Chapter 641: The Humanity One Cannot Let Go, No Matter How Much One Tries

Chapter 641: Chapter 641: The Humanity One Cannot Let Go, No Matter How Much One Tries

Chapter 641: The Humanity One Cannot Let Go, No Matter How Much One Tries

Kenichi looked at the energy before him with growing excitement.

Although the amount was not particularly large, its greatest advantage was that it could be obtained continuously.

As long as it accumulated little by little, there would eventually be enough to use for quite some time.

And that was not all.

Kenichi looked at the source of the energy.

The strange substance was produced by liquids dripping from four different stalactites and merging together.

That immediately caught his attention.

Kenichi raised his head and activated his analytical ability, intending to determine exactly what kind of substances were dripping from those formations.

But after taking a closer look, his expression changed.

Those things were not stalactites at all.

They merely looked like stalactites from the outside.

In reality, each one was made from countless densely packed single-celled organisms.

Those tiny organisms continuously twisted and wriggled together like an enormous mass of maggots.

As they moved, they constantly gathered and expelled their metabolic waste and secretions.

Those substances gradually collected together, forming droplets that resembled ordinary water before falling to the ground.

Kenichi’s eyelid twitched.

Honestly, the sight was somewhat sanity-draining.

Even he felt his stomach turn after seeing it clearly.

The countless microscopic organisms twisted around one another like a mass of entangled maggots, creating an especially disgusting sight.

Fortunately, they were so small and densely packed that they were nearly impossible to distinguish with the naked eye.

From a normal distance, they simply looked like ordinary stalactites.

Kenichi immediately formed a theory.

He examined the other formations.

Sure enough, two of the other so-called stalactites were also made from countless densely clustered single-celled organisms.

They were not rocks at all.

These organisms reminded Kenichi of the native gods that were still cooperating with Amado in experimental research.

"Kaguya, can you tell what these are?"

Kenichi turned toward her.

"This liquid is secreted by these strange single-celled organisms."

"When you and Isshiki first came to this world, did you ever encounter biological structures like these?"

Although Kenichi still could not understand what Kaguya was thinking lately, he knew one thing clearly.

Her way of thinking was not exactly ordinary.

And since she had lived in this world for such a long time, Kenichi suspected she might know something about these creatures.

So he decided to ask.

Kaguya’s expression became strange when she heard the question.

She looked at the writhing organisms with faint disgust in her eyes.

Kenichi was not surprised.

The sight was unpleasant enough to make even him feel nauseous.

It was perfectly understandable that Kaguya would dislike looking at them as well.

Kaguya was somewhat irritated.

She hated seeing these things.

In fact, she had encountered similar creatures before.

That was precisely why she disliked them.

She had even killed several such beings in the past.

The ignorant natives of this world called them gods.

But in Kaguya’s eyes, they were nothing more than slightly stronger ants.

They could not even be compared with the Pseudo-Gods hunted by the true powerhouses of the Otsutsuki Clan.

Those Pseudo-Gods were vastly stronger.

So Kaguya had never regarded these creatures as anything important.

What surprised her was that such insignificant beings could produce this rare form of energy.

That energy itself was extremely valuable.

"I have seen creatures like these before."

Kaguya spoke with obvious disdain.

"The natives of this world call them gods."

"But in my eyes, they are merely slightly stronger ants."

"Forget comparing them to me. Even the beasts of burden used by the Otsutsuki Clan as tools, creatures that have never received proper training, are far stronger than these things."

"They are even less comparable to the Pseudo-Gods hunted by the clan’s true powerhouses."

Kaguya paused.

"I once witnessed one of the clan’s experts fighting a Pseudo-God who called himself the Thunder God."

"That being could summon thunder across the heavens simply by raising the battle axe in his hand."

"He was far stronger than this useless trash."

Her contempt could not have been more obvious.

Kenichi nodded thoughtfully.

These creatures certainly looked unsettling.

They resembled some kind of bizarre insect colony.

Kenichi was not afraid of insects, but fear and disgust were two completely different things.

Still, Kaguya’s description caught his attention.

A Thunder God?

Could she possibly mean Thor?

Although the Thunder God she remembered wielded an axe rather than a hammer, it was not impossible.

Kenichi was becoming increasingly curious about the true nature of this universe.

Ever since the Otsutsuki Clan had appeared and the scale of the setting had expanded into space, the upper limits of the world had risen dramatically.

At this point, Kenichi no longer knew what kinds of civilizations or beings might exist beyond the Shinobi World.

All he could do was deal with whatever appeared.

But then he remembered something.

He might not know.

Kaguya had actually seen that Thunder God.

Kenichi immediately asked her whether the being she remembered resembled the Thunder God he had in mind.

Kaguya raised one hand.

The scenery changed.

Kenichi suddenly found himself looking into the vast depths of space.

Stars flickered across the endless darkness like scattered diamonds.

Within that silent and boundless universe, an invisible but overwhelming pressure filled everything.

It belonged to a being so powerful that describing him as a cosmic overlord did not seem exaggerated.

Kenichi’s pupils contracted.

He had already seen this figure before.

The being’s existence resembled a dark shadow hanging within the abyss.

Its true nature was impossible to describe, yet its mere presence seemed capable of making the universe itself tremble.

With the slightest movement of a finger, entire planets silently turned to ash.

It looked no more difficult than brushing away dust.

Opposite that terrifying existence stood a man dressed in battle robes.

He remained upright in the empty void.

His eyes were firm and deep, almost as though they could pierce through the deepest secrets of the universe.

A massive battle axe rested in his hand.

Faint light shimmered across its surface.

Thunder roared around him.

