The eyes were the windows to the soul.
"Master, Master! We found a huge secret!"
"Those previous two slashes only happened after the Great Demon King swept her eyes over you!"
"Both places you were cut had been seen by the Great Demon King, but this slash wasn't a real slash!"
Kaga Kiyomitsu spoke hurriedly, somewhat incoherently, and had no idea how to organize his words or highlight the important points.
But Uesugi Tetsu easily connected it to the sentence above, then immediately summed it up in his heart.
In other words, Ririko 'slashes' me through her gaze.
Uesugi Tetsu understood.
The two cuts that had struck his ankle and neck from across the air had been slashes of the mind.
As it happened, Ririko's mental cultivation was countless levels higher than his.
He was among the best when it came to becoming one with the sword, but Ririko could actually draw out her Sword Heart and suspend it in midair for countless people to look up and admire.
With such an enormous gap in mental cultivation, it was no wonder she could ignore everything and strike him with ease.
Unfortunately, even knowing the principle behind the "consciousness slash," Uesugi Tetsu still couldn't devise a specialized countermeasure or defense.
Because he couldn't do it.
The only thing he could do was get used to it.
"Fortunately, I'm fairly used to being slashed."
Uesugi Tetsu touched his neck again, feeling that familiar sensation slowly fade away.
He had been beheaded by so many different people and blades that one more instance hardly mattered.
In fact, Ririko's blade was fast and sharp, so it had brought him less pain.
If it had been one of the wandering ronin freely roaming Edo Castle, Uesugi Tetsu would probably have been baring his teeth in