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Uesugi Tetsu had barely finished fastening the Wrathful God Mask when a short, miniature straw doll suddenly darted out from the shadows.

The absurd efficiency left him stunned.

How much time had even passed?

Ten seconds?

Katsumi had arrived far too quickly this time.

Uesugi Tetsu removed the mask. Katsumi seemed to see what he was thinking, and spoke in a lowered voice,

"Oh my... Walker, we meet again. This time, it's because I happened to have more than one trading partner in Tokyo. I came over as soon as I finished up there."

What were the odds of that?

Uesugi Tetsu looked Katsumi up and down at the disheveled straw covering his body.

He suspected that Katsumi had been halfway through a deal over there, sensed him taking out the black Wrathful God Mask, and abandoned the other party to rush over.

Katsumi might not have known what the other "customer" was thinking at that moment, but he could certainly tell which side would bring in more money.

Uesugi Tetsu was just about to get down to business when Katsumi's little straw-doll avatar raised a finger to his lips.

"Walker, this isn't the place to talk."

Amid the honking of cars on the street, Katsumi pointed toward the Special Affairs Division's Arakawa Ward branch and whispered,

"Look at the roof over there. There's a Nine-Tailed Fox trying to catch nonhuman things like us, just like a radar."

No wonder he hadn't used that flashy opening line this time.

And what did he mean by "us"...

Uesugi Tetsu did not nitpick over that. Instead, he glanced over with his peripheral vision and saw that the previously empty rooftop of the Special Affairs Division was occupied by the enormous phantom image of a Nine-Tailed Fox!

Had this Nine-Tailed Fox taken over