"Mother, I..."
Hagoromo Otsutsuki's voice was dry as he tried to explain.
But Kaguya Otsutsuki cut him off and sharply demanded, "Hagoromo, you don't trust your mother. Are you... trying to gain even greater power to rebel against me?"
Those words, the most blunt truth, drove viciously into the hearts of Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Hamura.
The two fell silent.
They could not stand by and watch the Ninja World remain under dictatorship forever, much less endure such exploitation!
"Mother, you should not exploit others like this! Everyone is free. What you are doing is outright dictatorship over the world!"
Hagoromo Otsutsuki stepped forward resolutely, his gaze firm and filled with the free will to rebel.
"The world should not be ruled like this. The world should belong to all the people in it. Only through mutual understanding and mutual tolerance can there be true happiness!"
He had seen too many people begging him.
They did not want to be ruled anymore, did not want to be controlled anymore, did not want to contribute Chakra every day like caged birds!
"That is because you have never seen the world consumed by conflict. Without my rule, the entire Ninja World would have long since begun slaughtering one another. Their wars would be far crueler than my rule!"
Kaguya Otsutsuki sneered, her lips curling into a cold smile.
"Hagoromo, Hamura, you have never seen the greed of human nature. Without my rule, they will only establish kingdom after kingdom and slaughter one another!"
"Come back, my sons. You will learn that I am right."
This sort of thing had already happened countless times upon this land.
She had long since stopped believing in this land.
"No!"
Hagoromo Otsutsuki's gaze was resolute. "Precisely because of that, we should work even harder to make everyone