Imu was about to leave.
As for awakening Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's main body consciousness, he would think about it later.
Apart from Kaguya herself being difficult to control, he was also reluctant to part with the nine Tailed Beasts.
"Wait!"
Just as Imu was about to sever the spiritual connection, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya called out anxiously to stop him.
"Hm?"
Imu looked at her in puzzlement, only to see her ask awkwardly, "Can you take me with you?"
"Uh, what?"
"Can you take me out of here? I'm afraid of staying here forever. Or else, just scatter me!"
Ōtsutsuki Kaguya pressed her lips together, her voice carrying a trace of pleading.
Imu stared at her speechlessly.
He immediately noticed the unease flickering in the woman's Byakugan.
Indeed, a little black room was terrifying.
That absolute silence and absolute loneliness would drive any being with normal feelings insane.
Imu thought for a moment, then gently stretched out his hand. "Hold onto me, maybe I can take you out."
He didn't actually know if it would work; if not, then nothing could be done.
Mainly, he felt that if he really could take her out, he should be able to learn more information about the Ōtsutsuki clan.
And this woman had no power, so she posed no threat to him.
Ōtsutsuki Kaguya looked at the hand extended before her with some hesitation.
Finally, she gripped Imu's palm.
The next second.
His consciousness returned to his body.
Before him, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's body still floated quietly in midair.
And his right hand, wreathed in Colorless Haki, was still placed on the other's forehead.
Only now, on the back of his hand that gave off a faint golden glow, there stood a little Ōtsutsuki Kaguya about 10 centimeters tall!
At this moment she was looking up, taking in the surrounding darkness.
Imu was also sizing up the little Ōtsutsuki Kaguya on his hand.
"Looks like it worked. Since that's the case, from now on you'll follow me—but you're not allowed to run around at will!"
Little Ōtsutsuki Kaguya lifted her head, her tiny Byakugan wide with curiosity as she glared.
"This should be the sealing space of 'Chibaku Tensei,' right? Can you take me out?"
"If I can come in, I can naturally go out. And from now on you will address me as Lord Imu."
While speaking, Imu opened his left hand and released "ROOM," giving instructions to little Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.
"Hmph!"
Little Ōtsutsuki Kaguya turned her head and said in a low voice, "If you want me to call you 'Lord,' that depends on how capable you are!"
"Then stay here," Imu did not indulge her either.
Once the circular passage formed before him, he casually tossed it onto Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's body.
He was about to leave this pitch-black place on his own.
This gave little Ōtsutsuki Kaguya quite a scare; her already pale face turned even paler.
She panicked completely, her tiny body leaping as she grabbed hard onto the gold-trimmed hem of Imu's white robe.
"I understand! I understand!"
"Lord Imu! I'll call you Lord Imu—just don't leave me behind!"
In the blink of an eye, Imu's figure vanished into thin air.
Without Seika's radiance to drive it away, the space was once more filled with boundless darkness.
...
In midair somewhere on the shinobi world's moon, a round spatial passage suddenly formed.
"Lord Imu!"
Just as Imu swiftly slipped out of the passage and appeared, a very familiar voice was heard.
It was Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo.
His gaze was instantly drawn to the little Kaguya "hanging" onto Imu's sleeve.
At this moment little Kaguya still clutched the sleeve tightly, afraid Imu would really abandon her.
Her pale little face was full of stubbornness and seriousness, and with her current size, she looked extremely childish.
Where was there even half a trace of the dignity of the "Rabbit Goddess"?
"Mo… Mother."
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo was dumbfounded, subconsciously murmuring.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the scene became bizarre.
Imu first lowered his head to glance at the little accessory added onto himself.
Then he raised his head to look at the dumbfounded, at-a-loss Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo.
"She is a spiritual product of Kaguya, considered a clone, but she has no real power."
But he also noticed this little Kaguya seemed to rely heavily on his colorless Haki.
"Hagoromo."
Having finally climbed up along Imu's arm onto his shoulder, little Kaguya froze the instant she saw her eldest son.
By rights, since she inherited all the memories of the main body—
Now she should be extremely furious, even cursing him as an unfilial son would not be strange.
Yet although little Kaguya's heart carried a certain amount of anger—
It was mixed as well with longing, disappointment, maternal love, joy, and many other complex emotions.
In truth, she really did treat Hagoromo and Hamura as her own children.
But these two unfilial sons, for the sake of outsiders, had actually betrayed their own mother.
