On Awaki Plain, the footsteps of Otsutsuki Zhengtu's clan-wide retreat temporarily halted. The cause was Jieshiki Otsutsuki, a Main Family member, who had doubts about Urashiki's loyalty. Using her unique secret art, "Tokoyo Omoi-Kane," she read Urashiki's deepest thoughts from afar and instantly discerned everything that had happened to him!
The Jieshiki Otsutsuki of the Seventh Space-Time had once been devoured by Kaguya, so this ability had never been used!
Jieshiki immediately exposed him. "I saw it!! Urashiki is a traitor! He was the one who brought Uchiha Riu to Takamagahara!!!"
The moment those words were spoken, killing intent burst from the gods, and they were immediately ready to grind Urashiki's bones to dust!
But Jieshiki was usually eccentric, and her cunning was no less than Urashiki's. Raising the accusation at such a critical moment naturally made it seem possible that she was trying to kill with a borrowed knife.
Thus, Jūshiki, who was related to Urashiki by blood as his cousin, could not help saying, "At least give him a chance to explain himself!"
Huiyao truly did not wish to delay the clan's retreat over a mere Urashiki, so she said, "Urashiki, I'll give you one sentence to explain yourself. If you can't make it clear, you'll stay here for good!"
Urashiki said sorrowfully, "If one is determined to accuse, what excuse cannot be found! Earlier, Lord Basara wanted to execute me for no reason, and I had no way to defend myself! Now every lurking ghoul has come out to bite me—will you not be satisfied until you see me dead? Fine! With a great enemy before us, how can the clan's advance be hindered by me? If I do not enter hell, who will?"
All the gods shuddered. The weighty, ancient desolation in Urashiki's voice felt utterly