"What? You know where Ōtsutsuki Kaguya is?"
"Let's go. We'll kill the disgrace of the Ōtsutsuki clan—Ōtsutsuki Kaguya."
The moment they heard those words, Ōtsutsuki Kinshiki and Ōtsutsuki Urashiki were briefly stunned before excitement surged into their eyes.
Their voices turned ice-cold.
There was nothing more to say.
To them, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya—the disgrace of the clan—was an object of absolute hatred.
Before, they simply hadn't known where she was.
Now that they did—
She had to die.
"Ōtsutsuki Kaguya must die."
At that moment, Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki took a slow breath and said emotionlessly,
"The aura I just sensed seemed to have been deliberately released by someone."
"It looks like things aren't as simple as they seem."
"Who cares?"
Kinshiki replied indifferently.
"Kaguya has been hiding for all these years. With her strength alone, she can't stir up much trouble."
"In the face of absolute power, no scheme means anything."
Urashiki grinned, his tone sinister.
"This time, I'll make Kaguya understand the true power of the Ōtsutsuki main family."
"Fine."
Momoshiki looked at Kinshiki and Urashiki expressionlessly.
"You two go deal with Kaguya first. If possible, bring the Divine Tree under control."
"I'll return to the Ōtsutsuki main family and report this."
"No problem."
"Leave it to us."
Kinshiki and Urashiki suppressed their excitement and nodded without hesitation.
In their eyes, Momoshiki was deliberately handing the credit to them.
After all, what could a mere Kaguya possibly do?
And if they could seize the Divine Tree and return it to the Ōtsutsuki clan's homeworld—
Their status within the clan might rise even higher.
"Good."
Momoshiki spoke coldly.
"I'll give you Kaguya's exact location now."
Whoosh!
Before he finished speaking, a terrifying wave of dōjutsu power surged outward.
A pitch-black space portal opened directly in front of Momoshiki.
A few seconds later, he pointed at the portal he had casually created and said,
"Pass through this space tunnel, and you should arrive at your destination."
"Lord Momoshiki, we'll be off first."
"Hahaha… let's go meet Ōtsutsuki Kaguya."
The moment they saw the spatial tunnel, Kinshiki and Urashiki lit up with delight.
Their bodies flashed and turned into afterimages, disappearing into the void.
Only after they left did Momoshiki let out a quiet sigh.
There was still one thing he hadn't said.
It wasn't just Kaguya's aura that he had sensed.
He had also detected several other powerful presences.
And from what he could tell—
Kaguya seemed to have already been suppressed.
That alone made the situation deeply unsettling.
Because of that, Momoshiki hadn't acted rashly.
Instead, he had sent Kinshiki and Urashiki ahead to test the waters.
"Something's wrong."
"This is far too strange."
"I need to return to the main family and report this."
After murmuring those words to himself, Momoshiki's expression turned cold.
In the next instant, he also vanished into the void.
—
At the same time, in the shinobi world, within Konoha—
After the Fifth Hokage rescued Hinata Hyūga, the eldest daughter of the Hyūga clan's main family, the entire Hyūga clan erupted in excitement.
Konoha itself was also shaken.
And once news spread that even the Moon now belonged to Konoha's territory—
The village's shinobi nearly exploded with excitement.
Once upon a time, the Moon had been something everyone could only look at from afar.
But now?
It had become Konoha's.
Just thinking about it was enough to make people thrilled beyond words.
After all, for countless years, ninjas across the world had only struggled and fought on Earth.
Meanwhile, the Fifth Hokage had already set his sights on the stars.
Such vision and ambition left countless Konoha shinobi ashamed of their own narrowness—
and filled them with even deeper respect.
At this moment—
In the Hokage's office inside the Hokage building at the center of Konoha—
"Hah… Fifth Hokage-sama, are you saying you want to develop the Moon?"
"No way…"
"Can people even live on the Moon?"
"How are we supposed to get there? Are we really going to fly up?"
Tsunade, Fugaku Uchiha, Hiashi Hyūga, Shikaku Nara, and the others all let out disbelieving cries.
It couldn't be helped.
The Fifth Hokage's words were simply too shocking.
Originally, everyone had already been overjoyed after Hinata was rescued.
And when they heard that the Moon had been brought under Konoha's control, they had been even more excited.
But now—
The Fifth Hokage wanted to develop the Moon itself and turn it into Konoha's backyard.
"The Moon already belongs to Konoha."
Uchiha Ren took a slow sip of hot tea and calmly swept his gaze across the room.
His tone remained light and unhurried.
"If we develop it, it will strengthen Konoha's invisible prestige and internal cohesion."
"And it will once again shake the entire shinobi world."
"…Alright."
After hesitating for a moment, Tsunade nodded, though her head already ached.
"I'll arrange for people to begin developing the Moon as soon as possible."
"We'll do our best to turn it into one of Konoha's landmarks."
"Oh, right."
As if suddenly remembering something, Ren added casually,
"I've already opened a spatial passage to the Moon."
"Through that passage, travel between Earth and the Moon can be done freely."
"Good!"
Tsunade's expression brightened at once.
"If we can travel back and forth that easily, developing the Moon will be much simpler."
At that moment, Hiashi Hyūga finally asked the question that had been on his mind.
"Fifth Hokage-sama… does the Moon's Ōtsutsuki clan still exist?"
"They're basically extinct."
Ren shrugged indifferently.
"Other than Toneri, the Moon is empty now."
Hearing that, Hiashi finally let out a long breath of relief.
His lingering fear eased at last.
"Our Hyūga clan no longer has to worry about the Moon's Ōtsutsuki clan as a threat."
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