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Chapter 191: Return to the Moon, Toneri's Parents
Moon.
Inside the cold, empty hall, a weak cough echoed.
"Cough, cough."
Pale-faced Shera Otsutsuki sat on a soft stool, murmuring, "Three more months... I can still wait..."
"Someone come." He stood up. "Help me to the rear hall."
A puppet walked up respectfully, supporting him toward the rear hall. The sound of light breathing could be heard from inside.
"Cough, cough." Seeing her husband enter, Shiori Otsutsuki, lying on the bed, tried to sit up. But her body was too weak, and she was pregnant; after struggling for a bit, she still couldn't sit up.
"No need to get up." Shera Otsutsuki approached, his face cold. He seemed not to be looking at his wife, but at a stranger. Only when looking at her bulging belly did his expression fluctuate. Deep in his eyes was filled with excitement and fanaticism.
"She... Shera..." Shiori Otsutsuki looked at her husband with some fear, asking nervously, "Have you named the child? I... I thought of a name, see if it fits—"
"No need for you to worry!" Shera Otsutsuki said heavily, interrupting directly. "I have already named him. Toneri! He will be called Toneri Otsutsuki!!"
"As my child, he will shoulder the legacy of Ancestor Hamura and will also realize the long-cherished wish of my branch family!" His voice was fanatical and fierce. "Destroy that wrong world below and correct the Sage of Six Paths' mistake!!"
"Toneri? The abandoned one..." Shiori Otsutsuki repeated the name.
The implication was very clear. It meant letting the child in her belly realize the thousand-year wish, even if it meant abandoning himself. This was fate!
"Shera..." Tears filled the corners of her eyes as she spoke with a crying tone. "Does the child really have to bear such a heavy responsibility and fate??"
"He hasn't been born yet, hasn't been born yet..."
"In the past thousand years, for Ancestor Hamura's legacy, how many conflicts have occurred in our clan? The casualties were severe. Now..." She cried out. "Now only you and I are left, and the unborn child..."
"Your body won't last long, and I also have a premonition that I will die after giving birth. This huge moon space will only have the child living alone, and you still want him to bear such a heavy fate..."
She didn't want her child to dedicate his life to the so-called family legacy. Too many people had died; the family was about to go extinct. Couldn't he spare the last child? She just wanted the child to grow up peacefully like a normal person.
"Shera, I beg you..." Shiori Otsutsuki pleaded with a face full of tears. "Don't let the child sacrifice himself to complete the ancestor's legacy anymore... Let him choose his own life freely. Don't make him bear such great hatred and mission before he's even born..."
"We won't live long. Send the child to that distant relative branch on Earth to raise. Let him not live in this cold, suffocatingly depressing moon space from childhood, okay?"
Since she was very young, she saw fewer and fewer clansmen. One by one, they died. Clearly still young, not yet at the age of aging, they died of unknown causes.
In the cave behind the mountain, too many remains of clansmen were buried. She was about to become one of them...
Clearly, she was only in her early twenties, but her body had felt inexplicably weak since birth. Once the delivery was complete, it would be the time when her life vitality completely ended. The only thing she couldn't rest assured about was the child in her belly.
"Shera, I beg you, spare the child..." Shiori Otsutsuki struggled to crawl up. Her hands grabbed her husband's sleeve with difficulty as she begged tearfully.
But all this was destined to be useless.
Shera Otsutsuki, indoctrinated with the mission since childhood, had a firm or perhaps stubborn will that couldn't be swayed. Like his father, he would transmit the mission to Toneri Otsutsuki, letting the child inherit Ancestor Hamura's mission, taking the destruction of Earth and correcting the Sage of Six Paths' mistake as his own duty!
"Toneri!" Shera Otsutsuki said coldly. "I have already named the child; he will be called Toneri Otsutsuki!"
He ruthlessly pushed away Shiori Otsutsuki's hands, his eyes devoid of any husband-wife affection. "Don't use 'child' as a substitute. His name is Toneri Otsutsuki!! He is the inheritor who will complete Ancestor Hamura's legacy!!"
"Don't think about stopping it, and don't even think about resisting!"
He looked at Shiori Otsutsuki like a stranger. "Your mission is just to give birth to Toneri Otsutsuki. Once the mission is complete, you can die!"
"Shera..." Shiori Otsutsuki continued to beg bitterly. "Please, don't treat the child like this..."
"I beg you... sob... he hasn't been born yet... he will be all alone in the future... too pitiful..."
However, Shera Otsutsuki was unmoved, his heart like stone. His sole purpose for living now was to pass on the mission to Toneri Otsutsuki. Everything else was unimportant, even Toneri's mother.
"So these are Toneri Otsutsuki's parents?"
A sudden, cool voice startled Shera Otsutsuki greatly. He looked toward the source of the sound and was instantly shocked. "Who are you!!!"
A figure was floating unknowingly in the air above. When they appeared and how they appeared, he hadn't sensed at all. If the other party hadn't spoken up, he wouldn't have discovered them.
"Person from the wrong world, who let you come up!" Shera Otsutsuki looked manic. "People like you will only pollute the Moon and should be destroyed along with that wrong world below!!"
"Puppet army, where are you!!! Kill this intruder for me!!"
A cold wind drifted through the hall. The puppet army that usually obeyed orders at any time didn't appear at all. The outer hall was also quiet, as if all puppets had disappeared.
Konan floated down, walking toward Shiori Otsutsuki on the bed. Alex circled beside her.
Naturally, he had collected all the puppet army outside into the Storage White Paper.
"What are you doing!!" Shera Otsutsuki panicked instantly.
It didn't matter if the other party hurt Shiori Otsutsuki, but the Toneri in her belly absolutely couldn't suffer any accidents. That was the inheritor most likely to realize Hamura's legacy in a thousand years.
"Stop! Stop! If you dare hurt Toneri, I will never let you go!!"
He wanted to step forward and attack, but strangely, his legs seemed rooted, and his whole body couldn't move. He could only rage impotently and scream frantically. His mind was a bit unclear. The opponent had cleaned up all the puppets silently; their strength was tyrannical. Was it something he could deal with?
"Noisy." Konan frowned.
Countless sheets of white paper instantly wrapped Shera Otsutsuki into a mummy, abruptly cutting off his roars.
Shiori Otsutsuki shrank back to the head of the bed, protecting her belly with both hands, pleading, "Please, don't hurt my child; do whatever you want to me, please don't hurt the child..."
Konan stood by the bed, activating her Byakugan to look at the bulging belly.
"Born eyeless..."
The delivery time was about three months away.
She deactivated her Byakugan and looked at Toneri's mother. "What is your name?"
"Shi... Shiori Otsutsuki..." Her voice trembled, but she mustered the courage to ask, "You... you have the Byakugan. Are... are you from that distant relative branch on Earth?"
If true, she could entrust the child to the other party. It was better than living on the dead, uninhabited Moon.
Konan didn't answer but asked instead, "I just heard you say you've already named the child? What is it?"
"Teruaki Otsutsuki." Shiori Otsutsuki's eyes shone with maternal radiance. "It represents light and beginning. I only hope the child can grow up safely and no longer bear the family's fate."
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