While pondering, Gawain transformed into Azure Dragon and swiftly soared through the sky.
He knew that the Azure Dragon Form was barely half of his trump card, but he had to make Jigen believe that he didn't know Jigen's location!
That's right, Gawain didn't want Jigen to run off to some other, even harder-to-find place after a brief observation.
He wanted to wage a psychological war against Jigen, ensuring that Jigen would successfully remain in the village closest to their battlefield!
So, how should this psychological warfare be waged?
First, Gawain must make it seem like he's diligently searching for Jigen!
How can I convince Jigen that I am truly searching for Jigen?
All you need to do is frantically search for forms that you haven't used in battle but that look faster!
See? Gawain so angry because he can't find Jigen that he's activated his Azure Dragon Form!
He drifted wildly above the nearby mountains, setting fires here and there, wreaking havoc on the surrounding terrain!
In the distant villages, after hearing the deafening noise and witnessing the earth-shattering scene, the villagers all hid in their respective cellars.
In this era of war and chaos, almost every villager had their own personal strategies for dealing with the ravages of war.
Jigen hid near the villagers. He found a pile of firewood, sat down, and used the firewood to cover himself, carefully observing the presence in the distance.
The Hokage story is known as the Eye Wars, and all the good eyes belong to the Otsutsuki family.
Therefore, Jigen's range of observation through chakra is no less than Gawain's Observation Haki.
And so, according to Jigen's observation, Gawain floated in the nearby sky for a full fourteen hours!
During those fourteen hours, at the most dangerous moment, Gawain was no more than a kilometer away from Jigen!
Gawain burned down half the village, but somehow managed to avoid Jigen's woodpile.
This behavior further solidified Jigen's belief.
Gawain's style is purely physical; he's really not good at searching for and sensing auras!
And Gawain.
Even though he had already put his finger on Jigen's face, Jigen was still able to sit still.
Gawain knew this game was in the bag!
Jigen indeed possesses the typical tsundere personality common to the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
The more enraged and embarrassed he became, the more Jigen enjoyed seeing him like that.
The more this is the case, the more he enjoys staying on the edge of a knife and watching himself make a fool of himself!
Therefore, after fourteen hours of continuous sabotage, Gawain gave up.
He looted a lot of alcohol from a nearby town and then drank heavily for four hours near the battlefield.
When he got drunk, he started cursing and swearing, using nothing more than cowardly scum, saying things like he was too scared to fight me and that he ran faster than an eel—words that wouldn't actually make Jigen angry enough to kill him.
After this series of actions, Gawain's Observation Haki detected...
Jigen finally left the woodpile.
He brazenly stole a set of clothes, then ran out of the forest and told the villagers, who had lost many relatives, that he was a monk practicing in the nearby mountains.
In Japan, especially in Japan areas, monks are generally very popular with villagers.
Therefore, Jigen, a monk who had nowhere to turn due to the destruction of the mountains and forests, was easily accepted by the village.
Villagers who have lost family members truly need the comfort of a monk and religious faith.
Having witnessed Jigen's disguise firsthand, Gawain continued his next probing attempt.
He pretended to be drunk and simply lay down and fell asleep.
During this time, he kept sensing the atmosphere around him, but Jigen did not take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack until he slept until the next morning.
That's true; the entire Ōtsutsuki Clan has a long lifespan.
Even without eating the Chakra Fruit, living for thousands of years would not be a problem for them.
In the original story, Jigen's scheming against Kaguya lasted for over a thousand years.
Even when Black Zetsu freed Kaguya from her seal, he didn't take the opportunity to attack.
These self-righteous, cunning old foxes are all incredibly arrogant.
Harboring his complaints about Jigen, Gawain, carrying a wooden sword, headed towards the nearest town.
It's called a town, but it's not really one.
Although there are only about 1,400 households, this gathering point happens to be a country.
This country is called the Land of Wells, and its first daimyo was a man skilled at digging wells.
In an era of extreme drought, he helped a large Land of Mountains nearby to dig three wells.
These three wells not only saved the life of the daimyo, but also saved many citizens.
Therefore, the daimyo of the Land of Mountains bestowed this village upon the first daimyo of the Land of Wells.
Sounds inspiring, right? A well digger became famous.
Isn't this a very Japan dream?
But there's a prerequisite for this, which is...
