Breathing Technique Completion: Dragon's Sinew! Little Jia's Spiritual Evolution, the Arrival of Tide and Era

Chapter 204: Completing the Breathing Techniques · Dragon's Sinew! Koga's Spiritual Evolution, the Sound of the Tides and the Arrival of an Era

Uesugi Tetsu was stunned by the pile of booklets for quite some time before picking up the one on top and beginning to flip through it.

"Miura Breathing Technique?"

Huh?

Wasn't this the breathing technique he'd seen at the Imagawa Residence before, the one the Elder Council had given him after admitting defeat?

Wait, something wasn't right.

After turning two more pages, Uesugi Tetsu's pupils suddenly contracted.

—These booklets contained the "essential portions" that had been absent from the versions the elders had shown him before!

—But these essential portions were the foundation on which those vassal families of the Imagawa Clan had established themselves!

Uesugi Tetsu pinched the edge of a rough page and looked toward Imagawa Yoshimoto, who had already knelt beside him with an unusually calm expression.

He asked, "Lord Yoshimoto, you..."

"Mm."

That simple syllable confirmed Uesugi Tetsu's guess.

Imagawa Yoshimoto smoothed out the wrinkles in her clothes with her fingertips and said casually, "When it comes to this sort of thing, it's better to finish it as quickly as possible, isn't it?"

How much time had passed? Imagawa Yoshimoto had actually settled accounts with all the old fellows in her clan behind his back?

That efficiency and ruthlessness...

His brow twitched.

Just hearing her words was enough for Uesugi Tetsu to imagine how miserable things must have been at the Imagawa Residence not long ago.

But to be fair, Imagawa Yoshimoto hadn't done anything wrong.

If they dragged things out any longer, those old and crafty fellows would certainly have stirred up more trouble.

Uesugi Tetsu moved the stack of booklets, which was more than twenty or thirty centimeters tall, in front