Inside the massive palace, Otsutsuki Toneri noticed the arrival of Aoba and Hinata. At the same time, Aoba also sensed the gaze coming from the moon.
'So we have been discovered?'
Aoba wasn't surprised by this.
After all, even if Otsutsuki Toneri didn't have his own Tenseigan, he should still have some strength.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have had the guts to go to Konoha and abduct someone.
'Uh, actually, maybe that's not entirely accurate.'
After all, when Hinata was little, she had also been kidnapped by people from Kumogakure.
Looking at it that way, maybe it was just that the Hyuga clan was too weak.
In any case, Toneri still couldn't be underestimated. At the very least, with a complete Tenseigan, this level of perception was to be expected.
As the wooden dragon approached, a huge palace on the surface of the moon came into view for the two of them.
Hinata's small face turned serious, "Aoba-kun, is this the residence of the Hyuga clan on the moon?"
"Mm, but it looks like there's only one living person."
Aoba sensed it. Indeed, only Otsutsuki Toneri was left alive.
His perception now could even directly cover the entire moon.
At the center of the palace, there was a massive aggregation of chakra.
That should be the Tenseigan.
"Eh?"
But after hearing that, Hinata's eyes widened in disbelief.
'Such a huge place, and there is only one person?'
"Get ready, Hinata. Your enemies are puppets being controlled through special means," Aoba gave a reminder.
"Okay!"
Although she was indeed surprised by what Aoba said, Hinata quickly came back to her senses.
Her instincts as a ninja made her immediately prepare for battle.
The next moment, the wooden dragon slammed straight into the moon's surface, landing in front of the massive palace.
The air on the moon was actually the same as in the ninja world. They could breathe.
Maybe it was because this moon had been created using the Chibaku Tensei.
At this moment, not far away at the palace entrance, a large number of humanoid puppets shrouded in black robes poured out.
They flew toward Aoba and Hinata.
Clearly, they weren't coming with good intentions.
As the puppets surged forward, neither of them showed much change in expression.
Hinata quickly stepped in front of Aoba, blue chakra wrapping around both her palms.
Then, with a sharp sound of wind cutting through the air, she flashed in front of one puppet, her chakra-wrapped palm striking straight toward its chest.
Faced with Hinata's sudden appearance, the puppet paused midair for a moment, then instinctively raised both arms to block in front of itself.
But against Hinata's seemingly light palm strike, the moment it was hit, the puppet's entire body exploded into pieces.
The scene was extremely brutal.
And it seemed that Hinata's sudden attack surprised the one controlling the puppets. The puppets that had been flying all stopped midair.
Having already made her move, Hinata naturally didn't miss this opportunity. Her figure flashed again, appearing behind two other puppets.
At this moment, the one controlling the puppets finally reacted, and the two puppets tried to turn around and counterattack.
But their bodies only twisted halfway before each was struck hard on both sides of their bodies.
Crack!
With a sharp breaking sound, the upper halves of the two puppets were smashed directly into scattered parts.
Seeing Hinata unleash such terrifying strength, the other puppets that had originally been charging toward Aoba all turned and surrounded her instead.
Seeing this, the dense swarm of puppets didn't cause Hinata even the slightest panic. She leapt straight into the air.
She spread both hands, and within her clear eyes dotted with azure light, it was as if light itself was flowing.
Boom!
Accompanied by a massive roaring sound, an overwhelming amount of chakra burst out from her body, surging wildly.
This immense amount of chakra, enough to completely drain an elite jonin, was used extravagantly as it formed a massive chakra vortex around Hinata, eventually becoming a huge chakra storm with a radius of ten meters.
"Eight Trigrams Palm: Rotation!"
With the support of such terrifying chakra reserves, what was originally just a defensive technique had now become a deadly weapon.
All the puppets within the range covered by the chakra storm were swept into it without any ability to resist. Even those farther away were dragged in by the storm generated by Hinata's Rotation.
In the end, all of them turned into countless shattered parts, scattering in every direction.
And all of this happened in just a few short seconds.
After shredding all the puppets that had surrounded them, Hinata landed steadily on the ground, her breathing not changing in the slightest.
That intense burst of output in such a short time was nothing more than a casual effort for her.
Aoba wasn't surprised at all.
Even though Hinata sometimes had a gentle personality, her current strength was undoubtedly in the top tier below Aoba, Sasuke, and Naruto, those three beyond-standard existences.
Placed in any other ninja village, she could easily serve as a Kage.
Dealing with a few puppets was naturally effortless.
However, in such a huge palace, there was obviously no way there were only this many puppets.
At the entrance of the massive palace, even more puppets poured out again.
These were created using the Tenseigan. If the one controlling them behind the scenes wasn't dealt with, they were practically endless.
Aoba also began to move.
"Hinata, you can keep playing here a bit longer. I'll go deal with the one inside."
"Okay."
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"That… those eyes…"
At this moment, inside the palace, Otsutsuki Toneri, who had originally been sitting, had already stood up.
His face was filled with disbelief.
The moment Hinata landed on the moon, he had already recognized her.
More than ten years ago, he had once gone to the ninja world and had seen Hinata as a baby from afar, committing her to memory.
To be precise, he had remembered her eyes.
Those were a pair of eyes qualified to stand alongside him.
But just now, he had actually sensed that Hinata's eyes had already begun evolving toward the Tenseigan.
After a brief moment of disbelief came overwhelming joy from the bottom of his heart.
"As expected of the Byakugan Princess…"
Although Hinata's Byakugan had already begun to evolve, he still didn't feel worried.
Because he possessed a true Tenseigan.
"Since you've come, then you can stay."
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