While the outside world reeled in shock, Lin Jin entered the Kamui Dimension, where Ghost Pupil sat cross-legged in a corner, resting with his eyes closed.
After this period of recuperation, his injuries had mostly healed. Hearing footsteps, he opened his eerie eyes and dropped to one knee. "Master."
Lin Jin raised a hand to signal him to rise, then walked over and stopped before him.
"I'll be leaving for a while to take part in an arranged duel. Without me here to hold the fort at Asura Hall, the Dark Moon Organization certainly won't let this opportunity pass."
"So I plan to release you from the Kamui Dimension and have Asura Hall's people 'imprison' you in a cell on the ruins' underground level."
"I'll secretly spread word of your capture and imprisonment. The news will soon reach the Dark Moon Organization through channels arranged in advance. When that happens, they'll definitely send people to rescue you."
"What you need to do is remain in Dark Moon and become my eyes, sending intelligence back to Asura Hall for me when the time is right."
"Understood." Ghost Pupil did not hesitate in the slightest.
Kotoamatsukami had long since engraved the command "be loyal to Lin Jin" into the deepest recesses of his consciousness. To him, Lin Jin's orders took precedence over everything, including his former loyalty to Dark Moon.
His only concern was whether he could deceive the First Seat of the Moon Envoys. The First Seat guarded the East Sea Abyss ruins year-round and rarely left, but he was said to possess some ability that could probe other people's consciousness.
If the First Seat personally interrogated him after he returned to Dark Moon, he could not guarantee that his betrayal would remain undetected.
He then told Lin Jin of this