"You share a deep bond."
Kaguya Otsutsuki said this.
"Mm."
Wuye gave a soft acknowledgment.
"I came here to complete a clan mission, but I don't want to obey their orders completely, so I've been looking for a chance to break free from fate."
Kaguya Otsutsuki suddenly said something that caught Wuye off guard.
Something like this should have counted as a secret.
"I feel that..."
Noticing Wuye's surprised gaze, Kaguya Otsutsuki's eyes were cool yet calm. "You probably wouldn't betray me."
Wuye paused, then chuckled. "Even if I wanted to betray you, I wouldn't know who to sell you out to."
"That may not be true." Kaguya Otsutsuki extended a pale, translucent finger and pointed toward the God Tree in the distance. "It will bloom within three months. When that happens, the person responsible for collecting the fruit for the clan will arrive."
"But you don't want to hand the fruit over to him?" Wuye asked.
Kaguya Otsutsuki nodded slightly. "That's right. I don't want to be eaten by the God Tree."
"Eaten?"
Wuye asked in surprise, "Why?"
As a purely casual fan, he had absolutely no interest in watching stories from old man Boruto's era.
So he was utterly confused.
Kaguya Otsutsuki tilted her head slightly as she looked at him.
Under the sunlight, his cheeks seemed to glow, radiating a warmth that made her feel as though she could entrust him with all her thoughts.
If my future self would be willing to marry him, then my current self should be able to trust him too... she thought.
She knew how long she had prepared for this day.
She had hidden her abilities and trained in secret, all to break free from her lowly status and the fate of being devoured again and again.
But as the