Chapter Summaries

Chisa protected her family and drew the Black Phone Booth away until Uesugi Tetsu arrived and rescued them. Uesugi Tetsu killed the phenomenon and earned an SS- mission rating, but a remnant revealed that the Demon Guiding Society had identified him as Great Onmyoji, Tetsu.

• Chisa moved her family and an unconscious Special Affairs Division agent into the mall, then lured the Black Phone Booth away from her brothers and entered it.
• Chisa used the phone to recite the Special Affairs Division Countermeasures Office's location, but the booth cursed her until Uesugi Tetsu arrived and pulled her free.
• Uesugi Tetsu reunited Chisa with Tamamo's family and Kaga Kiyomitsu, then carried them out of the Haunted House before returning to fight the Black Phone Booth.
• Uesugi Tetsu found and destroyed the Black Phone Booth's main body, stopping its advancement and earning an SS- rating with the Ancient Rotary Phone and Proof of Walking rewards.
• Uesugi Tetsu spotted a surviving wisp of black aura, whose skull form addressed him as Great Onmyoji, Tetsu.

Uesugi Tetsu defeated the Black Phone Booth, rescued Tamamo’s family, and received two special items before returning to Hamamatsu. At the secret realm, Kyūkōin Jin invited him to challenge it just as Uesugi remembered an unknown powerful buff waiting for his next entry.

• Uesugi Tetsu used Daruma’s memory of Great Onmyoji Tetsu to frighten off the Demon Guiding Society’s skull messenger, then left the restored streets after defeating the Black Phone Booth.
• Uesugi Tetsu gave Chisa a protective amulet and encouraged her to join the Special Affairs Division, while Ghost God-level Nakamura arrived and soon departed to patrol Shizuoka City.
• Uesugi Tetsu examined the Ancient Rotary Phone and Proof of Walking, then rested until Tamamo returned and took him toward Hamamatsu to collect Yagyū Shion.
• Uesugi Tetsu read the Kisaragi Train note, which explained how to summon the train and said, “Long time no see.”
• Uesugi Tetsu and Tamamo found Yagyū Shion ranked around eightieth on the secret realm leaderboard, while Kyūkōin Jin had taken first place.
• Kyūkōin Jin asked Uesugi Tetsu whether he would challenge the secret realm, and Uesugi recalled that an unknown powerful buff would activate on his next entry.

Uesugi Tetsu refused Kyūkōin Jin’s invitation to challenge the Top 100 in public, then entered the Projection Secret Realm and used the Hero’s 40-meter Greatsword to clear the fortieth floor. He faced Oda Nobunaga’s vast army on the forty-first floor, while outside the rankings showed Anonymous Person No. 666 in first place.

• Uesugi Tetsu declined Kyūkōin Jin’s invitation and left the Top 100 stele with Tamamo and Yagyū Shion.
• Special Affairs Division agents learned that Uesugi Tetsu had exorcised the Black Phone Booth in Shizuoka City, and Kyūkōin Jin grew interested in him.
• At Yagyū’s dojo, the assistant master warned that the first point five wave was coming soon, and Yagyū Shion cooked a late dinner for Uesugi Tetsu and the others.
• Uesugi Tetsu entered the Projection Secret Realm, received the Hero’s 40-meter Greatsword, and cleared the fortieth floor after the buff disrupted his projection’s awareness.
• Uesugi Tetsu entered the forty-first floor and faced Oda Nobunaga and an enormous Oda army, then advanced to meet their charge.
• Tamamo saw that Anonymous Person No. 666 had taken first place on the Top 100 rankings, listed as having reached the forty-first floor.

Uesugi Tetsu cleared the forty-first floor of the Warring States secret realm and faced the young Kamiizumi Nobutsuna on floor forty-two, gaining substantial skill proficiency after being defeated. He prepared for a deadly team duel and a Seed Battle preliminary round, then ended the night anticipating White Brahma’s imminent advancement.

• Minamoto Shizuka, Saito Ryuichi, and Kyūkōin Jin reacted to Anonymous Person No. 666 taking first place in the rankings.
• Tamamo found Uesugi Tetsu apparently asleep and struggled to reconcile that with the anonymous challenger’s achievement.
• Uesugi Tetsu met Kamiizumi Nobutsuna on floor forty-two and died within three moves, earning major proficiency gains in Imperial Spirit Technique and Tennen Rishin-ryū.
• The assistant instructor introduced Uesugi Tetsu to his duel teammates, Akiyama Kai and Tsuchiya Yū, and told them their fight against the Hōjō Clan would take place in a week.
• The assistant instructor urged Uesugi Tetsu to crush Yagyū at the upcoming Seed Battle, while Uesugi Tetsu accepted Chisa’s Line request and inspected his growing qi sea.
• Uesugi Tetsu saw White Brahma’s advancement progress reach 99% and anticipated its rise to two-and-a-half stars within three hours.

