The Heavenly Path Trial of the Hundred-Eyed Demon: Witness to the Changing Seas and Lands! Lord Magatsu's Little Koga-Raising Plan

Uesugi Tetsu froze.

His gaze passed over the quietly hanging snow-white strands of hair and landed on the bottle of cola in Lord Magatsu's hand.

He had clearly not taken anything out of his storage backpack yet, so how had the cola ended up in her hand?

After a long while, Uesugi Tetsu finally asked, "Lord Magatsu, you still haven't finished the cola I gave you last time?"

Magatsu-Kami fell silent for a long time after unexpectedly hearing that long-sealed form of address, then nodded.

"Mm."

Lord Magatsu gently placed the cola on the spotless stone slab, hugged her knees, and said, "There is only this one 'cola.' I cannot open it, nor do I wish to damage it."

"So," Lord Magatsu said, "I have kept it safe until now."

Uesugi Tetsu was speechless for a moment.

He had wanted to say that damaging it would not really matter, but before he could speak, he suddenly realized that Lord Magatsu's actions were perfectly reasonable from her perspective.

After all, if one traced back to the last time someone had given her something, it might have been more than a thousand years ago.

And in all those bygone years, someone might have given Magatsu-Kami a gift that she accidentally damaged, only to never see that person again afterward.

The ordinary item he had casually given her might well have been a one-of-a-kind, priceless treasure.

That was why Magatsu-Kami was being so careful...

Uesugi Tetsu thought for a long while without speaking, and Lord Magatsu did not urge him.

She had long since grown accustomed to waiting, silence, and stillness that stretched on without end and might never yield an answer.

"Lord Magatsu, I won't just disappear without warning."

Uesugi Tetsu pointed at the cola bottle, whose bubbles had all vanished even