Kaguya Ōtsutsuki

Madara looked at Hoshi and struggled to open his mouth, but he could no longer utter a single word.

As Deep Forest Emergence ravaged the battlefield, the entire area was turned upside down. The ground shook violently, and the human cocoons wrapped in God Tree branches began to glow with Chakra.

Dense Chakra, nearly solid in form, continuously erupted from the cracked earth. Together with the Chakra drawn from the human cocoons, it flowed into Madara's body like countless rivers converging on the sea.

With such an enormous amount of Chakra suddenly pouring into him, Madara's body rapidly swelled like a balloon.

Meanwhile, the liquid Black Zetsu had transformed into continued spreading across every part of Madara's bloated body.

Seeing that his mother's resurrection was now inevitable, Black Zetsu no longer paid attention to the dying Madara. Instead, he turned to Hoshi, who stood nearby watching coldly.

"Hayate Hoshi, you truly are a terrifying man. Even someone who has lived as long as I have could never truly see through you. Every scheme I arranged was dismantled by you one after another. But now, everything is about to end."

Hoshi nodded approvingly at Black Zetsu's smug expression. "You're right. Everything is about to end."

Black Zetsu's expression changed at those words. Looking at Hoshi's utterly unconcerned appearance, he instinctively asked, "You knew about Mother from the very beginning?"

Hoshi looked at Black Zetsu and enunciated each word.

"If I hadn't, how could you have seized control of Madara's body so easily?"

Black Zetsu was struck as though by lightning. He carefully examined Hoshi from head to toe and blurted out, "That's impossible. You clearly aren't one of them."

Black Zetsu's will was Kaguya Otsutsuki's will, so he naturally knew of the Otsutsuki Clan. Hearing Hoshi speak that way, he subconsciously