[Random Cursed Spirit Experience Card] used directly.
[Special Grade Cursed Spirit - Koni] (Experience Card)
Introduction: A curse born from human fear and awe of "lightning."
Innate Cursed Technique: Thundering Incantation
Domain: Heavenly Wrath Hell (Cannot be deployed)
Fusion time: Ten minutes
Number of uses: 1/1
...
The card depicted a doe-eyed girl with a cold expression.
The girl had a delicate face, with long, jet-black hair and silver-white eyelashes and eyebrows. She wore azure armor on her upper body, and two large, three-pronged, tree-like antlers grew on her head, with faint arcs of electricity surrounding them.
Shinji carefully put it away close to his body.
Although he didn't know why the domain was displayed as unable to be deployed.
But judging from the paper alone, this [Special Grade Cursed Spirit - Koni] couldn't be a weakling. It must be much stronger than the weakest Special Grade Cursed Spirit he had eliminated before.
Think about it, how terrifying would a Cursed Spirit born from human fear of lightning be!
Fortunately, what he got was an experience card, not having to face this level of Cursed Spirit himself.
This [Cursed Spirit Experience Card] would undoubtedly become one of his trump cards at this stage, and even for a long time to come.
Thinking of this, Shinji felt both at ease and satisfied, but also quickly felt a little anxious.
He believed that before long, a large number of Cursed Spirits would be born one after another throughout the ninja world, causing huge chaos.
He wasn't worried that these Cursed Spirits would subvert the entire ninja world in the early stage. After all, the major ninja villages were not vegetarians, and even ordinary Special Grade Cursed Spirits would not get any advantage in front of those powerful ninjas.
His main concern was that as time went on, some more terrifying Cursed Spirits would gradually be born.
After all, as long as humans still possessed negative emotions such as fear and hatred, Cursed Spirits would appear accordingly.
So the question was, what were the people in this world most afraid of?
Probably ninjas!
Or chakra itself!
Just thinking about the Cursed Spirits born under this fear made him feel a chill.
In addition, humans were also afraid of Tailed Beasts and feared war...
And that moon, what kind of ghosts would be born once many people knew the truth?
Shinji didn't want to be a savior, but as long as he lived in this world for one day, he could never stand idly by, and would always have to choose a position.
Because of his identity, because he could become stronger by eliminating Cursed Spirits, he would inevitably choose to stand on the side of humans.
Then all that was left was to continue to achieve this goal.
Looking at it this way, he was the most ambitious guy.
...
Not long after.
Land of Rain, High Tower.
When Konan and Kakuzu returned, Kakuzu left directly with a straight face.
Having three hearts destroyed made him feel very insecure now, so he was eager to look for a few new hearts to restore himself to his best state.
Konan naturally had no interest in coaxing him all the time, he wasn't her grandfather, so what if he was old?
Being able to bring Kakuzu back alive meant that her mission was successfully completed this time.
As for the rest, she needed to inform Nagato and then make plans.
Entering the room where Nagato was alone, what caught her eye was Nagato, the man behind the god, sitting in a special 'wheelchair', emaciated and haggard.
The black rods on his back seemed to be telling one tragic story after another.
"I'm back."
Nagato nodded lightly, and then opened his mouth with a somewhat hoarse voice: "You're back so soon, have you already investigated clearly? Where's Kakuzu?"
"The 'man-eating monster' rumored outside seems to be true, but its strength is not as terrible as the rumors say. On the contrary, the ones we encountered were all vulnerable. Also, it can be confirmed that this rumor has nothing to do with the Tailed Beasts."
Speaking of this, Konan took a breath, and her expression became serious, "What I'm going to say next is the real gain of this operation..."
A few minutes later, Konan finished telling about the changes that had occurred during this operation.
Nagato was thoughtful, and even a little surprised, "So... you were worried that Kakuzu would be unable to resist if he insisted on staying, so you rushed back in advance."
Seeing Konan nod, he couldn't help but ask, "Is that guy using the Kubikiribōchō really that powerful? I remember that the current owner of the Kubikiribōchō should be a Kirigakure rogue called 'Demon Man'."
"It's not Demon Man."
Konan said very definitely: "We collected information on Demon Man before, and also considered listing him as an alternative among the organization's assessment members, but we finally gave up. Demon Man's strength and capacity don't meet our current recruitment standards."
"In other words, the person you and Kakuzu encountered is very likely to have killed Demon Man and seized the Kubikiribōchō from him."
"There's only this one possibility."
"Being able to destroy three of Kakuzu's hearts and then retreat completely in front of the two of you. Do you think this person has the value of recruiting?"
"It's not certain yet, but the abilities the other party has shown are relatively strange and bizarre, so we can try to observe him first."
"Then I'll leave this matter to you, collect all the information about the other party. When the time is right, you can take others to assess him together."
"Okay. But Kakuzu's side..."
"There's no need to care about these. If Kakuzu has any opinions at that time, he can come to me. The Akatsuki organization is not a place for him to act willfully."
Although Kakuzu was personally invited to join the Akatsuki organization by Nagato controlling Pain, and he also entrusted the financial power of the Akatsuki organization to Kakuzu.
But there was only one thing that Nagato had a lot of complaints about, and that was that all the ninjas who partnered with Kakuzu to carry out missions from joining to now had been killed by Kakuzu.
The development of Akatsuki was not fast, and it was difficult to find and recruit new members.
As a result, he and Konan recruited one, and Kakuzu killed one not long after.
Whoever did it back and forth would definitely not be able to stand it.
Nagato suspected several times that Kakuzu was relying on his age to sell his old age, and took the opportunity to beat Kakuzu, so as to help him recall the fear that had gradually faded that day.
Konan did not object to Nagato's decision. Anyway, there was still plenty of time, and the result was uncertain, so she would try to investigate first.
So after reporting her work, she immediately began to close her eyes and recall the details.
White papers fell from her body, and then quickly merged together, finally gradually forming a lifelike paper figure.
Looking at the appearance, who else could it be but Akagi Shinji!
After '3D printing' Shinji by relying on her memory, Konan circled around this paper figure three times.
Finally, she recalled some exploitable features.
One of them was the strange necklace he was wearing around his neck.
She always felt that she had seen the pattern of that necklace somewhere before...
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