[Life and Death Taiko] [Quality: Superb] [Effect: Striking the "Life" side will attract supernatural phenomena within a certain range, while striking the "Death" side will drive away supernatural phenomena within a certain range.] [—Strike the taiko, strike and strike; life and death fade into a blur.]
Uesugi Tetsu gazed at the description of the Life and Death Taiko, quite satisfied.
Although its quality was not particularly high, its effect against the low-intelligence supernatural phenomena around the one-star and half-star levels could definitely be described as outstanding.
That meant he could use the Life and Death Taiko to drive away the ghosts, cross the sea of them at the end of Isanuki Tunnel with ease, and see what lay beyond the tunnel!
—The Life and Death Taiko was not as large as the taiko belonging to Taiko Suzuki. It more closely resembled a double-sided hand drum with small balls hanging from both sides.
The side engraved with the character "Life" was extraordinarily smooth and snow-white. Uesugi Tetsu could clearly see his own reflection in it. The side engraved with "Death," meanwhile, was rough and pitch-black, as though it swallowed up all the light around it.
Playing the Life and Death Taiko did not require shaking the nonexistent balls on either side. Instead, one used the two tiny, lustrous-white drumsticks that came with it.
Each drumstick was about one and a half of Uesugi Tetsu's finger-lengths long. Playing the drum with them was honestly a little awkward.
"This hand drum would suit Two-Shaku-Sama quite well."
—Two-Shaku-Sama was small, tough, and not particularly slow. She was also perfectly suited to this undersized hand drum, making her the ideal person to wield this taunting tool.
After summoning Two-Shaku-Sama from the Ksitigarbha statue, Uesugi Tetsu had not even had time to speak before