Slay Demons and Exterminate Monsters? That's Too Childish! What I Want to Do Is Extract Their Value: Spider-Cutter

Had Minamoto Shinsui given up on the matter of Spider-Cutter?

Uesugi Tetsu nodded. "Please, go ahead."

The boy was like a human repeater, speaking without joy or sorrow in an utterly calm voice,

"If you possess me, then from this day onward, you must slay demons and exterminate monsters day after day, month after month, year after year. Even if your sword remains sheathed, this must always remain in your heart.

From now on, you may never rest for even a moment, until the day you step into death."

After speaking, the boy silently gazed at Uesugi Tetsu.

His "eyes" possessed the power to see through people's hearts.

So no matter what Uesugi Tetsu said or what rhetoric he used to answer, the boy could see the truest answer in his heart.

The young man standing before him was excellent, far better than most people.

He could even be called one of the top five among all the trial-takers of the past thousand years.

Thus, the boy was somewhat partial to him and said, "Please follow the thoughts in your heart, my lord. You need only answer directly."

But even this "partiality" did not mean that only this young man would do.

No matter how fine a person or how brilliant a genius was, the boy had rejected them without hesitation before.

So long as their ideals differed, so long as they walked different paths.

Seeing Uesugi Tetsu fall silent, the boy spoke calmly, as if reminiscing,

"Eleven years ago, a girl passed my trial with her bare hands. I asked her the same question.

Just as I had done over a hundred times before."

"And then, she rejected me."

The boy said, "That girl said that although she enjoyed slaying demons and exterminating monsters, that was not where her