Otohime's room.
On the floor in the center of the room, there is a game console and a large screen.
The light and shadow on the screen flickered, reflecting two faces with completely different expressions.
On one side, there was Otohime Otsutsuki sitting cross-legged on the ground, wearing home clothes, with silver-white hair Long Hair hanging loose, but at this moment, his face was getting darker and darker with anger.
Her eyes were fixed on the screen, watching as the character she controlled was once again knocked away by the opponent's gorgeous combo. The health bar was instantly cleared, and a large word "K. O." popped up on the screen. The fingers that were clenching the controller turned slightly white from the exertion.
"Damn it!" Otohime roared and slammed the handle to the ground.
On the other side, occupying the best position in front of Game Console is a black and sticky liquid creature with only two small mung bean eyes.
At this moment, Black Zetsu is using its small hands, which are like chicken feet and made of black liquid, to fly on the game joysticks and buttons flexibly and skillfully.
"Hey, Mr. Otohime, please accept."
Black Zetsu uses his consciousness to make a flattering and sultry voice.
It found that playing games with the "Dragon Palace Princess" of the Ōtsutsuki Main Family was much more interesting than engaging in intrigues and intrigues in Shinobi World.
Especially seeing the other person's angry and helpless look gave him an inexplicable sense of accomplishment.
Kaguya is sitting quietly on the side of the room, where there is a simple but stable wooden bed that Naruto used Wood Release to improvise.
Her back was against the wall, her legs were close together, her wide white dress was spread out, her scarlet Rinnegan forehead was slightly lowered, but her eyes were not completely focused on the book in her hand, but she glanced at the "battlefield" in front of Game Console from time to time.
Seeing that Otohime was defeated again, she angrily rushed towards Black Zetsu, using her seemingly slender but powerful arms to try to tear the black mud away from Game Console. The corners of Kaguya's mouth actually curled up slightly.
Unexpectedly, Otohime, who is honored as "Princess Dragon Palace" in the Main Family and has noble blood and powerful power, would actually have such a child-like side.
Kaguya thought to himself.
This kind of serious and even childish behavior for the sake of winning or losing the game is far from the image of the arrogant, reserved, and distant Ōtsutsuki Main Family elite in her memory.
Black Zetsu, who was attacked by Otohime, was a little confused at the moment.
"Eh? It hurts, it hurts!"
Black Zetsu screamed in pain.
It is obviously a Yin-Yang Release living body that is made of liquid and has no fixed form in theory. However, every time Otohime tears and slaps it seemingly randomly, it feels a clear pain, as if it is hit by an entity.
It was as if it had grown bones, nerves, and flesh out of thin air.
"Master Otohime, please show mercy!"
Black Zetsu was "screaming" and avoiding, while feeling shocked and uncertain in his heart.
It vaguely felt that Otohime's attack seemed to contain some extremely subtle special power directed at energy life forms, which could cause such existences to feel "pain".
After a lot of back and forth, Otohime finally drove Black Zetsu away from Game Console, barely saving the last bit of face as the "Princess Otsutsuki".
She tidied up her somewhat messy hair and clothes, took a deep breath, and calmed down her mood caused by the losing streak in the game, and then turned to look at Kaguya, who was sitting by the bed and reading quietly.
She walked to Kaguya, followed Kaguya's example, and sat on the other side of the wooden bed, tilting her head, looking at Kaguya with her pure Byakugan, and her tone was a bit curious:
"Hello, Kaguya.
I heard... your son named Hagoromo seems to be leaving this world and going to a higher dimension like the legendary adult?"
Otohime I used to yearn for that legendary sublimated realm.
After all, that represents the ultimate evolution of life form and power, and is one of the ultimate goals pursued by the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
But since she became addicted to Shinobi World's various games, food, and entertainment, her thoughts gradually changed.
Isn't it good to leave your body and spirit in this colorful world?
Why go to an unknown higher dimension that may contain nothing?
The physical body remains in the world but the spirit disappears. What is the difference between that and death?
It's better to have a sense of accomplishment by completing the game.
Otohime is quite disdainful of this now.
"Hmm."
Kaguya responded softly, his eyes still staying on the page, but he was obviously listening to what Otohime said.
"He... said so himself."
Her tone was calm, and there were no emotional ups and downs, as if she was talking about an insignificant passerby.
Otohime blinked, a little puzzled. "Aren't you... worried about him? That's your son."
In Otohime's perception, a mother should always have some special feelings for her son, right?
Especially when my son is about to leave this world, possibly forever.
Kaguya's fingers turning the pages of the book paused slightly.
She raised her head and looked at Otohime with those cold Byakugan eyes, her eyes calm and unruffled:
"There's nothing to worry about."
She paused and seemed to be organizing her words, her voice still cold. "He is stronger than me now.
His path, his choice, is his own business."
Then, there was a slight hint of coldness in her tone. "And even if he is leaving soon, before leaving, he is still thinking about sealing me again."
This sentence expresses the core of Kaguya's complex emotions towards brothers Hagoromo and Hamura.
She was unable, and unwilling, to worry too much about a son who intended to harm her again.
Hagoromo and Hamura have no father.
They were born by Kaguya after devouring Chakra Fruit and gaining the power of God Tree, and then accepted the people's prayers and blessings.
It would be false to say that Kaguya has no feelings for them at all.
In the early days, there may have been a brief period of warmth and bond.
However, that meager maternal love, faced with thousands of years of lonely imprisonment and the seals imposed by her sons, has long been worn away, and has even transformed into some deeper estrangement and resentment.
Love?
Yes.
But how can the hatred of the seal and the thousand years of loneliness be offset by a little bit of family affection?
Otohime looked at Kaguya's eyes that didn't seem to contain any warmth, and nodded in understanding.
Ōtsutsuki Clan's emotions are inherently indifferent and complicated, and Kaguya's experience is even more extreme.
She stopped asking any more questions and turned her attention to the Game Console, which shone alluringly, and the black mud inside the Corner that was quietly squirming and trying to get closer to the controller again.
In the room, the music of starting the game sounded again, as well as Black Zetsu's careful flattery and Otohime's pretentious warning.
Kaguya lowered her head again and continued to flip through the book about "Technological Revolution and Ninja Social Change" in her hand, as if all the disturbances in the outside world had nothing to do with her.
Only the slightly trembling eyelashes showed that her heart might not be as calm as she appeared.