Devil May Care About the Tokugawa Family Seeing It? In Life, There's Nothing More Important Than Risking Death! Take Off Your Clothes, Then I'll Give You One-on-One Guidance

Huh?

Am I going to participate in the Seed Battle again?

She had mentioned it several times before, and Nanjō Emi had surely approached her about it in private as well, yet Ririko had remained unmoved all this time.

Why had she brought it up herself now?

Looking into the bright-eyed girl's eyes, Uesugi Tetsu felt a huge pile of questions rise above his head.

"Ririko... There's a lot I want to ask you."

"Then ask them one at a time." Ririko's tone was gentle. "There's no rush."

After sorting out his thoughts, Uesugi Tetsu listed his questions one by one.

"First, the Seed Battle. Why do you suddenly want to participate again? Is there a reason?

"And what happened just now...? How did you have no presence at all? No breathing, no body heat—you looked almost dead."

"Not almost dead."

Ririko interrupted him. There was not the slightest trace in her voice of the danger of brushing past death. "I nearly died. For real."

She raised a finger. "I was just a tiny bit away from never waking up again."

Uesugi Tetsu could tell that every word was true, and what had just happened proved it.

She had merely been cultivating at home, yet she had placed herself in such a perilous situation...

He stared at the delighted Ririko and suddenly had no idea what to say.

Ririko paced as she spoke. "Didn't I tell you before? I got stuck while completing the Corona Breathing Technique.

"Because I could never find the Acupoints in my body, I naturally couldn't locate the sea of qi either."

"But just now, I happened to look up and see the sunset giving way to the rising moon. I felt that the essence of heaven and earth would gather into a single line." Ririko