Imagawa Yoshimoto, Following the Kisaragi Train! Factory Master Z's Futile Rage! The Flower of Qi, Developing the Calamity Sea

The giant eye's cold pupil contracted as it indifferently stared down at the human youth standing brazenly on the conveyor belt.

Its thoughts raced at tremendous speed. Countless streams of data flashed through its quasi-mechanical brain in an instant as it compared every human face in its vast database.

Several seconds later, a long-sealed memory image was finally unearthed from the deepest layer of the database.

This was...

That insignificant weakling who had once closed the interdimensional passage from the Everworld to the mortal world?

The giant eye remembered that this feeble creature had even scratched its skin back then.

An indifferent and contemptuous voice echoed through the factory:

"Your grudge from the interdimensional passage—I haven't come for you yet..."

"A mere human actually dares to enter the Everworld alone and invade the factory of the great ruler?"

"—Are you tired of living?"

The giant eye's immense mental fluctuations descended upon Uesugi Tetsu below like tangible pressure, viciously crushing down as if it intended to grind him, along with the metal floor beneath his feet, into dust.

The icy mental pressure surged over like a tide.

"Human, I'll let you taste what true pain is!"

The giant eye's "pupil" abruptly contracted. A destructive high-temperature energy began gathering within it, preparing to crush Uesugi Tetsu mentally and physically at the same time together with its psychic attack.

However, just as it was about to strike—

Buzz.

A black curtain as thin as a cicada's wing yet incomparably resilient finally descended from the ceiling, the four walls, and even the entrance to the transmission passage. It closed, completely isolating the entire factory from the outside world.

Onmyōjutsu.

It had fully unfolded.

Uesugi Tetsu had stood in place from beginning to end, without even moving a finger.

Facing the immense mental pressure that