Imagawa Meets Ririko-It's Mars Colliding with Earth! The Underworld Secret Land Where Demons Swarm

"Getting involved with a historical figure from five hundred years ago, Uesugi-kun, you really are something."

After patiently listening to Uesugi Tetsu's complicated, eventful, and lengthy "experience," Ririko chuckled and sighed in admiration, clapping along for good measure.

"What do you mean, 'getting involved'...? That sounds awful."

Uesugi Tetsu held his forehead and emphasized, "It was choosing a master, supporting her, following the principle that a fine bird chooses a tree to perch in and a worthy retainer chooses a lord to serve!"

"Fine, fine, I get it."

Ririko gave a soft laugh. "Anyway, it was definitely while Erzhi and Kaga Kiyomitsu weren't around that you ended up supporting that Imagawa Yoshimoto, right?"

"No wonder she could overwhelm all her rivals and become the first World's People of the Warring States era... I always felt that something was strange before. Her life was completely like she had a cheat activated."

Ririko said, "So her 'cheat' was you, Uesugi-kun."

Uesugi Tetsu: "..."

It seemed that stereotype couldn't be overturned.

Ririko continued counting on her fingers.

"The mastermind behind the scenes, Imagawa's regent, and that almost mythological 'Great Onmyoji Tetsu'—all of them were you, Uesugi-kun."

The girl clicked her tongue twice, her mood becoming somewhat strange.

—Her opponents being Shikigami like Erzhi or people connected to Supernatural Phenomena like Ye Chun was one thing.

But then an ancient "childhood sweetheart dropped from the heavens," who had lived five hundred years ago, had appeared out of nowhere!

What was this supposed to be?

If she used the method she had learned for distinguishing between "childhood sweethearts and homewreckers," wouldn't that make her a homewrecker for no reason?

What a joke!

Wasn't that cheating?!

However, Ririko immediately remembered that the Imagawa Yoshimoto in question was already a "person from the past" who had lived