A Bunch of Hopeless Cases

The Castle was exceedingly quiet, with only Puppets moving ceaselessly around them.

Kawakui and Original Human walked down the long corridor to its end and sat in a pavilion.

Kawakui narrowed her grayish-white eyes and stared blankly into the distance at the twilight.

Original Human's eyes were grayish-white as well, and his vision was even worse than Kawakui's.

In fact, it was not just the two of them. The remaining three Otsutsuki Clan members had the same eyes.

The cause of this situation could be traced back to the Main-Branch War.

Back then, differing interpretations of Hamura's final words had driven the Main Family and the Branch Family apart.

Before long, war broke out between them. Several years later, the clearly disadvantaged Branch Family used a large number of Byakugan to synthesize the ancestral eye—the Tenseigan—and personally buried the Main Family.

The victorious Branch Family had not even had time to enjoy the fruits of victory before they had to face a completely declining clan and a ruined moon.

As the population dwindled drastically, the birth rate continued to fall as well, until now... only five people remained.

It was impossible for the Branch Family not to regret it, since they were the ones who had caused the current situation.

But their so-called regret... was not regret over their ideals. What they regretted was wiping out the Main Family completely, causing the population of later generations to plummet.

Once the population shrank drastically, there were very few possible marriage partners. By now, the Otsutsuki remaining on the moon were all products of inbreeding.

The purity of their bloodline had been ensured, but it had also caused far more complicated recessive genetic diseases to erupt... such as the Byakugan!

The Byakugan, which should have been pure as snow, had begun to