Super Intelligence Told Me It Was Time to Use Super Strength! I Just Had to Beat the Hell Out of Everyone and Every Ghost!
The shrine priest was dead.
He left behind only this headless, tailless, somewhat baffling riddle.
Despite the fact that plenty of vitality derived from Uesugi Tetsu's blood still remained in his body, he had died quietly and simply just like that.
It was as if something had forcibly erased him.
A moment later, Uesugi Tetsu saw a new prompt appear above the closed-eyed shrine priest's head.
--[The dead shrine priest of Shiratsu Shrine].
Uesugi Tetsu opened his All-Sight Eye and True Sight Eye, but could only confirm that the shrine priest was truly and utterly dead. Not even a wisp of his soul remained.
All the clues had been forcibly severed with the death of the shrine priest of Shiratsu Shrine.
"He still had to play the riddler before dying. What a headache..."
Uesugi Tetsu silently repeated the shrine priest's final words in his heart.
"Kill The Girl Who Can See before the Blood Moon rises."
Although those final words were extremely cryptic, Uesugi Tetsu happened to have "considerable insight" into the latter half.
The Girl Who Can See...
Uesugi Tetsu did not turn around. He merely stared silently at Kujo Machi, who stood not far behind him, with his All-Sight Eye.
When Kujo Machi saw all those scarlet eyeballs wrapped around Uesugi Tetsu turn toward her in unison, she calmly shifted her gaze away with practiced ease, without revealing any unnecessary emotion.
She had already figured out how to "coexist" with the eyeballs on Uesugi Tetsu. The eyeballs were terrifying beyond measure, but they obeyed Uesugi Tetsu's commands completely. As long as she did not provoke them by making eye contact, everything would be fine.
Even so, Uesugi Tetsu caught the subtle shift in Kujo Machi's gaze.
He thought,
The girl mentioned in the shrine priest's final words was