The Champion's Trophy, the Sword Saint's Recognition! The Name "Uesugi Tetsu" Sweeps Across the Internet Like a Tidal Wave!

"Uesugi Tetsu!"

"Uesugi Tetsu! Uesugi Tetsu! Uesugi Tetsu..."

In the Sky City Arena, which could hold well over a hundred thousand spectators, only this one name echoed through the air.

Everyone cheered for him.

At the very center of the arena, Uesugi Tetsu stood before the golden champion's seat.

At this moment, he surprisingly felt no great excitement.

Rather than saying he was not excited, it would be more accurate to say he was exceptionally calm.

Instead, Two-Shaku-Sama, still maintaining her Nioh state, came running over while cheering. She scooped him onto her shoulder and lifted him high, looking utterly delighted.

Kaga Kiyomitsu, who had barely spoken during the entire Seed Battle, also shot back out of its sheath and buzzed loudly in midair.

It was even more excited than when it itself had received several soul-spirit enhancements.

The competitors behind him cast him various looks—envy, disappointment, melancholy, delight...

All kinds of emotions were on display.

Sitting on Two-Shaku-Sama's soft yet sturdy shoulder, Uesugi Tetsu rubbed the hair atop her head.

If he had to speak of excitement, he had been more excited at the moment he had just beheaded Minamoto Shizuka and confirmed his victory.

That had truly been a race against life and death. A difference of even one-thousandth, or even one ten-thousandth, of a second could have rewritten the outcome.

So...

Uesugi Tetsu thought that becoming the champion of the Seed Battle was indeed an honor worth boasting about. It might even become one of the titles preceded by "There isn't enough room to seat so many people here" in the future.

But this was not the end.

He had merely won the championship among his peers in one region of the mortal world, proving that beneath the level of the demon gods, he truly had few