Over the next few days, news that Kirigakure and Konoha had suffered successive attacks by powerful cursed spirits still caused quite a stir.
The other great nations immediately took the matter seriously, and their methods grew increasingly aggressive.
Humans and cursed spirits looked ready to beat each other's brains out.
But suddenly, some troublesome cursed spirits that had escaped encirclement by human forces began disappearing one after another. Some guessed they had gone into hiding, while others suspected they were lurking in the shadows, plotting who knew what.
Perhaps only Shinji, who had experienced two successive attacks on shinobi villages, had some inkling of one possibility.
When he faced Dagon in Kirigakure, he had learned that there was a true mastermind behind him.
This time, in Konoha, he had encountered an even trickier fellow who had rescued Saibote.
And supposedly, an unkillable Stitched-Up Man was also their companion.
Shinji was not sure whether the Show-Off he had met was the "Father God" Dagon had mentioned, but he was certain that some extraordinary being must have emerged among the cursed spirits to be able to gather all these unruly special grade cursed spirits together.
Just think: if he had not been in Kirigakure back then, Mei Terumi might still have been running all over the place outside, with the whole bunch of them being led around by the nose.
Their home would probably have been destroyed for certain!
In that case, one of the Five Great Nations would have been wiped off the map outright, the Land of Water would have become a paradise for cursed spirits, and then all the special grade cursed spirits on land would have joined forces...
That would definitely have turned the world upside down!
Just thinking about it was frightening.
Shinji reckoned that the major