'Cute. This voice is…'
Aoba was slightly startled.
This was clearly a female voice, and the kind that sounded cold and restrained.
Then whose voice it was didn't really need guessing.
He had only wanted to look for the seal, but he hadn't expected to directly hear a voice and find her soul fluctuation.
Was it a special effect of the Spirit Transformation Technique, or was the seal left behind by the Sage of Six Paths brothers not strong enough?
Aoba didn't know the real reason. He controlled his perception and probed toward the spot inside the moon where the soul fluctuation had just come from.
In a daze, his consciousness seemed to enter a strange space.
A vast white world, probably a sealed space similar to a consciousness space.
Using the Uzumaki clan's Four Symbols Seal could also produce a similar space.
And inside the sealed space, he did indeed see a figure.
Pale skin, long blue-white hair, and a woman with delicate, refined features.
'This is Otsutsuki Kaguya?'
Aoba was a little surprised. She looked somewhat different from what he remembered.
There was no eerie red Rinne Sharingan on her forehead, the two horns on her head hadn't appeared, and her long hair only reached about her waist instead of spreading everywhere.
She didn't look like the final boss at all. She just looked like an ordinary woman, at most a slightly aloof girl-next-door type, with an air of having given up on everything and no longer caring about the world.
But her expression right now couldn't really be called aloof either.
'Could it be because the Ten-Tails has been stripped away, and combined with the seal, all her power has been completely sealed?'
'And after losing her power, she reverted to an ordinary girl?'
Otsutsuki Kaguya was also a bit surprised by Aoba's appearance. Her delicate face froze for a moment, then the small dots where her eyes were furrowed slightly.
This was essentially inside her consciousness space. How did this guy get in?
Her cold voice sounded again, "Who exactly are you? And how did you get in here?"
"…"
'How did I get in?'
Aoba thought for a moment, then explained.
"I just did this… then this… then like that… and that… and then I came in."
"?"
'What is this guy talking about?'
Otsutsuki Kaguya was a bit confused, but to maintain her aloof image, she still nodded, "I see."
Then she stopped talking, and the two of them just stared at each other.
"…"
The atmosphere fell silent.
This Rabbit Goddess didn't seem very good with words.
"You're not going to ask anything else?", Aoba took the initiative to speak.
"Oh, you still haven't answered who you are," Otsutsuki Kaguya said it as if she had just remembered.
"…"
Aoba suddenly felt that this final boss from the manga… seemed a bit slow.
Or rather, after staying in the sealed space for so long, she seemed more innocent than he had imagined.
'Then should I…'
"I already answered one of your questions, so now it's my turn to ask you."
"What do you want to ask?"
Otsutsuki Kaguya's face showed very obvious vigilance.
This Rabbit Goddess really didn't seem to have much scheming in her. Everything she thought showed right on her face.
Aoba simply asked directly.
"Who are you?"
Just a simple way to verify whether she was being honest.
"Me?"
Otsutsuki Kaguya thought for a moment. The time she had spent sealed was too long and muddled, and she no longer had any power. She needed some time to recall her past identity.
Time in the sealed space flowed slower than the outside world.
Now a thousand years had already passed in the ninja world, and the time inside the sealed space had been even longer.
"My name is Otsutsuki Kaguya. Back then, people called me the Rabbit Goddess. Now it's your turn to answer me."
As soon as she finished, she immediately followed up impatiently.
Aoba hadn't expected her to tell the truth so directly.
This Otsutsuki Kaguya was actually quite straightforward.
"My name is Shirakumo Aoba. Right now, I'm the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, and the Hokage of Konoha."
Aoba briefly introduced his identity.
"You're actually the Daimyo of the Land of Fire?", Otsutsuki Kaguya looked a little surprised.
As for her own identity not being known by him, that was normal. After all, she didn't even know how long she had been sealed. There were probably no records of her left anymore.
"Yeah."
Aoba nodded, also a bit surprised, 'So the Land of Fire already existed a thousand years ago?'
"Alright, now it's my turn again. This time I'll ask two questions. First—"
"Wait, why do you get to ask two at once?", Otsutsuki Kaguya interrupted him. They had agreed on one question each.
"Because you just asked two in a row."
Aoba said as if it were only natural.
"I asked two?"
Otsutsuki Kaguya frowned those small dots again.
'When did I ask two in a row?'
"You first asked who I was, and then you asked if I was the Daimyo of the Land of Fire. Well, since you don't understand the rules, I won't count that third question against you," Aoba looked completely serious.
"?"
Otsutsuki Kaguya blinked blankly. She felt like she was being tricked, but she had no proof.
She just pressed her lips together. A hint of displeasure showed on her cold face as she said, "Go ahead and ask."
Aoba actually found this alien woman a little cute.
"Then first, tell me who sealed you here."
"…"
"If it's inconvenient to say, I can switch to another question."
Aoba didn't intend to make things difficult for her.
"It was my two children."
Otsutsuki Kaguya thought for a moment and still answered.
Anyway, so much time had passed, and probably no one remembered anymore.
"Your children?", Aoba feigned surprise.
"Mhm…"
Otsutsuki Kaguya nodded, then seemed to think of something, "But they weren't born by me. It was because of the people's faith at the time. I used… mm, a tree to nurture them."
'So it's that version?'
Aoba was a bit surprised, "Then—"
"Alright, I've already answered two of your questions. Now it's your turn to answer mine."
Otsutsuki Kaguya directly interrupted him, while the corner of her mouth curled up ever so slightly.
Aoba: "?"
'This Otsutsuki Kaguya… actually seems pretty clever.'
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