The Feeling of Having Your Heart Ripped Out

"..."

Natsu Yuu's words made Madara 5 furrow his brow deeply, leaving him speechless.

The others realized the crux of the matter, too.

Even setting aside every other drawback, a perfect Infinite Tsukuyomi might benefit individuals, but for humanity as a whole, it was a plan to wipe out the entire race!

If no one reproduced, humanity would eventually die out.

Madara could find someone else to mate with and have children.

Or he could simply leave some people in the real world to handle reproduction.

But that would fundamentally go against the beautiful promise of the [Infinite Tsukuyomi].

After all, as long as people remained in the real world to live and reproduce, tensions would inevitably build over time, until arguments and conflicts broke out all over again...

Even married couples had conflicts. How much worse would it be once there were children, families, and tribes...

Then the eternal peace Madara longed for would become a joke, an absurd fantasy.

Even the dim-witted Kaguya understood this: humanity couldn't reproduce while trapped in the Infinite Tsukuyomi, so not everyone could be transformed at once.

A vast number of ordinary humans would have to be kept outside.

A batch would be born, then another batch sent to feed the Divine Tree...

And so they could fish the waters dry, again and again, indefinitely.

Now that they had all the information and had witnessed the truth with their own eyes, how could the Madaras fail to understand what even dim-witted Kaguya did?

Impure World Madara 5 looked utterly dejected, as if he'd been drained of all his vitality.

He'd thought he'd planned for every possibility, with only one final step left before he could seal the deal!

But in the end, the path he'd chosen had been wrong from the start. And