"Is that ordinary-looking man Uesugi Tetsu?"
"Yes. He was the victor of the True Sword Match held by Moonlit Hall in Yokohama a few days ago. He's proficient in Spearless Spearmanship, Tennen Rishin-ryū, and Thunder Arts. He even broke through during the battle, completing the circulation of his Gang Qi in less than a minute. And he possesses a mutated Supernatural Phenomenon, Yao-Shaku-Sama."
"He's undoubtedly a hexagonal warrior, and one of our greatest enemies in this Seed Battle."
Tokyo, somewhere atop a skyscraper in Shibuya.
Within layers of barriers, a man and a woman looked down at a blurry water mirror floating above a complex Onmyōjutsu array.
The young man wore a casual sweatshirt and had his hands in his pockets, yet Spiritual Power as deep as an abyss and vast as the sea slowly surged around him, maintaining the water-mirror technique at his toes.
He was clearly an Onmyoji with profound attainments in the Astral Path.
The girl simply wore her hair in a ponytail. A katana almost as tall as she was, wrapped in layers of bandages, rested on her back. With her arms crossed, she revealed a hint of doubt in her eyes.
The main view within the water mirror was Two-Shaku-Sama.
—No one knew why, but attempts to directly spy on Uesugi Tetsu with Onmyōjutsu always failed.
So they could only set their sights on his Shikigami.
At that moment, Uesugi Tetsu, sitting across from her, was smiling gently as he pushed the juice handed over by the server toward her.
He looked nothing like a "terrifyingly talented all-rounder" or "one of the brightest rising stars in the eastern region."
Instead, he looked like an absurdly young old father.
"Saito, you want me to keep watch over someone who doesn't even give off the slightest aura