"You don't need to worry about that. Time in the Pure Land is separate from reality."
Hagoromo raised his staff and slashed at the darkness beside him, tearing open an image that showed Uchiha Gen's physical condition.
Uchiha Gen immediately leaned in to look. Sure enough, time in reality had been paused. He could even see the scroll tossed in the corner, the queen's corpse, and... a tiny Slug curled up inside a crack in the rocks.
"The Slug didn't leave?"
"I did say that I would no longer interfere with matters of the living world, but that was under the condition that the safety of the Shinobi World was not involved."
"What do you mean? Old man, did you call me here just to speak in riddles?"
"Don't rush." Hagoromo paced back and forth a few times, looking like an ordinary old grandpa next door. "Although I don't know how you appeared in this era, I won't stop you from becoming stronger. On the contrary, I'll support you."
"Oh? You're not afraid I'm with the Ōtsutsuki?"
"I am an Ōtsutsuki myself."
"..."
Uchiha Gen narrowed his eyes slightly. He seemed to understand what the old man meant.
"You're saying that the path I'm taking might awaken your mother ahead of time?"
"..."
Hagoromo's expression suddenly stiffened. Did young people these days all talk like this?
"Why? That shouldn't be possible... She was clearly sealed inside the moon..."
"The way to unseal her isn't limited to undoing the moon's seal. Think about your body."
My body? Uchiha Gen frowned as he thought. What was wrong with his body? What did it have to do with unsealing Kaguya Otsutsuki?
The plot of Black Zetsu saving his mother in the later stages of Naruto immediately surfaced in his mind, along with an