"Lord Tsunade, wait here. I'm going to talk to that guy..."
After Hyuga Sho returned,
he prepared to deal with Monzaemon.
He traveled onward.
Hyuga Sho passed through the cave and saw Monzaemon again.
At this moment,
Monzaemon was studying the puppets around him.
His mental state seemed to have deteriorated even further.
Hyuga Sho thought for a moment.
Being trapped here for 1,000 years, it was understandable that he had some problems.
At this moment,
Hyuga Sho had already gained new defensive and offensive methods.
Although the other party's aura was terrifyingly powerful, and he was even the owner of the Pure Lapis Lazuli Evolution Chart,
Hyuga Sho was no longer as wary of this Progenitor of Puppets as before.
"Tell me about the outside world..."
Without even raising his head, Monzaemon continued fiddling with the puppets.
Hyuga Sho spent several minutes telling Monzaemon about the Land of Wind.
"Is that so... A once-prosperous nation has already become a desert of ruins..."
Monzaemon's expression remained calm, though his tone carried a hint of emotion.
Back then,
the Land of Wind had not been called the Land of Wind.
It had been part of the Land of Ancestors.
Kaguya Otsutsuki had been revered by the people and called the Rabbit Goddess.
Kaguya Otsutsuki had ruled over vast territories.
And the Land of Wind...
had once been the most suitable region for habitation.
So... here was the question.
What
had caused the Land of Wind, which was three times larger than the Land of Fire, to become a vast, uninhabited Great Sand Sea?
Hyuga Sho remembered.
Sasori had said
that ninjas and ordinary people in the Land of Wind would occasionally dig up rubble from 1,000 years ago beneath the desert, and even discover Underground Palaces.
This allowed them to confirm