As the group appeared, Konan immediately recognized what they were.
After all, the Akatsuki had once had someone just like them!
That was the wielder of the Bloody Triple-Bladed Scythe-Hidan the Immortal!
Even one immortal monster had been difficult enough to deal with.
But now, so many of them had appeared here!
Even though Uchiha Kazama had a way to kill these creatures, would their sheer numbers... affect him?!
"If the Evil God has appeared, then the other one must be the Reaper, right?!"
"And Yama, hiding among them?!"
Uchiha Kazama spoke as calmly as ever.
It was as though he had expected to encounter these unusual beings all along.
Another hooded figure suddenly grew enormous.
The ethereal Reaper appeared before everyone's eyes.
Seeing the Reaper appear, Uchiha Kazama felt somewhat resigned.
Sure enough, these unusual beings really had become involved in this incident.
He just wondered what benefits Hagoromo Otsutsuki and those other old fossils had offered them.
What had persuaded them all to appear together?
"You have already disrupted this world's progress."
"Now, you must give back to the world. The energy you have seized from it has already exceeded what it can bear."
"So..."
With that, the Reaper spread his arms.
The flesh on his chest slowly vanished, revealing his skeleton.
One ethereal soul after another slowly emerged from within.
Among them was even Minato Namikaze's soul.
"Fate Restoration!"
The Reaper pressed his palms together, and a strange energy spread outward.
The ethereal soul bodies became solid at that moment.
However, a peculiar mark appeared in their eyes.
That...
It must be the Reaper's mark.
In other words, these souls were no longer what they had once been. They were monsters the Reaper had stitched together from souls through some special method.
"That's..."
The instant Naruto saw