Tamed the Red-Hot Magatsu Easily! How Did the Oni Become a Savage God: The Royal Road, Shortcut, and Dark Age!

"This smell is really pungent."

Uesugi Tetsu, who had been thrown flying, landed steadily and pulled the half-burned cigarette from his mouth. Just as he was about to exhale, he broke into a series of coughs.

Even with the mint added to the cigarette, the tobacco smell was still irritating... What did Sister Nanjō and the others call it again?

Full-bodied?

In any case, Uesugi Tetsu completely failed to understand why so many people liked smoking, especially among the overworked employees of the Special Affairs Division.

After using his internal energy to purge every trace of tobacco smell from his nasal passages, Uesugi Tetsu extinguished the cigarette butt and casually tossed it into one of the few trash cans by the roadside.

After Nanjō Emi took over Hokkaido, she hadn't removed all the roadside trash cans for some ridiculous notion of municipal aesthetics, leaving people with nowhere to throw away their rubbish. That was truly wonderful.

Breathing in the fresh air created by the sparse population, Uesugi Tetsu looked around and realized that after walking a few more steps, he would reach his front door.

"Not bad. You threw me pretty accurately..."

Uesugi Tetsu couldn't help marveling inwardly at how ingenious Nanjō Emi's Imperial Spirit Technique was. Even while he struggled, she had managed to throw him from such a distance with such precision.

That level of proficiency had already reached a height he couldn't imagine at his current stage.

When he arrived at the gate to the courtyard, Uesugi Tetsu sensed a subtle flow of "rhythm" in the surrounding environment.

Using the Thousand Eyes Pupil, he saw Ririko on the rooftop, her hair tied into a high ponytail as she danced alone with her sword in the moonlight. Her movements appeared slow, unhurried, and leisurely.

Unlike the visible and