Hyuga Shinichi kept his eyes fixed on the old doctor's corpse. Seconds ticked by, yet he never detected the slightest unusual movement.
As time passed, his nerves gradually relaxed, and the tension in his heart slowly faded.
It seemed no Jashin deity was suddenly going to descend and possess the old doctor's body or anything like that.
Hyuga Shinichi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he had merely scared himself.
He slowly reined in his aura, then began calmly considering the circumstances of this mission.
"Now the old doctor's reason for killing people makes sense. Like Hidan, he wanted to sacrifice the lives he murdered to the Jashin deity."
Hyuga Shinichi pondered inwardly.
Hidan—the Jashin Cult follower from the original story, famed for his immortality, self-mutilation, and the curse technique Death Controlling Possessed Blood.
Hidan's method of sacrifice flashed through Hyuga Shinichi's mind.
"If that's the case, why didn't the old doctor draw a formation on the ground like Hidan did, with a circle on the outside and a triangle inside, using blood first?"
Hyuga Shinichi could not help but feel puzzled.
"Didn't followers of the Jashin Cult all have to follow specific ritual rules when conducting blood sacrifices?"
The more he thought about it, the stranger it seemed. Could it be that the Jashin Cult had yet to establish a complete sacrificial system?
Or did the old doctor have his own unique method of sacrifice?
All sorts of guesses tangled in Hyuga Shinichi's mind. He sheathed his sword, crouched down, and searched the old doctor's body to see if he could find anything.
To his surprise, he really did find something: a worn notebook hidden inside the old doctor's belt.
The notebook was not very thick, and Hyuga Shinichi finished reading it before long. Its contents recorded