However, Shinji had used Upper Moon One and Upper Moon Two as bait for so long, yet the mysterious person still hadn't shown up. Either they were bold and cautious enough to see through Shinji's intentions, or they had truly lost their Lantern Bearer authority and their ability to freely invade the Shinobi World.
If it was the latter, then the initiative was in Shinji's hands.
But just thinking that the Demon Slayer World might already have drawn the Overlord's attention made him uneasy. Everything about the Overlord was the highest level of contamination.
Under normal circumstances, he should have invaded the Demon Slayer World by now to investigate the situation there. That was exactly why he still couldn't make up his mind.
"If I'm contaminated by the Overlord while invading the Demon Slayer World, could I end up drawing its attention to the Shinobi World?"
He felt a chill of apprehension.
However you looked at it, he'd simply been given too little time to grow.
The mysterious Lantern Bearer in the Demon Slayer World had had hundreds of years to explore at leisure, and had long since developed the Lantern's abilities and authority to the fullest extent possible.
But Shinji had only been in this world for three or four years, and had only just become a Lantern Bearer when the Demon Slayer World invaded. He'd had to improvise everything. Forget researching and developing the Lantern's abilities—he hadn't even mastered his ninja abilities.
After all, the Lantern Bearer who protected a world was usually its strongest person. Shinji was still a hundred and eighty thousand miles away from being the strongest in the Shinobi World!
"If only I had ten years..."
Shinji sighed.
In ten years, he would be twenty-two, fully grown and at the peak of his physical