After Lexon's brutal beating of Kaguya Otsutsuki, the moon was now riddled with holes.
It was fortunate that Lexon had intentionally spread the shockwaves of the battle to other areas; otherwise, the unconscious descendants of Hamura Otsutsuki, and even Black Zetsu, would have been in dire straits.
Kaguya Otsutsuki could endure a beating, but others couldn't even withstand the minor aftershocks of the battle.
"Uchiha Lexon!!!"
While Lexon was busy stuffing Kaguya into the pot, a heart-wrenching roar suddenly rang out.
It was the voice of Black Zetsu.
"What's wrong?" Lexon asked Black Zetsu, who was rushing over at high speed.
"What's wrong? You still ask me what's wrong? My mother! You actually... my mother!!" Black Zetsu's pitch-black face was full of distorted and hideous expressions.
He was consumed with fury and hatred for Lexon's actions.
To treat his own mother like that... to treat her like that!!!
"I'll return her to you after I'm done with her," Lexon replied in a flat tone.
Immediately, Gyokko's Blood Demon Art was activated, and a vortex appeared at the mouth of the pot.
With a casual toss, Lexon sent the dying Kaguya Otsutsuki in his hands into the pot.
Hearing Lexon's words and seeing his actions, Black Zetsu became even more resentful and roared, "Uchiha Lexon! Let go of my mother!!!"
As he spoke, he seemed to have lost his mind, lunging directly at Lexon.
Lexon in his normal state was enough to crush Black Zetsu, let alone now, while he was at his peak.
"I already said I'll give her back after I'm done..." Lexon said indifferently as he leaned slightly to the side, easily avoiding Black Zetsu's desperate pounce.
He let Black Zetsu fall flat on his face.
"What do you mean by 'done'... Uchiha Lexon..." Black Zetsu seemed to understand the gap between him and Lexon. After all, even his supposedly invincible mother was helpless against him. So, he simply lay on the ground and asked in a low voice.
"Literally what it means," Lexon responded.
"..." After a long silence, something unexpected happened.
Black Zetsu, one of the masterminds behind the scenes in the later stages of Naruto, actually threw a tantrum on the ground. He cried out with a slight sob, "Give her back! Give my mother back to me! Uchiha Lexon! I finally got to see my mother! It wasn't enough that you beat her like that... you even took her away! Give her back! Return my mother... waah..."
"Uh..." Lexon looked at him in this state, not knowing what to say.
Under his perception, Black Zetsu wasn't using this behavior as a cover for anything.
Clearly, this was indeed Black Zetsu's genuine behavior.
A Great Filial Son who hadn't seen his mother since birth had spent his whole life working to rescue her. At the moment he finally succeeded and saw her, he found her beaten half to death and about to be kidnapped...
Although the kidnapper said he would return her after he was finished.
As a conspirator himself, Black Zetsu would never believe such a thing.
Moreover, the meaning of 'done' was unclear... he didn't even know how his mother would be treated...
"Give her back... give her back... You bastard, Uchiha Lexon... was this your purpose for agreeing to save my mother!! I shouldn't have trusted you... I shouldn't have trusted you... Give her back, give my mother back to me..." Feeling his trust betrayed and his mother snatched away, Black Zetsu's tantrum grew louder.
"Alright, alright." Lexon crouched down and patted the head of Naruto's number one filial son, saying, "I'm in Konoha. You can come find me occasionally, and I'll let you see your mother."
"Really?" Hearing these words, Black Zetsu immediately stopped throwing his tantrum and turned his head to look at Lexon.
"Really," Lexon replied flatly.
This was something he had already decided on.
He had decided this long ago, seeing that Black Zetsu had been so cooperative in revealing the teleportation point between the Earth and the Moon.
And... when he came to visit his mother, Lexon could also conveniently sign in on the items on his body.
'Ah... that's definitely not the main purpose.'
Lexon thought to himself.
"Fine then... I hope you keep your promise, Uchiha Lexon." Having received Lexon's commitment, Black Zetsu slowly crawled up from the ground.
But he clearly still looked very unhappy.
However, Black Zetsu also understood that this was already the best possible outcome.
His invincible mother was treated like a punching bag in front of this man; what else could he do?
Demand something from Uchiha Lexon?
He feared he'd be beaten half to death the moment he made a demand...
"Cheer up. Compared to before when you couldn't see your mother at all, at least you can see her occasionally now..." Lexon said, seeing how dejected he was.
'That seems to be true...'
Hearing Lexon's words, the thought couldn't help but surface in Black Zetsu's heart.
"Let's go, time to head back." Having completed his purpose for coming to the Moon, Lexon stood up and spoke to Black Zetsu.
"Mhm." Black Zetsu followed quietly behind Lexon like an obedient child, head hanging low.
From now on, he could only look forward to the happy times of seeing his mother occasionally.
He no longer had any thoughts of plotting schemes.
His old mother had been unsealed, only to be held down and beaten...
What was the point of plotting conspiracies? Just to invite trouble?
Subsequently, the two walked toward the teleportation point between the Moon and the Earth.
They passed through the teleportation point and returned to the shinobi continent.
Just as they stepped through, a figure they had seen before appeared in front of Lexon and Black Zetsu.
It was the Sage of Six Paths.
"Have you undone the seal?" The Sage of Six Paths floated in the air, holding a black shakujo staff. He questioned them with an aged voice, his gaze fixed on Lexon.
The tension and gravity in his tone were clearly visible.
Obviously, the Sage of Six Paths did not want this to happen.
Because the unsealing of his mother, Kaguya, also meant that disaster would befall the ninja world.
At this point in time, the children of destiny from both worlds had not yet grown up... and he himself was a person of the Underworld... he couldn't stay in the living world for too long...
Therefore, the Sage of Six Paths believed that if his mother was unsealed, the civilization of this world would be not far from extinction...
"She's unsealed," Lexon replied.
At those words, the Sage of Six Paths' pupils shrank violently, and the force with which he gripped his shakujo staff unconsciously increased.
He had indeed sensed a bit of his mother's lingering aura on the two of them just now...
It was just that he didn't dare believe such a fact until he asked for the answer himself...
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