"It's the scent of blood..." Nai Hyuga said gravely.
"It seems to be coming from somewhere just ahead!"
Suddenly, the veins around her left eye bulged as she activated her Byakugan and looked toward the blood-scented air ahead.
"This is..." she murmured, then sprang into motion, racing forward across the treetops.
"Did she find something?"
Confusion flickered through Yui's mind at Nai Hyuga's movements, but she wasted no time lingering and swiftly followed her.
Yui frowned. The closer they got, the stronger the scent of blood seemed to grow.
Only after traveling for over ten minutes did the two finally see the strange symbol ahead, from which the bloody aura emanated.
An eerie circular symbol was drawn on the cliff face not far away, with a triangle inside it. The entire symbol gave off a thick scent of blood-it had clearly been drawn in blood.
"What is this?"
Yui and Nai walked beneath the symbol and saw the mountain of corpses piled below it.
"Yui, this..."
Nai Hyuga held her breath, her brows knitting together.
She had never imagined such a gruesome scene awaited them here. Every one of these people had bled to death. Judging by their clothing, they seemed to have been residents of that village.
"This symbol..." Yui tilted her head back and stared at the circular symbol above for a long while. Suddenly, realization struck her.
No wonder it felt so familiar. Isn't this Jashin's Cursed Seal symbol?
She remembered that in the original story, Hidan would draw a symbol like this beneath his feet when performing his curse ritual.
She looked around at the mountain of corpses.
Most were young adults. No wonder the village they had just visited had been so sparsely populated.
Tap, tap, tap... Just then, hurried footsteps sounded a short distance