Chapter 909

"How much do you still remember about what happened back then?" Xixi asked.

"The memory is still fresh. I won't deny that my sister and I did something that was both right and wrong, so I must stay alive and remember to atone for it." Otsutsuki Haori's eyes showed little fluctuation, but her tone was firm.

However, this stirred nothing in Xixi; she did not care how Hagoromo and Haori atoned for their sins.

"Then how much do you, or your sister, actually know about Kaguya cultivating the fruit of the God Tree?"

Haori, who had remained calm from the very beginning, finally showed a crack in her expression at this moment.

Xixi could sense that the other's originally unfocused gaze gradually fixed itself on her.

"I don't know why Mother gathered so much power. We asked, but Mother never answered." Ever since she and Hagoromo had joined forces that year to defeat and seal their maddened mother, Haori had spent a long time pondering what her mother's purpose had been.

For power? But Mother's power was already so immense—did she still need more? Haori had originally wanted to get a clear answer directly from the sealed Kaguya, but from the very first day, because of the seal, her mother—who had taken the form of the Ten-Tails but had all her power separated—had already become a stone statue, and remained so to this day.

Haori's silence had already given Xixi the answer she wanted. Clearly, these two sisters did not understand Kaguya's original intention. Although she felt that even if these two had known, the result probably would not have changed—just as Haori had just said, they did something that was both right and wrong........

"Did Kaguya ever mention to you—um, your father?" The term 'father' felt rather strange to Young Yuanzi, Xixi thought to herself. She had to hear Haori admit it in her own words, and to make sure that in the future there wouldn't be, alongside another maddened Kaguya, another maddened Young Yuanzi to deal with. Honestly, she'd rather keep the current Young Yuanzi who only knows how to act cute.

"Never seen him… or rather, we have no father." Haori shook her head, finding the question somewhat strange. Kaguya had once been the lord of the Divine Kingdom; to be precise, aside from her and her sister, Hagoromo's mother's gaze had never lingered on anyone else.

This was a bit of a headache. Xixi was considering whether, as she had thought before, to let Young Yuanzi return to Kaguya's position. She did not know exactly how Kaguya viewed Young Yuanzi, but after so many years she had long since seen through Young Yuanzi—that guy was the type who, once she set her sights on a person, not even the Nine Tails could drag her back.

"Are you certain that, besides you and Otsutsuki Hagoromo, Kaguya had no other descendants? I mean siblings of yours, that sort of thing."