Searching for the Dragon Veins, a Fateful Encounter, and the Daughter of the Queen of the Rōran!

Of course Kakashi thought so!

Earlier, he had still been wondering what Kitahara Kaede wanted with so many of the Uzumaki Clan's secret sealing techniques.

But now... the Reaper Death Seal, and the threat directed at the god of death... hadn't they all... come in handy?

So this Rōran... definitely had something going on.

Although they felt an indescribably subtle sensation in their hearts, Kakashi and Minato Namikaze could not figure it out.

So they could only watch helplessly.

Kitahara Kaede and the others withdrew from the sealing shrine.

Then they returned to the Miko's palace.

After Shion absorbed Moryo, her power rose dramatically, reaching heights no previous Lady Priestess had ever attained.

She possessed the most precise and pure Miko power.

She could now make prophecies concerning specific targets and events, but she still needed a certain method.

That method was sleep.

She could only prophesy while asleep.

Once she fell asleep, she could see [Prophecies] in her dreams. This was how she had always done it before.

So if she wanted to make a prophecy, she still had to sleep.

But sleeping under the gazes of so many people... was asking rather a lot of her.

"You should all leave first," Kitahara Kaede said after noticing this.

"Okay!"

Kakashi and the others could only withdraw for now. There were still over thirty minutes before their daily three hours of observation, so waiting outside was fine.

"Then..."

After confirming that everyone else had left, Kitahara Kaede looked at the young Miko before him.

"What?" Shion said. "You get out too. I can't sleep when someone is beside me."

"It's fine," Kitahara Kaede said. "I'll use Genjutsu to put you to sleep."

"The effect is the same."

"..." Shion.

So he meant using ninjutsu to forcibly put someone to