Watching the two figures appear out of nowhere and then suddenly disappear into the distance, Otsutsuki Toneri stood rooted to the spot.
"I was ignored?!"
By the time Nameless and Kabuto Yakushi had left his field of vision and vanished into another part of the forest, he still had not come to his senses.
Just now, when the two of them approached him, his instincts had frantically warned him for a brief moment.
High-level Chakra often possessed many incredible abilities. For example, Miko could foresee death, while the Great Toad Sage could predict the future.
With the aid of the Giant Tenseigan on the moon, Otsutsuki Toneri's Chakra had also reached an unfathomable level. Thus, his instinctive warning was no illusion—it was a real, tangible sense of danger.
He sensed that the two people who had just passed by and ignored him both possessed terrifying strength capable of threatening him.
"Damn it."
In an instant, doubt and alarm spread through his heart.
When he realized that this doubt and alarm stemmed from the fear rising within him, he felt both humiliation and guilt. He was humiliated that he could actually feel fear toward the fallen ninjas on Earth, and at the same time, he felt guilty toward the ancestor who had bestowed upon him the supreme mission.
"I'll be back!"
He wiped the pride from his face, put away the Byakugan he had taken from Hiashi, and after one last glance in the direction Nameless and Kabuto Yakushi had left, he vanished.
After Otsutsuki Toneri left, Hiashi, who had lost his eyes, stood stunned for a moment. A bewildered expression appeared on his face.
Elsewhere in the village.
After the Third Hokage led the ninja forces into battle against Orochimaru and contact with him was lost, the village fell into