one after another, trudged through the interconnected streets. Some were erecting thatched huts, while others, like laborers, were filling in potholes in the roads. In short, each robot was transforming the original Arakawa Village.

Even though the sky was filled with dust, it did not slow down the robots' work efficiency in the slightest.

If they encounter scattered contaminated farmers on the way, these robots holding various huge iron tools will wave their hands and easily smash them into meat patties.

Perhaps because it was an inanimate object, Uesugi Tetsu did not see the pop-up prompt above the robot's head.

So through careful observation, he found that the combat power of these huge but somewhat clumsy robots was about the ordinary two-star level.

With so many two-star iron lumps, it is not difficult at all to clear out a mere Arakawa Ghost Village.

Uesugi Tetsu did not attack the robots randomly to alert the enemy, but instead walked towards the direction of the original factory, moving forward quickly while hiding.

On the way, he also discovered that the dilapidated temple where Lord Erchi once lived had been razed to the ground, and two robots were slowly clearing the ruins.

But the townhouse where the old blacksmith and Zashiki-warashi lived was completely undamaged - it seemed that this was the only house in the entire village that stood out among the ruins.

"It seems these robots or the people behind them possess a high level of intelligence."

Uesugi Tetsu thought of the forging tools left by Zashiki-warashi in the house. It must have been those things that saved the machiya from destruction.

Within a few minutes, Uesugi Che, whose leg strength had greatly improved, arrived outside the factory wall, which was unexpectedly quiet compared to the village.

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!]

(End of this chapter)