Chapter 167

However, after all these years,

the Ōtsutsuki Clan, which had always been sparsely populated, had grown even fewer in number.

Within several hundred kilometers of him,

there were no other clansmen nearby,

only he himself remained here on guard.

Even if the clan discovered his current situation,

discovered that someone from the ninja world had invaded the Moon,

he feared he would have long since become a corpse!!!

"No!! No!!"

"You can't kill me!!"

"If you kill me!! The Ōtsutsuki Clan on the Moon will not let you off!!"

"And your actions will start a war between the ninja world and the Moon!!"

"Do you want to become a sinner of the ninja world!!"

"As long as you spare me, I can pretend I didn't see you today, I can pretend nothing happened today!"

"There's no deep enmity between us, no need to fight to the death!!"

In this life-and-death crisis,

Ōtsutsuki Zhirong finally abandoned the last shred of pride in his heart!!

Tears and snot were squeezed together on his face,

making him look like a stray dog!!

Seeing this, Hyūga Kazuki frowned,

and the last trace of respect she had for Ōtsutsuki Zhirong vanished without a trace.

Even though Ōtsutsuki Zhirong was their enemy,

and had launched the first attack against them,

Hyūga Kazuki had not developed much malice toward him.

After all, in the ninja world,

she had seen plenty of bizarre things!!

Many ninja would even come to blows over trivial disputes, fighting to the death.

Over the years, she had grown accustomed to it!!

Moreover, Ōtsutsuki Zhirong's Byakugan was used so outstandingly,

and his attainments in taijutsu far surpassed those of the Hyūga Clan on their Earth!

So Hyūga Kazuki fully recognized his strength.

But she never expected,

when faced with a threat to his own life,

Ōtsutsuki Zhirong's demeanor would be so ugly,

without a shred of the bearing befitting a strong one!!

This made Hyūga Kazuki look down on him greatly!

And when Hashirama Senju saw this attitude of his,

his face showed not the slightest hint of surprise.

As early as when Ōtsutsuki Zhirong had attacked him,

he had already noticed a huge problem with Ōtsutsuki Zhirong.

Although Ōtsutsuki Zhirong's Byakugan was used very skillfully,

and his attainments in taijutsu were not low,

he gave the impression more of a flower in a greenhouse, without much of the tempering that comes from life-and-death struggles.

In the ninja world,

Hashirama Senju had encountered many ninja far weaker than Ōtsutsuki Zhirong,

whose actual combat experience far surpassed Ōtsutsuki Zhirong's.

But Ōtsutsuki Zhirong had not given him the feeling that his strength and combat experience matched.

On the contrary,

Ōtsutsuki Zhirong had revealed an extremely arrogant and conceited attitude from the very start!!

Believing he was certain to defeat Hashirama Senju,

which was why he was so easily defeated by Hashirama Senju.

Hashirama Senju even believed,

if his own strength were about equal to Ōtsutsuki Zhirong's,

then the one to win would certainly be him.

Even if his own strength were weaker than his,

then in a fight to the death, the one to survive would certainly be himself.

If Ōtsutsuki Zhirong had not looked down on him so much from the start,

and had treated him as an opponent of equal caliber from the beginning,

he probably would not have lost so miserably!

……

【Madara Uchiha: Hmph!! What a grotesque display!! I thought he was a formidable opponent, but now that he faces defeat, he reveals such a pitiful state!!】

【Tobirama Senju: It seems we overestimated the Ōtsutsuki clan on the moon. Though their power is great, their character does not match it.】

【Orochimaru: If I had the same strength as him, even if I couldn't match Hashirama, I wouldn't have been captured so easily by him.】

【Kakashi Hatake: Though his taijutsu was extremely refined, his movements felt strangely off—as if he had little real combat experience!!】

【Jiraiya: Seeing how barren the moon is, it's clear its population is small. Just by population alone, we've already surpassed them!!】

【Fourth Raikage: When he attacked, his techniques seemed flawless on the surface, but they lacked flexibility… If faced with a truly powerful enemy, these would be fatal flaws!!】

【Omoi: All techniques are dead; the human spirit is alive! Battlefields shift endlessly—every great warrior who made a name for himself in the ninja world didn't have a unique fighting style?!】

Everyone in the live stream,

the most frustrated was probably Hyūga Hiashi.

He had hoped to observe how the Ōtsutsuki clan on the moon used their Byakugan,

to see if he could adapt and integrate it into his own clan's Byakugan.

Though long regarded alongside the Uchiha clan as Konoha's two great doujutsu families,

Hyūga Hiashi knew they were far behind the Uchiha.

Against ordinary Uchiha Sharingan with three tomoe,

their Byakugan could still hold its own.

But once the three-tomoe Sharingan evolved into the Mangekyo Sharingan,

his Hyūga clan began to struggle.

The Uchiha had produced Shisui Uchiha,

and also top-tier warriors like Itachi Uchiha.

But the Hyūga clan had never produced a ninja of such caliber.

So over these years,

Hyūga Hiashi had desperately sought ways to enhance the power of their Byakugan,

hoping his clan would produce a top-tier warrior who would shake the ninja world!!

Now, finally, such an opportunity had appeared before him,

yet Ōtsutsuki Shishirō had been defeated so quickly by Hashirama Senju!!

After just two attacks, he lost the courage to strike again,

leaving Hyūga Hiashi deeply disappointed!!

He turned out to be such a coward!!

Possessing such immense strength and heritage,

yet lacking the character to match it,