Uesugi Tetsu waited for White Brahma to finish advancing, then climbed a mountain and reached the summit just as the transformation completed. White Brahma became a two-and-a-half-star incarnation, strengthening Uesugi Tetsu and evolving the Brahma Mask; after a sunrise sword epiphany, he prepared to inspect the newly opened limited card pool.

• Uesugi Tetsu left the dojo, practiced the Imperial Spirit Technique, and called Ririko to ask about her Palace of Flesh cultivation.
• Uesugi Tetsu destroyed a consumption ghost draining a young office worker and urged the man to rest and seek easier work.
• Uesugi Tetsu climbed a mountain, where the ghosts following him fled after White Brahma finished advancing to two and a half stars.
• Uesugi Tetsu began White Brahma’s advancement toward three stars, and the evolved Brahma Mask stored Ghost God and Berserker talents.
• Uesugi Tetsu equipped the Brahma Mask and White Brahma Incarnation, raising his Physique to 117 and expanding his sea of qi.
• Uesugi Tetsu entered a state of communion with heaven and humanity while practicing sword techniques at sunrise, raising his Tennen Rishin-ryū proficiency and Sword Principle trait before preparing to inspect the limited card pool.

Uesugi Tetsu confirmed that reaching five percent in Sword Principle improved his understanding and sword damage, then prepared to use the final Master Fisherman special salvage before his labyrinth mission. After studying Lord Saionji’s Yae Gaki footwork, he began the salvage, but the system altered it into a unique Myriad Manifestations branch.

• Uesugi Tetsu discovered that his Sword Principle progress had improved his understanding of swords and slightly increased his sword techniques’ damage.
• Uesugi Tetsu learned that the two-and-a-half-star special salvage would open in about forty-two hours and checked the cost and conditions for his final Master Fisherman salvage.
• Uesugi Tetsu confirmed with Tamamo that the Mokumokuren Labyrinth expedition was planned for three days later, then tested the Black Phone Booth’s tracking ability on Nanjō Emi.
• Uesugi Tetsu eliminated the dangerous monsters gathered on the mountain and returned to the dojo, where Chisa asked to join him at the Special Affairs Division after her current commitments ended.
• Lord Saionji demonstrated Yae Gaki’s first footwork, and Uesugi Tetsu identified its four overlapping steps before enduring three strikes meant to teach him the technique.
• Uesugi Tetsu spent 2,000 Soul Soothing Incense Ash to begin the Master Fisherman special salvage, but the system altered it into the Unique Salvage: Myriad Manifestations Branch.

Uesugi Tetsu revisited a branch in which he met Ririko and Nanjō Emi during a school scare, then pursued university and a police career while Ririko waited for his answer. Twelve years after their parting, he finally went to find her, before awakening in another branch with a token engraved [Walk].

• Ririko rescued Uesugi Tetsu and his unconscious friends from an abandoned school, where he met Nanjō Emi and gave a statement to Shizuma Mafuyu.
• Ririko’s sister Tokugawa Hoshi encouraged Uesugi Tetsu to work toward the University of Tokyo, and his online friend Work to Death urged him not to give up on Ririko.
• Uesugi Tetsu got into the University of Tokyo and reunited with Ririko at its opening ceremony, though he treated her question about his feelings as a request for a protein powder recommendation.
• Uesugi Tetsu chose a police career, graduated early, passed the Class I examination, and rose through the Metropolitan Police Department while Ririko continued pursuing kendo.
• Twelve years after leaving Ririko beneath the cherry tree, Uesugi Tetsu called her and hurried to the address she gave him to answer her question.
• Uesugi Tetsu awoke in another branch holding a token engraved [Walk].

Uesugi Tetsu and Nanjō Emi resolved to preserve their equal nation, but a future branch showed the nation destroyed and the world consumed by Uesugi Tetsu’s final act. Countless alternate lives then unfolded before Uesugi Tetsu until every branch abruptly stopped at the terminus of possibility.

• The Onmyo Bureau and allied families planned to kill the Wanderer, and Tokugawa Haruhiko led the ambush against him.
• Nanjō Emi subdued Tokugawa Haruhiko, while Uesugi Tetsu questioned him about the mortal world and learned how dire it had become.
• Uesugi Tetsu and Nanjō Emi chose to protect the equal nation, though they believed the world might deserve destruction.
• More than a decade later, humans and demons destroyed the nation and slew the Demon King; Uesugi Tetsu pressed a red button and unleashed endless light and heat.
• Countless branches showed alternate lives of Uesugi Tetsu before all possibilities abruptly stopped at their terminus.

