Chapter 32

On the bed, drenched in sweat and on the verge of vomiting, Uesugi Toru took a good while to recover before he looked at the prompt that spurted out.

Twisting and turning, it burst out 132 points of Soul Ash that met the strength requirement.

In this way, his Soul Ash reserve had already reached a full 472 points.

Even if the One-Star Card Pool might require 50 Soul Ash for a single pull, by then he could still do a ruthless Ten-Pull, draining the newly appeared small card pool dry.

Seeing the prompt for Side Quest completion appear, Uesugi Toru was slightly stunned, thinking to himself that twisting and turning really was the "White Straw Man".

Then he discovered that the Task Reward Pool could actually be accumulated.

【You have chosen to Accumulate Task Rewards.】

Waraninya's upgrade was only 30-odd hours away, and the Exploration Degree of Arakawa Ghost Village had also reached 62% under his running around everywhere.

When the time comes, he would complete Side Quest One and the two Main Quests together.

Uesugi Toru believed that the accumulated Reward Pool rewards would definitely not disappoint.

Finally, twisting and turning also burst out a special Prop.

Uesugi Toru casually tapped open the Prop's introduction page, and very quickly, his eyes widened at once.

【Awakening Spirit Mist】

【Quality: None】

【Effect: After use, reduces Resurrection Cooldown by 4 hours, automatically replenishes fully each natural day.】

【Special Effect: Direct consumption. After consuming, moderately restores Physical Strength and Spirit, slightly restores Spirit Power, and has a slight continuous healing effect on Injuries. Each use consumes 2 hours of Resurrection Cooldown.】

This Prop's effect could be called outrageous.

Although reducing the resurrection cooldown by 4 hours is indeed quite key from a medium-to-long-term perspective, improving the efficiency of exploring maps and completing tasks, it still counts as a "game prop" that one gets used to seeing.

But the Special Effect is what's truly perverse — it can be used directly in reality via the interface, then unreasonably provides all-around recovery and healing effects.

Simply like a health potion in a game.

Imagine this: when both sides are heavily injured and near death, Uesugi Toru instead directly takes out Awakening Spirit Mist from his Storage Backpack, drinks it down, and is lively as a dragon and vigorous as a tiger within minutes.

How much psychological trauma would this inflict on the enemy?

Thinking of this, Uesugi Toru took the Awakening Spirit Mist out from his Backpack, discovering it was a small cup similar in size to a sake cup.

The cup seemed to be fired from ceramic, its overall craftsmanship exquisite, its surface emitting a faint glaze luster.

Uesugi Toru looked into the cup and saw two crystal-clear, blue-green water droplets held inside.

Let's test the recovery effect first.

——The gash Flying Head surprisingly slashed on his back this afternoon still hasn't scabbed over; any slightly large movement brings a hint of pain.

At the time, when Nanjo Rituna was using the Great Memory Restoration Technique on the two followers, she only had Hiyobou disinfect his wound, then threw a roll of Bandage at him to let him bandage it himself.

One can only say this kind of treatment won't kill you.

And at this critical juncture, Uesugi Toru also didn't want to go to a Hospital, a Place teeming with Mononoke, to invite unnecessary complications; this kind of flesh wound he could turn into Waraninya and self-heal in one or two hours.

Naturally, it was dragged out until now.

Looking at it now, it's actually just right, saving Uesugi Toru from having to slice two cuts on his own arm!

Uesugi Toru opened his mouth and threw one water droplet into it.

The Next Moment, his Spirit shook violently, feeling his five senses suddenly become clear by a large margin.

The aftereffects produced by being twisted to death by twisting and turning disappeared in a moment, and the wound on his back also transmitted an itchy, numb, warm sensation.

Uesugi Toru tore off the Bandage and stood up; looking in the mirror, the wound on his back had actually already begun to gradually scab over.

And at this moment he felt even more like he had Energy with nowhere to release; if not for the Oni Taisho being outside, Uesugi Toru would have long since gone out and run a dozen or so kilometers.

"Good, good, good."

This Awakening Spirit Mist's effect truly gave him infinite surprise.

Allocating the remaining two hours to the Resurrection Cooldown, Uesugi Toru took out his Mobile Phone as usual —— following the usual practice of returning to Reality with the Walking Token, there would definitely be someone sending him messages.

Sure enough.

Let me see what new messages there are.

