The Ōtsutsuki Clan Grounds.
Returning from a destroyed planet, Shibai Ōtsutsuki settled the God Tree whose fruit had already ripened overhead, then used Clairvoyance Shinjutsu to observe the whereabouts of Momoshiki, Kinshiki, and Urashiki's three-man team.
Lately, for some reason...
He seemed to constantly feel a sense of crisis pricking at his back, as though some danger was about to arrive.
Yet he could not discover the cause.
Thus, Shibai, who had always remained aloof and uninvolved in mundane affairs within the Ōtsutsuki Main Family, had taken the rare initiative to busy himself.
One could say that he had done more in the Main Family over the past six months than in the previous three thousand years combined.
Under Shibai's gaze, the three-man team appeared before his eyes, and even their voices were captured.
At that moment, beneath the starry sky, another argument had erupted among the three.
"Urashiki, what exactly were you offered to betray our Main Family?"
"To stop us from carrying out our mission?"
"Aren't you afraid of the divine might of our Main Family's Enforcers?"
Momoshiki's usual aristocratic arrogance was nowhere to be seen. Traveling through the universe day and night without rest had left fatigue on his face, despite his extraordinary strength.
In particular, Urashiki kept insisting that the team was heading in the wrong direction and needed to turn back, making him increasingly irritated.
He was not blind. How could he fail to see a Life Planet right before his eyes, when searching for them was the Ōtsutsuki Clan's specialty?
"You're the ones betraying the Main Family," Urashiki said coldly. "Judging by the information Isshiki sent back earlier, we should have reached that Life Planet long ago, rather than still being on our way now."
"Even the markers our clansmen left behind are gone.