Heavenly Secrets Calculation

Yuya dismissed everyone and shut himself in his room.

He leaned back against the wall.

He sat there for an entire day and night.

When the others found him the next day,

his eyes were already bloodshot.

Without lingering long, he set off.

First, he used the Supreme Clarity Qi-Reading Art to examine Princess Kaguya's fortune.

But he discovered that more than half of that sea of purple clouds had vanished.

Princess Kaguya's fated seven-colored bird in a cage was already battered beyond recognition,

like a candle flickering in the wind, ready to shatter at any moment.

For some reason, the heavenly giant serpent representing the Ōtsutsuki's fate had suddenly grown considerably stronger.

As it drew in and expelled Earth's fortune, it had actually turned its hostility toward her.

Yuya did not know why this change had occurred,

but it undoubtedly had something to do with the Ōtsutsuki.

He began sorting through the mysterious rewards he had received.

He paid little attention to the first and third techniques.

Instead, he turned his attention to what he had received when her affection surpassed seventy points:

Heavenly Secrets Calculation.

[Heavenly Secrets Calculation]

[Even if gods exist in this world, you can still outplay them by half a move]

[This technique draws from the "Book of Changes," combining the strengths of seventy-two methods, including Qimen Dunjia and Plum Blossom Numerology]

[It grants knowledge of human relationships and destiny, and insight into the past, present, and future]

[Heavenly secrets are unfathomable: using this technique requires exceptionally high comprehension]

[Heaven's decree cannot be defied: using this technique incurs a degree of backlash]

[Heavenly secrets must not be revealed: the results of your calculations cannot be disclosed to others]

Yuya's gaze grew deep as he read the description of Heavenly Secrets Calculation.

He automatically disregarded some of its side effects and backlash,

and began absorbing the information from Heavenly Secrets Calculation.

Instantly, a flood of obscure, incomprehensible information poured into his mind.

Yuya's head felt swollen, but he ignored it.

Once he had mastered the method, he immediately sat cross-legged.

First, he began calculating the change that had befallen Princess Kaguya,

and why the foretold shattering of her fate had shifted from three years away to one.

He felt a surge of energy leave his body.

As the technique operated, his consciousness began drifting away,

as though it had escaped into another void, faintly connecting with a strange realm.

Everything around him was white. Just as he felt utterly lost,

in the next instant,

a peculiar thread guided his consciousness toward a certain place.

Then a blurry image entered his mind.

It was actually a scene from the very beginning,

when he had descended into the world of Naruto.

Yuya, still a tiny infant, was held in one hand by Princess Kaguya.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki approached him, radiating killing intent.

But just as Isshiki was about to kill him,

Princess Kaguya launched a surprise attack.

Heavenly secrets obscured this part of the vision, and it began to blur.

At the end, the image became clear again,

shifting to Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's infinitely shrunken body.

It turned out that even back then, Isshiki had used [Sukunahikona] at some unknown moment,

and taken up residence inside the infant Yuya.

At this sight, Yuya felt a tightness in his chest,

and coughed up a mouthful of stagnant blood.

At the same time, a chilling sensation swept through his entire body.

Isshiki had been living inside him from the very beginning,

yet he had never noticed.

Moreover, because [Sukunahikona] merely shrank the body countless times over, what lived inside him was a living being, not energy.

Even the system had given him no warning.

With a complicated expression, he wiped away the blood and continued his calculations.

The scene shifted again.

This time, it was a month earlier.

Princess Kaguya had looked at him several times with a conflicted expression.

Only then had Princess Kaguya discovered that Isshiki was living inside Yuya, through the Ōtsutsuki Clan's mutual connection and perception.

She had not hesitated long. After only a few days,

she went before the God Tree and used special hand seals to activate its power,

absorbing it into herself ahead of time.

But the God Tree's power was poisonous before it fully matured and bore a Chakra Fruit (for setting purposes).

From that day onward,

the God Tree's power had constantly eaten away at and assimilated Princess Kaguya.

Wood-grain markings began appearing on her body.

Whenever she spent time with Yuya, she suppressed them.

Only after Yuya left would her complexion rapidly wither.

Then, the day before yesterday,

Princess Kaguya had sat cross-legged with Yuya.

While sending gentle chakra into Yuya's body,

she had also drawn upon the God Tree's power

to absorb Ōtsutsuki Isshiki into her own body.

In other words,

Princess Kaguya now had to endure not only the God Tree's power eating away at her,

but also Ōtsutsuki Isshiki living inside her!

