The president's wife brought a demon before Shinji and said ingratiatingly, "My lord, this is the demon you asked me to find! It's been hiding in the military and acting as the Demon King's spy."
Shinji glanced at the demon, which looked somewhat listless on the ground.
The demon was bound with vines woven from wisteria flowers. Several of the president's wife's human subordinates had brought it all the way to Shinji.
On the other side, several more demons lay sprawled on the ground, restrained by Karin's Sealing Technique.
There was no doubt about it.
Karin had followed various leads and rooted these demons out of human society. Without exception, they were all spies the mysterious man had planted among humans to help him control the world.
When Shinji didn't respond, the president's wife grew uneasy.
As she brought over the demon hiding in the military, she had been apprehensive, afraid she'd made the wrong choice and sided with the wrong people.
But when she arrived on the cliff and saw the other demons restrained nearby, her doubts vanished at once.
As she saw it, finding so many demons among the upper echelons of human society in such a short time was proof of just how powerful Shinji's group was.
Under the circumstances, her betrayal seemed entirely reasonable.
Shinji glanced at the demons on the ground. Rather than waste time questioning them, he immediately activated the Rinnegan's ocular jutsu and extracted their souls one after another.
After carefully examining the demons' memories, Shinji's eyes lit up as he found a lead.
Although none of them had been in contact with the mysterious man recently, two had secretly sent people to search for him and concluded that he was hiding somewhere, recovering from his injuries.
*He really did escape back to