As usual, the cautious Shinji didn't return directly to the Shinobi World. Instead, he went to World No. 2 first and began a thorough cleansing of himself.
That was the advantage of being a Lantern Bearer!
If other Otsutsuki or Overlords tried to snatch food from a tiger's mouth like this, it wouldn't take many times before the accumulated contamination became more than even an Otsutsuki could handle. Not even Otsutsuki at the Kekkei Mōra level were exempt. Overlord contamination affected everything: the body, Chakra, and even the Spirit Body. Any part of them could be tainted by an Overlord's power.
And that contamination was often fatal.
An Overlord could track the contamination and follow it to the world where its target was hiding. It could also detonate the contamination directly, warping the target and turning them into a monster.
Sss, sss, sss.
Soft light repeatedly shone over Shinji. With each pass, wisps of black smoke rose from his body, accompanied by a series of hissing sounds.
"Hmph!"
Shinji gave a soft snort.
There was no doubt that the black smoke hidden on his body was the contamination the Overlord had left behind. He'd known about some of it, but other traces had gone unnoticed until the Lantern revealed them, making him realize only then that he'd been contaminated.
Shinji had consumed two Chakra Fruits and reached the Kekkei Mōra level, yet he still couldn't guard against everything. That showed just how impossible it was to escape an Overlord's contamination!
After shining the Lantern over himself several times and confirming that none of the contamination had been missed, Shinji summoned the small Ten-Tails from Daikokuten.
Shinji was a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, so the cleansing the Lantern had just performed had also purified the great Ten-Tails inside him. But the small Ten-Tails