"All right, Asura, keep going. Tell us about the Sage of Six Paths, your father."
Tobirama deftly taped Black Zetsu's mouth shut and gave Asura an encouraging look.
Asura nodded. Faced with his uncle whose mouth had been sealed, he felt no sorrow whatsoever. Instead, he was inexplicably rather pleased.
Listening to Black Zetsu's muffled noises, Asura remembered the days when his own mouth had been stuffed with a sandbag in the Underground Base.
Yes, there was no way he was being devious. Seeing the uncle who bullied him unable to speak simply made him feel a little better, that was all.
"All right. My father actually never told us anything about Grandmother. She was once the ruler of the Shinobi World, the Rabbit Goddess.
In fact, I only learned about Grandmother from my uncle, Black Zetsu."
Asura slowly recounted what Black Zetsu had previously told him and Indra.
Beside him, Black Zetsu struggled with all his might. His soybean-sized eyes had swelled to the size of apples in his anger, and even flames of fury appeared in his gaze as he looked at Asura.
"The Rabbit Goddess? There do seem to be records of her in ancient books, but they only mention her in passing."
Tobirama murmured softly.
As the story continued, the Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo, and his younger brother Hamura sealed away the Rabbit Goddess together. Just before she was sealed, Black Zetsu was born.
He was the embodiment of Kaguya's will, the final contingency she had left behind so she could escape her seal in the future.
At the same time, he was also an orphan who had lost his mother the moment he was born.
"So... the fundamental purpose of the Eye of the Moon wasn't to create a perfect world at all, but