"Huh?"
Black Zetsu froze for half a second. "Huh?!!!"
Black Zetsu had no idea what had just happened. He had thought that after his death, no one would ever be able to revive Mother again. Who would have thought things would suddenly take such a turn for the better?
Without the slightest hesitation, Black Zetsu pounced onto Obito's face like a newborn xenomorph, drilling into his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.
At this point, all the conditions for reviving Kaguya had been met.
Vast amounts of chakra surged up from the Divine Tree and poured into Obito's body. He swelled like an inflated balloon, his facial features and body warping as they expanded, until…
He gradually turned into the shape of a woman.
Snow-white, pale skin; blue-white long hair falling past her waist; a crimson Rinne Sharingan set in the center of her forehead. Her eyebrowless, delicate face carried an inhuman, ethereal coldness.
The moment Isshiki saw this face, his eyes turned red.
"Otsutsuki… Kaguya!"
Isshiki was a relatively calm and rational person. Even though Ryosuke had nearly beaten him to death not long ago, he didn't harbor much resentment toward Ryosuke.
That was just how things worked in this line of business, if you were weaker than others, you deserved to die.
Only Kaguya was different.
Momoshiki's gaze grew cold.
He had come to the ninja world to investigate Kaguya and Isshiki's situation.
And now, Kinshiki, who had followed him for thousands of years, had fallen on this tiny backwater planet.
Momoshiki needed a new dog.
Kaguya closed her eyes as she hovered in midair. Frowning slightly, she raised her hand. From her wide sleeve fell half a person, Uchiha Obito.
Part of his body had been modified to meet Kaguya's requirements.
The rest was Obito's original body.
Like the discarded chicken butt left over after eating a roast chicken, it was tossed aside in disgust.
Only a head and half a body remained. Eyeless, Obito stared blankly in Kaguya's direction, with only one question left in his mind, "Who are you?"
Aside from those who knew about Plan B or knew that Kaguya had not truly died, Momoshiki and Isshiki, everyone else was completely confused.
Well, this "everyone else" didn't amount to many people anyway. The majority were Evil God White Snakes.
Uchiha Madara roared, "Isshiki! What is going on?!"
Seeing Ryosuke actively push forward the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan, Madara hadn't understood the reason, but deep down he supported it.
If possible, who would want to fight their own outstanding juniors?
But…
Why did some inexplicable Otsutsuki woman appear after Infinite Tsukuyomi?
Isshiki was completely caught off guard by the question.
"Wasn't it you who longed for Infinite Tsukuyomi?"
"Infinite Tsukuyomi is the ritual to revive Kaguya… wait, you didn't know? You knew nothing and still went all in?!"
After being ambushed by Kaguya back then, Isshiki had personally witnessed her using the Divine Tree to create the White Zetsu army, and had also seen her sealed away by the Hagoromo brothers.
In his recent exchanges with the White Snake Sage and Madara, since they were still in the middle of a war, once they confirmed their interests aligned, they acted immediately. Who had the time to go over every detail one by one?
After all, logically speaking, it made sense, "The Uchiha clan are descendants of Kaguya's bloodline. Revive the ancestor, kneel before her, and pray for her to bestow blessings so the ninja world can have peace… wasn't that what you meant?"
'Bullshit!'
Uchiha Madara's worldview collapsed.
He hadn't come this far just to beg an ancestor to manifest herself.
If he wanted to kneel and get things done… He could've just stayed in Konoha.
If Madara's situation was one of furious investment failure, still befitting a great hero who immediately began thinking about the next move after his anger, then the people who truly lost all composure were Obito, lying on the ground, and Uchiha Itachi, who was acting as the White Snake Sage's bodyguard.
Their faces were ashen.
"Fake… it was fake… is this genjutsu?"
Obito and Itachi were like people swept away by a flood. One clung to Rin, the other to his clan, grasping at what they thought was a final lifeline, believing there was still a chance to turn things around.
Only to realize now that this so-called "lifeline" was actually the hand of a drowning ghost.
A drowning ghost named "sin" was dragging them down into the depths of eternal despair.
But no one cared about a group of failures.
Ryosuke looked at Kaguya, who was right in front of him, and felt as if he were playing some scummy gacha game.
A 50% chance to pull the limited character meant Kaguya would face reality, ally with Ryosuke, and together deal with Momoshiki and Isshiki.
If that 50% chance missed…
It meant that even after experiencing the betrayal of the Hagoromo brothers, Kaguya still felt her homeland was more important, chose apology and atonement, and teamed up with Momoshiki and Isshiki to deal with Ryosuke.
The White Snake standing nearby really wanted to rush up and slap her while she wasn't paying attention.
But Kaguya wasn't on the same level as Obito.
With an Otsutsuki's reaction speed plus the power of a Ten-Tails jinchuriki, unless Ryosuke went all out, there was no chance to pull the disc and write commands.
Not to mention Isshiki and Momoshiki standing by, watching like hawks.
If the White Snake acted now, it would be no different from pushing Kaguya straight into the enemy's arms.
They could only wait for Kaguya to make her choice.
"What's your answer?"
After a thousand years, Otsutsuki Kaguya once again became the center of everyone's attention. Even Momoshiki and Isshiki didn't rush to act, quietly waiting for her decision.
The situation was extremely complicated, intertwined interests, clashing ideals.
But in another sense, it was also very simple.
Momoshiki and Isshiki, two Otsutsuki.
Ryosuke, one human.
In the midst of fierce battle, the fluctuations of power released and colliding between the three made it obvious. As long as Kaguya wasn't an idiot, she could tell at a glance that this was a fight between humans and Otsutsuki.
All she had to do was choose a side based on her stance.
Otsutsuki Kaguya stared at Ryosuke for a few seconds, then looked at Isshiki and Momoshiki in the distance. After three seconds of thought...
"Shinra Tensei!"
A repulsive force hundreds of times stronger than Nagato's erupted, forcibly pushing Ryosuke back some distance. Kaguya opened a space portal, and beyond its door was Shikkotsu Forest.
Below, the Divine Tree began to riot, about to transform back into the Ten-Tails form and return to Kaguya's body.
"Huh?"
Ryosuke, who had been pushed back by Shinra Tensei, had already prepared to fight. But what he saw next was so baffling that he froze for a moment before realizing, "She… is running?"
Ryosuke saw not the slightest hint of battle intent in Kaguya's eyes.
She had no intention of fighting Isshiki, Momoshiki, or even Ryosuke. There was only vigilance and the desire to stay away, and beyond those two emotions, Ryosuke saw killing intent. Killing intent toward the jinchuriki, tailed beasts, and Sage Slug in Shikkotsu Forest!
Ryosuke understood.
Kaguya wanted to withdraw from the battlefield. While Ryosuke and Momoshiki fought each other, she would go absorb the chakra of the tailed beasts and ninja.
And then… Leave this planet forever.
As for that, Ryosuke's evaluation was just oneword, "Stupid."
Run?
Where could she run to?
The universe was vast, but for Otsutsuki with space–time teleportation, it was actually very small.
Working with Ryosuke to wipe out Momoshiki and Isshiki completely, that was the once-and-for-all solution.
Back then, how had Kaguya seriously injured Isshiki and nearly killed him?
Ryosuke couldn't imagine it.
"This is the 50% probability turning absolutely terrible…"
Watching Kaguya's retreating figure as she charged toward Shikkotsu Forest, Ryosuke chased after her and sighed inwardly.
"That's why I hate gambling the most."
He took out Ame-no-Tajikara, no longer hesitating, and calmly asked, "Tell me, where is the 'pen'?"