"The sun should have risen by now." Wolf looked at the pitch-black sky through a crack in the window.
Blood-red light spilled over the land.
A ninja's body clock was more accurate than an ordinary person's. They normally kept track of the time in their heads.
Judging the time by their natural surroundings was an even more basic skill.
Counting off the hours after nightfall until the sun rose was something they did often. They had long since mastered it.
There would certainly be some margin of error, but the sun could not simply fail to rise.
Hattori Hanzo found it strange too and leaned against the window to look outside.
"Yes, the sun should have risen by now. And the phase of the moon is strange too." Hattori Hanzo frowned.
Both ninjas felt that it should have been daytime.
The chances of both of them being wrong were slim.
The ninjas exchanged a glance, seeing the same confusion in each other's eyes.
"It seems something major has happened that we don't know about." Hattori Hanzo rubbed his chin. "But there's only one thing we can do now."
Wolf nodded silently and said no more.
Whatever had happened, they would proceed according to the original plan.
As professional ninjas, that was their only option.
Now that they had obtained solid intelligence, they would set out for Osaka Castle.
Once outside, bathed in the bloody light, they felt uncomfortable all over.
Fortunately, Zhao Si had cleared Kyoto of Yokai, and the others had scattered and fled, allowing people to walk openly through the streets.
Otherwise, with this eerie moonlight and the sun refusing to rise, who knew what might happen to someone walking outside?
"What's going on?" The Innkeeper opened the door and looked outside too.
He saw Hattori Hanzo and