"There's no need to worry too much, everyone. The moon will be our outpost."
Shingetsu's voice reverberated in their ears. That simple sentence struck the Four Kage's hearts like an iron hammer weighing a thousand pounds.
Although the Four Kage had stretched their imaginations as far as they could, colonizing the moon was... wasn't that a little too outrageous?
The Four Kage stared blankly. Just over a decade ago, they hadn't even had enough to eat. Now, barely a decade later, they were going to the moon?
The quicker thinkers had already recalled the sight of that blue, demonic-looking Susanoo flying toward the moon.
Some had speculated at the time that people from Konoha were going to the moon. There had even been reports that Konoha had captured people from the moon, but no one had believed such crazy talk.
Now that it had been confirmed, everyone's heads buzzed. Eyes wide and mouths hanging open, the entire Shinobi World's elite looked like idiots.
Combined with the Ōtsutsuki Clan that Madara Uchiha and Hashirama had just mentioned, it made the Four Kage wonder when exactly the Shinobi World had become so fantastical.
Perhaps it had been the year Uchiha Shingetsu was born?
"The legends are all true."
Looking at their stunned faces, Shingetsu nodded gravely and spoke slowly in a solemn tone:
"Kaguya Otsutsuki is real, and of course, so is the Sage of Six Paths who created the world. Incidentally, the Sage of Six Paths' real name is Hagoromo Otsutsuki."
"What you just saw was one of the goddess Kaguya's memories."
A cold silence spread through the crowd, leaving their surroundings utterly still. Everyone was consumed by shock, unable to believe what they had heard.
"Even the Sage of Six Paths was a member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan..."
He was