This was something Kaguya could not understand, especially this Hagoromo before her eyes.
Back then he spoke of letting her believe in love—was there no love at all between mother and son?
She loved them, only wanted to become stronger, absorb more chakra, protect her seedbed and their family of three.
Yet they loved more those irrelevant beings, like ants, mere servants.
And then they turned around to say she did not believe in love, did not understand love?
Who gave birth to you, who raised you, who gave you the power you possess?!
Little Kaguya's thoughts surged.
The more she thought, the more wronged she felt, her anger rising with it, her little face tightening as she let out an angry shout.
"Unfilial son! Kneel down at once!"
But to Imu's ears, that angry shout sounded more like a little girl pouting coquettishly at his side.
"Mother!"
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's expression turned grim, but he still bent his knees and knelt.
Yet just as he knelt, from his knees came the feeling of collision.
Looking down, he found a faintly golden aura layer appearing beneath him.
Colorless Haki?!
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo snapped his head up and stared at Imu in disbelief.
Good grief, is this to make my kneel more solid?
I... Really thank you!
Imu made no response to his gaze, expressionless as he listened to little Kaguya loudly berate Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo.
One insult after another—
There was nothing else she could do; without power, she could only enjoy venting with her mouth.
As for resisting—wasn't Imu right beside him?
He didn't believe Hagoromo would dare be insolent!
Since the shinobi world had already been conquered by the World Government, this unfilial son should have submitted as well.
This idea actually shocked Kaguya as well.
"Mother, what you did back then was wrong. I did try to dissuade you, but you wouldn't listen. For the sake of the shinobi world's sentient beings, we had no choice."
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo finally couldn't help but speak up in rebuttal.
"Those lowly creatures have nothing to do with you. You and I are mother and child; we are Ōtsutsuki!" little Kaguya snapped angrily.
"We were born in the shinobi world, so we are naturally its members too. They are not lowly creatures—they are people."
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo argued back again.
"Even if chakra must be gathered, there should be other methods. I've already thought of a way. We can wait for them to die naturally and absorb the chakra from their souls!"
He believed his method was hundreds of times better and far more humane than directly using the God Tree to drain living people's chakra and turning them into White Zetsu.
It might be less efficient—much slower without war.
But history has proven that humans who wield ninjutsu cannot behave themselves.
They will always wage war over various things, especially resources.
"Absorb chakra from the dead?"
Little Kaguya sounded puzzled when she heard Hagoromo.
Then Hagoromo hurriedly laid out his plan and ideas in full.
After hearing Hagoromo, little Kaguya's brows slowly knitted.
"It's already been a thousand years. Have you collected enough chakra to bear a fruit?"
"Uh, well—"
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo opened his mouth, at a loss for how to answer, because he didn't know either.
Such matters could only be known by summoning the God Tree and pouring the Pure Land's chakra into it.
However, he felt the chakra was still insufficient.
After all, no matter how much chakra the souls of shinobi who died over a thousand years could provide, it could not possibly compare to the God Tree directly squeezing a planet's energy, or to feeding the God Tree large numbers of living people every year.
By his method, to store up enough chakra for the God Tree to bear a fruit would certainly take longer than a thousand years.
Of course, this was a projection based on the shinobi world's previous circumstances.
Now, with the support of the World Government, not only would the shinobi world's population surge in the future—
People from other worlds willing to possess chakra would likely appear as well.
The World Government would not proactively promote the spread of chakra, but it would not reject others who applied to obtain a chakra constitution.
Although this technology was still under research, given the level of the Biotech Research Institute, it likely wouldn't take too long.
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo felt that the future speed at which the Pure Land collected chakra—
Would surely gradually catch up to, and even surpass, the speed of the God Tree directly squeezing a planet's energy!
How could a single planet of the shinobi world compare to the number of living beings across myriad worlds?
Not to mention this method was sustainable and caused no destruction whatsoever.
The prospects could be called bright.
Of course, the premise was that the World Government must continue to exist.
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo laid out all these thoughts.
It sent little Kaguya into contemplation, and it also made Imu quite pleased to hear.
The other party had clearly resolved to stand on the World Government's side.
In his heart, Imu considered whether to grant the shinobi world more support.
Previously he had been wary of the existence of the Ōtsutsuki God.
But now that the other party had left this shinobi-world universe, there was no need to worry about it anymore.
As for Ōtsutsuki Kaguya—if she refused to listen, she was at most a small problem.
The big problem was that Ōtsutsuki civilization.
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