He truly resembled a god of lightning descending into the mortal world.

Every time the axe moved, lightning resembling dragons and serpents tore wildly through space.

The bolts ripped across the previously silent void with overwhelming force.

Countless thunderclaps erupted from the depths of the universe like the wrath of an enraged deity.

Light and darkness intertwined.

The scene resembled the arrival of the apocalypse.

Everything caught within those attacks was swept away.

Even enormous celestial bodies looked fragile beneath such power.

The confrontation between the two figures seemed to surpass any normal battle.

Time itself almost appeared frozen.

Every second contained countless possibilities of destruction and rebirth.

One side represented overwhelming, absolute power.

The other represented an unyielding will refusing to submit.

Even though Kenichi and Kaguya were merely observing the scene from afar, Kenichi could still feel the suffocating pressure of their clash.

It almost felt as though the universe itself might collapse in the next instant.

Still, Kenichi quickly relaxed.

That was not Marvel’s Thor.

Good.

At least this did not seem to be some absurdly mixed universe containing everything imaginable.

Otherwise, things really would have become interesting.

Kenichi felt considerably more at ease.

But when he remembered the strength displayed by the Otsutsuki powerhouse, his headache returned.

These beings called gods were absurdly strong.

It almost felt as though they belonged to an entirely different genre of story.

Then again, when Kenichi compared Naruto with Boruto, perhaps such a difference was not completely unreasonable.

Boruto itself had practically become a different kind of work.

If it had continued using only the original Naruto power scale, maintaining escalation would have become difficult.

So introducing increasingly powerful shinobi and enemies was hardly surprising.

Kenichi rubbed his brow.

Then he looked toward Kaguya.

Her expression was extremely calm.

Too calm.

Kenichi had always felt that something about her recent behavior was abnormal.

Previously, Kaguya had been deeply worried about the Otsutsuki Clan.

Now, however, she almost seemed to have adopted an attitude of giving up and simply accepting whatever happened.

That confused him.

When Kaguya noticed him staring, she gave him a strange smile.

That smile only made Kenichi more certain that something was wrong with her.

But what exactly could have happened?

In this world, what kind of existence was even capable of causing serious problems for Kaguya now?

Kenichi and Hagoromo were not trying to harm her.

Isshiki was already dead.

Under those circumstances, what could possibly be troubling her?

Kenichi could not figure it out.

"How do you plan to handle these things?"

Kenichi asked.

He was extremely interested in the organisms and the energy they produced.

But now that Kaguya had discovered them as well, he obviously could not pretend she had nothing to do with the matter.

He would have to include her in deciding what to do with them.

Kaguya’s expression immediately became strange.

Then she glared at Kenichi.

"Hmph."

She turned and disappeared.

Kenichi remained standing there, stunned.

That had not been Kaguya’s usual cold snort.

There had been something almost spoiled and irritated about it.

Kenichi felt completely bewildered.

Still, this only strengthened his belief that something was seriously wrong with Kaguya.

She had never behaved like this before.

If someone claimed there was nothing unusual about her current state, even Kenichi would not believe them.

The problem was that he could not determine what exactly had changed.

According to his previous theory, Kaguya should have been continuing to strip away her humanity and become increasingly divine.

So how had she somehow ended up behaving like this instead?

Kenichi shook his head.

Now was not the time to think about it.

He needed to deal with the organisms before him first.

These single-celled creatures had to be properly contained and researched.

And the precious energy they continuously produced absolutely could not be wasted.

...

After leaving, Kaguya returned to her own dimension.

She remained there alone, quietly lost in thought.

During this period, she had originally intended to continue following her instincts and separate the unnecessary parts of herself.

To Kaguya, humanity seemed useless.

At the very least, she did not believe she needed it.

She possessed a vague instinct telling her that human emotions did nothing to strengthen her.

If anything, they weakened her.

So she had tried to remove them.

But then she encountered a problem.

Long ago, after separating Black Zetsu from herself, Kaguya had been sealed away for an extremely long time.

During that period, the humanity remaining within her had gradually become more deeply connected to her existence.

Then came Kenichi’s fabricated memories.

Those memories acted like a catalyst.

Her human emotions and her core consciousness had become almost completely intertwined.

Kaguya tried to separate them.

But every attempt only caused those emotions and memories to become even more deeply engraved into her soul.

That troubled her greatly.

Nothing like this had ever happened within the Otsutsuki Clan before.

Guardians and sacrifices like Kaguya normally died.

None of them had ever consumed a chakra fruit, begun separating their emotions, been sealed before completing the process, and then had their remaining humanity repeatedly stimulated by implanted memories.

Kaguya’s situation was completely unprecedented.

She had no idea how to deal with it.

Worse still, the more she tried to separate her humanity, the clearer Kenichi became within her memories.

His presence grew increasingly vivid.

Increasingly difficult to ignore.

During this period, nearly every night, Kaguya dreamed of living a peaceful and affectionate life together with Kenichi.

That only made her more irritated.

"This annoying man."

Kaguya gently bit her lip.

From within her dimension, she watched Kenichi busy himself with his research.

The harder she tried to become completely divine, the more difficult it became to let go of the emotions inside her.

The contradiction caused her considerable pain.

And she could not bring herself to kill Kenichi.

Every time the thought appeared, something inside her resisted.

She could not bear to do it.

As time passed, even the idea of killing him became increasingly impossible.

Number Three sighed.

She needed to calm down.

She needed to think carefully about what she should do.

How had the gods within the Otsutsuki Clan handled this problem?

They did not seem to remain alone forever.

Some of them married.

They had children.

And those children became members of the Main Family.

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