Five Hundred Years of Incense and Devout Wishes, the Mantra's Marvel! Unique Hundred Eyes: Super Epic!

July 27, 2024, sunny.

Shizuoka Prefecture, Shizuoka City—the place where the old Imagawa Residence stood.

Beside the cherry-blossom-colored giant tree, Uesugi Tetsu smiled and refused a girl's request to add him on LINE so she could check in here.

Naturally, he had placed a layer of cognitive obstruction on himself. Otherwise, he would have been discovered the moment he approached this Imagawa Residence attraction, followed by a huge crowd of fans.

That would have been troublesome.

Uesugi Tetsu strolled along slowly before sitting once more on the stone bench that had remained unchanged for five hundred years.

Five hundred years of wind and sand had merely polished the surface of the stone bench. Apart from that, it had barely changed.

Sitting on the bench, he gazed at the empty courtyard, as if he could see himself practicing breathing techniques and training with the sword there every day.

The fresh scent of cherry blossoms lingered at the tip of his nose.

Uesugi Tetsu raised a hand slightly, plucked a medium-sized cherry blossom branch, and put it into his storage backpack. Then he looked toward the tree trunk, whose circumference required several people to embrace it together.

This cherry tree planted by Yoshimoto had truly grown vigorously. It was the largest and most spiritual cherry tree Uesugi Tetsu had ever seen.

If another five hundred years passed, perhaps it would develop intelligence of its own, just like Koga.

Uesugi Tetsu sat on the hard stone bench for a long while, no one knowing what he was thinking. From time to time, he sighed softly or smiled.

The two swords at his waist did not disturb him. Instead, Koga studied the cherry tree with great interest—she had only recently seen this kind of seed planted in the ground!

Who would have thought that