Brothers

The Sage of Six Paths had finally finished telling the whole story.

From Kaguya Otsutsuki's sealing, to the tragic conflict between his two sons that had lasted a thousand years due to their differing ideals; from the malicious existence lurking in the deepest shadows of history—Black Zetsu—and how it had woven a deception spanning the ages, altered the stone tablet, and twisted the prophecy.

To this era, where the reincarnations of Chakra in the living world—Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Satsuki—had shattered the shackles of fate. Not only had they reconciled, they had joined forces to expose the mastermind behind the plot and completely annihilate Black Zetsu, crushing the final possibility of Kaguya Otsutsuki's resurrection at its root.

The truth was cold and cruel.

The so-called "Infinite Tsukuyomi," said to bring eternal peace, was nothing more than a carefully disguised sacrificial ritual meant to transform all humanity on the planet into an army of ignorant, senseless White Zetsu.

Black Zetsu, the so-called "embodiment of Uchiha Madara's will," was in fact the third child Kaguya Otsutsuki had borne before her sealing, born from resentment and obsession!

Every bit of its guidance, every so-called "revelation," had been solely for the purpose of leading Indra's reincarnations toward the precipice of destruction, ultimately turning them into the perfect sacrifice and vessel for reviving its mother.

...Everything about himself had been denied.

Uchiha Madara's body began trembling violently beyond his control. The light in those Rinnegan had completely dimmed, reflecting nothing in their hollow depths.

Violent, chaotic Chakra seeped uncontrollably from every pore of his body like the final breaths of a dying beast, mingled with towering fury and piercing... desolation.

The ideal of salvation he had pursued his entire life had, from the very beginning, been built upon the most despicable of lies.

He had