After waking from a vision of countless lifetimes, Uesugi Tetsu gained immense control over spiritual energy, opened the Demon King's Earthly Paradise salvage pool, and learned Yae Gaki. He then took command of the Special Affairs Division team assembled to raid the Mokumokuren Labyrinth and led them to its ominous entrance.

• Uesugi Tetsu woke after sleeping for two days, learned that his state of mind had improved, and discovered that his spiritual-energy control had grown dramatically.
• Uesugi Tetsu opened the two-and-a-half-star Demon King's Earthly Paradise pool and salvaged a Super Epic homemade bento and a useless damaged red button.
• Uesugi Tetsu learned from Chisa that disguised machines had infiltrated the Special Affairs Division headquarters and warned Nanjō Emi, Kitano Runa, Tamamo, and the other personnel.
• Uesugi Tetsu mastered the beginner level of Yae Gaki and demonstrated its speed and silence to Yagyū Shion before they departed with Tamamo.
• Uesugi Tetsu arrived at the Mokumokuren Labyrinth camp, assumed command of the raid, reviewed the agents' information, and led the team toward the cave entrance.
• Uesugi Tetsu sensed a frigid supernatural presence in the cave, asked about the absence of Ghost God-level support, and prepared to enter with his hand on Kaga Kiyomitsu.

Uesugi Tetsu led the team into the changing Mokumokuren Labyrinth, where increasingly powerful illusions forced him to send two agents back and call for Ghost God-level support. At the labyrinth’s deepest point, a vast Mokumokuren presence trapped the group, and Uesugi Tetsu prepared to face it alone.

• Uesugi Tetsu gave Tamamo Yongming's Headlamp and secretly spread his Mirage domain before leading the team into the cave.
• Fukada Mei and the others fell prey to Mokumokuren illusions, but Tamamo helped Fukada Mei recover, and Uesugi Tetsu killed a Mokumokuren and collected its eyeballs.
• Uesugi Tetsu ordered Ōtomo Ken and Fukada Mei to leave after realizing the labyrinth’s mental influence grew stronger with depth.
• Uesugi Tetsu sensed an enormous malice ahead and told Tamamo to call for Ghost God-level support.
• Uesugi Tetsu discovered a Mokumokuren shadow among the group and reached the labyrinth’s deepest point, where dozens of Mokumokuren blocked the way back and a gigantic presence awaited.
• Uesugi Tetsu blasted open the escape route with a thunderball, summoned the Brahma Mask, and faced the approaching mass of eyes.

Uesugi Tetsu killed the nearly Ghost God-level Mokumokuren Assembly with the Demon King's Homemade Bento, then witnessed Kujo Shingo erase the labyrinth hill with a display of Ghost God power. As the tidal wave's aftershocks began in Shizuoka City, Uesugi Tetsu stopped a monster incursion, and his Proof of Walking began to shine.

• Uesugi Tetsu used Kaga Kiyomitsu and the Demon King's Homemade Bento to kill the Mokumokuren Assembly, earning soul ash, 872 eyeballs, and a Malice Crystal.
• Uesugi Tetsu fed the Mokumokuren eyeballs to Hundred-Eyed Demon, then met Kujo Shingo, who advised him to become a Ghost God and demonstrated his power by erasing the Mokumokuren Labyrinth hill.
• Uesugi Tetsu, Tamamo, and Yagyū Shion traveled toward Shizuoka City to collect the scale armor as the tidal wave's aftershocks began.
• Uesugi Tetsu killed thirty-two bio-mechanical monsters that emerged from a black vortex beside the shuttle bus.
• Uesugi Tetsu noticed that his Proof of Walking was glowing brightly inside his storage bag.

During Shizuoka City's wave, Uesugi Tetsu observed Karasu Tengu's swordsmanship, received Sea Alien Light's Scale Armor, and defined it in his Qi Sea, creating a powerful link with the Fragment of the Ten-Span Sword and Brahma Card. He then used the Proof of Walking to enter the Walker Assembly again, where someone recognized it with surprise.

