Searching for a Vessel

"What did you say?"

Jigen's head rang.

Ōtsutsuki Yame??

Wasn't that the fucking God of Otsutsuki?!

"I said I'm Ōtsutsuki Yame. You don't know my name?"

Kanami spoke calmly.

Making up nonsense with a straight face was his specialty!

Jigen took two and a half seconds to recover.

He looked Kanami up and down, then cautiously sensed his aura before letting out a cold laugh.

"Hmph. You're Ōtsutsuki Yame? Then I'm the god of the God of Otsutsuki!"

"Ignorant fool. You don't even recognize me."

"I only came to see whether you could serve as a replacement for an Otsutsuki. From the looks of it, there's something wrong with your head. I suppose I'll have to capture both of you."

Jigen spoke as if it were nothing.

Kanami frowned.

Both?

"What do you mean, both of us?"

A bad feeling stirred in him.

"That inferior creature who was with you earlier. I'll capture you both—"

Bzz—

Before Jigen could finish, Kanami raised his hand and enclosed him in a white cube twenty cubic meters in size.

It broke him down into atoms in an instant.

Kanami's expression turned cold.

Jigen was clearly referring to Hinata Hyuga.

"Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, I won't let you live."

He knew Jigen was not dead. The figure before him had not been Jigen's real body, but a projection created by his technique.

Genjutsu: Communication.

It allowed him to project himself elsewhere, much like the Demonic Illusion Technique Nagato used with his Rinnegan.

Elsewhere, inside a temple in a small country, Jigen opened his eyes.

"An interesting inferior creature. He dared impersonate the God of Otsutsuki and even attack me. It seems that other inferior creature means a great deal to him."

"I can't understand these so-called feelings between inferior creatures."

Jigen murmured to himself.

Ever