"Teacher, today I..."
In a secret laboratory in the Hidden Leaf Village, Hinata stopped her experiment.
Hinata pressed one hand to her forehead. "Here we go again..."
Ever since obtaining the evil god's body, Hinata had been studying it.
She was very interested in this kind of existence born from faith.
As her research deepened, Hinata sensed the existence of the power of faith one day.
She discovered that the power of faith existed within the Hidden Leaf Village.
Most of it was gathered around her.
That was hardly surprising. Hinata could now be called the idol of the entire Hidden Leaf Village.
After noticing the power of faith, she naturally began researching it.
Then, starting from some unknown day, a voice began appearing by her ear every so often.
She was very familiar with the owner of that voice. It was her eldest disciple, Keita Otake.
When she first heard Keita Otake's voice and confirmed that it was not an auditory hallucination, she had specifically gone to her eldest disciple's village to find out what was happening.
Then she saw that stone statue carrying a faint trace of the power of faith.
And Hinata understood what was going on.
The power of faith was even more miraculous than Hinata had imagined. Because the statue contained the villagers' faith, and because the person they believed in was Hinata—
What certain people said before this statue could reach Hinata's ears.
And not just anyone could be one of those certain people. They had to have a sufficiently deep connection with Hinata, such as her disciples.
After learning why her disciples' voices were appearing by her ear, she could have easily blocked them out, but she did not.
First, very few people could transmit their voices to her ears. At present, only