"Up in the sky!!"
Indra recalled the words his father had spoken years ago, a sharp glint flashing through his eyes.
Back when he had been young, he had not thought there was anything wrong with those words.
But as his experience and strength grew, and after he encountered a certain black humanoid creature in the future, Indra gradually sensed that his father's words were not so simple.
By then, however, his father had been dead for many years, and he and Asura had also developed differences, so he did not waste much energy on the matter.
However.
The moment he saw the Rinnegan combined with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, his childhood memories suddenly became clear.
"Interesting!"
He observed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path with great interest, but his gaze kept drifting involuntarily toward the gradually rising moon.
When he had been very young, Uncle Hamura and his clansmen had moved to the moon, leaving behind a bloodline on Earth—the present-day Byakugan clan.
Back then, Indra had asked him, "Won't you feel lonely living somewhere as barren and uninhabited as the moon?"
Hamura had replied, "I have my clansmen and Mother with me on the moon. I won't be lonely."
Recalling his uncle's answer once more, Indra looked at the moon hanging in the sky and muttered to himself, "This moon was created by Father and Uncle using Chibaku Tensei to seal the Ten-Tails' main body.
"And Uncle's mother—my grandmother—had already passed away before I was born. If Uncle Hamura meant that Grandmother's soul was keeping him company, that would make sense. But what if he wasn't referring to Grandmother's soul?"
Indra paused, and his voice suddenly became hesitant. "Father once said himself that Chakra did not exist in the Ninja World a thousand years