Tokugawa Haruhiko's Gaze-If I Can't Cure Uesugi Tetsu, Can't I Cure You? Ririko Shocks the Crowd!

"I'm not playing."

The fox-masked woman asked again, "Would you like to come in and play a round, sir?"

"No."

Something was wrong.

If he was still inside the factory, then there was a good chance the scene before him was an illusion, and that it was connected to the memory orb he had touched earlier.

If he went along with the illusion, he might truly sink into it and lose the ability to conduct any real exploration.

Actually, controlling this ordinary fox-masked woman with Soul Imprint would be the quickest solution.

But considering that attacking her might damage the factory and attract attention, Uesugi Tetsu—who did not even know whether the woman before him was part of the factory—did not ask what they were playing. He simply shook his head.

Faced with Uesugi Tetsu's refusal, the fox-masked woman was not discouraged. Instead, she asked for the third time,

"Would you like to come in and play a round, sir?"

Uesugi Tetsu decisively shook his head again. "I'm not playing."

After the third refusal, Uesugi Tetsu could clearly feel that something had changed.

The fox-masked woman raised her head and stared silently at him.

After a long while, she spoke in a raspy voice,

"Since you don't want to play, then please leave, sir."

As soon as her words fell, everything before Uesugi Tetsu's eyes suddenly went black.

In a daze, he opened his eyes again and found that his view had become the familiar ceiling of his home.

He was dead.

He had died because of a single sentence from that utterly powerless fox-masked woman.

Once he realized what had happened, Uesugi Tetsu froze slightly and wore a complicated expression.

"Koga, did you sense anything just now?"

Ever since getting off the Tokoyo Train, Uesugi Tetsu had worn Kaga