• Uesugi Tetsu arrived at Shizuoka City's Special Affairs Division during the wave and met Karasu Tengu, who was defending the city with black sword light.
• Uesugi Tetsu watched Karasu Tengu fight from the command center, improving his Imperial Spirit Technique, Tennen Rishin-ryū, and Sword Principle.
• After the wave temporarily subsided, Karasu Tengu gave Uesugi Tetsu Sea Alien Light's Scale Armor and allowed him to use a quiet cultivation chamber.
• Uesugi Tetsu defined the scale armor in his Qi Sea, linking it with the Fragment of the Ten-Span Sword and Brahma Card and gaining greater Water Attribute Resistance, astral qi, and self-healing.
• Uesugi Tetsu took out the Gathering Token and entered the Walker Assembly, where someone greeted him and expressed surprise that he had obtained the Proof of Walking.

Uesugi Tetsu entered a Heian-era secret realm left by a Walker from a thousand years ago and met its yokai residents and a surviving Great Onmyoji. The Onmyoji led him to the Spring of Spirit Gathering, where Uesugi Tetsu discovered he could promote a Demon Incarnation’s quality.

• Magatsu-Kami explained that Uesugi Tetsu’s Proof of Walking held a difficult trial and an ancient secret realm, then opened its entrance and told him to wear the Walker Arrow.
• Uesugi Tetsu entered the secret realm, met Karagasa-kozo, and followed it to a village inhabited by yokai.
• Karagasa-kozo introduced Uesugi Tetsu to the village chief, a Great Onmyoji from the era of Abe no Seimei and Ashiya Dōman who had waited centuries in the secret realm.
• Uesugi Tetsu told the Onmyoji that Everworld was rising again, and the Onmyoji combined malice and wish power into a Wish Thought Crystal for him.
• The Onmyoji led Uesugi Tetsu and Karagasa-kozo through the mist to the Spring of Spirit Gathering, where a prompt offered quality promotion for White Brahma or Four-tailed Fox.

Uesugi Tetsu advanced White Brahma in the Spring of Spirit Gathering, raising its quality and tier cap, then returned from the secret realm and spoke with Magatsu-Kami. Back in the present, he planned to train during the storm and prepared to attend the qualifiers.

• Uesugi Tetsu chose to advance White Brahma's quality in the spring, raising it to Epic+ and increasing its tier cap to four stars while improving its talents and the Brahma Mask.
• Karagasa-kozo absorbed the spring's mist and rose to one and a half stars as Uesugi Tetsu thanked the Village Chief and received gifts from the spirit villagers.
• The Village Chief opened a vortex for Uesugi Tetsu to leave and asked him to bring back records of the past thousand years if he visited again.
• Uesugi Tetsu returned to Magatsu-Kami, gave her a bottle of soda, and promised to meet her again; she began trying to figure out how to open it.
• Uesugi Tetsu woke beside Chisa, forwarded her Nanjō Emi's contact information, and agreed to attend the qualifiers.
• Uesugi Tetsu saw the storm outside and headed to the Special Affairs Division rooftop to train the Imperial Spirit Technique and Five Thunder Technique.

Uesugi Tetsu cultivated on the Special Affairs Division rooftop during the First Wave, advancing his Four-tailed Fox and tempering his body with lightning. After defeating an incoming Vanguard Spearhead, he arranged for Chisa to go to Arakawa Ward and prepared to draw cards on the shuttle back.

• Chisa added Nanjō Emi as a friend after Uesugi Tetsu left her in the corridor.
• Uesugi Tetsu drew on the storm’s spiritual power and lightning to cultivate, while Karasu Tengu maintained the rooftop barrier and redirected the bolts.
• The Four-tailed Fox reached its complete form, gaining the Thousand Faces, Myriad Phenomena talent, and the Four-tailed Fox Jade Token gained a lightning-based effect.
• Uesugi Tetsu’s Corona Breathing Technique changed into Lightning Bone, and his attributes and skill proficiencies rose sharply.
• Uesugi Tetsu destroyed a three-and-a-half-star Vanguard Spearhead with a compressed lightning sphere, while Yagyū Shion watched in frustration.
• Uesugi Tetsu arranged for Chisa to go to the Arakawa Ward Special Affairs Division with a bodyguard, then prepared to spend his soul ash on card draws during the return trip.

Uesugi Tetsu signed the Demon King's contract and gained a powerful one-use blessing, then completed Lightning Bone and received Kenshin's Gaze. He traveled with Shihan-dai, Akiyama Kai, Tsuchiya Yū, and Tamamo to the City of Disorder, where he saw a vast city filled with Great Demons.

