Dōmoku's Urgent Warning: The Edo Castle Crisis! The Human Divine Treasury, Unlocked! Ririko Turns Red-Come Here!

Uesugi Tetsu opened the Edo Castle card pool with profound confusion and doubt, only to find the black-haired, barefoot loli floating in midair as usual.

At first glance, there seemed to be nothing different about her.

But as the "keeper" who had fed Hundred-Eyed Demon tons of eyeballs, Uesugi Tetsu immediately saw that every part of her was conveying a feeling of unease.

Nervousness, anxiety, hesitation, indecision...

All kinds of negative emotions piled onto Hundred-Eyed Demon as if they cost nothing. Strangely, however, the card pool page showed no sign of anything that could have caused such a reaction.

After Uesugi Tetsu stared for a while, Hundred-Eyed Demon seemed to sense his arrival and gently exhaled.

--In Hundred-Eyed Demon's subjective perception of time, Uesugi Tetsu had gone far too long without opening the card pool or feeding her.

This made Hundred-Eyed Demon think that her brief period of happiness and light was about to end, and that she would once again fall into a lonely darkness that stretched on beyond measure.

This time, however, Hundred-Eyed Demon had not "knocked" because of such a trivial matter.

Loneliness, darkness... She had long since grown accustomed to such things. Leaving would be best, but returning to that state did not matter either.

Under Uesugi Tetsu's gaze, fragments of pale bones drifted upward, forming two lines of incomprehensible ancient characters in midair.

Hundred-Eyed Demon naturally understood that the language might be incomprehensible, so she continuously changed the bones, turning them into every written language she knew.

Finally, on the sixth change, Uesugi Tetsu understood.

[If you do not take me away from here soon]

[Perhaps I will be devoured by the surging darkness]

The two inexplicable lines of text made Uesugi Tetsu scratch his head. He could understand the first line: Hundred-Eyed Demon wanted