Somewhere in the Main World, the space within a mountain valley warped slightly, and Shin's figure appeared without a sound.
The white-clad woman in the bamboo hut had already risen. Seeing that it was Shin, she quietly let out a breath of relief. "You're finally back. How did it go?"
Shin had already deactivated Six Paths Mode and was dressed in a traditional black Uchiha robe. "It's been resolved. Momoshiki died under the combined assault of Otsutsuki Hamura and me."
"Otsutsuki Hamura?" Tamamo murmured, her eyes filled with indescribable shock. For a moment, she failed to react. After all, she was a princess of the Hyuga Clan and held an inexplicable reverence for the legendary ancestor of the Hyuga.
Shin found a place to sit and nodded. "Yes. Even I was surprised that he showed up..."
Shin picked up the teapot beside him and set it over the small stove to warm, casually recounting what had happened as he did so.
The details were not actually complicated, and he finished in just a few minutes. Yet to Tamamo, it was especially alarming.
Precisely because she was now the person closest to the Six Paths, she understood even more clearly just how perilous the battle Shin described had been.
She rose and slowly came to sit across from Shin, having regained some of her usual composure. Her earlier panic had only stemmed from the severity of the situation itself. Now that everything was over, she naturally returned to her former self.
"If that's the case, then perhaps Hamura isn't completely of one mind with the Sage of Six Paths. Maybe that could be..."
Having returned to normal, Tamamo immediately began considering the information in his words, searching for anything that could be exploited. After so many years, it had practically become