The news utterly stunned Hashirama. "What?!"
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki was someone who had always existed in the background of everything they knew.
Even when the Nine-Tails had first relayed her story, everyone had understood just how terrifying an enemy she was.
The Sage of Six Paths' mother, the immortal, undying Progenitor of Chakra, the origin of everything in the shinobi world...
"What are you so shocked about?" Madara, on the other hand, looked at Hashirama with disdain. "You're the man who beat me. What's so scary about a mere Kaguya Ōtsutsuki? Don't forget how Ōtsutsuki Isshiki died."
"Madara, this is no joking matter. And there's something wrong with what you just said. You make it sound as though we were the ones who killed Isshiki."
"Oh, please. If we really had been the ones to deal with him, then you'd have something to worry about. If a crisis still needed two dead men like us to resolve it, wouldn't that mean the later generations were finished?" Madara smiled mockingly. "Isn't that Naruto Uzumaki kid around? What are you afraid of... hmm? What's that look on your face?"
Madara keenly noticed that something was off about Hashirama's expression.
"Ahem, nothing." Hashirama quickly composed himself and countered earnestly, "After all, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki is..."
"Did something happen to Naruto Uzumaki?"
"..."
An eerie silence followed.
Perhaps because of his Six Paths Transformation, Hashirama's expression was more solemn than usual. In theory, it should have been almost impossible to read anything from his face.
Yet Madara could tell at a glance—Hashirama was panicking.
"What could possibly happen to that kid? He's already ridiculously strong!"
The entire shinobi world had witnessed Naruto in action when he destroyed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. With power like that, if Hashirama was the God of Shinobi, then calling Naruto Uzumaki a genuine