I Will End This Troubled Age! The Eight Sufferings Reappear?! Thunder Arts Shock Everyone (6k)

"The harvest really was pretty good today! Let's go out again this afternoon!"

Carrying a catch of fish about as long as his forearm, Tanaka Rō bid farewell with a broad smile to another elderly fisherman from the village, then entered his home.

There, he saw Aine standing barefoot at the doorway, holding a large cloth sack and wearing an extremely conspicuous Wakizashi at her waist.

Tanaka Rō froze for a moment, but when he saw the silver light showing from the mouth of the sack and the Imagawa Clan crest on the Wakizashi, he immediately realized what had happened.

Clatter.

Tanaka Rō did not even have time to care that the large fish still writhing in his hand had fallen to the ground.

He hurriedly rushed out of the house, taking three steps in two, and strode after Aine in the direction she was looking.

At the same time, he tore at his throat and shouted,

"—Lord Tetsu! Lord Tetsu!"

He sprinted all the way along Watari Village's muddy paths. Only at the very end did Tanaka Rō see a figure in a Priest's Robe at the edge of his vision.

—The figure clearly appeared to be walking slowly, yet each step crossed more than ten meters in an instant.

Tanaka Rō followed while panting for a while longer. When he realized the distance was only growing, he had no choice but to stop and watch helplessly as Uesugi Tetsu's back vanished from sight.

He thought in shock,

"Onmyoji Tetsu truly is a divine man."

"I never would have guessed, Tetsu, that you were actually such a gentle person."

On the floating board, which had gradually risen to several hundred meters in the air, Imagawa Yoshimoto rested her chin on her hand and withdrew her gaze with some