" What are you "
It would be a lie to say that I wasn't shocked by this sudden question from my father.
The fact that my father was looking at me with a serious expression was already creating enough tension, but the lights in the room we were in were simple candles.
For a while I was torn between telling him the truth or lying to him that I was just a simple person.
Frankly, Danzo was an experienced ninja who could easily understand my lie even if I was lying, and I had experienced this badly before.
Just as I was about to tell Danzo that I wasn't a human being, using as few words as I could, Danzo saved me from answering by asking another question.
"It's easy enough to understand that the fact that you're my son hasn't changed, so I'll ask you something else. Come with me."
Danzo stood up and walked to the bookshelf behind his armchair and moved a book, causing the bookcase to split open and turn into a secret door.
After entering the secret door, we started walking down a dark corridor. After a while Danzo made some hand seals and touched the wall and the corridor lit up
When the corridor was illuminated, I realized that if I had taken one more step, I would have fallen down the endless stairs. I probably wouldn't even get injured since I'm so strong, but I would have a pretty embarrassing memory.
Danzo continued to walk ahead and I followed him, soon arriving at the root shelter.
After passing through the doors of the bunker one after another, we arrived at a huge laboratory.
Everything seemed normal until Danzo showed me one of the cages in the distance and asked me a question.
What was inside the cage was clearly one of the curses I had seen on the computer screen in my previous life.
There were dozens of strange hands coming out of the cursed soul's head, making it resemble an octopus. The cursed soul's big head had dozens of eyes of different colors watching around in a disgusting way, and what was even stranger was that some of these eyes were clearly sharingans.
After some thought, I guessed that cursed spirits had begun to appear in this world because of my presence.
"You know what these monsters are, right?"
I thought my father guessed this from learning about my war with the Iwagakure ninjas and answered his question.
"Yes, these are cursed souls, but it is not normal for a cursed soul to have a sharingan."
"That's none of your business."
Danzo sent all the other people in the laboratory out as he walked towards his throne in a corner of the laboratory.
I saw my father sit on a dark throne, then take out a cane, I don't know where he got it, and hit it on the ground.
With the sound of my father hitting the cane on the floor, the ninjas hiding in the room disappeared immediately.
"These monsters you see, cursed souls as you call them, were created using your blood, and they have been getting stronger since the day they were created."
" What??? with my blood? ... But how?, when did you take my blood and why didn't you tell me?"
"Yes, with your blood. The reason I didn't tell you was because you were just a child at that time."
"So how long have I been an adult in your eyes?"
"Ever since I heard about the things you did on the battlefield"
My plan to guess that he secretly took blood from me by asking how long he had considered me an adult was thwarted.
(My plans failed = my plans failed) an idiom
When I looked at the cursed souls once more, I saw that they were far too calm.
"Why are they so calm?"
"Now it's time to tell you why I brought you here. What I want from you is to control these cursed souls just like you did on the battlefield."
After Danzo finished speaking, he stood up and tapped his cane rhythmically on the ground.
As the sound of canes echoed in the laboratory, the cursed souls began to scream as if they had woken up from hibernation.
There were dozens of cursed spirits with different appearances in the laboratory, but the one that caught my attention the most was the cursed spirit that looked like an albino crow and had three Tomoe sharingans in both eyes.
This cursed soul, unlike the others, was not screaming, but was looking at me silently and menacingly.
"I will open the barrier, be ready"
I heard my father's words and a barrier appeared between the area where the cursed souls reside and the area where we are.
The barrier slowly disappeared with a ninjutsu my father used
As soon as the barrier disappeared, a powerful cursed energy penetrated us. When the cursed spirits felt me, they suddenly became silent. Just like they could feel me, I could feel them and the subtle connection between me and them.
But for some reason I didn't know, the connection between me and the cursed spirit that looked like a white crow was stronger than the others.
As soon as the cursed crow-like spirit looked at me, a young male voice came to my ears.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time, Oni-chan."
" Oni-chan???? "
" What happened "
When I heard my father's answer, I realized that the fight was using a telepathic way to communicate with me.
"This crow spoke to me telepathically"
"Hmm I see, but can you control these cursed souls?"
"Yes, I can control them as much as I can feel them"
"So that's it, that explains why I couldn't make a summon monster contract with them."
While I was thinking that Danzo had done so many things without me knowing, I heard the crow's voice again.
"Yes brother, I have been waiting for you to find me for a very long time"