The occasional flashes of red in the night sky drew little attention from the people of this world. Even those who noticed them only assumed they were fireworks or something else.
Only Shinji, who possessed the Lantern, knew that the flashes of red were the Overlord's gaze, cast from far away in the depths of the universe.
"This world has been locked onto."
Shinji couldn't help but sigh.
He still remembered the soul-shaking horror of witnessing a world's destruction. Before the Overlord, everything in the world was simply too small.
Putting those thoughts aside, Shinji lowered his head and pondered. "With the energy level of this Demon Slayer World, no matter how much the mysterious man trains, he won't be able to resist the Overlord. So, there's a nine-in-ten chance that he invaded the Shinobi World to escape the Overlord's surveillance."
At that thought, his brow furrowed slightly.
"But how does invading the Shinobi World allow him to achieve his goal of freeing the Demon Slayer World from the Overlord's gaze?"
The mysterious man's invasion wasn't some indiscriminate, large-scale assault.
That much was clear from the fact that he hadn't mobilized the ordinary people of the Demon Slayer World, but had instead assembled only the demons and the elite members of the Demon Slayer Corps to invade the Shinobi World.
What's more, the mysterious man's incursions had usually focused on locating the Shinobi World's coordinates and targeting him, its Lantern Bearer.
"He's gone to such lengths to find and kill me. It must be because I, as the Lantern Bearer, could interfere with his plan." After a pause, Shinji thought, It looks like the only way to figure all this out is to capture the mysterious man first!
Mt. Sagiri.
Thud!
After Haku kicked one person flying, he immediately shifted