Chapter 64

But Uesugi Toru's hand felt no sensation of cutting flesh.

"Tch, an afterimage..."

Uesugi Toru's three pupils rapidly rotated, trying to capture High-Speed Grandpa's landing point, but his clear 270-degree field of vision conveyed no useful information.

—Just how fast is this Mononoke's movement speed?

Uesugi Toru shouted: "Two chi, go back first!"

This High-Speed Grandpa is far too bizarre; if he can explode with this terrifying speed akin to Instant Transmission at every moment, then Uesugi Toru has no confidence whatsoever in protecting Adult Nisun.

"Mhm!"

Even though she was extremely worried about Uesugi Toru's situation, Adult Nisun did not call out something like "I want to stay" and indirectly increase Uesugi Toru's pressure.

The white-skirted girl transformed into a wisp of smoke, returning into the Jizo Statue, which Uesugi Toru then stored back into his Storage Backpack.

"Alright, next..."

The thought had not yet finished turning when Uesugi Toru again felt severe pain in his chest, blood gushing out as if it cost nothing.

He lowered his head to look — it was that cane, already stained red with fresh blood.

High-Speed Grandpa's hoarse voice came: "Don't walk on the Railway, it's too dangerous..."

"This is absurd; whether it's footsteps, breathing sounds, or the sound of air being compressed, none of them exist at all — is this old man traveling through another dimension?"

But after entering a heavily wounded state, Uesugi Toru could clearly feel the blood throughout his body continuously heating up, becoming scalding hot, as if rolling lava was flowing in his veins.

The empty, bloody hole in his abdomen from earlier was even stopping the bleeding at a speed visible to the naked eye, pink granulation tissue beginning to squirm at the wound's edge.

He spared a glance at his Attribute Panel, discovering his Physique had already reached a terrifying 52 points.

The Internal Qi and strength in his flesh surged violently, almost bursting Uesugi Toru apart into several pieces.

Even so, Kaga Kiyomitsu still could not touch even a corner of High-Speed Grandpa's clothes.

Slashing air, backstabbed, slashing air, backstabbed...

The battle situation was almost completely one-sided; even though Uesugi Toru grew stronger the more he bled, it was to no avail.

Under High-Speed Grandpa's continuous cane thrusts, Uesugi Toru's body had practically become a sieve leaking from everywhere.

If not for the "Berserk" talent's support, he would have died of blood loss long ago.

But just then, a somewhat trembling cheer came from not far away: "Th-that! Evil Ghost Mister! Go for it, go for it!"

Uesugi Toru, his vision already filled with overlapping shadows, clicked his tongue.

Is this woman an idiot?

Cheering from the sidelines only now — what difference is there from joining the Nationalist Army in the 49th year?

Uesugi Toru roared hoarsely: "If you don't want to die, then scram!"

This roar completely drowned out the girl's voice.

Ye Chun, shivering all over, froze for a moment, as if finally accepting the reality that she was alone again, then ran desperately into the Mountain Forest without a word.

In the end she thought — so ghosts are also divided into good and evil.

Seeing Ye Chun's back gradually disappear, Uesugi Toru was about to explode all the Internal Qi in his body for a desperate fight, when he felt a sudden pain in his neck.

Immediately after, the world spun.

"Hah— hah—"

Clutching his perfectly intact neck, Uesugi Toru's face twitched incessantly.

Although Uesugi Toru was long accustomed to the sensation of being beheaded, this was still the first time someone had forcibly pierced and pulverized his entire neck, then let his head lose support and fall.

This extremely bizarre sensation, Uesugi Toru believed no one would be willing to try a second time.

Lying on the Bed for about ten-odd minutes until he recovered, only then did Uesugi Toru completely eliminate the strange sensation at his neck.

But he did not rush to Gacha Pull.

Instead, he closed his eyes and began to recall and review the battle with High-Speed Grandpa just now... a battle that could even be called a one-sided massacre.

From a common sense perspective, Uesugi Toru felt it was impossible for him to be toyed with to death by High-Speed Grandpa.

Because the fact that the opponent has Two Stars above his head is not false.

A Two-Star Mononoke might be able to kill the current him, but would definitely have to pay an extremely tragic price.

So...

"Killed by a mechanic?"

Uesugi Toru murmured softly, believing he was killed by the First-Encounter Mechanic.

He closed his eyes, carefully recalling every moment from when he heard High-Speed Grandpa's voice, then watching, dissecting, and analyzing them over and over.

After a long while, Uesugi Toru frowned slightly, discovering a suspicious point.

That is —

High-Speed Grandpa's nearly twenty cane thrusts all came from the front, back, and left side; not a single one attacked from the right.

Although this point can be explained by his sword-holding hand being the right hand, facing an opponent whose clothes corner he cannot touch no matter how he swings his sword, does High-Speed Grandpa need to be this cautious?

That makes no sense.

Then there is only one answer.

"He can't do it."

Uesugi Toru calmly and boldly conjectured: "The reason High-Speed Grandpa can move so fast despite missing a leg is because he can move at extremely high speed on the Railway."

"Even, it is Instant Transmission!"

And there is no Railway on his right side, so High-Speed Grandpa cannot move there.

The conjecture is already established; the rest waits for Shimojo Susumu to go verify.

Because after reviewing many times in his mind, the sweating Uesugi Toru let out a long breath.

He summoned the panel, and upon seeing over 500 Soul Ash, he revealed a smile of harvest.

A long-awaited gacha pull, a long-awaited ten-pull.

Grandpa's here!

But before that, Uesugi Toru first took a good bath, killing his blackened self in shampoo and body wash.

Refreshed and fully prepared, Uesugi Toru then heavily clicked "Ten-Pull Salvage" with his mind.

—Ten-pull, activate!

The exquisite special effects of the Abandoned Shrine appeared again; this time, the movements of the two three-tailed foxes at the shrine doorway were more familiar and faster than last time, but what they pulled out was not as desired.

Eight white lights, one green light.

But fortunately, the last three-tailed fox pulled out a deep blue light.

"I don't know if the pity system kicked in." Uesugi Toru curled his lip, his tone unfriendly, "The gacha probability isn't written clearly, and the pity mechanism isn't written clearly either; whoever made this gacha pool really needs to worry if their family's household register has only one page."

【Soul-Calming Incense Ash (Minor)】×2, 【Soul Incense Ash (Small)】×6, 【Soul Incense Ash (Medium)】, 【Komainu Bell】.

Nine experience bottles, and a shaking bell prop with a faint pale gold glow, seemingly the one hanging from the waist of the three-tailed fox in the gacha pool.

"Knowing that Hannya wants to upgrade and specially sent me a basket of experience bottles, I thank you, wow, you're actually a pretty good person."

Uesugi Toru hehe smiled, moving all 8 stored Soul Incense Ash (Small) onto the Yokai Avatar Warai Hannya that was faintly glowing.

【Detected use of Soul-Calming Incense Ash exceeding the specified quota; return the excess quota?】

Uesugi Toru, who originally thought the extra 5 points of incense ash value would just be fed to dogs, was stunned; he didn't expect there to be such a conscientious design.

"Yes."

【You gained Soul-Calming Incense Ash (Minor) ×2.5】

【"Warai Hannya (Youth Form)" upgrading: 0%】

Uesugi Toru, once again shocked by the no-rounding-off, was overjoyed, and his originally depressed mood vanished completely.

After lining up the Soul-Calming Incense Ash in the Storage Backpack, Uesugi Toru looked at the rare prop that perhaps came from the pity system.

—【Komainu Bell】

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