Kamui asked Kaguya-hime a few more questions.
Kaguya-hime answered as usual.
"Boring..."
After observing her for a moment, Kamui realized.
Kaguya-hime was merely operating according to some predetermined program.
Her intelligence was not even one ten-billionth of her daughter Sarada's.
But no one had stipulated that.
A puppet could not awaken intelligence.
Especially when her body contained the Chakra of seven Tailed Beasts.
Years of stillness.
The digestion of the Tailed Beast Chakra.
The extension of the Pure Lapis Lazuli Core...
And...
"Kaguya-hime, you mean nothing in your master's heart. You're just a pile of broken metal."
Kamui said it deliberately.
"You're neither alive nor dead. You're not even as good as a White Zetsu. You're no different from the Kunai beside you."
Kamui pointed at the ordinary Kunai.
It was a weapon that someone had casually thrown into the corner.
Probably... it had been forgotten.
"You'll be forgotten too. When they clean out the junk someday, they might dismantle you and sell you for five taels. Just slowly rot away here..."
The door closed, and Kamui left.
Kaguya-hime said nothing.
She had been left here for two years.
In all that time, no one had come to see her.
As Kamui had said, she would slowly rot away here.
However.
For a puppet, whether she rotted or not had no meaning.
Even the question itself had no meaning.
Everything was as it had always been, like air, like the mountains and earth.
Just an unremarkable existence.
A moment later... the lights automatically went out.
The room fell into darkness.
Kaguya-hime stood there, motionless.
There was no reaction whatsoever.
Because she had no soul and no consciousness of her own.
As Kamui had said, she merely operated according to a predetermined program.
Since she was a machine, it did not