The daimyo of the Land of Wells were originally nobles!
He was a nobleman who could assemble a team to dig three wells even during Drought!
Screw the Japan dream! A daimyo's son is still a daimyo, at the very least a nobleman!
However, in this era, the constant emergence of chaotic and complex nations has indeed brought a glimmer of hope to many ordinary people amidst the turmoil.
The Land of Wells has been ruled by four generations of daimyo, and now boasts a population of over six thousand, along with twelve martial artists and three nobles.
Although small, such a country still has the ability to launch plundering.
Six years ago, people from this country plundered the village where Jigen now lives.
All it takes is two or three armored samurai, along with twenty or thirty so-called foot soldiers.
That would allow a village of several hundred people to donate their food and women.
This is the chaotic world we live in now...
While continuously absorbing information about the current world, Gawain arrived at the cleanest restaurant in the Land of Wells.
The restaurant owner was unusually respectful when he saw Gawain.
Gawain was dressed neatly and cleanly. Although his style didn't fit the Naruto World, nobles often had many hobbies. What kind of quirks did Gawain, a nobleman from Onigashima, have?
As for your point about Gawain not being an aristocrat?
You can forget about it!
In a country where the average height is 1.4 meters, suddenly a person appears who is 1.9 meters tall, with delicate and elegant skin, a unique temperament, and an innate nobility.
Would you say someone like that isn't an aristocrat?
Even if Gawain himself said that he was not a nobleman, the people of the Land of Wells would not believe him.
People are more inclined to believe that Gawain is a prince who secretly ran away from some great power!
Therefore, Gawain not only did not encounter the opportunity to play dumb to take advantage of others.
He was also given the shop owner his most prized food as a gift.
Aged sake, clean natto, two grilled fish, and a small bowl of rice.
When the shop owner served the bowl of rice to Gawain, countless people swallowed hard, and even the shop owner instinctively swallowed his Adam's apple.
Rice may not be considered a precious commodity in this world, but those West City reserved for the nobility.
As for ordinary people, how many meals of rice can they eat in their entire lives?
That's something we can't even afford during the Chinese New Year!
Out of gratitude for the shop owner's warm hospitality, Gawain, seeing the shop owner's proud expression, decided to stay at their small shop.
From that day on, Gawain lived there while waiting for Kaido's soul to awaken.
Incidentally, he was also waiting for someone.
Kaguya!
Gawain wasn't just causing trouble in the mountains for no reason; he wanted to deceive Jigen while also attracting Kaguya's attention!
The Shinobi World is far from unified, the name of the goddess has not spread, and even the Land of Ancestors, which is now only known to 99% of the common people of the Land of Wells.
It was only after Gawain spoke with the current daimyo of the Land of Wells that he finally learned about the Land of Ancestors.
It sounds like the Land of Ancestors isn't much larger than the Land of Wells.
There are twelve samurai in the Land of Wells.
In Land of Ancestors, the number of samurai was only about fifty.
At the same time, the Land of Ancestors is extremely far away from this place, and the current daimyo of the Land of Wells has only seen news about the Land of Wells in the records left by his father.
As for the father of the daimyo of the Land of Ancestors, he had only heard of the Land of Wells when he had the honor of going to the largest Land of Rivers in the south to present a congratulatory gift to the 70th birthday of the Land of Rivers country's ruler.
In short, it will probably take quite some time before news of the two gods fighting in the mountains near the Land of Wells spreads to the vicinity of the Land of Ancestors.
Therefore, Gawain, who originally planned to wait for Kaguya to come to him, finally left the Land of Wells and headed towards the Land of Ancestors.
He didn't know how long he could stay in this world, and he had to cherish his time.
He needs to proactively find Kaguya and cooperate with Kaguya in a suitable way!
If the two of them could overthrow Isshiki Ōtsutsuki, Gawain was confident that he could use his silver tongue to get the Chakra Fruit that belonged to him from Kaguya!
As for why he licked Kaguya?
Because we can't beat them!
Gawain can only rely on his training memories and Kaido's power to fight now, and he won't see much improvement in the short term.
As it turns out, while he could fight Jigen, he was far from being able to completely overwhelm him.
Jigen is merely a wedge that embodies a portion of the power of Isshiki Ōtsutsuki.
