Blue, Willing to Become a Vassal! Using the Mask of Wrath; the Evolutionary Legend of Red Brahma!

In an instant, every Minamoto Clan elder in the reception room turned toward Uesugi Tetsu, whose expression remained unchanged.

Especially the several elders who had not said a word since arriving and whose obvious age showed in their frail, elderly appearances.

These old men, whose average age exceeded two hundred, knew exactly what Blue—or rather, Spider-Cutter—had thought of its former master... and even of every master who had contracted it, apart from that great Lord Raikou.

Even when bound by blood, and even after a life-and-death contract lasting years, decades, or until death itself, Blue's attitude toward the masters who had wielded it to slay demons and monsters had remained merely indifferent.

For Blue to go from obeying the master's every command to treating the master as an equal was already an astonishing change.

Some elders thought to themselves—put in more modern terms, perhaps it was something like... a contract worker? An employee?

Blue's relationship with its previous masters had more or less been like that.

But this time, it was different.

Truly different.

Any elder who knew even a little about Spider-Cutter and still possessed a sound mind could glimpse the relationship between Blue and this junior, Uesugi Tetsu, from that one sentence.

Uesugi Tetsu was the one in control.

And Blue was willingly becoming his vassal.

Even Heartwater, who had once passed the trial with ease before rejecting Spider-Cutter, probably could not have achieved this...

Some of the Minamoto elders studied Uesugi Tetsu without showing anything on their faces, then looked away and fell into thought.

What sort of miraculous power did this boy named Uesugi Tetsu possess... that he could actually subdue Blue, an elder senior to practically everyone in the Minamoto Clan?

Don't tell them it was because he had won the Seed Battle.

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