Kaguya Otsutsuki remained calm and expressionless as ever. Nothing on her face revealed what she was thinking, as though knocking Hope down with a single move was a matter of no consequence.
Perhaps she simply believed that Hope had already been finished off by such a heavy blow.
Unfortunately, while the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack was formidable, it was ultimately only a physical shockwave unleashed by pure chakra energy. Against Hope, who possessed an immortal body, such a move was basically useless.
No matter how badly Hope was battered, he could not truly be killed.
His body drifted down like a rag doll, then rapidly drew itself together amid a tangle of shadowy tentacles. After his limbs twitched unnaturally a few times, he swiftly returned to normal.
"Hmm..."
Even someone as proud as Kaguya Otsutsuki finally gave Hope a proper look.
"You're still alive? You're merely a bug that stole my power. I didn't expect your life force to be so tenacious."
As the mistress of chakra, an Otsutsuki had every reason to be confident. There were very few extraordinary powers in the Shinobi World that had nothing to do with her.
She had only followed the unfamiliar Rinnegan she had sensed, tracing its connection to the Ten-Tails to arrive here. She had not expected to find something genuinely interesting.
"Rabbit Goddess, you really don't hold back. This is our first meeting, and I'm the one destined to send you on to liberation..."
"Liberation..."
A puzzled look appeared on Kaguya Otsutsuki's face. In her moral framework, concepts such as reincarnation, rebirth, and attaining Buddhahood simply did not exist.
"What does that mean?"
"It means killing you..."
"Oh, a declaration of hostility? It doesn't matter..."
Just as Kaguya Otsutsuki was about to continue, she suddenly felt a palpitating ripple from the