Under the pressure of the earth and land, the sky slowly told what happened.

It turned out that after dinner, Sora was passing by the guest room and saw that Naruto's room was not lit, so he went in to play a prank.

After the prank, Sora was worried that Naruto would sue or ask about it, so he forcibly took himself to apologize, so he hid in some hidden places in the temple.

Because Sora had heard it before, Naruto and Jiraiya only stayed at the temple for one day and would leave tomorrow.

And before going to bed, he found that Sora hadn't returned to the bedroom, thinking that Sora was hiding somewhere to make trouble, so he went out to look for it.

As a result, when Protector found the cellar, he happened to see a colony of rats appear, and the hungry rats ate Protector as food.

Huxin is the only ordinary monk in the temple, and his stature is considered short among ordinary people, and he is powerless to resist and escape in the face of those fanged giant rats.

Everyone knew the cause and effect, Naruto and Jiraiya were all silent, even Naruto, who was very angry at Sora at the beginning, couldn't afford to lose his temper anymore when he saw Sora.

Because the young man in front of him had already paid the most terrible price for his prank, a monk who had raised him like his own child in the monastery died.

Only the abbot Di Lu scolded: "Empty, confused! ”

More scolding was no longer enough to bring the dead back to life, and Jiraiya glanced around the mess and then looked deeper into the darkness of the cellar.

This cellar should be larger than expected, only the front of the cellar is used as the vegetable cellar of the Temple of Fire, and the dark space deeper behind it is not visible.

But Jiraiya recalls seeing in the guest room that on the rat hole, there is blood remaining on the edge of the wooden board that has been bitten by rats, and those should be the blood that protects the heart.

The rats take the heart protection as a full food, and then sneak to the surface to make trouble.

In other words, the rats most likely came from this cellar.

Thinking back to the scene in my nightmare, if that was really inspiration, then could these man-eaters actually be some kind of terrifying rat-like monster?

He didn't want to miss this opportunity to investigate otherworldly creatures, so he hurriedly asked Jilu what was in the depths of this cellar.

"This..."

When I heard Jiraiya ask about the depths of the cellar, the land and land staggered.

However, after making all the stakes clear, Jilu still said everything.

"I also heard from the abbot that there was such a place when the previous old abbot passed away."

"Jiraiya-sama must also know the history of the Temple of Fire, which was a period of the past when the Temple of Fire was regarded as a place of great evil."

"The old abbot told me that the stinking history of the Fire Temple is sealed under the foundation of the current Fire Temple, and in order to protect this secret, the Fire Temple can never be moved to another place, and no one can easily touch that taboo."

"So even I only know what's underneath the Temple of Fire, but I don't know exactly where and what."

The monks had a conversation like a strange conversation before, but after being determined by the land and the earth, Jiraiya finally determined what was under the fire temple...

In order to find out the source of those man-eating rats, Jiraiya immediately decided to explore the depths of the cellar.

Although Jilu was hesitant about the old abbot's "parting words" at first, after the persuasion of Jiraiya, he decided to go with him.

As for Naruto and Sora, the stubborn personalities of the two couldn't fight the two of them at all, especially Sora, who insisted on finding those rats and avenging the heart.

There is no way, Jiraiya and Jilu can only bring these two teenagers together.

In the imagination of the two, one is one of the famous three ninjas, and the other is known as the strongest abbot of the Fire Temple in the past, facing some rats, even if those are man-eating rats, it should be enough to ensure safety along the way.

...

The four of them slowly walked towards the depths of the cellar with lanterns.

The trembling light in the lantern was not enough to reach a long distance, only a little more than two meters of visual distance, and the small light in the hand was a little farther away, and it would be completely swallowed up by the lightless environment of the cellar.

The light was not enough for Jiraiya to judge the size of the cellar, and Jiraiya could only pick up three small stones and throw them in the three directions ahead, using the sound of the stones falling to the ground to roughly judge the size of the cellar.

The crisp sound echoed in the cellar several times, and he listened intently to figure out the size of the cellar.

The cellar was much larger than expected, almost a small square hidden underneath, and the space used as a vegetable cellar in the Temple of Fire was estimated to take up only one-tenth of the entire cellar.

In order to support the overall strength of the cellar structure, quaint stone pillars stand between the stone floor and the ceiling at intervals of a few meters.

Jiraiya approached the stone pillars with a lantern and saw something that looked like dirt and clay in the cracks of the stone pillars.

Dip a little bit of your finger into your nose and you can smell a slight smell of iron.

Iron has a taste, especially when iron is present in human blood in the form of iron ions, the metallic smell of iron is particularly easy to smell, and it is difficult to completely volatilize in a humid environment.

The sticking in the cracks of these pillars was a mixture of flesh and blood, and although it was evident that it had been cleaned up, it was not completely cleaned.

In the few dead corners that are difficult to clean at the bottom of the stone pillars, the surface of the stone pillars alone is stained with mottled bloodstains.

Presumably, in the more distant history of the Temple of Fire, this huge cellar was definitely not used to store fruits and vegetables, but to carry out criminal acts of flesh and blood, skin and bone.

After walking forward for a while, finally, at a distance of two meters between Jiraiya and Jilu, a clear black stone wall illuminated by a lantern stood in front of everyone, blocking everyone's way.

"That's it?"

Naruto, who was very nervous along the way, found that he had come to an end unconsciously, and suddenly felt a sense of contrast in his heart.

Although Naruto usually looks bold, he is unexpectedly not very comfortable with such an eerie and eerie place.

Naruto's words made Jiraiya a little puzzled, because they didn't hear any squeaks of rats on their way from the entrance to the deepest part of the cellar, but they had already reached the end of the cellar.

"Look around here and see if there are any rat holes or anything like that."

At Jiraiya's suggestion, the crowd dispersed, looking for more clues of rat movement under the corner of the stone wall in the deepest part of the cellar.

After a while, the space on one side finally found something, and shouted loudly to call everyone in.