Feeling the Demon Suppressing Sword, which could be squeezed out at any moment, Kakashi sighed.
"Looks like we can only tie them together."
"That's our only option."
"It's just that we won't be able to return this sword immediately once we get back to the village."
"We'll deal with that later."
The muscles in Kakashi's arms bulged as he viciously pressed the Demon Suppressing Sword down. With a wet squelch, the sword finally pierced the old woman's arm.
After some effort, the old woman was tightly wrapped up once more.
They found the corpse of the fallen Oni Person and, carrying both the sealed old woman and the body, headed in one direction.
Before long, they finally left the area affected by the Alternate Dimension.
Not long after they left, beside the black hole in a corner of Sanshi Village that seemed capable of devouring everything—
Crack~
A sound like shattering glass rang out, and a hole tore open in space!
A petite figure stepped out from the opening.
"The space here is far too fragile, isn't it? And this is only because it's me. If anyone else dared to use spatial abilities in a place like this, they'd have fallen into a spatial vortex and been shredded to pieces long ago."
The newcomer was none other than Hinata.
"This hole needs to be patched up."
Behind this hole lay the Alternate Dimension. Its appearance meant that the fusion between the Alternate Dimension and real space had already begun.
If left alone, the hole could very well continue expanding until the entire Alternate Dimension fused with reality.
Of course, it was also possible that the hole would heal itself, restoring this region to normal and causing the Alternate Dimension's erosion to disappear.
But that possibility was far too slight, almost