Black Zetsu: Could Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo Still Be Alive?

He was still merely a native of the Ninja World, and the descendant upon descendant upon descendant upon descendant of that damned bitch Kaguya—a bug separated from him by who knew how many generations. The feeling was like being stepped on and ground beneath the feet of the descendants of a loaf of bread he had looked down on in his youth. It filled Ōtsutsuki Isshiki with boundless humiliation.

Unfortunately, if humiliation were useful, what would be the point of striving?

The reality was that he had no way whatsoever to kill Uchiha Yue. He could not even seal him. That was an immortal monster, a fiend—something that should never have existed in the Ninja World.

If not for that unmistakable Mangekyō Sharingan and Uchiha Yue's human form, he would truly have suspected that this Uchiha Yue had come from the depths of the cosmos, the offspring of some Outer God unknown to the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

What was he supposed to do now?

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki raised his head and looked toward the sky. He could neither kill him nor escape him. Ōtsutsuki Isshiki realized that he was trapped to death on this damned planet. Despair and helplessness welled up in his heart. His current situation was even worse than before.

After all, back then, he had merely been beaten half to death by that bitch Kaguya. In the end, he had still clung to life and had even found fortune amid disaster, discovering Natural Energy—a power that could accelerate the evolution of Karma. It had not been a total loss.

But things were different now. Other than disaster, he saw not a shred of fortune. His situation was like a fire breaking out in his house: the exit was right before his eyes, but he was a limbless cripple who could only wriggle along the floor, still one flight of stairs and an entire living room away from the door.

He could escape so long as he put his limbs back on, and those limbs were clearly inside the house. But because he had been doing play with someone, he could not move at all now and could only wait here to die. If only the fire had broken out a little later.

For Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, what despair and helplessness that was. If he could just wait a little longer, find a suitable vessel, and fully resurrect, he would be able to leave this planet directly. But now...

"Haah!"

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki sighed helplessly. As a powerful being destined to destroy the world in the future, no matter what, he had to deal with Uchiha Yue if he wanted to survive.

How laughable. He was clearly supposed to be the natural disaster that destroyed the world, yet in order to survive, he instead had to save the world first. Uchiha Yue was clearly the native who should have died beneath the Divine Tree and been completely devoured by him.

The roles of Demon King and Hero had been completely reversed.

You evil Hero, in order to fulfill my plan to destroy the world, I have no choice but to kill you, who are currently destroying the world!

It had to be said, this was quite the irony for Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.

But he had no choice but to consider exactly how he could kill Uchiha Yue.

"No, a monster like that simply can't be killed. I'd be better off thinking about how to escape this planet."

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki shook his head. He had already abandoned that unrealistic fantasy. Rather than killing Uchiha Yue, he thought it would be better to find a suitable vessel, resurrect directly, and run away.

Staying alive was more important than anything. The Ninja World was so vast; there would definitely be a vessel suitable for him.

With that thought, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the turmoil in his heart, and left the area.

"What? Someone fought Uchiha Yue?!!!"

Black Zetsu stared at White Zetsu before him in shock, as if he had heard something utterly unbelievable.

"That's right. Not long ago, a mushroom cloud suddenly erupted above the Dead Silence Domain where Uchiha Yue was, and that Dead Silence Domain began shaking around nonstop, as if Uchiha Yue were doing something intense inside it. If he wasn't fighting someone, then was he taking a shit?"

"No, maybe he really was taking a shit. Isn't Uchiha Yue floating in the air? Maybe he wanted to see what it felt like to float around in the air while taking a shit!"

White Zetsu nodded and described what he had observed, but halfway through, he veered off into nonsense about piss and shit.

Black Zetsu and Uchiha Obito clearly paid no attention to the bizarre things White Zetsu said afterward.

They exchanged a glance.

"That can't be. The Dead Silence Domain is so enormous now. What could possibly reach Uchiha Yue and fight him before all the power in its body was completely drained away?"

"That's impossible! White Zetsu, did you see it wrong?"

Uchiha Obito looked at White Zetsu with utter confusion and disbelief as he questioned him again.

"I didn't see it wrong! How could I have seen it wrong? The Dead Silence Domain moved, and a mushroom cloud really did light up. If you don't believe me, you can check my memories!"

White Zetsu shook his head, pacing back and forth before the two of them as he chattered on.

Yet White Zetsu's certainty only made Uchiha Obito and Black Zetsu even more confused.

"Could it be some hidden superpowered expert in the Ninja World? But could someone truly resist the Dead Silence Domain's devouring and reach Uchiha Yue to fight him?"

Uchiha Obito lowered his head, his mind racing furiously.

Beside him, Black Zetsu was thinking as well. Impossible. It was impossible. How could there still be a creature in this world with such immense Chakra and such tremendous power? If there were, he would have discovered it long ago over all these countless years.

Strange. Too strange...

Uchiha Yue... Uchiha Yue... Devouring... Wait, Uchiha Yue's ability resembled the power of the Divine Tree that Mother had implanted in his mind when she created him.

Wait, wasn't Uchiha Yue a member of the Uchiha Clan? He was the descendant upon descendant upon descendant of that beast Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, carrying a trace of the bloodline of the Ōtsutsuki and the Divine Tree. Could it be that Uchiha Yue had awakened the Divine Tree's power?

That was it. Yes, that had to be it. The Divine Tree possessed the ultimate power to destroy the entire world. Wasn't that Uchiha Yue's power right now?

Could it be that guy Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo?

Had he acted because he believed Uchiha Yue's power was too evil, too terrifying, and would destroy the entire world?

But wasn't that guy dead?

N-No way! I fucking saw that beast die with my own eyes!