Kaguya Otsutsuki looked at Hagoromo Otsutsuki with a calm gaze. There was no hatred in her eyes, but there was no closeness either.
It was a gaze as if she were looking at a stranger.
"Mother... in the end, you still haven't forgiven me. You blame me. You blame me for sealing you away back then!"
Unwillingness filled Hagoromo Otsutsuki's eyes. His face went pale, and it was as if something had lodged in his throat. Even his voice began to change.
"But everything I did back then was for the humans of the Ninja World!"
"Do you know how insane your actions were back then? You wanted to turn most of the humans in the Ninja World into White Zetsu. That was unfair to the Ninja World, and unfair to her too!"
Indignation filled his eyes.
Several thousand years had taken away many things.
Yet there were also some things that could never be changed.
"Hagoromo, I am sorry for what happened back then, but to me, even the humans of the current Ninja World have nothing to do with me."
Kaguya Otsutsuki's expression was calm.
On that breathtakingly beautiful face, there was not the slightest emotion toward humanity, as if humans were another kind of creature to her.
"The only things that made me attached to this planet were you and Hamura. But back then, both of you betrayed me. Even so, I never blamed either of you for betraying me."
"I was only angry. I was angry that the two of you were clearly my sons, so why could you not understand me?"
Her gaze rested on Hagoromo Otsutsuki, whose expression before her was incomparably aged.
It was as if she were looking across several thousand years of time.
"Hagoromo, I am not blaming you. You have