"The root of it is right here! Their mother was Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, but their father was a mortal native to the Shinobi World!"
"The brothers were born with an inherent flaw, so they could never attain the immortality of a pure-blooded Otsutsuki!"
The more the people of the Shinobi World analyzed it, the clearer everything became. Every unanswered question in history, every disparity in strength-all of it fell into place at that moment.
Far away, within the sealed space on the moon, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, who had been imprisoned for years on end, stared intently at the scenes before her, watching with great interest.
Thinking back to her plot to ambush and sacrifice Isshiki a thousand years ago, she considered it the proudest, most flawless feat of her life.
As the expendable offering who should have been sacrificed, she had defied fate, struck down her superior, and seized his position, wresting her life back from certain death. Even a thousand years later, the memory still filled her with satisfaction.
But when the next scene revealed that Isshiki had not truly perished, Kaguya's composure instantly shattered. Her brows knitted tightly, and panic surged through her.
She remembered the scene from that year perfectly: Isshiki had been hurled into the raging Ten-Tails, torn apart and devoured by endless chakra.
As far as she knew, no living being could survive such a hopeless situation. Isshiki should have been utterly destroyed, with not even his bones left behind.
But even if the Sky Screen was fabricating things, surely it would not spout nonsense about something like this?
Secrets buried for a thousand years were being uncovered one by one. That meant Isshiki really had survived with what remained of his mangled body!
At that thought, the perpetually proud and cold Kaguya involuntarily shuddered. A trace