"Princess Kaguya, can you release Madara from your body?" Uchiha Yoru asked.
"If we're going to fight enemies from beyond this world, you need to show some good faith."
"In return, I'll have Naruto and Sasuke free you!"
"Did you ask me?" the Sage of Six Paths said.
Uchiha Yoru had been making all the decisions himself, and now the Sage of Six Paths spoke up.
"If you have any sense of duty as a son, you should free your grandmother yourself. Now that you know the truth, you should release your mother!"
"But—"
"Mother was wrong to offer people to the God Tree!"
"Wasn't your mother doing it to fight the Ōtsutsuki Clan?"
"Can you guarantee the Ōtsutsuki Clan won't wipe out everyone on this planet and turn them into nutrients for the God Tree?"
"She brought an end to the chaos, at least, and gave the people of this planet a time of peace, didn't she?"
Uchiha Yoru pressed him.
There was more than one way to look at Kaguya Otsutsuki's actions. She had her own motives: to remain in the Shinobi World and fight the Ōtsutsuki Clan, she had offered people to the God Tree to create White Zetsu.
On the other hand, she had ended the age of chaos, deceived the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and given the Shinobi World a time of peace.
Otherwise, life on this planet might have become nothing more than nutrients for the God Tree.
On balance, the good she had done outweighed the harm. Besides, as her son, couldn't he have talked things through with his mother? Did he really have to seal her away for so many years?
After so many years of loneliness, Uchiha Yoru thought he would have wanted to die long ago.
"But—"
"Enough, Hamura!"
Disappointment flickered in