I'm a demon in Tokyo!

Chapter 89 It's Like Something Is Chasing You

After gently crushing the Jade Compilation, Uesugi Tetsu instantly felt a new kind of technical knowledge flooding into his mind.

However, in just a few seconds, Uesugi Tetsu felt that his originally calm state of mind, like the surface of a lake, was now as still as if covered by a thick layer of ice.

It was as if he had been practicing this skill wholeheartedly for more than ten years, mastering it perfectly and applying it in his spiritual state of mind.

【You have learned the skill of Zanshin.】

【Canxin】

[Effect: Maintains mental stability. Immune to most control and charm effects.]

[——A swordsman should always be vigilant and alert.]

No wonder Katsumi said this was what he needed - immunity to control skills, which was extremely important for swordsmen like Uesugi Tetsu who could only cause damage at close range.

"Boss Katsumi."

Uesugi Tetsu emphasized: "I accept this kindness."

Katsumi folded his hands, as if singing a Noh play, and said, "I hope you will bear with me in the future."

"However, this skill can probably only protect against spiritual attacks below the level of ghosts and gods," Katsumi warned. "Please do not overly rely on or be superstitious about its effects. Just learn from its essence."

Prevention is below four stars... For me now, isn't this equivalent to mental attacks being ineffective?

Now, perhaps I am unable to deal with love and separation from a spiritual perspective. As for why I say perhaps, it is because love and separation is one of the eight sufferings, and cannot be generalized with ordinary monsters and ghosts.

Uesugi Che was secretly shocked. Maybe Katsumi just picked up a random item from the treasure house and didn't think it was a big deal, but this favor was indeed a big deal for him.

"Thank you for the reminder." Uesugi Tetsu said goodbye in a slightly formal manner, "Boss Katsumi, see you someday."

"Goodbye, my lord."

Katsumi stared at the back of Uesugi Tetsu who had turned around, humming a tune and hesitating about what to say in blessing. When he saw a pair of cold steel arm armor placed in its original place on the table, he happily tapped the fan against his palm.

The next moment, his long and graceful voice came out from the tile house.

"—Then I wish you good fortune and prosperity in the next few days!"

Uesugi Che, who had already walked far away, paused for a moment, because a prompt suddenly popped up in front of him: [Soul ash acquisition efficiency +2% in the next three days, rare equipment drop rate +2%]

"Good fortune and prosperity..."

Uesugi Tetsu repeated this sentence.

Is this the power of a ghost-level existence? Just one sentence can give you such a buff.

Or does it mean that this actually has nothing to do with the ghost level, and it is just that Sheng Hai's existence is special?

Apart from Katsumi, Uesugi Tetsu has not formally come into contact with any other ghost or god, so he is not sure which statement is correct.

But one thing is for sure.

That is, his goal these few days is to earn enough soul ashes to buy those two sets of cold steel arm armor!

"The current soul ash count is 533... still over short."

With such a huge gap in soul ash, it is definitely not enough to rely solely on the income from killing monsters at Ruyue Station. Grandpa Gaosu on the other side is not absolutely sure himself and may even lose his life in vain.

In the real world, you can't just accept supernatural commissions whenever you want, and the target demon may not appear immediately. It would be too slow to communicate with the client before getting rid of the demon.

The only remaining option is...

"Edo Castle."

Uesugi Tetsu held Kaga Kiyomitsu tightly around his waist.

He figured it was time to return to that four-star map where any demon could kill him with a single kick. This time, he wouldn't be beheaded by that wandering samurai again. But before that, he decided to try using the Life and Death Drum to attract a swarm of demons and see if it would yield any different soul ash than a naturally generated swarm.

He didn't call out Lord Erchi, who was about to recover his one-star strength. He could do this simple task alone.

Coming to the railroad tracks in the middle of the avenue, Uesugi Tetsu sat on the ground with the snow-white surface of the Shengsheng Taiko facing up.

Then, he gently flicked out his fingertips wrapped in the corona energy.

thump...

In an instant, hundreds of overlapping drum beats drifted towards the mountains, forests, and the sky in the distance.

Uesugi Tetsu put away the life and death drum, closed his eyes, placed his hand on the hilt of the knife, and carefully sensed the number of demons appearing around him.

Hundreds, three hundred, seven hundred, thousands...

In just five or six minutes, the number of demons that Uesugi Che roughly sensed had reached over four digits, and was even growing rapidly.

The nearest half-star demon was only a few meters away from him.

"Using inner energy to strike the drum once can create such a spectacular scene. The effect of Taiko drumming is truly beyond imagination."

The swordsman, who had just acquired the skills of Zanshin and Iaijutsu and was itching to practice, happily stood up, slowly drew out the legendary katana, and exhaled his already scalding breath.

Uesugi Tetsu grinned and said, "Come, let me see if you are qualified to be wooden dummies."

Then, the evil spirits rushed over.

Not far away, Ye Chun, who was sitting in the back seat of a car in a dishevel, heard rustling noises around him and couldn't help but roll down the window to look towards the source of the drum sounds.

Then, Ye Chun saw countless translucent monsters that almost killed her rushing towards it like a surging tide.
For a moment, there was an opening between the trees, allowing Ye Chun to see Prajna, who was laughing loudly and dancing like a dragon in the center of the group of demons.
She couldn't help but show fear in her eyes: "If I meet this evil ghost, there will be no way to survive."

……

【You have gained 57 soul ash points.】

Uesugi Che let out a light breath, opened his eyes, and saw Lilizi staring at him blankly from top to bottom.

She glanced at the sky outside the window and couldn't help but sigh, "Uesugi-kun, you're sleeping so soundly. The club activities are about to start. If you don't wake up, I'll have to carry you out."

The effect of the stability-maintaining spirit brought by Zanshin was particularly good. Uesugi Tetsu, who had just been drowned by the group of demons again, sat up calmly and said, "If that's the case, then why are you still staring at me?"

"That's because I heard your breathing suddenly become disordered." Lilizi chuckled, "I thought you were unlucky while you were asleep and were about to save someone."

Uesugi Tetsu was speechless: "Not everyone is like you..."

"I'm just afraid you'll try to force yourself to imitate me."

Lilizi stuck out her tongue and clicked her tongue unhappily: "Because I get mad when I think about Runa doing homework next to me while I was taking a nap, even though my grades were terrible back then."

The saying "The sound of my roommate flipping through books keeps me awake at night" is exactly like this.

"It was just a nightmare."

Uesugi Tetsu yawned, and was annoyed when he saw Lilizi constantly spitting out tiny air swords in front of him, but he still said, "Lilizi, don't push yourself too much, you will be exhausted."

"Then who will make up for the lack of strength I have? Will you compensate me, Uesugi-kun?"

Lilizi snorted and poked Uesugi Tetsu in the waist with her elbow.

In response to Lilizi's Hell-killing Knife on the head, Uesugi Tetsu pondered for a moment and said casually:
"——It's just an inexplicable feeling, as if something is always chasing you from behind."

Lilizi's steps froze for a moment.

(End of this chapter)