Was Shihōin Naraku in bad shape?
Of course he was!
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and Black Zetsu could see that, and he himself was naturally well aware of it!
But honestly, this little crisis was nothing to him.
Because Naraku had long since prepared for this inevitable situation!
For example...
"System, give me a Senzu Bean!"
[Ding! Senzu Bean retrieved successfully!]
The system notification he had not heard in so long rang in Naraku's ears, giving him a rare boost of spirits.
An utterly ordinary-looking green broad bean appeared in the center of his open palm. This was the Senzu Bean Naraku had stored in the system space.
Naraku had obtained thirty Senzu Beans in an earlier system lottery. Apart from the one he had consumed to test their effects, he had kept all these Senzu Beans in the system space and never used them again.
After all, with his rapidly increasing strength, Naraku had never encountered a situation where his chakra and stamina were so heavily depleted that he needed a Senzu Bean.
So for a long time, Naraku had almost forgotten he even had this reward.
And now, the time to use a Senzu Bean had finally come.
Naraku looked at Kaguya and Black Zetsu, who were staring fixedly at him not far away, and chuckled before tossing the Senzu Bean into his mouth.
"What is that?" Kaguya asked in confusion, temporarily halting the attack she had been about to launch.
Black Zetsu could not quite figure out what was happening either. He had seen what Naraku held between his fingers, but it certainly was not an ordinary broad bean.
"A perfectly normal-looking broad bean. What use could eating that possibly be to Shihōin Naraku now?"
He found it very strange. Instinctively, he felt it could not be