New World, an outlying island in the waters off Wano Country, an edge village.
Inside a crude house, the woman whose pale skin was almost frightening suddenly opened her eyes. The instant she regained consciousness, endless pain crashed into her mind like a tidal wave, making her feel as though her head had been smashed hundreds of times with an iron hammer.
"Uchiha Hiko!" The woman on the bed let out a pained growl and struggled to rise, but after being unconscious for so long, her body was too stiff. Combined with the severe damage to her consciousness, she rolled straight off the bed.
The woman was Otsutsuki Kaguya, who had fought Uchiha Hiko fiercely in Mary Geoise, causing the entire place to collapse and sink into the sea. She had never imagined that, just as her injuries had begun to heal, Uchiha Hiko would beat her to within an inch of her life again. After drifting at sea for an unknown number of days, she had finally awakened.
After falling from the bed, Otsutsuki Kaguya finally regained a little clarity. The pain allowed her nearly shattered consciousness to focus once more.
Lying on the floor, Kaguya struggled to lean against the bedside. While suppressing the pain that felt ready to explode her head, she began gathering her strength, sensing her surroundings and assessing her current situation.
She was now wearing a set of coarse linen clothes. Her proud figure, which Uchiha Hiko had left completely naked in Mary Geoise, was finally covered. Yet a flash of killing intent passed through Otsutsuki Kaguya's eyes. Who had dressed her while she was unconscious?
As the pain subsided somewhat, she finally sensed her surroundings completely. She was in a small village with only a little over a hundred presences, none of them