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Impossible.
They had imagined all kinds of possibilities—
but never this.
Never that Uchiha Ren's aura alone would be enough to shatter both of theirs head-on.
That kind of thing was humiliating.
To put it bluntly, from the moment they arrived on Earth, Urashiki and Kinshiki had never truly regarded its natives as a threat.
How could insects possibly contend with gods?
They weren't even afraid of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.
And yet—
this native called Uchiha Ren had slapped them in the face the instant they met, crushing their pressure as if it were nothing.
"This one… might actually have some skill."
After a few seconds, Urashiki took a breath, then smiled coldly.
"We kill him first."
"Then we take the Divine Tree."
"Fine."
Kinshiki's eyes turned cold.
"It's been a long time since I've had to move personally."
"This time, we'll let this foolish mortal understand what it means to offend a god."
Whoosh!
The moment the words left his mouth, Kinshiki vanished.
In full view of everyone below, he reappeared directly in front of Uchiha Ren, confronting him in the air.
As for Urashiki—
he still had no intention of moving.
Arms folded, he simply watched.
The message was obvious enough.
Since Kinshiki had stepped in, that should already be the end of it.
In his eyes, Ren was as good as dead.
"Boy…"
Kinshiki's pale eyes gleamed with terrifying dōjutsu power.
"How do you want to die?"
"Today, no one is saving you."
"I'm taking your life."
"Oh?"
Ren only nodded faintly, then asked as if it were an afterthought,
"So why didn't Momoshiki come to Earth with you?"
"…What?"
"You know the name Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki?"
Before Kinshiki could respond, both he and Urashiki felt their hearts jolt.
For the first time since arriving, real surprise flashed across their faces.
That should have been impossible.
Earth's natives were not supposed to know anything about the Ōtsutsuki main family.
And yet Ren had casually called Momoshiki by name.
In an instant, the way the two looked at him changed.
No longer like they were looking at an insect.
But at something strange.
Something wrong.
"There's nothing impossible about it."
Ren's lips curved slightly.
"You managed to find Earth because Kaguya's sons—Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo and Ōtsutsuki Hamura—deliberately released its aura to lure you here."
As he spoke, his gaze shifted away from the two in front of him and toward empty air somewhere off to the side, as if he were speaking to someone unseen.
"Am I right, Sage of Six Paths?"
"What?"
"Kaguya's sons?"
"And who exactly are Hagoromo and Hamura supposed to be?"
For a moment, both Urashiki and Kinshiki were a little lost.
The situation had suddenly become far more complicated than they expected.
Still—
when they thought about it, there really had been that strange guiding aura leading them toward Earth.
So this native might not be lying after all.
"Wait…"
Urashiki's expression changed slightly as another question surfaced.
"Then where is Kaguya?"
"Why couldn't we sense even a trace of her?"
Kinshiki's interest sharpened as well.
"That's right. If there are two Divine Trees on this worthless planet, then Kaguya should have fused with one of them and stepped into an even stronger state."
"Heh."
Ren's answer was almost lazy.
"Kaguya was sealed by her own sons—Hagoromo and Hamura."
"What?!"
"Sealed by her own sons?"
That answer stunned them.
Even for members of the Ōtsutsuki clan, it was absurd.
Kaguya, the traitor, had ended up betrayed by her own blood?
For a brief second, even Urashiki and Kinshiki felt something close to disbelief.
There was irony in it.
A delicious sort of irony.
"Kaguya's sons are a pair of ingrates."
Ren spoke evenly, as if discussing someone else's family drama.
"And if I'm not mistaken, those two are hiding in another space right now, watching us, hoping the three of us cripple each other so they can clean up what's left."
Urashiki gave a short, contemptuous laugh.
"Cripple each other?"
"You think you qualify for that?"
Kinshiki didn't bother hiding his disdain.
"Even if Kaguya hadn't already been sealed by her sons, she still wouldn't have had any room to resist us."
"I'll kill you first, take this Divine Tree, and then go kill those two little traitors."
"I was thinking the same thing."
Ren rolled his shoulders once, completely unbothered.
"Everything's already in place."
"Once I kill the two of you, I can move on to unifying the shinobi world."
That wasn't bravado.
All this time, Uchiha Ren had been quietly signing in, quietly growing stronger, quietly stacking the board in his favor.
Now the Ōtsutsuki main family had finally descended to Earth.
Which meant there was no longer any reason to keep moving at a crawl.
It was time to speed things up.
It was time to end this era of chaos— and take the entire shinobi world for himself.
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