Otsutsuki Toneri instantly unleashed Rotation, which, like an invisible giant hand, fiercely seized the figure on the distant beach.
At that moment, Toneri did not pay attention to the target Rotation had pulled in. In his eyes, it was merely some unlucky wretch he would use to make an example of others. The one he truly cared about was Hizashi, kneeling at the cliff's edge.
Yet to his surprise, the despair on the face of the Hyuga Clan leader before him did not deepen. Instead, because of the intruder who had appeared on the nearby beach, his expression took on a strange, indescribable look.
At that moment, the figure seized from afar by Rotation landed atop the cliff.
With an icy expression, Toneri said to Hizashi, "All living things in the ninja world are as fallen and filthy as the ninja world created by the Sage of Six Paths. In my eyes, your Hyuga Clan is no exception. But for the honor of our ancestors, I gave you a chance, and yet you repaid my goodwill with deception."
Toneri's objective had never been to seize the Hyuga Clan's Giant Tenseigan.
As proud and aloof as he was, he disdained taking anything by force. He simply could not tolerate the existence of another Giant Tenseigan in the ninja world, even if that Giant Tenseigan was far inferior to the Otsutsuki Clan's Giant Tenseigan.
Because a Tenseigan was a Tenseigan. It represented not merely a kind of power, but the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon. It was the moon's Otsutsuki Clan's most precious treasure, a sacred object that could never be desecrated.
Thus, when he discovered that a Giant Tenseigan also existed in the ninja world, Toneri had been unable to calm himself. The thought of the noble Giant Tenseigan being controlled