At the border of the Land of Rain, beyond the underground grotto, lay a deeper, more secluded natural cavern.
Toyotomi Yinglang had temporarily cleared this place and set up a stronger isolation barrier, ensuring that not the slightest trace of presence or sound could escape. In the center of the cavern, three "people" stood facing one another in a triangle.
On one side stood Toyotomi Yinglang, dressed in a moon-white kariginu, his expression calm, his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan gleaming darkly in the dim light.
On another side was the Evil God, his indistinct body of shadow and purplish-red light hovering above the ground. His swirling eyes, leading into an abyss of suffering, turned slightly, radiating an unsettling aura of blasphemy and chaos.
The third was a mass of... flowing, pure darkness, barely coalesced into a humanoid outline. He had no features, no physical substance, only the deepest shadows and a pair of eyes slowly opening within them, like two cloudy yellow gemstones. This was Black Zetsu, revealing part of his form. Faced with these two beings whose terrifying strength defied all common sense and who seemed to know everything, he had no choice but to abandon complete concealment and appear in this relatively "candid" form.
Silence filled the cavern, broken only by the slow, regular drip of water from the stalactites.
Finally, Black Zetsu's distinctive voice, neither male nor female and sounding like countless grains of sand scraping together, broke the silence first. His tone carried the caution and probing intent peculiar to a thousand-year-old monster:
"You two... how do you... regard my mother-Kaguya Otsutsuki?"
This question was crucial. They knew his origins and understood the truth behind the Sage of Six Paths' "ranch," so what attitude did they hold toward the sealed Kaguya and his ultimate goal of "reviving