"Sparkle! Are you okay?!"
At this point, Sparkle was sitting on the bed.
When she saw the two of them, she smiled as well.
"Naruto." Sparkle smiled and greeted Naruto.
"Pretty much what you guessed. The mastermind has shown his tail—Madara Uchiha. I don't need to explain that, do I?" Jiraiya had a headache now.
"Mm, but that person was probably being used too," Sparkle said.
"...What exactly are you afraid of?" Jiraiya asked. "I never understood before. Your gaze has never lingered here—you've always been looking into the distance. What exactly do you know?"
"I only know what I should know," Sparkle said. "To the true mastermind, the fact that humanity and Earth have developed to this point was actually an accident."
"An accident...?"
"You know the myth of the Rabbit Goddess too, don't you, Jiraiya-sensei?"
"!!!" Jiraiya's eyes widened. "Wait, that's just a myth, isn't it?!"
"Rumors do not arise without cause. If you want to know the truth—why not ask the Great Toad Sage of Mount Myōboku?" Sparkle said. "That one should know more about the Sage of Six Paths than I do."
"What Rabbit Goddess? Nani? Nani? What are you talking about?"
Naruto was completely lost.
However, the Nine-Tails inside Naruto knew a little.
[Leave it to Sparkle to push the main plot forward.]
[What the hell is the Rabbit Goddess?]
[The moon, rabbits... Fuck, Kaguya-hime, right?]
[Holy shit, that actually might be it.]
[Didn't Sparkle go to the moon before too?]
[The moon seems to be the base of the Sage of Six Paths' mortal enemy.]
[No, I heard some expert's research—it was actually the Sage of Six Paths' brother.]
[Could the true mastermind be an alien?]
[You could tell from earlier. That Otsutsuki guy feels like an alien, or something like the Progenitor of