"What!?"
Watching the little box drop to the ground with a clatter, Shinji's eyes nearly bulged out of his head. He couldn't hide his shock.
Shion clapped her hands. "Done!"
Shinji hesitated, then walked over.
The little box on the ground wasn't very big; it could barely hold a soccer ball. Its surface was covered in obscure Sealing Jutsu, some of which even Shinji had never seen before.
Shion came over too, looking smug. "Well?"
Shinji asked, "What was that just now?"
"This?" Shion pointed at the little box on the ground. "It's a sealing technique used by the Land of Demons Miko, called the Sealing Coffin! Once performed, it seals evil beings inside a coffin and temporarily restrains them."
"What a powerful sealing technique!"
Shinji marveled.
Using his ocular jutsu, he'd already determined that Upper Moon Two hadn't been in bad shape just now.
Clearly, after a week or two of rest, Upper Moon Two had recovered from the fight with Sasuke.
Even so, Shion's sealing technique had subdued him in an instant. It was astonishing.
"Impressive, right?" Shion said with even more pride. "And this isn't even the strongest sealing technique in the Land of Demons. If I use the Miko's Crown, I can perform an even more powerful one!"
Shinji smiled.
After his initial surprise, he'd already figured out what had happened.
Just as many capable shinobi had been caught off guard the first time they encountered a demon, because they didn't know what demons could do, Upper Moon Two clearly hadn't known anything about Shion either. He'd relied on his formidable regenerative ability and brazenly stood in front of Shion—the Shinobi World's only Miko. So this newcomer to real combat had sealed him with a single move.
In any case, this fight had confirmed that Shion's