"Kaguya, fully fuse with the Life Great Tree and turn it into your puppet. Once you finish, I'll restore your freedom. The reason I'm not doing it now is that, while you're fusing, I need to handle various matters in the Life Great Tree's identity."
"Don't worry," Andrew said. "I'll fulfill every promise I made to you. This is the first, and restoring your freedom is the second."
Kaguya Otsutsuki looked at Andrew with some gratitude. In truth, what the Life Great Tree had said earlier made sense. She really wasn't as useful as the Life Great Tree.
Fortunately, Andrew had chosen her in the end. Kaguya Otsutsuki wasn't good at expressing her emotions. "My promise will not change, either," she said.
Andrew put on a hesitant expression. "The promise to marry me? Uh, well, I think you can reconsider that."
"When did I ever make such a promise? And why have you suddenly changed it to something I should reconsider?"
Kaguya Otsutsuki badly wanted to complain. She couldn't be bothered with Andrew anymore and began fully fusing with the Life Great Tree. Honestly, she was thrilled. After all, the Life Great Tree had originally intended to absorb her, but now she was absorbing it instead.
Then the Soul illusion collapsed, and the Soul Battle ended in a resounding victory for Andrew and Kaguya Otsutsuki.
Of course, there was nothing surprising about that. From the moment Andrew successfully entered Kaguya Otsutsuki's body, the Life Great Tree's defeat had been inevitable—unless it could spot Andrew immediately and cry for help.
Meanwhile, the Great Tree clones in seven cities vanished, leaving only the last two. Andrew teleported Ashley and the others straight over to surround and attack them.
Soon, those two Great Tree clones were dealt with as well. The cocoons in