"This is... Hyuga Miko of Mount Penglai Island!"
"She died after Princess Kaguya swallowed her during the Mount Fuji incident. She really has been resurrected."
"It really is the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai! But Hyuga Miko's eyes aren't those of a living person. Something is strange."
When the black-haired shrine maiden stepped out of the coffin, all the dignitaries in the operations room grew so tense they could barely breathe, their faces changing dramatically as they utterly lost their composure.
Shock, fear, apprehension, greed... gazes filled with all manner of emotions fixed on the screen. No one noticed the flash of red in Uchiha Senmon's eyes.
Uchiha Senmon braced both hands on his chair's armrests. Veins bulged on the backs of his hands as he crushed the steel armrests flat, coming within a hair of activating his Sharingan in full view of everyone.
The Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai!
A technique that resurrected the dead really did exist!
Uchiha Senmon's handsome face flushed, his eyes burning as he stared unblinkingly at the projection screen.
Hyuga Miko's shrine maiden robes were covered in gray dust that sifted down from them. Her exposed skin looked as though it were made of clay, not only eerily pale but covered in cracks.
But most sinister of all were Hyuga Miko's Byakugan, which had turned almost completely black.
"According to legend, the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai requires one life in exchange for another. So this is what that means. This technique requires a living sacrifice!"
Uchiha Senmon's gaze swept inch by inch across Hyuga Miko's lifeless body of dust, his brows tightly furrowed.
If his guess was right, the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai summoned the deceased's soul from the Underworld into the world of