Katsumi stood there stunned for a long while before taking out the gold-inlaid pocket watch he had acquired from the Factory Masters. He opened it and checked the nearly perfectly accurate time displayed on its face.
The hour hand had not even completed half a turn—perhaps only a quarter turn?
In just a few short hours, how had this Walker managed to obtain hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of portions of soul ash?
If the time frame had been stretched to two or three days—even just twenty-four hours—Katsumi would not have been so shocked.
But only a few hours...
Katsumi had been at Kisaragi Station for two or three days now and had roughly figured out the characteristics of this special region shrouded in fog.
Naturally, he understood how difficult it was to obtain soul ash from the wandering "Chi" here.
Yet in such a short time, it would have been impossible to use some special method to leave this region and search the wilderness for scattered demons. Even if he had been lucky enough to catch that train, the round trip would have taken longer than this.
And this Brahma Walker did not even appear to have reached the two-star rank.
Such potential, such methods...
After pondering for several seconds, Katsumi had already made up his mind.
He immediately took out the two Cold Steel Armguards. Smiling pleasantly, he swept his sleeve and put away one thousand portions of soul ash, then bowed slightly. "Thank you for your patronage, my lord. Please visit again~"
Uesugi Tetsu silently nodded, suppressing the joy in his heart as he prepared to leave and return to the real world to draw cards.
Just as he was about to step out of the shop, he was blocked by a folding fan rolling with waves.
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