Kaguya sensed it the moment Black Zetsu severed his subordination.
Inside the lunar surface, a piece of the will that had always connected her to reality was gone.
She did not ask him to stay.
Nor did she withdraw her demand for chakra because of it.
"The nine portions of power came from me."
Her voice passed through the narrow gap again.
Only after Ri confirmed that the channel transmitted sound alone did she allow it into the record of the present world.
"They also have memories I do not."
This was the first time Kaguya had placed those two facts together.
It was not an acknowledgment that the tailed beasts possessed every right in the present world.
Nor was it acceptance that Hagoromo's choice back then had been correct.
She simply could no longer call the Nine Tailed Beasts fragments without consciousness.
Hagoromo's echo did not seize the opportunity to demand that Kaguya accept sealing.
Its chakra was already close to dissipating.
In the end, it only confirmed that someone still answered to the Nine Names.
Whether she acknowledged that those responses changed ownership was a question Kaguya had to face herself.
The echo no longer explained things to their mother on behalf of the two children.
Nine-Tails did not withdraw his refusal to undo the sealing because of those words.
"Knowing our names doesn't mean you can take us away."
Kaguya did not respond.
Her understanding of ownership remained rooted in the God Tree and Ten-Tails.
The names had changed her assessment of the state of those nine portions of power.
They had not changed her desire to become whole again.
Gen asked the Recorder to document the scope precisely.
Kaguya acknowledged that new memories existed.
She had not relinquished the Ten-Tails Husk.
She had not promised to