Seeing the Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo, appear in the mental space, Naruto and Sasuke from Ninja World 7 finally understood. The familiar face their teacher had mentioned was this old man.
Come to think of it, the feeling really was strange.
For Naruto and Sasuke from Ninja World 7, more than ten years had passed, yet they had suddenly returned to the present and seen the Sage of Six Paths from more than ten years ago again.
For Hagoromo Otsutsuki, though, it was even more absurd.
He'd just sent Naruto and Sasuke off. How had they come back already?
Even if they'd died at the speed of light and respawned at base, they shouldn't be this quick, right? At least give him a moment to prepare himself!
After all these years,
he'd only just managed to find two suitable workhorses, and now this? It was too much!
But soon,
the Sage of Six Paths noticed something was off. Naruto and Sasuke looked and felt completely different from just moments ago.
They both seemed much more mature.
What's more,
Naruto had lost some of his innocence and romanticism. That goofy air of looking forward to the future was gone.
Sasuke, too, had shed the arrogance and inflated pride of his younger self, who'd looked down on the whole world.
He could even see a battle-hardened edge in their eyes, hidden beneath their calm.
Like two adult lions that had learned to lie in wait.
The Sage of Six Paths even vaguely sensed that their spirits and minds were many times stronger than they'd been just seconds ago!
They might not be on par with him, after more than a thousand years of existence, but they were still terrifyingly powerful!
It was as if they'd gained decades of experience and refinement