The ordinary Short-Term Card made no sound when crushed, apart from a soft crack. The two halves dissolved into motes of light in midair.
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Uesugi Tetsu saw the upgrade progress bar for Laughing Brahma, which had already filled most of the way, tremble for an instant.
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Then, like a rocket, it filled the remaining gap in just a few seconds.
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A faint, miserable wail rose beside Uesugi Tetsu, then quickly vanished.
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["Laughing Brahma (Young Form)" upgrading: 100%!]
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[Your Demon Incarnation, Laughing Brahma (Young Form), has finished upgrading!]
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[You have obtained Demon Incarnation: White Brahma (Young Form)!]
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Originally a One-Star Laughing Brahma, after rising to One and a Half Stars, had successfully evolved into a higher-ranking demon of the Brahma race—White Brahma.
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Uesugi Tetsu stared as the blue-black Oni Mask on the card, wearing an eerie grin, slowly changed into an utterly snow-white Oni Mask with an expression that was neither crying nor smiling.
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He pondered. "Then, to evolve into the legendary Red Brahma, the most dangerous of them all, do I need to raise the Demon Incarnation to Two Stars, or Two and a Half?"
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After all, in historical legends, Laughing Brahma merely frightened children for fun, while White Brahma was only blinded by emotions such as jealousy and resentment, killing people merely to take revenge.
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Red Brahma was different.
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It killed without reason or motive. It killed whenever it wanted, ate its victims afterward, and even took pleasure in torturing them. Its methods were brutally cruel.
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One only had to hear the legends to understand the difference between it and the other two.
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Uesugi Tetsu examined the two Demon Incarnation cards. "After the Three-tailed Fox reaches Two Stars, will its transformation be greater than Brahma's?"