The Trial of Spider-Cutter, Hundred-Eyed Demon's Rare Incarnation Form! Tsuchigumo Projection, Slain with One Strike

Huh?

Uesugi Tetsu's CPU was burned out for a moment.

What... is this guy talking about?

This old man clearly looked only thirty or forty no matter how one looked at him, yet in reality, he was over a hundred years older than Tokugawa Motoyasu?

And he called himself "young man." If he later met several generations of the Minamoto Clan, wouldn't the forms of address become a complete mess?

The man stroked his healthy stubble and walked up to the two of them with a half-smile. He asked Minamoto Shizuka, "Little Shizuka, this is the Uesugi lad here to retrieve Spider-Cutter, right?"

Minamoto Shizuka nodded. "Yes. I've brought Uesugi Tetsu, the champion of the eastern region's Seed Battle, to claim the champion's reward, Spider-Cutter. Great-great-grandfather, please open the way."

The man acknowledged her, then looked at Uesugi Tetsu. After sizing him up repeatedly for a while, he chuckled. "You made quite a commotion at the entrance earlier."

"Not bad, young man. You're pretty sturdy."

He patted Uesugi Tetsu's shoulder, producing a dull thudding sound.

Uesugi Tetsu didn't feel any "terrifying gaze scrutinizing him completely." Instead, it merely felt like an ordinary elder sizing him up.

In Uesugi Tetsu's eyes, Minamoto Shizuka's great-great-grandfather looked entirely like an ordinary middle-aged man, with nothing at all to do with the word "supernatural."

Everyone knew that the stronger one's essence, the greater one's "existence." The farther an existence rose above the current "sea level" of the present world, the harder it was to conceal itself.

Although Uesugi Tetsu could currently blend into a crowd of ordinary people, after advancing into a god-fiend and having his Life Essence transformed, he might not necessarily be able to do so.

Yet this man was just as "ordinary" as Uesugi Tetsu.

It was difficult to imagine how