If that guy had grown out of pale golden energy,
how could he not know about the trouble the ninja world was in now?
But in the end,
Kitahara Kaede still felt a sense of pressure from that Ōtsutsuki branch family member.
Standing before him, he felt that if the other man wanted to,
he could toy with him at will.
What the Ten-Tails had said
only further proved how weak he was, didn't it?
"So doesn't that just prove he's stronger?"
He had finally encountered someone several times more powerful than himself.
Kitahara Kaede had taken a blow.
His first thought had not been to strive harder.
Instead, he had the urge to simply give up.
"Who said this world only has Chakra and pale golden energy?"
The Ten-Tails' indifferent voice sounded in Kitahara Kaede's mind.
Only then did the stubbornly narrow-minded Kitahara Kaede come to a sudden realization.
"No wonder! So branch family members still aren't qualified to use that kind of energy?"
"Of course. Only the true direct line can use it."
The Ten-Tails' voice carried a note of pride.
"Then that means your status in the Ōtsutsuki Clan was even higher than that of the branch family, right?"
Kitahara Kaede did not forget to flatter the Ten-Tails a little.
"Naturally." The Ten-Tails' voice grew even more arrogant.
"But how did you end up being raised as a tree? Don't tell me you were a pet up there?"
Naturally, Kitahara Kaede would not let the Ten-Tails keep getting carried away.
"Th-this..." The Ten-Tails suddenly became incoherent.
"You were thrown down here, yet you're still this proud for a dog."
With his confidence restored, Kitahara Kaede blurted out whatever came to mind.
And when the Ten-Tails heard the word "dog,"
it became so agitated that it practically jumped