Legendary Defining Item, Heart of Yaso Bikki! No, that's not how you swing a Dragon-Slaying Saber!

Uesugi Tetsu froze when he heard that and looked down at himself.

"Favored" by a Kami?

"What kind of wording is that?"

He swept his surroundings with the Eye of Interpretation, but found no excess aura or other power.

The Katsumi descended upon the straw-doll avatar and answered instinctively, "That's right. The gaze of one, and the favor of another..."

Halfway through, the straw doll suddenly raised its fan to cover its mouth and fell silent.

No more.

If he kept talking, he might bring certain things upon himself.

Through the "lenses," Katsumi saw Uesugi Tetsu sitting on an ordinary wooden bed before him, his entire body already wrapped in thick, pitch-black "ill omen," almost as if the two had fused into one.

Yet the ill omen posed no threat to Uesugi Tetsu whatsoever.

It was far too obvious.

Katsumi still remembered that the last time he saw this Tetsu Walker, ill omen had also shrouded his body, but there had only been a few wisps of it.

Back then, it could more or less be considered "favor."

But now... Katsumi had no idea what earth-shaking events had happened to Tetsu Walker during this time.

Neither favor nor even indulgence was enough to describe "that one's" fondness for him.

At this level, he was completely that one's agent and representative in the mortal world, already capable of representing that one's will!

As the thought turned, the already-grinning mouth of the straw doll curved upward a little farther, making the smile more genuine.

It was not only fawning, but pride as well.

—My judgment really was correct!

On the other side, Uesugi Tetsu did not pursue the matter after Katsumi fell silent.

The other party's true body was in Everworld. If he said the wrong thing, he might really be struck