Swelled with Pride

Kaguya, who had been warily guarding against the "enemy," shuddered in alarm. "What do you mean?"

Before she could react, Ryūshiki struck her back with his palm!

Kaguya coughed up a mouthful of blood, and her aura visibly weakened at a rapid pace!

"Have you lost your mind? You're forcing me to betray you!" Kaguya was shocked and furious, completely unable to understand Ryūshiki's thinking!

She was weaker than Ryūshiki, but she was not so weakened that she could not resist.

With powerful enemies outside, doing this was no different from suicide.

Could Ryūshiki possibly expect her to give up struggling for the future of the Otsutsuki?

Yet Ryūshiki's gaze was utterly cold.

"You understand nothing! Betraying the Otsutsuki? Such a thing does not exist!"

As his words fell, a strange power suddenly erupted from within Kaguya's body.

Under the effect of that power, Kaguya's body began to shrink before being dragged into Ryūshiki's mouth!

Soseki naturally would not stand by and watch his opponent grow stronger. But just as he and Aizen teleported to Ryūshiki's side, they saw him accelerate his absorption of Kaguya. The powerful aura erupting from his body blasted them away!

Soseki landed on the ground with a backflip, his expression grave. He could naturally tell that Kaguya had been controlled by some force!

That force had even come from within her body!

Otherwise, she could not possibly have been devoured so easily!

"Was this a method the Otsutsuki clan developed in the future to restrain traitors? Or had it existed all along, merely kept secret?" Soseki frowned. There had been no record of this whatsoever even in the memories of Isshiki from the parallel world.

Still, he could understand it.

Although Isshiki had been a high-ranking warrior of noble status among the Otsutsuki, the ability