"This time! Our lord will surely return once more!! As long as our lord returns to the Shinobi World, the divine power we receive will grow stronger as well.
Then, we need only rely on the Kirigakure and Konoha ninja on that battlefield to strengthen their memories of our lord... Hahahahaha, our lord will be fully complete!!!
This time, we really have our great cult leader to thank. Speaking of which, I heard our sworn enemies, the Jashin Cult, seem to have found a so-called holy child who can perfectly house a portion of their evil god's power. This matter... what do you think?"
Inside the boat, a pale-skinned man with a battered hat on his face narrowed his eyes and turned toward the man beside him, whose neck was stitched with thread.
"A holy child? Heh... just an experimental subject like me. No, to be called a holy child, he must be a different kind of experimental subject, but he's still only an experimental subject.
An evil god? He doesn't hold a candle to our lord. Only our lord can lead us to take control of this world. That evil god... is nothing but a relic of the old era."
A trace of hatred flashed through the eyes of the man whose neck was covered in black stitches, as though his head and body had been sewn together. Then he spoke with fanatical reverence.
"Speaking of the cult leader, what do you all think of the green flames that suddenly started burning on his body a few months ago?"
After that display of fanatical reverence, the black-threaded man suddenly lowered his voice and asked the others in the boat.
"Those flames... although they haven't burned the cult leader to death, they've left him almost completely unable to move. He