"Ha ha ha! Ōtsutsuki Isshiki..."

The vision ended there.

Yuya let out three crazed bursts of laughter in succession.

Under the backlash of Heavenly Secrets Calculation,

his hair hung disheveled, and his vitality was terribly weak.

Another trickle of blood escaped the corner of his mouth,

but he seemed completely unaware.

[Under the backlash of Heavenly Secrets Calculation, your health decreased by 10]

His eyes were bloodshot, his expression somewhat crazed.

He had never imagined

that he was the cause of all this as well!

The ending had been predetermined from the very beginning!

He ignored the backlash of Heavenly Secrets Calculation,

and continued calculating a way to save Princess Kaguya.

But no matter how he calculated,

the result was always the same two words:

Grow stronger! Grow stronger! Grow stronger!

"Am I too weak right now... Is there simply no way out?"

Yuya muttered to himself.

[Under the backlash of Heavenly Secrets Calculation, your health decreased by 30]

[Under the backlash of Heavenly Secrets Calculation, your mental faculties decreased by 20% for five minutes]

The backlash of Heavenly Secrets Calculation struck again.

His mind began to cloud.

At the same time, as though he had lost his last source of support,

his vitality rapidly faded.

Something crossed his mind, and he began to laugh.

"Why are you so foolish..."

"Even though I was doomed to die, you saved me over and over..."

"Why did you have to meddle so much? Who asked you to save me... ha ha."

"Do you regret it now... picking me up back then?"

"If I were you... I should've picked myself up and smashed myself to death back then..."

He had never imagined that Princess Kaguya had done so much more in secret than he had ever realized...

"Ha ha ha..."

Yuya kept laughing, until tears began falling as he laughed.

He staggered forward.

He had no idea where to go next,

but he did not dare stop. He feared he would go mad if he did.

The backlash of Heavenly Secrets Calculation ate away at his mind.

His inability to find a way to save Princess Kaguya at that moment,

combined with overwhelming guilt and self-reproach, drove him to the brink of madness.

He wandered aimlessly like that.

The maids and guards who saw him frowned,

thinking a madman had slipped into the Royal Palace.

Yuya looked far too different now.

His hair was disheveled, and instead of his usual clothes, he wore the new outfit Princess Kaguya had made.

No one recognized him

as their once peerlessly handsome crown prince.

But when they approached to drive him away,

Qingyi and a young guard stopped them.

Qingyi and the young guard merely followed Yuya from a distance,

silently clearing his path without choosing to disturb him.

"Are there things even His Highness the Crown Prince can't do..."

Watching Yuya's retreating figure, they wore complicated expressions, their noses stinging with the urge to cry.

They had never seen the crown prince like this before,

so utterly lost and desolate-a state that should never have appeared in him...

But he was Otsutsuki Yuya.

He needed no one's help,

nor anyone's charity or pity.

They chose to believe that unconditionally.

When the backlash of Heavenly Secrets Calculation eased slightly,

Yuya looked up,

only to discover that he had somehow returned to the entrance of Princess Kaguya's palace.

He did not understand.

This place he normally resisted coming to,

this place he felt restrained his freedom-

why had he unconsciously come here while his mind was in such chaos?

But now,

he wanted to see Princess Kaguya... desperately, desperately...

Suddenly, an impulse seized him...

An impulse to tell Princess Kaguya everything.

He wanted to tell Princess Kaguya that he knew everything... knew everything she had done for him...

He wanted to tell Princess Kaguya that, in fact, long before she had fallen for him,

Back in his previous life... he had already fallen for her...

And through another means, he had learned of Princess Kaguya's unhappy life and past...

From that moment on, he had never forgotten her...

He stepped into Princess Kaguya's great hall,

Only to find it completely empty,

In the familiar rocking chair where she used to sit,

The familiar figure was no longer there.

For a moment, he felt lost, his heart hollow,

As though he had lost something precious,

He wanted to speak, wanted to ask,

But it felt as though something had lodged in his throat,

He stood in the room for a long, long time... dazed, his thoughts drifting...

He closed the door and sat in Princess Kaguya's chair,

Feeling the traces of her presence that still lingered on it,

He slowly closed his eyes,

And began to rock gently, just as Princess Kaguya had.

He waited,

Just as Princess Kaguya had through countless days and nights,

Sitting alone in the rocking chair, waiting for him.

But he did not know,

Now that it was his turn, whether she would ever return.

Darkness enveloped Yuya.

[Warning: Your bond, Kaguya Otsutsuki, is under attack by an unknown energy.]

[She needs your help.]