Lord Magatsu's Gentle Body, Treasury of Kami Unlocked! The Great Horror of the Heian Era-Killing with Time

Uesugi Tetsu remembered it very clearly. He remembered what he had seen.

Before the "gift" enveloped him, just as the "shadow" who was a senior Tokoyo Walker was about to announce his name, it suddenly began twitching on the spot, flickering between light and darkness.

It gave Uesugi Tetsu the feeling that it was about to solidify from that blurry, indistinct mosaic of darkness and become a real person.

He also sensed the shadow's inexplicable fury.

Although he had no idea why the shadow's emotions had suddenly flared so intensely, Uesugi Tetsu could clearly feel that this was genuine rage and hatred—

Rage like a volcanic eruption, and an overwhelming hatred like a blood feud that could never be reconciled.

And also.

What had the shadow's final words meant?

Before he completely left the Crimson Secret Realm, only one thought rose in Uesugi Tetsu's mind—

So riddlers had already become popular a thousand years ago.

The flow of time blurred in his senses. Perhaps a long time had passed, or perhaps it had only been an instant.

What awakened Uesugi Tetsu was an unusually warm sensation coming from his cheek, icy cold yet faintly sticky with blood.

—Magatsu, who had been staring fixedly at the screen and had no idea how long she had been holding her breath, suddenly released the controller she had been operating with her toes and moved it aside.

She promptly pressed her delicate white foot against Uesugi Tetsu's face as he was violently spat out of the crimson vortex at astonishing speed, completely unconcerned by the black, sticky blood covering it.

But that insignificant tremor caused the controller's joystick, which Magatsu had been lightly resting her foot against, to shift.

Immediately afterward, the pixel character on the hundred-inch screen stepped off the edge of