The Sage of Six Paths stared at Mysterious Kaguya for a long time before finally speaking. "What are you?"
Mysterious Kaguya flicked her sleeve and snapped, "Speak like a normal person!"
"What are you, exactly?"
Mysterious Kaguya looked coldly at the Sage of Six Paths. "Hagoromo, what have I done to make you show me so little respect?"
"..."
The Sage of Six Paths laid his black staff across his legs as he sat floating in the air. After a moment's thought, he said, "When you say 'respect,' do you mean respect for Kaguya Otsutsuki, or for you?"
"..."
Mysterious Kaguya narrowed her eyes and unleashed an overwhelming pressure. The natural world seemed to become an invisible hand reaching for the Sage of Six Paths—but it grasped nothing.
The Sage of Six Paths dissolved like a wisp of smoke, then re-formed nearby. "I've been dead for a long time. Why bother trying?"
Mysterious Kaguya glared at him. "Even in this form, you might not be beyond my reach!"
"Even if Kaguya Otsutsuki were revived, she couldn't do anything to me," the Sage of Six Paths said. "Much less someone like you..."
"Shut! Up!" Mysterious Kaguya was truly furious. She flashed before the Sage of Six Paths like a specter, activated the Rinnegan on her forehead, and raised a hand to absorb his Chakra.
The Sage of Six Paths didn't retreat at all. He pushed both palms forward and activated his own Rinnegan. The power of the Absorption Seal formed a spherical field that clashed head-on with the identical spherical field surging from Mysterious Kaguya's palm.
Hum...
The clash of Rinnegan powers sent ripples through the natural air of the forest at night.
Mysterious Kaguya was a clone, and the Sage of Six Paths was an apparition.
Their brief clash had