Yu was stunned. Ryushiki was also Ubiji's disciple-he had never seen that coming!
Ubiji turned his face toward Yu. "There are things you may not be able to change even after learning about them. Are you still interested?"
Of course... Yu was intensely curious about Ryushiki!
Somewhere in Ryushiki's life and past might lie the secret to his strength-and the key to defeating him!
Yu sat up straight. "Please tell me about Ryushiki, Teacher!"
"Very well. I'll tell you everything I know." Ubiji turned back with a faint smile, his gaze piercing the void as he uncovered a past long buried in dust.
Seventeen hundred years ago, in Takamagahara, the Head Family and Main Family had yet to merge. Twenty-eight Main Family members, 312 Head Family members, and 3,732 Branch Family members made up the race of gods we knew as the Ōtsutsuki Clan!
Even gods were divided into ranks.
The Ōtsutsuki were a people with a strict hierarchy. The Main Family and Head Family, accounting for less than a tenth of the population, controlled ninety-nine percent of Takamagahara's land and resources.
Nearly four thousand Branch Family members lived together on Takamagahara's northwestern frontier, at the foot of Mount Hiba, near the Heaven-Piercing River.
Watatsumi Village, a small settlement on the banks of the Heaven-Piercing River, was where Chiba Hime had given birth to her dragon offspring.
After his thousand-year confinement in Dragon Palace City ended, the young Ryushiki returned to Watatsumi Village, his true hometown.
But his hometown had fallen into decline. The lowest-ranking members of the Branch Family spent their days there.
Having awakened the rinne tenseigan and possessing chakra so powerful that even the Main Family paled in comparison... Ryushiki should have received an honored welcome upon returning to the Branch Family.
Yet the reality was the