【Work Go Die】: In a few days our company annual leave got approved, got time to meet offline?

【Work Go Die】: Always heard Fushimi Inari Taisha is pretty popular but never had time to go see, I know a friend there, supposedly there's a chance to bring us to witness the legendary "Gods" oh.

Uesugi Toru's hand holding the Mobile Phone trembled —— how come in half a day myths are about to come true?!

In two days someone might tell him the moon hanging in the sky is actually Tsukuyomi's true body.

But he turned his thoughts around: if there really is a so-called "God" inside Fushimi Inari Taisha, then that God would absolutely not allow outside Yokai to approach the shrine.

——That is, this is a Safe House when the First Wave arrives.

A Company Slave netizen who can casually produce a Great Onmyo Technique Fragment is a big Family heir; the probability of him pretending to be richer than he is shouldn't be high.

So, going to Fushimi Inari Taisha…… without a doubt, is the safest course of action!

"——However, for this kind of fleeing alone, tucking tail and acting submissive, I refuse!"

Uesugi Toru neatly typed out a reply.

【Tsukisuna-chan】: Recently we have midterms, might not have time to go out…… Also, best not to contact those people who look like they behave strangely during this period.

【Work Go Die】: Ah okay then, you go sleep quick. I'm going to work Overtime first.

——As expected, unwilling to flee, this is the so-called pride of a genius.

——After finishing tapping the phone screen, Nanjo Rituna, sitting cross-legged on a pile of corpses, bit into a half-hot half-cold chicken sandwich, chewing as she asked:

"Shizuka, any omissions outside?"

Shizuka Mami, forcibly suppressing her urge to vomit, turned her head with a pale face, replying tremblingly: "Teru Teru Bozu Miss has already finished the work, but Nure-oni Lady's side is still short two or three."

She found it very hard to imagine what kind of Mindset Nanjo Rituna held to be able to sit on a pile of charred, foul-smelling corpses in a semi-enclosed room and eat a Meal as if nothing was wrong.

"Then the work is about to end soon, yay……"

With dark circles drooping beneath her eyes, Minami Rituna swallowed her dinner in two or three bites and listlessly flashed a scissors hand at her little sidekick.

Yet the moment she walked out of the room and stood before her other colleagues — Minami Rituna transformed from a listless salaryman into that powerful, calm, and reliable Onmyoji Minor Official.

Minami Rituna expressionless, shook hands with the fire brigade's person in charge: "The cleanup work from here on, I'll have to trouble you all with it."

Person in charge: "Tomorrow this will be treated as a chemical explosion incident."

She nodded, turned back and smiled at Shizuka Mami: "Let's go."

Shizuka Mami, however, could not smile.

She only had to close her eyes, and the miserable death throes and pleas for mercy of those people would involuntarily surface before her eyes.

"I have to adapt to the new job quickly." Shizuka Mami thought silently, "As long as I endure the three-month probation period and get confirmed, everything will go smoothly for Koharu from now on."

Even if it's for Koharu, I have to persevere!

"Come on, Shizuka Mami! Just like all those past exams, you can do it!"

She pumped herself up.

Then, Shizuka Mami suffered insomnia for an entire night.

……

Next day.

Uesugi Toru came to school, skipped class as usual and cultivated with Shizuku in the Kendo Hall; after three-plus hours Shizuku's whole body was soaked in sweat again, youthful vigor exuding from here and there.

But Uesugi Toru turned a blind eye; he only cared when his two skills might upgrade again.

【Your skill, Kiai Technique Fragment proficiency +31!】

【Kiai Technique Fragment (Proficiency 201/300)】

【Your skill, Tennen Rishin-ryu Proficiency +15!】

【Tennen Rishin-ryu (Entry Level 280/500)】

Although both skills were not far from promotion, a gap of several days' worth of proficiency genuinely existed.

"I'm going to take a shower." Shizuku's voice came.

— At a time like this, one just has to play the gambler, see if a single life can scrounge up any good things from inside Edo Castle.

Anyway, before Shogun Yanagi upgrades he has no grasp on the Eight Shaku Figure and White Yanagi, so even if this life gains nothing it doesn't count as a loss.

Thought it, did it; Uesugi Toru simply closed his eyes.

Shogun Yanagi pushed open the door and familiarly walked into Edo Castle.

But he hadn't taken two steps before Uesugi Toru, wearing his Walking Token, felt something trip his ankle.

(End of Chapter)