"Could this be...?"
After the Divine Dogs appeared, everyone below the stage began whispering again.
"That's right. This is the Divine Dogs, the first shikigami that can be tamed through the Zenin Clan's inherited Cursed Technique-the Ten Shadows Technique..."
"Megumi Fushiguro, son of Toji Zenin, has inherited the Zenin Clan's Ten Shadows Technique-!!!"
Naobito Zenin's deafening voice rang out through the Zenin Clan grounds, its echoes reverberating endlessly through the spacious courtyard.
"Now... does anyone still think I've gone senile?"
"I'll ask one final time... from today onward, in my capacity as clan head, I formally name Megumi Fushiguro the next head of the Zenin Clan. Who supports this? And who... opposes it-!!!"
This time, Naobito Zenin's tone carried a resolute finality. This would probably be the last time he asked these people for their opinions today. If the result remained the same, he would have no choice but to suppress them by force...
Fortunately, however, the outcome gave him no opportunity to act.
The instant they saw the Divine Dogs emerge from the shadows, everyone who had been fiercely resisting fell silent in unison.
There was no helping it. In the Zenin Clan, the hierarchy of Cursed Techniques was even stricter than that of bloodlines, and it was just that unreasonable.
Even though Megumi Fushiguro did not bear the Zenin name and had never spent so much as a second in the Zenin Clan,
the immense prestige of the inherited Cursed Technique alone was enough to silence the vast majority of objections.
After all, to most members of the Zenin Clan, the position of deputy clan head was, frankly, nothing more than a title.
When all was said and done, they were merely the Zenin Clan's rank-and-file workers,
and whoever became deputy clan head, to them, it meant nothing