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The White Brahma Mask remained unmoved, and the gaze behind it was still utterly indifferent.

Uesugi Tetsu stared at the black smoke skull that was so close to him. A flicker of surprise flashed through his heart, leaving only a sense of inevitability behind.

The Demon Guiding Society would naturally recognize him as "Great Onmyoji Tetsu" after seeing him in the modern world.

After all, five hundred years ago, during the Warring States period, Daruma had not only witnessed him but had even come into direct contact with him before escaping under Great Otafuku's protection.

At the time, Great Otafuku had called Daruma "the Demon Guiding Society's once-in-a-century genius."

Thus, if Daruma had not died, it was practically certain that he had become one of the Demon Guiding Society's higher-ups five hundred years later.

And as the turning point in Daruma's life, Uesugi Tetsu would certainly be remembered by him in perfect detail.

That had to be the reason.

Otherwise, he and the Demon Guiding Society had hardly any connection at all—the death of a mere two-and-a-half-star Nue was completely inconsequential.

Uesugi Tetsu quietly watched the skull, as though staring into the eyes of the operator behind it across an endless distance.

Suddenly, he smiled.

He raised Kaga Kiyomitsu and gestured with it. A hoarse, chilling voice emerged from Uesugi Tetsu's throat. "My master said it long ago—'Tell Daruma to wait. I'll personally reunite him with his disciples.'"

Uesugi Tetsu naturally could not admit that he was Great Onmyoji Tetsu, even though from the outside, he looked exactly like Great Onmyoji Tetsu himself.

In five hundred years, Daruma and the Demon Guiding Society had surely grown far more powerful than before. Comparing them with himself, they would naturally wonder, "How powerful has Great Onmyoji Tetsu become now?"

At the very