The man-eating monster that had slaughtered humans at will like an apex predator was now fleeing in panic like a startled bird.
The monster moved astonishingly fast, darting across the alley in a few bursts, overturning piles of clutter and garbage cans and even crashing through a wall.
The monster fled into an abandoned construction site with complicated terrain and building materials piled haphazardly everywhere. The streetlights had long fallen into disrepair, and their flickering light stretched the monster's shadow far behind it.
Suddenly, the monster's body stopped rigidly in place, unable to move.
"Hmph, an animal through and through! Quite a keen nose you have."
Uchiha Naruto walked unhurriedly through the abandoned construction site's gate. The shadow beneath the monster had stretched to an unnatural length, and Uchiha Naruto pinned it beneath one foot.
He sneered. The shadow beneath his feet writhed, coiling around the monster's body and binding it tightly.
Shadow Imitation Technique!
Although he had hardly practiced this ninjutsu, which had first dropped from an Evil Spirit, Uchiha Naruto's current astonishingly vast reserves of chakra made restraining a mere monster child's play.
"So that's it. The origin of monsters... They're visitors from beyond this world who descended from the moon!"
Uchiha Naruto's gaze flickered as he activated his Sharingan, three black tomoe revolving around each pupil.
The Moon Blood dripping from the Crimson Moon had carried white spores down into Tokyo's Nakano Ward. He had watched with his own eyes as a spore developed and transformed into the grayish-white man-eating monster before him.
According to the confidential files Uchiha Naruto had plundered from the Metropolitan Police Department, the department had been tracing the origins of the monsters that had only appeared after Heisei 19. One hypothesis was that monsters were born from the void for some unknown