Homecoming, Rin's Return!

Late at night, atop Sky Feather Pavilion, Xiyang leaned against Yu's shoulder as the two gazed together at the bright moon.

Yu reminisced, "The last time we admired the moon like this together was half a year ago, wasn't it...?"

Indeed. It had been a turbulent half-year. First, Xiaoxue had been lost in Netherworld Valley. Then Uchiha Madara had descended in force, gravely injuring Yu. After that, Nagato had been swayed by Black Zetsu and claimed the Ten-Tails for himself, setting off the Shinobi World War... The rhythm of everyday life had been utterly disrupted.

Fortunately, Xiaoxue had returned, Madara had submitted, Yu had risen again, Nagato had fallen, and the war had ended!

The storm had passed, and ordinary life had returned!

Yet in this calamity, the two great nations of Fire and Lightning had been completely wiped out. More than half of the Land of Wind had been destroyed. Already at the bottom of the Five Great Nations in economic strength, it had now been dealt a blow from which it would never recover. It could no longer call itself a great nation!

More than a billion people had been erased by Nagato, never to be revived—one-third of the world's population. Order itself had been completely shattered!

Xiyang said sorrowfully, "It's just that, because of this disaster, who knows how many people will never again see moonlight as beautiful as this..."

Xiyang still retained her inherently kind nature. Many would mockingly call that being a "holy mother."

Originally, "holy mother" had been praise for a woman's virtue. Yet in modern society, it had become a derogatory term. Because people lacked sufficient moral character themselves, they could not stand those with higher moral standards and even attacked them...

So what if someone was a holy mother? So what if