Chapter 911

Otsutsuki Hagoromo seemed to have forgotten that Xixi the dragon was right beside her, and was wholly focused on tidying Toneri's clothes as he obediently stood there. Xixi suddenly realized that this little pretty-boy was actually wearing women's clothing. One should know that, although the Otsutsuki clan's attire had a unified standard in style, the garments for men and women were absolutely distinct.

Tsk tsk, now she finally understood why this Otsutsuki Hagoromo liked this child so much — so she had this kind of hobby?

Xixi began to feel sympathy for this little pretty-boy who was born without eyes. She reckoned that if this little fellow could see, he definitely wouldn't be showing such a happy smile as he was now.

"What kind of moment is the best?" Otsutsuki Hagoromo braided a strand of hair at the temple into a little plait for the little pretty-boy, and quite satisfied, twirled around to observe him — even though with the Byakugan she could see everything clearly even with her back turned.

"Everyone was discussing this issue, and gradually everyone split into two factions. In the end, even I could not re-bond the divided two sides. Even though every one of them is a blood relative sharing the same lineage, but…."

Xixi suddenly recalled the tombstones split into two sides inside that palace, as well as the emblems on the wall. Now that she thought about it, weren't those precisely the stone sphere in which Kaguya-hime was sealed outside, and those oddly-shaped debris belts on the periphery?

"Sister strove to create a peaceful and beautiful world, but for a thousand years people never stopped their strife, until I, growing ever weaker, could no longer hold them down." Otsutsuki Hagoromo narrated with bitterness the untold story that had taken place on the moon. Xixi did not interrupt her again, acting as a quiet listener.

"As a channel for observing the world, the Branch Family has already sacrificed themselves countless times, and the results obtained were always like this — the strife never ended. Brutality and disappointment made them no longer able to continue selflessly doing useless work, so they launched a rebellion." Otsutsuki Hagoromo's voice grew weak again as she spoke to this point; one could imagine this was a very heavy blow to her.

"The Main Family was caught off guard and ambushed by the Branch Family, and after the chaos, there was only a death-like silence." The tone was still so calm, but Xixi could see Otsutsuki Hagoromo's hand trembling.

"I originally had the chance to stop all of this, but because of boring arrogance I sent so many clansmen to their deaths. I chose wrongly, so even though I was angry at the Branch Family's actions, I, who did not want them to bleed any more, only chose to hide inside the place where Mother was sealed." Otsutsuki Hagoromo's hand was no longer merely trembling — she was gripping her fist tightly.

"But this time I chose wrongly again. Without the Main Family to balance things, the Branch Family's methods grew increasingly excessive, even striking at Mother. They broke in and even attempted to take Mother's eyes, which were fundamentally impossible to obtain, and then I…."

Otsutsuki Hagoromo, who had spoken to this point, closed her eyes in pain.

This time it was the little pretty-boy Toneri beside her who worriedly stretched out his small hand and tugged at Hagoromo's hem.

"I killed every single one of them with my own hands." Otsutsuki Hagoromo, who had opened her eyes again, had already regained her composure, as if everything just now had been merely imagined by Xixi.

"Just as they did to the Main Family, except for Toneri."

Otsutsuki Hagoromo led Toneri by the hand, and Xixi followed behind her the whole way, until they reached the side of that eerie white sphere.

She saw Otsutsuki Hagoromo directly thrust her hand into it without the slightest obstruction, and along with the motion of Otsutsuki Hagoromo's hand, the surface of the white sphere also rippled in waves.

"Is this the Byakugan?" Otsutsuki Hagoromo took something out of that orb of light, and Xixi fixed her gaze for a careful look, and could not help but cry out in surprise.

If she had not guessed wrong, this eerie orb of light was actually composed of many Byakugan that had been gouged out, looking just like the Uchiha clan's Mangekyo Sharingan collection vault.

"By contributing the clansmen's Byakugan to maintain the secret art, and thereby observing everything on the ground, I knew from the very beginning yet never stopped them." The Byakugan in Otsutsuki Hagoromo's hand, after a moment, once again scattered into specks of light and returned to the orb of light. "And the vast majority of these eyes belong to the Branch Family."

In essence, Hagoromo, Hamura, the two sisters, and their mother were astonishingly similar — presumably the so-called kin and descendants, as time went on, also gradually became merely a group of strangers incapable of stirring great emotional waves.

Otsutsuki Hagoromo merely shifted the responsibility onto the Main Family among her kin, and then no longer cared about anything happening in the outside world, until matters became incomparably thorny.

"Toneri was born without eyes, and the Branch Family called it an ill omen, then used this to launch a rebellion, ambushing the Main Family's residence and slaughtering every member of the Main Family, using the same sacrificial method."

"Having obtained the Byakugan of every member of the Main Family, Toneri's father believed that gathering more Byakugan could cause it to undergo metamorphosis, becoming a further-evolved Tenseigan." Otsutsuki Hagoromo had finally let Xixi figure out where all the people had gone.

Yet no matter where one went, humanity was walking the road of self-destruction!

Now, besides Otsutsuki Hagoromo, who was already in her declining years, and Toneri, who could not see at all, there was not a single third person guarding Kaguya-hime's seal.