The old man's scheming could hardly have been more obvious.
Unfortunately, he was doomed to disappointment.
If the day ever came when Gekkō Raito "kicked the bucket," the tailed beasts would probably disappear from this world along with him.
As he hurried back to Kirigakure, Raito was still eagerly awaiting news of Kyuji's results.
Yet at that moment, in a certain hidden basement, Raito suddenly felt an inexplicable surge of unease.
Was it a hallucination brought on by being too tired lately?
Raito looked down at his hands. Even when he merely clenched his fists lightly, he could feel the energy called "six paths power" within him surging wildly with unprecedented ferocity.
It felt like a dry riverbed suddenly flooded with water, so full that it was almost alarming.
[Great Sage: Warning. This is absolutely not an illusion. Deep system logic calculations have detected two extremely unusual chakra sources developing within the host without any warning.]
Unusual chakra?
Raito's brow furrowed slightly, and a trace of confusion flashed through his eyes.
Could some unknown enemy have secretly used a high-level secret technique on him?
[Great Sage: Second analysis complete. The possibility of outside interference has been ruled out. This power source appears to have materialized from nothing before forcibly pouring into the host's chakra pathways.]
Materialized from nothing?
Those words deepened the confusion in Raito's eyes, and he even found them somewhat absurd.
In this Shinobi World governed by the conservation of energy, how could power appear out of thin air and force its way into his body so aggressively?
What the hell was this thing?
After all, even with Raito's current abilities placing him at the pinnacle of the Shinobi World, he could not detect the source of this power at all.
It had simply