"Yes. I gave them powers similar to Transcendent Power. I even replaced Hyuga Yukina's bloodline. In a sense, they were reserves of power prepared for you."
The misty humanoid answered with complete certainty in response to the anger on Chiba's face.
"Really?"
Chiba raised an eyebrow slightly and asked.
"That's right. They were created to protect you in the first place. I myself did not create absolutely powerful Transcendent Power for you. At the time, I could have directly implanted the Otsutsuki bloodline—no, the Tenseigan and Rinnegan—into your body. I could even have gathered the Chakra of the Tailed Beasts to create miniature Tailed Beasts, allowing you to fuse the powers of all three. In the end, I could have brought together the scattered Otsutsuki bloodline and Tailed Beast power to create a miniature Kaguya. But if I had done that, the World Will would probably have alerted Uchiha Nobuhiko the moment you were born. By then, the instant you so much as moved a finger, Uchiha Nobuhiko would have come to kill you. You simply would not have survived.
"Since Uchiha Hirohiko and Hyuga Yukina existed to protect you, it was naturally best for them to possess such potential. And if you became friends smoothly, they would remain by your side. If you ever needed that kind of power, you could draw upon it at any time. I believe they would support you as well.
"And in truth, everything progressed quite smoothly. My judgment of how your relationship would develop was not wrong at all."
Hearing this, the misty humanoid admitted it without the slightest reservation.
The reason he had put so much into Uchiha Hirohiko and Hyuga Yukina, even going so far as to consume a great deal of the power in the fragments of the Nightmare Cycle