"Divine Lord! Save me!" His flesh was being ground to pieces bit by bit within the tornado. The leader of CP0 wailed as he cried out for help from Otsutsuki Kaguya, who stood in the distance watching coldly.
"You're too naive!" Hiko sneered. "Someone as cold-blooded and heartless as her would not hesitate to bury the entire world just to gain greater power. Now that my strength has surged, do you really think she'd be willing to risk herself to save you?"
A faint sneer curled at Otsutsuki Kaguya's lips. Hiko's suddenly transformed Chakra had indeed shocked her. Before she could determine what had truly changed in him, Otsutsuki Kaguya—whose injuries were still serious—was unwilling to take any risks. Besides, someone like the CP0 leader was neither useful nor useless to her. One more made no difference; one less made no difference either.
"Divine Lord... save me..." The CP0 leader had nearly been shredded by the tornado until only a skeleton remained. Yet his fierce will to survive kept him alive. He stretched out an arm of ghastly white bones, trying to reach for Otsutsuki Kaguya and seek one final chance at life from the being the Celestial Dragons regarded as a god.
"Trash! Why aren't you dead yet?!" With a sweep of her right hand, Otsutsuki Kaguya lashed out a Fire Chain. It curved through the air and struck the CP0 leader directly, instantly reducing him to dust. "Stop embarrassing yourself here!"
Hiko had watched everything unfold with cold eyes from beginning to end. He had long since witnessed this woman's ruthless cruelty. This little act of casting aside an ally after crossing the river was nowhere near enough to fully expose Otsutsuki Kaguya's dark side.
A group of stunned guards still stood amid the surrounding ruins. They had