Recaps

Uesugi Tetsu helped Nanjō Emi stop the Red Tide, then faced a series of supernatural threats while building his strength and allies. The stretch left him at his new villa with Ririko and the Samurai Cleaver, as they prepared to spar.

• Ririko taught Uesugi Tetsu and Shizuma Mafuyu the Four Paths and Five Elements, the Spirit Accumulation Technique, and Jade Heart Art, while Uesugi mastered Tennen Rishin-ryū and completed Main Mission Three.
• Ai Bielie triggered the Red Tide early, and Nanjō Emi linked herself to the Starry Barriers before confronting the demon and killing seven officials who had abandoned Arakawa Ward.
• Uesugi Tetsu killed Ai Bielie after she mortally wounded Nanjō Emi, then returned to Arakawa Ward as the Red Tide stopped and received an S overall mission rating.
• When the First Wave arrived, Nanjō Emi revealed Everworld and the demons to Arakawa Ward’s residents, while Ririko broke through her bottleneck and Uesugi’s Three-tailed Fox evolved into a Four-tailed Fox.
• Uesugi Tetsu found the Mountain Inn, discovered the Snow Woman’s treatment of the souls in her care, and was killed by her before Kaga Kiyomitsu transformed into the Blade of Parting.
• Uesugi Tetsu helped Hongwanji Temple fight the Princess Doll and the Ten-Doll Night Walker Lord, then buried Gotō Yoko’s ashes and wish box beneath the cherry tree at the abandoned Gotō Bathhouse.
• Nanjō Emi told Uesugi Tetsu he would face Moonlit Hall in a True Sword Match, while he advanced Kaga Kiyomitsu to Epic quality and completed a special Bakumatsu slash trial that earned him the Samurai Cleaver Shikigami.
• Uesugi Tetsu arrived at his new villa, contracted the Samurai Cleaver as a guardian Shikigami, and watched Ririko recognize it and raise her Bamboo Sword toward it.

Uesugi Tetsu rescued Ye Chun from Kisaragi Station, then used the Key of History to enter the Sengoku era and serve Imagawa Yoshimoto. Back in the present, he prepared for the True Sword Match as Sengoku daimyo began reaching into the modern world, and Akatsuki Ran attacked him in the arena before the match was announced.

• Uesugi Tetsu became a Tokoyo Walker, entered the ruined Walker Assembly, and received the Key of History from Magatsu-Kami.
• Uesugi Tetsu rescued Ye Chun from Kisaragi Station, destroyed the station after sending her back to 2004, and completed Main Quest Two.
• Two-Shaku-Sama evolved, and Uesugi Tetsu used the Battle of Okehazama phantom before the Key of History sent him to the real Sengoku Era.
• Uesugi Tetsu recruited Shiraishi, defeated the Well Woman, and drew Imagawa Yoshimoto’s attention with his Onmyōjutsu.
• Uesugi Tetsu destroyed the Sickly Ghost draining Taiyuan Xuezhai and agreed to serve Imagawa Yoshimoto, while Shiraishi joined the Imagawa Clan as a samurai.
• Uesugi Tetsu returned to the present, met with Nanjō Emi’s group at Moonlit Hall, and defeated Akechi Yuya’s challenge with Two-Shaku-Sama.
• Nanjō Emi told Uesugi Tetsu that Takeda Yoshinobu was attacking Yamanashi Prefecture from Everworld, and Uesugi Tetsu wondered whether Imagawa Yoshimoto was there too.
• Uesugi Tetsu trained for the True Sword Match and entered the arena, where Akatsuki Ran attacked him before the match was announced.

Uesugi Tetsu won the True Sword Match, refined his cultivation, and gained access to powerful breathing techniques while investigating the Great Demon behind Mikawa’s unrest. He joined Imagawa Yoshimoto’s campaign as deputy commander, then set out ahead with her while planning to turn back with Hanzō for a separate mission.

• Uesugi Tetsu defeated Akatsuki Ran and Karasuma Shigure, then overcame Kuzuha Chihaya with a lightning strike to win all three matches.
• Uesugi Tetsu refused Kujo Obuya’s offer of her Demonic Eye, and Tokugawa Hoshi gave him her sapphire pendant while asking him to care for Ririko.
• Uesugi Tetsu learned from Ririko that their cultivation methods were incomplete, then improved his Corona Breathing Technique and completed Tough Skin and Skin Tempering.
• Uesugi Tetsu entered the Warring States era, accepted Imagawa Yoshimoto’s mission to investigate the Mikawa Rebellion, and gained access to the Imagawa Clan’s nine breathing techniques.
• Uesugi Tetsu helped Okabe Motonobu resolve her sleep troubles with an Akaname, then learned the breathing techniques and advanced his cultivation through Copper Skin and Hard Bones.
• Uesugi Tetsu demonstrated a thirty-thousand-kan slash at Sunpu Castle, and the Hundred-Eyed Demon advanced to Epic and identified hunting grounds in Mikawa Province.
• Imagawa Yoshimoto appointed Okabe Motonobu commander-in-chief and Uesugi Tetsu deputy commander for the Mikawa campaign, while Okabe privately planned to turn back with him and Hanzō after three days.
• Uesugi Tetsu traveled ahead with Imagawa Yoshimoto, visited Aine in Watari Village, gave her silver, a talisman, and a wakizashi, then left her behind.

Uesugi Tetsu accompanied Imagawa Yoshimoto into plague-stricken Mikawa, helped her reclaim Yoshida Castle, and strengthened Kaga Kiyomitsu and his own powers. He then confronted the forces behind the epidemic at Nishio Castle, where Two-Shaku-Sama transformed and Yoshimoto began restoring the province.

• Imagawa Yoshimoto revealed her ambition to unite the realm, and Uesugi Tetsu agreed to accompany her into Mikawa after Sakata described the province’s plague, famine, and demons.
• Tetsu and Yoshimoto fought their way through villages of the dead, met the Zashiki-warashi at Mountain Whale Mountain, and received a reforged Kaga Kiyomitsu and help from Mountain Whale King.
• Tetsu and Yoshimoto prepared to take Yoshida Castle, where Tetsu killed the Retainers Ye Bingweng, Ku Fu, and Jie Fangzhu, then defeated Great Otafuku and cleared the castle of demons.
• Yoshimoto took control of Yoshida Castle while Tetsu made disease-expelling talismans for its residents, opened a Void Qi Sea with the Mountain God Rock Heart, and reunited with Okabe Motonobu and Two-Shaku-Sama.
• Tetsu enhanced Kaga Kiyomitsu, investigated and destroyed a Black Phone Booth, and received demon flesh essence from Minamoto Shizuka that let him complete the Iron Bones stage.
• Tetsu discovered that Jodo Shinshu and Sickness and Suffering were collecting wish power from sick residents, then infiltrated Nishio Castle and attacked Eight Sufferings Incarnation, Bingku.
• Bingku killed Tetsu, but Tetsu resurrected as the Four-tailed Fox and destroyed the incarnation, and Lian Guang then unleashed a torrent of wish power, and Two-Shaku-Sama absorbed it before sealing herself in a Ksitigarbha statue.
• Tetsu killed Lian Guang and the remaining Retainers, while Yoshimoto promised Nishio Castle’s residents relief, and Tetsu refused to settle the stage mission early and collapsed from exhaustion.