In an instant, savage fury and icy killing intent erupted from Indra!
Ever since childhood, he had been a prodigy, Ninshu's greatest genius, its acknowledged heir, revered by thousands and showered with adulation.
He was confident, proud, and unstoppable.
Yet deep down, he had also known that in his father's eyes, he was insignificant, cheap, and inconsequential!
It was just that no one had ever said it to his face.
Black Zetsu ignored his overwhelming killing intent. Still calm and composed, he continued laying bare the cruelest truth, cementing the darkness in Indra's heart.
"There's no need to be angry. This is reality."
"Ninshu was never Hagoromo's original aspiration. It was merely a tool he used to redeem himself and whitewash his past."
"He stubbornly clung to peace through mutual understanding all his life, not because that path could work, but because he could only allow himself to believe it could."
"Back then, he betrayed his mother and overthrew her rule over the world to put his so-called equality and mutual understanding into practice."
"But the result was a world plunged into utter chaos, where most ordinary people never lived past thirty."
"If he now admitted you were right, admitted that rule through power was the true answer, and abandoned that false ideal of peace..."
"That would be the same as admitting, with his own mouth, that he had been wrong from beginning to end."
"It would mean his betrayal of his mother had been nothing but a ridiculous farce."
"It would mean saying that he caused the Shinobi World's current chaos!"
"That is something Hagoromo will never accept, no matter what."
"So no one can change him."
"Not even you, his most outstanding eldest son, with talent unrivaled beneath the heavens and the ability to save a chaotic world