Shuten-Douji exited the stage just like that.
It truly felt remarkably casual.
His first appearance had been so casual; suddenly coming to snatch the Four Souls Jewel fragments had been casual too; fighting Naruto and Sasuke had been casual as well; and even his death had been this casual.
Shuten-Douji's level of casualness was incomprehensible, yet it also conveyed an indescribable sense of carefree abandon.
In layman's terms, he was someone who did not even take his own life seriously—or rather, someone who considered his own life part of the fun. An ultimate thrill-seeker.
Terrifying, intoxicating, and impossible to understand.
Humans could not understand such a "nonhuman" being. Probably only lunatics like "clowns" could comprehend Shuten-Douji's "unique traits," wholeheartedly support them, and take pleasure in them.
Still, it was thanks to Shuten-Douji's thrill-seeker nature that, after being defeated, he did not run away. He remained where he was and told Naruto and Sasuke a great deal of important information.
If this had been a game, they would have received information for the main quest, and the main quest would have updated.
Of course, they first needed to relay the information to Fujimaru Tachibana.
In fact, although Fujimaru Tachibana and the others had been taking action before this, they had not known what exactly they should do. It was only after obtaining this intelligence from Shuten-Douji that they truly gained a way to clear the first Honkai Land.
Next, they just had to wait for Naruto and the others to reunite with Fujimaru Tachibana's group.
The Konoha scene came to a temporary close here. What followed was clearing out the remaining yokai and dealing with the aftermath.
Because Shuten-Douji had vanished, the effects of the control over those controlled people weakened as well.
They were still affected by the ocular power