"Why?"
"What do you mean, why?"
"Even if I chose to cooperate with you, it was only because we share a common enemy.
And this cooperation is only temporary. Why do you trust this empress so much?
Aren't you afraid that after this empress absorbs Isshiki Otsutsuki and grows stronger, I'll betray you and seize all of your Chakra for myself?"
Kaguya Otsutsuki had once been trusted by someone too. That person had not been her husband, nor either of her two children, but the maid who had protected her with her life.
Perhaps because they had shared similar lives, when Kaguya had been betrayed by her husband, that maid had never abandoned her. She had continued to believe in and protect her.
And now, as Kaguya looked at Seiya, she seemed to see the phantom of that maid named Aino, smiling at her.
"You said it yourself—we're partners now. In that case, the stronger you are, the more beneficial it is to us.
As for you turning on us and betraying us, I'm not worried that someone who hates betrayal would do something even she herself couldn't accept.
And even if you do grow stronger, I'm not worried. I just need to become stronger than you."
Seiya had never doubted whether he could grow stronger.
What a joke. Even if Kaguya kept devouring the invading Otsutsuki Clan and leveling up endlessly, so what?
His Seiya army had the myriad worlds at its back. Did some mere leveling princess think she could compare herself to a player with cheats?
"If you're so confident in your own strength, why do you need this empress's help to defend against the Otsutsuki Clan?"
"You know the saying: it's easy to dodge an open spear, but hard to guard against an arrow in the