Great Onmyō Art: Four Paths, Five Elements (5.6k, please subscribe!)
"You're lying to me, aren't you, Uesugi Tetsu? Say you are!"
Their noses were almost touching. Uesugi Tetsu could even feel the astonishing heat constantly radiating from Ririko's body beneath him, like a furnace.
She was panicking. She really was.
Uesugi Tetsu stared into her faintly trembling eyes and thought that cultivation truly was the most important thing in the world to Ririko.
How long had it been since she had looked this flustered, ever since she began practicing that technique she had figured out herself?
Uesugi Tetsu smiled. "Of course I wasn't lying. The First Wave passed by without a hitch, and I killed Ai Bielie alone before it could escape."
Only after hearing that did Ririko realize that this bastard really had been lying to her.
"Tch."
Ririko snorted coldly, released Uesugi Tetsu, and closed her eyes while rubbing her temples in distress. "Uesugi-kun, sometimes I really want to teach you a lesson... Saying that to me is like a bratty girl calling someone a small fry in front of a giant tree. Get it?"
"You're welcome to teach me a lesson anytime, Teacher Ririko."
Uesugi Tetsu deliberately displayed the surging fluctuations of his Spiritual Power before her and spread his hands. "But outside teaching hours, I won't deliberately restrain my strength."
Ririko's face darkened.
"All right." Uesugi Tetsu took out his phone and showed her the time. "Actually, it's because you slept too long, and ordinary methods didn't seem able to wake you, so I had to resort to this."
Ririko stared at the time. After thinking it over, she realized that more than twelve hours had passed.
The girl was startled. She had originally planned to sleep for only five hours before getting up to continue