Chapter 43: The White Prajna Invading Genjitsu

This situation is rare.

Previously, when returning from Chang Shi, what he basically saw were messages from company slave netizens or Nanjo Sister.

Opening the line avatar with a background of a vast blue sea, which domestically would probably be called "calm seas," Uesugi Toru saw Shizuku's simple yet abnormal offline voicemail.

【Shizuku: I'm learning breathing techniques at the Special Affairs Division; in a few days once I've figured it out, I'll secretly teach you.】

Is this something that can be secretly taught!

Uesugi Toru stared at the voicemail, feeling speechless.

Shizuku, a good brother for a lifetime!

Shizuku joined the Special Affairs Division specifically for this breathing technique that can transform ordinary people, and her first reaction after learning it was actually to teach it to him.

This further strengthened Uesugi Toru's idea of giving Shizuku the Clear Heart Charm.

Previously he even had to call his dorm roommate "godfather" just to get him to bring food back, while Shizuku threw whatever good things she had at him left and right.

——Where else can you find such a selfless and generous buddy?

After tapping away all the red dots on line, Uesugi Toru, who wasn't sleepy because both his physique and willpower had risen, sat on the bed.

He wondered whether he should casually study Spirit Control Technique?

Taking out the Nanjo Doll he always carried with him, Uesugi Toru examined it like a dead object, thinking that if he could use Spirit Control Technique to develop its conventional use, there might be new surprises.

After all, it could be considered the highest-star item in his hand.

However, after a bout of sweating attempts, looking at the panel where the Spirit Technique Attribute was only "1" point, Uesugi Toru silently put back the doll with a dissatisfied, drooping face.

He looked at his greatly changed Personal Panel and sighed——

【Uesugi Toru】

【Physique: 8→12】

【Willpower: 8→9】

【Charm: 9】

【Spirit Technique: 1】

Although his physique had officially surpassed ordinary people and entered the non-human domain, studying Spirit Control Technique and such could wait until he drew a new avatar.

But there was still a problem before his eyes.

Uesugi Toru, who had subconsciously circulated Kiai Technique since returning from Chang Shi, looked at the time on his mobile phone——in two more hours, it would be class time.

Go to school?

If it were before yesterday, Uesugi Toru would probably hold a definite opinion.

Because he thought yokai and mononoke probably wouldn't appear in crowded places like school, and besides, there was a dojo and Shizuku at school; if he didn't go, how would he practice swordsmanship to increase proficiency!

But yesterday Ai Parting Li almost double-killed him and Shizuku even at noon, completely not caring about the other ordinary people at school.

If he went to school now, he would only harm those innocent classmates, right?

Pushing open the room door, Uesugi Toru was about to say good morning to Oni Taisho as usual, when he was shocked to discover that the figure who had always been sitting on the sofa had disappeared!

Turning his head, Uesugi Toru then discovered that Oni Taisho was squatting at the balcony.

On that face, a large mouth with specially grown sharp teeth was happily chewing on a yokai in his hand that was weakly moaning.

Uesugi Toru pretended not to see, searching for ingredients at the refrigerator while scanning with the corner of his eye.

Not long after, a star popped up above the head of that green-skinned yokai with sparse hair and a duck bill.

【Kappa (One-Star)】

Uesugi Toru squinted; a one-star yokai wasn't common, but now it had suddenly wandered to the door of his ordinary apartment.

Did this prove that the omens of the First Wave had already arrived?

Uesugi Toru exhaled deeply and sent what he saw and heard to Rituna Minami.

Perhaps now some relatively weak yokai had already come ashore and gradually begun to wander in Genjitsu.

But this also proved that Oni Taisho wasn't just always watching ball games and stealing his electricity bill; guarding the home indeed made him a good hand!

This time "watching father become dragon" indeed succeeded.

Clang.

Just as Uesugi Toru was preparing to heat a convenience store bento to fill his stomach, the sound of a bowl smashing onto the ceramic tiles suddenly came from the balcony.

He pretended not to hear.

Uesugi Toru first honestly finished the bento, and then after Oni Taisho sat down again to watch the ball game, while saying "The clothes on the balcony should be taken in too," he unobtrusively picked up the ceramic bowl on the ground.

【Kappa Bowl】

【Quality: Common】

【Effect: After wearing, increases a little water ability.】

【——The ceramic bowl every Kappa carries on its head.】

Uesugi Toru was stunned; he didn't expect it to actually be a prop, and it happened to make up for his weaker underwater combat ability.

This old man really knew how to give him unexpected surprises from time to time.

Putting the Kappa Bowl into the Storage Backpack, Uesugi Toru had already imagined the wonderful scene of the old man bringing him extra props every month while guarding the home afterward.

Just treat it as rent and electricity bills voluntarily paid by the old man; this was very reasonable.

Uesugi Toru was just planning to go out to find an empty space to practice swordsmanship when the mobile phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

Who would call me at this time?

He took out his mobile phone and found it was an unknown number.

After thinking it over, Uesugi Toru still chose to answer: "Hello, who is this..."

"Uesugi-kun! Save me!"

From the other end of the phone came a trembling female voice that still maintained clear enunciation.

Uesugi Toru was stunned for an instant, then quickly recalled the owner of that voice.

——Kitano Runa!

——That Plaited Glasses-wearing friend of Shizuku who doesn't talk much.

Wasn't she supposed to be staying at the Special Affairs Division Headquarters with Shizuma Manatsu? Could something big have happened at the Special Affairs Division?

No, that's unlikely... because no news has come from Nanjo Ai and Shizuku's side either.

So it's her own personal reason?

Even after being warned, she still managed to cause trouble.

He now somewhat understood how Nanjo Ai viewed herself.

Uesugi Toru didn't think much, just asked: "Location?"

"Sent it to you..." After a few breaths mixed with fear, Kitano Runa's extremely faint voice came: "It's Shiro Hannya."

Uesugi Toru's pupils shrank—Arakawa Guicun's Shiro Hannya has actually come to reality?!

Completely without warning.

In an instant, Uesugi Toru's mindset suddenly changed.

Now he actually had to thank Kitano Runa; if it weren't for her risking herself to draw the snake out of its hole, his Main Quest might not have been completed, causing him to get stuck.

"Uesugi-kun, you have to hurry, I can't hold on much longer..."

After saying this, the phone was hung up.

"Dad! My friend asked me to go out and play!"

After saying this, Uesugi Toru immediately pushed open the door and flew out; on the way downstairs, he found the location information Kitano Runa sent in the text message.

——The straight-line distance from his house was less than three kilometers.

——At this distance, Shiro Hannya wouldn't need three minutes.

Uesugi Toru casually found an alley without monitoring, transformed into Shiro Hannya, then put his loose school uniform coat over his head.

This way, unless someone observed up close, ordinary people simply couldn't recognize that this was actually a Shiro Hannya.

And with his current running speed, ordinary people could at most see a phantom flash by, and then nothing more.

On the way, Uesugi Toru also called Nanjo Ai and Shizuku, but no one answered after a busy tone.

"So you found me."

Shiro Hannya's pupils were ice-cold, weaving through the streets and alleys at extreme speed.

"Kitano Classmate, don't panic... I'm here to help you!"

End of Chapter