In the apartment.
"Pant, pant."
Shinji gasped for breath, still looking shaken.
Just moments ago, a world had been destroyed right before his eyes.
No!
More accurately, it had been devoured by the Overlord!
"A monster that feeds on worlds."
Just thinking about it made his blood run cold. Deep down, he even worried that he might already have been tainted by it.
He was practically developing PTSD.
It took a long while before he finally managed to calm himself a little.
He took off his mask and Red Cloud Cloak, only to find that at some point, his back had been completely soaked with sweat.
He got up, took another shower, then went to the bedside.
Quiet moonlight spilled in through the window, like a thin layer of silver frost covering the bed.
He lay down, letting the moonlight fall across him.
Only now did he begin to recover from witnessing the destruction of a world. His thoughts gradually stirred, no longer consumed by shock and fear.
Recalling the burly man's final words, he narrowed his eyes.
The reason the "Lantern Bearer" from the Demon Slayer World had kept invading the Shinobi World and trying to anchor it was that the Demon Slayer World had been targeted by the Overlord.
If that was the case, everything made sense.
After discovering that the Overlord had set its sights on his world, the "Lantern Bearer" from the Demon Slayer World had chosen a path to survival completely different from the burly man's.
The burly man had gathered the strength of his entire world to fight the Overlord to the death!
But the "Lantern Bearer" from the Demon Slayer World had chosen to anchor other worlds.
Shinji still couldn't tell whether the other man wanted to join forces with the Shinobi World