Origin story (II) [Thanks to "Taking Juanjuan Around the Stars" for the Superfan certification]

Devouring the sun... good grief, these people really would eat anything!

It was downright terrifying... all the daimyo swallowed in unison.

"And then... did he d-devour it? That Tarune fellow?"

Obito thoroughly enjoyed their expressions. Sometimes, the impact of plain, unadorned words far surpassed the most dazzling ninjutsu.

Obito was glad he had taken this assignment. It had given him a new source of amusement besides Rin.

He said, "No, King Tarune failed. The chakra energy contained in the core of a sun at its prime was roughly equivalent to sixty quadrillion Ten-Tails Tailed Beast Bombs combined. Even someone as powerful as King Tarune couldn't withstand it... he died."

The daimyo had little grasp of that astronomical figure. What shocked them was the king's death, and the way he had died.

He had been the supreme king of a divine race, immortal and undying, possessed of supernatural might... the most formidable being in the world.

Yet he had refused to be satisfied with everything he already possessed and had quite literally gotten himself killed. It was a sobering thought.

"He died... really?"

Obito said, "Absolutely. He couldn't have been more dead... and after he died, everything he had worked so desperately to obtain went right back to the sun. Pretty ironic, isn't it?"

Just like me in my previous life...

"Indeed... greed really knows no bounds. How much is enough?"

"If I were King Tarune, I'd have retired and indulged myself long ago. Speaking of which... does the Ōtsutsuki Clan also reproduce through xx?"

Kakashi interrupted the Land of Water's daimyo before his lewd questions could continue. "Obito, are you saying that even an immortal body obtained by eating a Chakra Fruit can die after failing to devour the sun?"

Obito nodded. "That's right. The sun is the source of