Demon Incarnation Six-tailed Fox! The Go-playing Old Master of the Minamoto Clan Encounters an AI, Yet Still Cannot Win Despite Giving It His All

When Uesugi Tetsu walked out of the bamboo grove, the man who had been eighteen years old plus two thousand months—the older brother of Minamoto Shizuka—had already vanished.

The bamboo leaves rustled loudly.

Their sound drowned out the wind.

When Uesugi Tetsu turned back, he discovered that the entire bamboo grove had suddenly closed up. The path they had come by had vanished without a trace, swallowed by verdant bamboo so dense that not even a sliver of light could pass through.

Countless greedy gazes sized him up from within the grove, but the moment they fell upon Spider-Cutter at his waist, they vanished without a trace.

Feeling the chill at the base of his spine come and go, Uesugi Tetsu finally could not help asking Minamoto Shizuka beside him,

"Miss Minamoto, what are all those things in there?"

"I don't know."

Minamoto Shizuka shook her head. "The bamboo grove has been like this for as long as I can remember. It has existed for far too long. Even that great-grandfather of mine can't claim to understand it completely."

"But there is one thing we can be certain of: it's best not to go near it unless there's a reason."

A great secret lay hidden in the deep mountains of this ancient family.

Whatever. It had nothing to do with him.

Uesugi Tetsu sighed in relief and looked up, only to find that the sun had just reached the mountain peak. It would be dark soon.

Stone stools and a stone table had been set up in an open area in the distance. Two old men, one with black hair and the other with white, sat facing each other over a game of Go.

They played happily.

There was nothing strange about that, and Uesugi Tetsu had not intended to