Kaguya, after consuming the Chakra Fruit, is probably even stronger than Isshiki at full strength!
In short, Gawain didn't want to fight such a guy; it wasn't in his Gawain interest.
So Gawain decided to unleash his true abilities and return to his old profession!
Diplomatic!
Meanwhile, inside the Land of Ancestors.
The current emperor sat at his desk, frowning as he pondered the recent events.
If it is said that every man has had a series of dreams.
That daimyo of the Land of Ancestors has basically realized eighty percent of his dream!
When he was a child, he dreamed of becoming a daimyo.
See? He basically has no other dreams besides becoming a daimyo. What can you do when he's the daimyo's son?
Later, his father did indeed die young, and the young man finally inherited the title of daimyo.
At this point, he didn't have many dreams left. He already had a wife and children; what more could he want?
As for the rest of his dreams.
He probably won't die as young as his father!
Therefore, the emperor began to fantasize that he would encounter the gods and be blessed by them.
Whether it's wishing him a long and healthy life.
I still wish him success in leading his small country to unify the world.
Clearly, even the emperor is just an ordinary man, and most men have such dreams. The current emperor truly never imagined that dreams could actually come true one after another!
Not long ago, when the emperor led his warriors in a sacrificial ceremony...
The goddess actually descended from the sky!
She possessed flawless, undamaged clothing, without even a stitch or patch, fair skin that no woman could rival, and white eyes that symbolized purity.
Of course, there were some aspects of the celestial maiden that the emperor found difficult to accept.
For example, the vertical eye between her eyebrows, the two small horns, and the celestial maiden's nearly three-meter-tall figure...
That's right, Kaguya Otsutsuki was already incredibly tall; she was almost as tall as Naruto and Sasuke combined.
Even the emperor sometimes couldn't help but wonder, what kind of man could possibly conquer such a tall and stunningly beautiful woman?
Could it be Kami?
Speaking of this, we must mention the emperor's remaining dreams.
Even now, the emperor still dreams.
Unlike before, he was already famous and had even met a goddess.
So his current dream...
My dreams are filled with that towering, yet incredibly beautiful goddess...
As for Kaguya, she is currently residing in the Emperor's residence.
Or perhaps, she occupied the emperor's own bedroom in the name of God, relegating him to a side room.
Although it was the middle of the night, she didn't need to sleep. At that moment, she was awake, silently contemplating her future.
She's been through so much lately. She betrayed her status as a member of a branch family, betrayed her status as a slave, and finally launched a sneak attack on the main family's Isshiki.
She wasn't greedy for the Chakra Fruit; as a member of a branch family, she never felt she could eat that Devil Fruit.
She launched Isshiki simply because she didn't want to die!
Although the vast majority of the Otsutsuki family members spent their lives in long waits and eventual sacrifices.
But the Otsutsuki are different!
Although she possesses all the characteristics of the Otsutsuki family, beneath her Ice-Ice Fruit expression lies a haughty arrogance consistent with her expression, and a subtle expectation that differs from her expression.
Rather than becoming Otsutsuki, she wanted to be herself, and more importantly, to be a woman.
Especially after receiving the mission to Isshiki plant the Chakra Fruit, and finally arriving in this world.
After she learned a little about human lifestyles.
That desire to rebel against the constraints of identity grew even stronger!
A confluence of countless thoughts led her to become the only traitor in the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
But what should you do after being betrayed?
Otsutsuki was confused, utterly confused!
Isshiki died, and he ate the Chakra Fruit. As a result, Isshiki, who would never return to his hometown, would inevitably attract the attention of his family.
At that time, she, as a woman who defied her superiors, was destined to be dealt with by her family.
Will I die?
No!
Having eaten the Chakra Fruit, he is now immortal!
Then, they will be sealed away, sealed in a dark and sunless world, never to be able to move again!
But I'm not reconciled!!!
I'm so close to freedom!
With this thought in mind, Kaguya nervously pursed her lips, becoming increasingly rebellious.
Now, she not only hates Isshiki and wants to sacrifice herself.
She developed an insatiable desire to rebel against her imagined enemy, namely her own family!
Just as Kaguya's expression grew increasingly dark, a peculiar aura suddenly startled her!
Meanwhile, in the Daimyo's room.
The emperor, startled by the shouts of his subordinates, opened the window.
"There's a dragon!!!"