Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's Helplessness

"Ah!!! Uchiha Yue, I'll kill you!!!! Gah!!!"

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki emerged from the portal and collapsed onto the ground. The Ōtsutsuki Clan markings on Jigen's body rapidly faded away, and in the blink of an eye, he had become a cripple missing an arm, his body terribly weak and devoid of energy.

A mere Ninja World native! A mere Ninja World native!!!

At this moment, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki felt helpless to the extreme—more helpless, even more despairing, than when Kaguya had ambushed him and nearly killed him!

He did not understand! He completely did not understand, could not comprehend it! Why did a mere Ninja World native possess such terrifying, bizarre power?!

Just not long ago, he had been thinking of killing this lowly Ninja World native before Uchiha Yue had fully grown, then taking his eyes. But what happened?

Even after risking his old life, he had accomplished nothing in the end. He simply did not have the ability to kill Uchiha Yue!

Even when he had withdrawn at the very end, that damned Ninja World native had caught him with a dirty trick. He had a feeling that if he had not cut off Jigen's arm just now, those chains would have pierced straight into Jigen's hand and killed him!

Even before Uchiha Yue had fully matured, he already possessed methods capable of killing him. Now that he thought about it, perhaps everything Uchiha Yue had shown earlier had merely been a disguise. It had all been for that final moment, when he intended to use those bizarre chains to kill him completely!

A monster! A true monster!

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki realized that he had no way to pose a genuine threat to Uchiha Yue. Even if he possessed the strength of his prime, he would be unable to truly kill Uchiha Yue, unable even to seal him.

Even a special life-form like the Divine Tree, which possessed the ability to absorb Chakra, could be sealed. Yet this monster, who had awakened the Divine Tree's fundamental abilities through the trace of Divine Tree bloodline within him, possessed an energy absorption ability even more terrifying than the Divine Tree's—an ability that sent chills down one's spine. So long as a sealing technique was formed from energy, it could not truly seal this monster.

In fact, such so-called sealing was like tossing a starving rat into a bowl of cooking oil—it was simply feeding Uchiha Yue!!!

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki felt that if this monster were allowed to mature completely, he could even drain the Divine Tree dry and destroy it. This monster could absorb even kinetic energy. The Divine Tree did not have that ability.

Chakra and life energy were the primary forms of energy absorbed by the Divine Tree. As for kinetic energy and stellar energy, the Divine Tree could not absorb them. No—being a tree, it could still absorb light energy, but it could not grow by absorbing light energy. For the Divine Tree to grow, it had to devour life energy and planetary energy.

If the Divine Tree could grow and bear fruit merely by absorbing any kind of energy, then the Ōtsutsuki Clan would not have needed to painstakingly search for life-bearing planets.

Wouldn't they have simply thrown the Divine Tree onto the sun?

One had to know that the energy contained within a star was at least several billion times that of a planet, and could reach tens of trillions of times more. They were not even on the same scale.

"Uchiha Yue... damn it!!!"

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki slowly rose from the ground and began repairing this ruined body. He had failed. He had failed completely. Thinking back on his previous ideas now, he felt like nothing more than a clown.

"This planet... is beyond saving... damn it..."

"Damn Kaguya, damn Shimura Danzō!!! You truly deserve to die!!!! Shimura Danzō!!!!!"

After realizing that he could not kill Uchiha Yue, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki seemed to have already seen this planet's future. The dark Dead Silence Domain would envelop the entire planet. Whether Chakra, heat, or any other form of energy, all would be devoured by Uchiha Yue, and the world would fall into its ultimate apocalypse.

All life would die—plants, animals, bacteria, humans, everything, all of it would become a part of Uchiha Yue.

Just as the Ōtsutsuki would travel to life-bearing planets and exterminate them, except this time, even he, a powerful member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, would die upon this planet.

In truth, this planet's destruction had nothing to do with Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. But that had been when he was at the height of his power. Back then, if he sensed something was wrong, he could have simply left this damned planet.

But he could not do that now. He had become crippled, and Jigen's body was no good, unsuitable as a vessel for his resurrection. In other words, he was trapped here to die on this planet.

And the cause of this world-ending disaster was merely that a man named Shimura Danzō wanted to exterminate the Uchiha Clan. That was all!

Whenever Ōtsutsuki Isshiki thought of how this had all begun, he wanted to laugh. What the hell did this have to do with him? Before this, he had not even known there was someone named Shimura Danzō. His knowledge of the Uchiha Clan had been limited to merely having heard of them. Then, for no reason at all, the world was about to be destroyed, and for no reason at all, he was going to die with it. This was far too ridiculous, far too absurd!

"Shimura Danzō!!!! I'll remember you!!!"

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki did not care about these mortals. In his eyes, these lowly creatures were nothing but fleeting clouds. Once he resurrected, this planet would meet its end, so naturally, he had no reason to remember the names of mere inferior life-forms.

But Shimura Danzō—this bastard had truly angered him to the point of laughter. If he could survive this crisis, if he could stay alive, then he would probably remember the name Shimura Danzō, this beast, for the rest of his life.

He simply could not understand it. If he remembered correctly, members of these Ninja Villages were not supposed to attack one another internally, were they? Wasn't Shimura Danzō from Konoha? Why the hell did he have to go after the Uchiha Clan when he had nothing better to do?!

Even if he wanted to make a move, why not target some other ninja clan? The Sarutobi Clan, the Shimura Clan, the Hyuga Clan, or something like that? Why the hell did he have to target the Uchiha Clan specifically?!!!

If he could return to the past, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki would definitely go to Konoha, find that old bastard Shimura Danzō, and beat that beast to death with his bare hands!

If it were not for that idiot, he would not be in such a miserable state right now. The one who should have destroyed this planet ought to have been his future self!

Not for him to be destroyed alongside this planet by someone else!

Especially since the one destroying him was...