The three sensed their surroundings and were startled.
"You... why... aren't you dead?!"
The man with a long needle still lodged in his chest looked stunned.
The curse had clearly taken effect, and he had indeed driven the long needle into his own heart.
Yet... Uchiha Kazama hadn't died. He had even dragged all three of them into a genjutsu space!
"Nothing but a few sinister little tricks..."
"Oh, right. I didn't bring you here to get anything out of you."
"But rather..."
"Shhk! Shhk! Shhk!"
Slender crystals instantly rose from the ground.
They pierced straight through the three men's bodies.
At the same time, they pierced the strange auras floating above their bodies.
As the crystals pierced them, three white, ghostlike shadows appeared in the air.
"So this is what powers your curse technique?"
Kazama looked curiously at the three impaled shadows as he spoke.
"This is the power Lord Jashin bestowed upon us! How dare trash like you..."
"Splurt!"
Kazama had no time to listen to their racket. The crystals instantly unleashed a powerful aura, bursting the three men apart.
The remaining crystals completely sealed off the three auras.
"How could this happen?!"
"Why have their auras vanished?"
One of the three shadows spoke.
Its hoarse voice sounded like a broken gong and tattered cloth left to rot for ten thousand years.
I really can't stand these things...
"Whether you're an avatar of Jashin or something else..."
"If you can send word of what happened here back to him, all the better."
"I'll let this slide just this once."
"Remember, there won't be a next time..."
As Kazama finished speaking, the white crystals exploded.
A strange energy spilled out.
"Aaaaargh..."
The three shadows were like snow beneath the spring sun.
Under the erosion of that energy, they let