"That man, Kirigakure's Sixth Mizukage, Gekkō Raito-of course, he should be called Gekkō Raito Yuki now. But whatever his name is, his power is absolutely beyond what any single Otsutsuki can handle alone!"
"There's something very wrong with his condition. I even have reason to suspect that he has completely mastered the Ten-Tails' world-destroying power!"
"But that isn't even the strangest part. What I truly can't understand is that there are other people in Kirigakure who can squander tailed beast chakra without restraint."
Momoshiki frowned deeply, uncertainty and suspicion flickering in his eyes.
"If they can wield that power so skillfully, it means he hasn't fused those tailed beasts into the Ten-Tails. Otherwise, it makes no logical sense."
In the past, Urashiki might have agreed with that conjecture without hesitation.
But over the past few years, he had lurked in the shadows, spying on the Shinobi World like a ghost, and discovered that the truth was a hundred times more complicated than they had imagined.
One could even say these murky waters were unfathomably deep.
"That's precisely the problem. I've observed those so-called jinchūriki at close range, examining them carefully with these very eyes."
Urashiki interjected, his voice carrying a sense of incredulous frustration.
"And what did I find? Inside, their bodies were as quiet as stagnant pools. I couldn't hear a single roar from a tailed beast!"
"Let alone see a tailed beast's physical form. There was absolutely nothing inside!"
The Byakugan, the pride of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, possessed the absolute ability to see through everything in the world.
Within their vision, the body's chakra pathways, bones, and even the flow of chakra had nowhere to hide.
By all rights, finding an enormous tailed beast should have been easier than taking something out of a pocket.
"You're saying that