The Zashiki-warashi's Divine Craft Trial, Tidal Wave Yellow Alert! Kaga Kiyomitsu, Give Me Super Evolution!

Uesugi Tetsu gazed at the girl standing behind the threshold of the ruined temple, staring blankly at him... Perhaps he should call her a young woman now.

Compared to when they had parted in Arakawa Village, the Zashiki-warashi had grown a little taller, and her features had matured slightly as well.

But those were the smallest changes.

Compared to external traits like her height and appearance, the greatest change was in the Zashiki-warashi's bearing.

Her former childishness was gone, replaced by a calmness as tranquil as water.

The Zashiki-warashi stared at him just as openly, her face filled with surprise and joy. She was no longer the socially anxious girl who had hidden in her robe and dared not even meet his eyes.

Her already well-developed muscles had grown even stronger, while scars of all shapes and sizes covered her exceptionally healthy wheat-colored skin.

Her entire body practically screamed the words "hard training."

It was difficult to imagine how much the Zashiki-warashi must have experienced alone in Everworld to become so mature.

She stood within the doorway and gave Uesugi Tetsu, Brahma's Mask hanging from his waist, a bright smile.

"Mr. Brahma, it really is you."

—There was no doubt about it. This was the Zashiki-warashi he had bid farewell to in Arakawa Village, the one who had refused to become his Shikigami and said she would make him a bowl of Red Bean Rice every year.

But that only made things stranger.

The Zashiki-warashi was not a traveler. How could she have returned from Everworld five hundred years in the future to the present world five hundred years earlier?

Moreover, judging from the age and statements of the blacksmith in Sunpu Castle, he had met the Divine Craftsman when he was a child. The Zashiki-warashi had no idea how