On the moon was Otsutsuki Sak, the current patriarch of the Ōtsutsuki Clan and Toneri's father.
He was sitting idly in his room, occasionally looking at the stars twinkling in outer space.
"I wonder if Toneri has found the statue and the Saintess. Why hasn't he come back after so long? Has something happened to the Saintess?"
Sak muttered to himself. A former member of the Branch Family who had now become the patriarch of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, he worried about both Hinata, who had established a connection with the Giant Tenseigan, and his own son.
"I wonder if Toneri can bring the Saintess to visit the moon and see the current state of our Ōtsutsuki Clan."
To be honest, the moon's environment was habitable, but it was still far too desolate compared with the Shinobi World.
Were it not for the mission their ancestors had left behind and the difficulty of moving the Giant Tenseigan, the Ōtsutsuki Clan might have taken the Giant Tenseigan to the Shinobi World a hundred years ago and conquered a territory of their own.
As they continually reproduced within the clan on the moon, more genes suited to the lunar environment were passed down, while those originating from the Shinobi World gradually diminished.
The Ōtsutsuki Clan's skin grew fairer, but the purity of their Byakugan did not improve.
Yet his own son had proved an exception to this phenomenon.
He had been born without eyes.
Yes, the Byakugan-the most crucial symbol of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
After his disappointment, however, Sak discovered that Toneri's Ōtsutsuki bloodline was extraordinarily strong, even comparable to that of their ancestor Hamura.
But because he had no eyes, it could not manifest in them.
So, using his position as head of the Branch Family, he took Toneri to the Shinobi