"Hamura, you don't understand. There is a power within him that cannot be seen through—hazy, perhaps even unattainable. That is the power of fate!" White Night said with a sigh.
Hagoromo Otsutsuki's brow furrowed ever deeper. He truly did not know much about Ueno Kei. What he knew most was that Ueno Kei was the one to whom his younger brother Hamura had entrusted his power, just as he himself had entrusted his power to Uzumaki Naruto and Second Pillar.
As for the rest, it was only after meeting White Night again that he learned of the Lizard Clan's ancient ancestral precept, an existence akin to an oracle. That was what puzzled Hagoromo Otsutsuki most about Ueno Kei.
"What about that man?" White Night raised his white brows slightly and looked calmly at Hagoromo Otsutsuki. "Don't tell me that's all the backup you prepared?"
"What else would there be, White Night? I have already decided to leave this world for them to decide. In the end, I no longer belong to this present world. Uzumaki Naruto and Second Pillar—I believe this world's future belongs to them!" Hagoromo Otsutsuki declared resolutely.
"No. The protagonist of this era must be Kei. Once he truly transforms, I have a premonition!" White Night firmly denied it.
"You think he isn't dead yet?" Hagoromo Otsutsuki asked in disbelief.
"Yes. Perhaps it will be the very next second, won't it? That is what the oracle says!" White Night said with absolute certainty. "The curtain is about to rise on the end of the great era. Hagoromo, what will the ending, the future, and the end of the world truly look like? Let us wait and see."
White Night gave a cold laugh. After casting one final sidelong glance at Hagoromo Otsutsuki, the space around him twisted,