At this moment, on the moon.
The surrounding starry sky was dim, dotted with specks of stars. Yet the light was far from bright, making the desolation around them seem all the more bleak.
"Tap... tap..."
Uniform footsteps rang across the barren land. A group was advancing slowly, their movements perfectly synchronized. Their expressions were somewhat stern, their faces deathly pale, giving them an eerie appearance.
However... the strangest thing about them was that every one of them possessed a pair of Byakugan.
"Crow, are you certain you discovered outsiders?"
As they advanced, a middle-aged man dressed in ancient attire suddenly asked, his voice icy.
Hearing him, a young man in the group lowered his head slightly and replied respectfully.
"That's right, Lord Sakaya..."
"The sky will crack apart, the eclipse will return, and our land will be left in ruins..."
"That is indeed what the prophecy says..."
Hearing this, even Otsutsuki Sakaya could not help frowning. Although he did not put much faith in such mystical nonsense, the young man before him had never lied before.
And... more importantly, he had heard that among that other clan, a young man named Otsutsuki Toneri seemed to have foreseen something as well.
He had originally been deeply disdainful of it. After all, the ancestral teachings passed down through the generations had instructed them to quietly wait upon this land.
That was right... they were guardians...
Noble "guardians" who had sacrificed themselves to prevent another world from suffering an apocalypse...
As for the thoughts of those lunatics from the other clan, he held nothing but contempt for them.
If they wished to accept that world, why had their ancestors not done so themselves? Why should it fall to descendants like them?
If they forgot the meaning of their inheritance, then... they would