"Cough, cough..."
After watching from the side for a while and realizing Hidan still had not noticed him, Yuzuru had no choice but to make a sound to remind him.
The next second, Hidan suddenly turned his head and looked at him.
"You... you're..."
"The Emperor?!"
Hidan's mouth fell open in shock. He never imagined Yuzuru would actually appear here.
Yuzuru asked curiously, "Hidan, how did you end up slaughtering pigs?"
Hidan was even more surprised. "You know me?"
Yuzuru did not bother hiding it and went straight to the point. "I came here specifically to find you this time."
"The Jashinist believers who were killed back then... that should have had something to do with you, right?"
After hearing Yuzuru's words, Hidan gave a light snort.
"Those guys were indeed sent by me to serve Lord Jashin. That was their honor."
"It's just..." Hidan could not help grumbling, "Even for something like that, there shouldn't be any need for you to personally come catch me, right?"
Yuzuru smiled and shook his head. "I'm not here to catch you."
Now Hidan was a little confused. "You're not here to catch me? Then what are you here for?"
Yuzuru did not answer directly. Instead, he asked, "Were you performing a sacrifice ritual just now?"
"But I heard Jashinist sacrifices are supposed to use living people, aren't they?"
Hearing that, Hidan could not help giving a cold snort.
"I'd like to use living people too, but I don't dare!"
"There are surveillance systems everywhere now. Crime-solving techniques are so advanced, and all information is shared across the entire Divine Kingdom. After killing someone, trying to run is harder than climbing to heaven."
"I don't have a choice. I can only sacrifice some livestock to Lord Jashin."
"Otherwise, if I get caught, Lord Jashin won't even get these kinds of offerings anymore."
After hearing Hidan's complaints, Yuzuru could not hold back and laughed aloud.
He never expected Hidan to be reduced to this state.
Still, being able to force a lunatic like Hidan into sacrificing pigs instead of people made Yuzuru unable to resist giving himself some praise.
This alone proved, from another angle, just how peaceful the ninja world had become.
And that was all thanks to him!
After thinking for a moment, Yuzuru felt so pleased that he could not help chatting a little more.
He asked, "Hidan, I heard pigs have to be bled while they're still alive when slaughtering them. Otherwise, the meat gets a foul smell..."
"If you only process them after sacrificing them like this, does the meat still taste good?"
After hearing Yuzuru's words, Hidan could not help sighing again.
"Exactly..."
"The pigs I kill are really hard to sell. To keep the pig farm running, I have to go out and do odd jobs all the time. I often can't even eat my fill."
"I keep thinking, Lord Jashin is truly lucky to have a believer like me."
Hearing this, the corner of Yuzuru's mouth twitched.
Good grief. Wasn't this completely backwards?
"Right, what did you come to me for?"
Only after venting for ages did Hidan finally remember to ask why Yuzuru had come looking for him.
Yuzuru smiled. "There are some matters for which I need to meet this Jashin you speak of, so I'll need you to cooperate obediently."
Hidan froze for a moment, then flew into a rage. "You think Lord Jashin is someone you can meet just because you want to?"
"Even I have never seen Lord Jashin before. I can only occasionally listen to Lord Jashin's teachings."
"Lord Jashin is a god!"
Yuzuru glanced at Hidan and smiled. "Even gods have ranks. This Lord Jashin of yours... in my eyes, only counts as a little girl."
"What?"
"You dare insult Lord Jashin!"
Hidan's mind had already been tortured into something abnormal by the Jashinist cultists. The only reason he did not dare kill people as sacrifices to Jashin was because he wanted to keep things going for the long term.
But now that Yuzuru had slandered Jashin to his face, Hidan could not endure it.
He leaped backward, pulled out his specially made Shinigami Scythe, and swung it at Yuzuru.
Clang!
The scythe struck Yuzuru's body and let out a loud crash.
But what left Hidan dumbfounded was that Yuzuru's body had not suffered any damage at all.
"What the hell?"
Refusing to believe it, Hidan kept swinging his scythe and hacking at Yuzuru's body. But even after he was exhausted and panting, he still failed to leave so much as a tiny cut on Yuzuru.
"I knew you were useless, but I didn't expect you to be this useless."
Yuzuru made a mocking remark, then walked up to Hidan on his own initiative and squeezed a drop of blood from his fingertip.
"Eat it. Summon Jashin."
Looking at the blood dripping onto the scythe, Hidan's eyes widened in shock once again.
"You know my ability?"
"Nonsense. Hurry up."
Hearing Yuzuru's impatient urging, Hidan was so angry that he laughed.
"Fine, fine, fine. Lord Jashin will make you pay for your arrogance!"
Hidan licked the blood from the scythe into his mouth, and his whole body immediately began to change.
After drawing the symbol required for the sacrifice beneath his feet, Hidan took out a black, pointed iron rod.
"Lord Jashin, this offering is unprecedentedly excellent. Please be sure to enjoy it properly."
"Hahahahaha..."
Just as Hidan raised the iron spike and prepared to stab it into his own heart, an anxious voice suddenly rang out in his mind.
"Don't. I don't need this kind of offering."
"Run. Get as far away from him as possible!"
Hidan recognized it at once. This was Lord Jashin's voice.
He immediately became even more excited and shouted, "Lord Jashin, there is no need to worry about my safety."
"He insulted you. I will definitely kill him!"
After saying that, Hidan directly stabbed the iron spike into his own chest.
Yuzuru, who had been watching Hidan's performance the entire time, immediately sensed an invisible power gathering at his heart.
Pshk!
Yuzuru clearly felt a hollow open in his heart.
"A little similar to Yin Release power..."
Rather than being shocked, Yuzuru was delighted. His powerful spiritual energy immediately followed the connection in the form of Yin Release and struck back.
What followed was a burst of inhuman wailing. A black shadow peeled away from Hidan's body.
"So this is the so-called Jashin?"
Yuzuru directly activated a sealing barrier and restrained the black shadow.
In this world, there was nothing sealing techniques could not solve.
Hidan stood there blankly, at a complete loss for a moment.
"I clearly pierced my heart. Why aren't you dead?!"
"And... what the hell is this black thing?"
After restraining Jashin, Yuzuru smiled and replied, "This is the Jashin you worship. He has already become my prisoner."
"As for why I didn't die..."
Yuzuru sneered. "Even if you stabbed yourself full of holes, nothing would happen to me."