The moment this thought surfaced in his mind, he was first shocked by it himself.

Those were clansmen connected to him by blood, including his own elder brother born of the same mother, but soon after, his gaze hardened once more.

It had to be done!

For Ancestor Hamura's will, for the future of this world, some prices had to be paid by someone.

But how should it be done?

Nobuhiro Otsutsuki's thoughts began racing rapidly.

Although the moon's Otsutsuki Clan had split into the main house and branch house, they were unlike the Hyuga Clan of the Shinobi World, where the main house held absolute control over the branch house's lives and monopolized the higher-level Hidden Jutsus.

In this regard, the difference in strength between the two sides was not that enormous.

However, there were still more clansmen who agreed with the main house's ideology.

Moreover, the Tenseigan (Energy Vessel), carrying the power of the entire clan, had always remained in the main house's hands.

If they fought head-on, the branch house had no chance of victory at all.

So… they had to risk everything!

They had to launch a thunderous surprise attack before the main house could prepare itself!

Therefore, the branch house also needed its own… Tenseigan!

At this thought, Nobuhiro Otsutsuki suddenly raised his head and looked toward his reflection in the mirror.

Reflected on the surface were a pair of pure, flawless Byakugan.

He stared into those eyes as a crazy, bold idea rapidly arose in his heart.

...

On the moon, somewhere in a mysterious and unknowable place.

Hamura Otsutsuki let out a soft sigh and slowly withdrew his gaze.

After a thousand years of watching over everything, his descendants had ultimately reached the edge of complete ideological division and were turning weapons against each other.

And he had already foreseen this day long ago.

In terms of prophecy, Hamura Otsutsuki truly was not as capable as his elder brother, Hagoromo Otsutsuki.

But perhaps because of the connection of blood, whenever the subjects he observed were his direct descendants left behind on the moon or in the Shinobi World, he could still capture certain vague fragments from the river of time.

More than ten years ago, Hamura Otsutsuki had already seen that ending.

One branch of the descendants he left on the moon, namely the main house that believed in continuing to protect and monitor the Shinobi World, would soon fall completely into destruction.

And the victorious side would fare no better. In the end, only a mere dozen or so people would remain, barely continuing the Otsutsuki bloodline.

That point in time was this year.

But although he saw it, Hamura Otsutsuki merely sighed inwardly and never chose to interfere.

He and his elder brother upheld the same belief.

Trust in the wisdom of future generations and never interfere lightly with the course of the world's development.

The paths of future generations should ultimately be walked by future generations themselves.

Until two months ago, when that young man who caused an inexplicably powerful ripple in his heart appeared.

That young man named Shinichi Higashino, at the banquet in Konoha, faced the question of how to achieve peace and spoke the words, return ninja to their origin.

Those words caused Hamura Otsutsuki to feel a resonance that crossed a thousand years. It was precisely because of this resonance that he made the rare decision to interfere for the first time.

Through the Tenseigan (Energy Vessel), he created an abnormal disturbance, causing both the main house and branch house, who had been at each other's throats, to temporarily halt their confrontation and shift their attention toward the Shinobi World.

He attempted to ease the internal conflict that was about to erupt between the two sides.

If not for his intervention at that time, the civil war between the main house and branch house would likely have officially erupted around this very period.

He succeeded, and he failed.

The conflict was indeed delayed, but that was all.

Driven by the branch house's increasingly insane obsession, this lineage of descendants he left on the moon would inevitably welcome that brutal slaughter in the end and ultimately decline completely into ruin.

More than ten years later, only a single lonely descendant would remain.

That child's name is Toneri.

He seemed to have inherited the entire Otsutsuki Clan's obsession, ideals, luck, and even fate. His talent was so extraordinary that even Hamura Otsutsuki was astonished by it.

It was as though the child's very existence itself was the final unwilling cry of this clan that was marching toward extinction.

Then, should he do something?

Even though he had long foreseen the destruction awaiting this branch of descendants on the moon, Hamura Otsutsuki still leaned toward doing nothing.

After all, he had already broken precedent and interfered once before.

He believed that even if his elder brother were facing the same situation, he would make the same choice.

In this regard, the two brothers were alike.

However… that child who should not have existed...

Hamura Otsutsuki fell into deep thought.

The last time he interfered, causing the Tenseigan (Energy Vessel) to create a disturbance and delaying the outbreak of total conflict between the main house and the branch house, it also unexpectedly brought about a variable he himself had never anticipated… a child who should not have existed in this world.

His gaze once more turned toward the moon's surface.

…

On the moon's surface, inside a room within a palace.

A young couple was leaning against each other.

Katsunaga Katsunaga wore a foolish grin as he pressed his ear against his wife's slightly swollen belly, listening carefully to the still faint and unclear movements within.

His wife, Otsutsuki Masako, gently stroked her husband's hair, her eyes and brows filled with tenderness and expectation.

"Masako, do you think it's a boy or a girl?"

Although the moon's Otsutsuki Clan possessed Byakugan just like the Hyuga Clan of the Shinobi World, in terms of pure Byakugan ability, they were still slightly inferior to the Hyuga Clan.

After all, the Hyuga Clan inherited Hamura Otsutsuki's comparatively purer Dark nature, while the moon's Otsutsuki possessed both Dark and Light natures.

Possessing both was a kind of versatility, but in terms of the depth and specialization of a single ability, they were not as outstanding as the Hyuga Clan.

Furthermore, the Byakugan's penetrating vision was not the usual kind of seeing through everything, but rather the ability to observe the human body's chakra pathways and chakra flow.

Therefore, whether Hyuga or Moon Otsutsuki, neither could determine the sex of a fetus at a glance through the Byakugan.

Especially in the early stages of pregnancy.

Hearing this, Otsutsuki Masako smiled gently.

"I think it should be a girl."

"A girl?"

Katsunaga Katsunaga froze for a moment before smiling.

"Why are you so certain?"

"I don't know." Masako lightly shook her head. "But I just feel that this child should be a girl."

"A girl is good."

Katsunaga's smile deepened further. He held her hand, his eyes full of expectation.

"Girls are obedient and caring. When she grows up, she'll definitely be as gentle and beautiful as you."

He paused, then asked again: "Then Masako, what name do you think we should give her?"

Otsutsuki Masako remained silent for a moment. Her gaze turned toward the direction of

Hamura shrine outside the window as she softly said: "Yo."

"Yo?" Katsunaga Katsunaga softly repeated the word.

"Mhm, Yo. Yo Otsutsuki."

Masako's gentle voice softly explained: "These past few days, I've always dreamed of the Tenseigan (Energy Vessel) inside the Hamura shrine. In the dream, it always radiates warm, bright light, illuminating this once-barren land. To our clan, it is our sun. It is precisely because of the Tenseigan (Energy Vessel)'s light that we are able to thrive and multiply on this land. That's why I want to name her Yo."