As Uchiha Kazama gazed at the distant Heaven-Piercing Divine Pillar, a few suspicions slowly formed in his mind.
"A Sage?!"
"I see."
"Chtholly, I need to train for a while too. I'll leave things here to you."
With that, Uchiha Kazama sat down cross-legged.
Watching Uchiha Kazama close his eyes, Chtholly lost the carefree smile on her face.
"A Sage... It seems the Time-Space Interstice made the right choice."
"But this guy..."
"Why has his aura become harder for me to read after this trip outside?!"
Chtholly murmured, but she could not hide the worry at the corners of her mouth.
Inside a cave in the Land of Fire.
"Their auras have vanished!"
"And they vanished in Konoha."
"Why don't we head over now? We can't let anything happen to them."
"If something goes wrong with them, all our preparations will have been for nothing!"
Hamura Otsutsuki was beginning to panic.
They had been plotting for so many years, even betraying their own mother.
At last, they had managed to get this far.
Yet their scheme had run into its greatest problem.
"Head over now?!"
"No!"
"If we go now, both of us might die there!"
"Konoha is now the greatest black hole in the entire shinobi world. Any being that approaches it will be swallowed whole!"
"We can't go there, but we can draw them out!"
"Things in the Land of Grass should be almost wrapped up by now, right?"
"As long as we get those four little ones under our control, then..."
A smile curled the corners of Hagoromo Otsutsuki's mouth.
They simply could not locate those two auras right now. That did not mean the two auras had ceased to exist.
Nor did it mean the people in Konoha had found them.
That was why Hagoromo