What Does a Factory Master Amount To, That He Dares Speak to His Master Like This?! Black Book: Don't Come Any Closer!

Factory Master Z's unexpected words left Karuta, who had been about to plead for Uesugi Tetsu, stunned for a moment.

The thirteen Lords in her memory would never have spoken like that.

Even though the memories from before Karuta had become fragments she could never recover, she still remembered that the Lords had all been kind and gentle to her...

After her thoughts stalled for a moment, Karuta immediately rose and shouted with her head tilted back,

"Lord Z, this has nothing to do with Lord Uesugi..."

Halfway through speaking, Karuta suddenly found herself unable to make a sound. Then her entire body was bound by invisible force and tossed aside like a rag.

Factory Master Z calmly withdrew his gaze.

"Tool, there is no need for you to speak."

The all-encompassing restraint left Karuta unable to move anywhere except her eyes.

Karuta stared blankly at that enormous, indifferent eye. The delight that had originally filled her eyes slowly dimmed.

So to the Lords, I'm only a tool?

Then what about those happy memories...

Karuta could do nothing. She merely lay on the ground, realizing that some things were different from what she remembered.

Uesugi Tetsu was in no hurry either. With a beaming smile, he raised his middle finger at the eye that filled the dome with darkness, then tapped the cloth-wrapped hilt of Spider-Cutter at his waist.

"Little Qing, let's follow the original plan."

--When he had recalled the prompt earlier, Uesugi Tetsu had already communicated with Qing through the Heartstring, just in case.

Otherwise, he would have dragged Karuta back to the mortal world first. There would have been no reason to waste time on such a long-winded conversation.

Now, that "just in case" had arrived.

And it had arrived at the perfect time.

He could use