A prompt appeared, and everything around him turned gray and colorless in that instant.
Everything in the world—wind and water, heaven and earth, the black-clad man called Hanzō, who was half-kneeling, and even Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was looking toward him—all froze.
Other than Uesugi Tetsu, absolutely everything had come to a standstill the moment the prompt appeared.
It was as if Uesugi Tetsu had been extracted from this world.
Uesugi Tetsu tried to shift his gaze, but discovered that apart from his thoughts continuing to flow normally, his body was equally incapable of moving.
Only the prompts before his eyes continued to appear—
[You have temporarily left the late Muromachi shogunate-Sengoku period.]
[Please confirm.]
"So that's what 'the node has not been reached' in the previous prompt meant..."
Uesugi Tetsu chewed over Hanzō's words, which had suddenly appeared moments ago, extracting the two keywords "rebellion in the Mikawa region" and "Great Demon."
In other words, the second stage of the main quest would begin from this point onward.
Uesugi Tetsu thought, "The first stage of the main quest gave me an 'admission ticket.' Starting from the second stage, I should officially be stepping onto the stage of history."
If that was the case, then it really would be better to press "pause" first.
The ratio between the flow of time in the modern world and the Sengoku period had reached a terrifying one to thirty.
If something major happened in the modern world, even if Uesugi Tetsu worked at full efficiency and resolved it in just half a day, half a month would pass in the Sengoku period.
That was enough time to fight several battles of Okehazama.
As for how he could enter again, it should be related to the newly obtained "Key of History Ring."
He would have