"To the moon..."
Hagoromo thought of his younger brother, Hamura.
After the two brothers had joined forces to seal away their mother all those years ago, his younger brother had taken his descendants to the moon.
He had said he wanted to stay with their mother, who was sealed inside the moon, while also guarding against any unexpected developments.
"Interesting. So there are people living on the moon, too?"
Madara's interest was piqued. He had once believed that people existed only in the shinobi world. Later, he had learned of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, but they were so far removed from the shinobi world that he had not paid them much mind.
Yet now he was being told that people lived right there on the moon-and that they were descendants of the Sage of Six Paths' younger brother.
"What, surprised? Unless something unexpected has happened, Hamura's descendants on the moon are still monitoring the shinobi world in their own way."
"Hamura's descendants are monitoring the shinobi world?"
Those words caught Hagoromo off guard.
"Why would they monitor the shinobi world?"
"Well, who knows? Maybe they're observing the shinobi world to see whether the world you, the Sage of Six Paths, created deserves to exist.
If they decide that the shinobi world you created has no reason to exist, they'll destroy it and then move down from the moon.
After all, compared to the barren moon, the shinobi world is practically paradise."
"How do you know all this?"
Hagoromo was skeptical of what Tetsuya had said.
It was not that he distrusted Tetsuya. He simply did not believe that his younger brother Hamura would have left instructions for his descendants to destroy the shinobi world.
"Would you believe me if I said I guessed?"
"Guessed?"
"What? You don't believe me? Then would