• Uesugi Tetsu promoted the Four-tailed Fox with Soul Soothing Incense Ash and checked Hundred-Eyed Demon's slow progress toward Super Epic.
• Uesugi Tetsu signed the Demon King's Blessing contract and received Soul Spirit's Protection, which would preserve his soul from corruption once.
• Uesugi Tetsu reached the Yagyū dojo, where Shihan-dai gave him a wooden admission ticket and warned him that a grim future awaited as Everworld rose toward the present world.
• Uesugi Tetsu completed Lightning Bone, gained Kenshin's Gaze, and began preparing for the next Palace of Flesh stage.
• Uesugi Tetsu joined Shihan-dai, Akiyama Kai, Tsuchiya Yū, and Tamamo aboard the Kisaragi Train to the City of Disorder.
• Uesugi Tetsu stepped off the train and saw Great Demons above immense city walls engraved with legends from across the ages.

Uesugi Tetsu explored the City of Disorder and learned about the Annual Ring Arena, where ancient projections could be challenged. As the wagered battle against Hōjō Ujiyasu’s forces began, Uesugi Tetsu stood ready to be chosen for the first round.

• Uesugi Tetsu entered the City of Disorder and learned that its rules forbade fighting while its residents freely traded goods and information.
• Uesugi Tetsu visited the Annual Ring Arena, saw Abe no Seimei and Ashiya Dōman atop its ranking tablets, and was instantly defeated by Abe no Seimei’s projection.
• Uesugi Tetsu entered the arena as a contestant and recognized Hōjō Ujiyasu, who had brought three members of the Hōjō Clan’s Five-Colored Guard.
• Hōjō Ujiyasu asked Lord Saionji to name the first fighter, and the assistant instructor’s gaze turned toward Uesugi Tetsu.

Tsuchiya Yū fought Kasahara Yasukatsu and was killed just as he broke through, while Akiyama Kai later withdrew after suffering severe injuries and poison. With Yagyu Dojo down two fighters, Uesugi Tetsu entered the arena to face Tametomo Mototada.

• Tsuchiya Yū chose to fight first, hoping to find a life-or-death battle that would let him break through his bottleneck.
• Kasahara Yasukatsu used a hidden matchlock pistol to kill Tsuchiya Yū at the moment he achieved his breakthrough.
• Akiyama Kai fought Tametomo Mototada for over an hour, broke through, and then withdrew after losing an arm and an eye to a poisoned weapon.
• Tametomo Mototada mocked Uesugi Tetsu and the modern world as the monsters celebrated Yagyu Dojo's losses.
• Uesugi Tetsu entered the arena and asked Tametomo Mototada why he had stopped laughing.

Uesugi Tetsu effortlessly killed Tametomo Mototada and defeated Kasahara Yasukatsu while Tamamo began livestreaming the fights on Deep Space Online. As Hōjō Ujiyasu sent out a mysterious new opponent, Uesugi Tetsu saw the name Fūma Kotarō appear above him.

• Uesugi Tetsu cut off Tametomo Mototada’s leg, blocked his hidden weapons, and killed him with a spear after stopping his escape.
• Hōjō Ujiyasu gave Kasahara Yasukatsu a Substitute Doll to sign before sending him to fight Uesugi Tetsu.
• Tamamo opened a Deep Space Online livestream of the arena, and viewers watched Uesugi Tetsu dominate Kasahara Yasukatsu.
• Kasahara Yasukatsu activated his secret technique and attacked, but Uesugi Tetsu pierced his throat with a lightning-charged spear and killed him.
• Hōjō Ujiyasu sent a black-clad figure into the arena, and Uesugi Tetsu recognized the name Fūma Kotarō above him.

Uesugi Tetsu faced Fūma Kotarō in the arena, while the livestream audience watched their battle and learned the cost of reviving Kasahara Yasukatsu with a Substitute Doll. After trading feints and techniques, Uesugi Tetsu cut down Kotarō’s fourteen illusions and launched a thunderous counterattack at the concealed real one.

• Fūma Kotarō assessed Uesugi Tetsu as the stronger fighter and agreed to withdraw if he showed signs of defeat.
• Hōjō Ujiyasu revived Kasahara Yasukatsu with a Substitute Doll, leaving him weakened and the doll pierced through its neck.
• Uesugi Tetsu drew Kaga Kiyomitsu as Tamamo’s livestream audience recognized Fūma Kotarō and surged in size.
• Fūma Kotarō attacked with kunai, substitution techniques, and fourteen duplicates, while Uesugi Tetsu countered with swordsmanship and thunder-based Onmyōjutsu.
• Uesugi Tetsu used Tennen Rishin-ryū—Nameless Sword: Hidden to behead the fourteen Fūma Kotarōs, then met the real Kotarō’s thunder attack with a forward thrust.