Chapter 74: Suspecting There's a Traitor Among Us (Begging for Follows!!!)

Uesugi Toru's eyes snapped wide open in an instant.

Waking up to see the rolling dog silently unrolling scrolls beside him, the scene was simply terrifying to the extreme.

However, it was precisely because of this that Uesugi Toru saw the iron bars behind Shizuku, fitting together with near-seamless precision.

This was no different from the prisons he had seen in TV dramas before, even surpassing them.

"Huh?" Uesugi Toru glanced at the large medical equipment beside him that looked expensive as hell, "Isn't this a hospital?"

"What ordinary hospital would be willing to use this many pieces of professional equipment on a single person."

Shizuku replied flatly, slowly exhaling a pure white Qi sword about two meters long before Uesugi Toru's eyes, letting her puffed-up chest settle back down.

Uesugi Toru stared, dumbfounded: "Holy crap, that's so cool!?"

"Average."

The corners of Shizuku's brows twitched up slightly; she pursed her lips and coughed once to return her expression to flatness, continuing as if nothing had happened: "It's just something anyone can do if they practice long enough; Uesugi-kun, you're the same."

"But the Breathing Technique's effect is indeed very strong." Shizuku said with particular seriousness, "The current me can already easily defeat five or six fully armed versions of myself from before I learned the Breathing Technique."

Uesugi Toru narrowed his eyes at the Shizuku before him, discovering that her Jing Shen was simply worlds apart compared to a few days ago when she had just entered the Kenjin Tsumei realm.

If one were to say that a few days ago, Shizuku was like a sun with maxed-out presence, an existence that could not be ignored even if a mere glimpse flashed through the corner of one's eye.

Then looking at her now, she appeared completely like just a slightly pretty ordinary female high school student; her figure was ordinary under the cover of loose robes, her looks at most a seven out of ten, belonging to the common class beauty type.

He couldn't help but ask in surprise: "How did you do that?"

"A little trick."

She smiled gently: "If you want to learn, I'll teach you."

Uesugi Toru pressed his palms together: "Then I'll be in your care, Teacher Shizuku."

"But Uesugi-kun, your nerve really is something else." Shizuku stood up, moving her joints and letting her body emit a series of cracking sounds, "Even after seeing the prison bars behind you, you still had the mood to ask me about these things first."

"I walk upright and sit straight; what is there to fear?"

Uesugi Toru shrugged, tearing off the electrode pads stuck to his body with a ripping sound: "So Teacher Shizuku, can you tell me the cause and effect?"

"Very simple."

Shizuku said,

"——Many people find it strange: why could you, an ordinary person who hasn't learned any Onmyoji Breathing Technique, kill Niishima Yuta who had transformed into a Qigui."

"——Moreover, the train station's monitoring happened to be destroyed, so someone thinks your existence itself is suspicious."

Uesugi Toru scratched his head: "Because I'm stronger than him; the reason is that simple."

Shizuku could hear the footsteps rushing toward this room from outside suddenly stop; she knew that person was one of the Onmyoji questioning Uesugi Toru's identity.

However, Shizuku didn't feel the other party's thinking was wrong at all — ordinary people and true geniuses cannot understand each other; one could say they are fundamentally two different creatures.

The saying 'summer insects cannot speak of ice' applies no better than this.

"Although I think so too."

Shizuku paused, "But combined with Ai Betsuri's ability, this idea still holds water."

The moment her voice fell, a strange Onmyoji's somewhat guarded voice came from the now-open doorway: "Uesugi Toru, come with me."

"No rush, no rush."

Uesugi Toru got off the bed and put on the standard boots placed right at his feet, freezing slightly upon feeling they fit almost perfectly.

He looked at Shizuku; the latter patted his back forward: "What are you still looking at, let's go, don't make them wait anxiously."

Without another word, Uesugi Toru walked up to that Onmyoji who had been staring tightly at him, and then saw a Shikigami with an aged appearance, holding an iron rod, looking like a monk.

——【Kenmi (One-Star Half)】.

That Onmyoji yanked him, tone unkind: "Don't look around, walk fast."

"Okay, okay."

Uesugi Toru raised both hands to show he had no hostility, then asked strangely toward Shizuku sticking close behind him: "I don't think I've ever met this person, right? How come he's acting like he ate gunpowder."

The girl smiled: "It's because he's too tense — he's afraid you, this Yokai, will cut off his head on a whim just for fun. If it weren't for being short-handed, the Shikigami following you would be at least Two-Star strength."

"By the way." Shizuku raised a finger, "Me staying behind your back is also to kill you with one hit at the fastest speed."

Uesugi Toru nodded seriously: "Then the Special Affairs Division seems to have still underestimated me; you two at most only count as appetizers."

The moment these words were spoken, both could feel the Onmyoji ahead have their goosebumps stand straight up, just short of issuing an attack order to the Shikigami.

That Onmyoji trembled faintly as he turned back, forcing a calm facade: "Be quiet!"

The two looked at each other, both sighing in their hearts at how poor this Onmyoji's mindset really was.

Soon, Uesugi Toru was brought before an ordinary room.

The Onmyoji stepped back a step, protecting his own Shikigami before him: "Open the door yourself and go in."

Not bothering to contend with this kind of coward, Uesugi Toru just twisted open the door and entered, immediately hearing two familiar voices arguing.

Rituna Minami: "What detection, it's a total waste of effort and completely unnecessary. If he had a problem, I wouldn't have let him come here alive."

Kondo Tomoya: "With Ai Betsuri's existence, this is a necessary procedure. Nanjo Shao Shu, your one person's words are insufficient to prove anything."

As the door opening sound rang out, Rituna Minami looked toward him,

"You're here? Just sit."

She shook the Kaga Kiyomitsu in her hand: "The sword I'm keeping for you, didn't let anyone else touch it."

Kaga Kiyomitsu trembled happily twice, the sword body vibrating, causing even the scabbard to shake noticeably along with it.

——This was also one of the small details Uesugi Toru had prepared; if he had subconsciously recalled Kaga Kiyomitsu into the Storage Backpack, it would have been unexplainable.

But Uesugi Toru raised his eyebrows — how come Kaga Kiyomitsu seems even more excited in Rituna Minami's hands than in his own, the owner's hands.

In this day and age, even Uchigatana have learned to flatter and curry favor...

He shook his head and sat on the chair, asking: "What's next, do I need to do anything?"

Rituna Minami snapped her fingers: "Nothing needs to be done, just sit obediently."

The next moment, the ordinary room was suddenly shrouded in darkness, and an incomparably complex Art that ordinary Onmyoji were completely unable to understand suddenly lit up beneath Uesugi Toru's feet.

"——Am I No. 42 concrete, to be laid wherever a brick joint needs it?"

The Calendar Doctor's sigh echoed in the room: "Don't move, the Detection begins now……"

In an instant, a Spiritual Power Wave far exceeding Uesugi Toru's Knowledge and Perception range surged violently in the room, nearly suffocating him.

End of Chapter