The Inner World!
The origins and decline of the supernatural, the Age of Gods!
The Superintendent General, the governor of Tokyo Metropolis, and the others awoke from the illusion, their Adam's apples bobbing. Their mouths were dry with tension, yet their shirts were already soaked with cold sweat.
Although they had already glimpsed fragments of the truth in conversations between Superhumans such as Sasori of the Red Sands, Master Chiriku, and Orochimaru, and the intelligence analysis department and the Metropolitan Police Department's Expert Group had developed many hypotheses, some of which had even happened to hit the mark.
Once they had "seen it with their own eyes" and received confirmation from Jiraiya himself, however, the shock it brought them all was unparalleled.
"The 'seed' caused the Age of Gods to decline at its peak, and that age did indeed perish. But it didn't end at the same time throughout the world. Japan's Age of Gods barely lasted until the Heian Period before coming to a complete end as well."
Jiraiya sat sprawled on the sofa, picked up a bottle of Johnnie Walker whisky, and scoffed.
"In Heian Period Japan, all manner of monsters and demons entered the fray. A hundred demons paraded through the night-what a lively sight! But that was merely the final flare before the Age of Gods died out. Nothing could reverse its fate. After that, supernatural beings vanished entirely from the earth's surface."
There was simply too much information, and the revelations were so explosive that everyone fell into a stunned stupor, as though their brains had crashed.
After the shock came a sense of fantastical absurdity, an instinctive urge to deny it.
But facts spoke louder than words.
Supernatural incidents kept emerging, myths and legends became reality one after another, and gods and buddhas lurking