"..."
Seeing Aoba's look of realization, Otsutsuki Hagoromo was speechless inside, but couldn't very well show it.
He continued, "Hamura and I are just curious and want to meet him. Could you satisfy the curiosity of two old men?"
He and Hamura simply wanted to see what this so-called younger brother was like.
After all, like them, he was a life created by that woman. No matter how you looked at it, he should have been a dangerous figure. Yet over the past thousand years, neither he nor Hamura had ever noticed such a person in the ninja world. That was rather unbelievable.
Aoba didn't think there was anything strange about their curiosity.
After living for a thousand years and suddenly hearing that you had a younger brother, anyone would want to see what was going on.
"If it's just meeting him, then of course that's fine. But not now. Let's do it tomorrow."
He also needed to go back and tell Kaguya about it.
As for Black Zetsu, there was no way he could let him go.
Leaving aside everything Black Zetsu had done, Orochimaru's experiments couldn't do without him.
After all, there was only one immortal test subject like him. Until they caught another member of the Otsutsuki clan, he could just cooperate with the experiments.
"All right, then I'll..."
Seeing that Aoba had agreed, Otsutsuki Hagoromo was about to leave, but then seemed to remember something and stopped.
"Oh, right. One more thing!"
"?"
Aoba looked at him with a face full of question marks and a strange expression.
"?"
Seeing the look in his eyes, Otsutsuki Hagoromo was also puzzled, but he didn't stop what he was doing.
A scroll appeared in his hand, "This is a method for contacting the Pure Land directly. If anything comes up in the future, or if you ever need our help, you can use this to contact us directly. There'll be no need to pass messages through Mount Myoboku anymore."
The main reason was that it was too awkward.
When that old toad saw the wedding invitation and contacted them this time, he hadn't stopped watching the show from the side.
If it weren't for their friendship over the years, and the fact that he could probably kill the old toad with a casual punch, he really would have wanted to hit him with something.
"Really? That'll make things much more convenient."
Aoba had no idea what Otsutsuki Hagoromo was thinking. He accepted the scroll, looked it over twice, and immediately mastered the method.
It wasn't complicated for him.
With everything settled, the two didn't continue talking.
Otsutsuki Hagoromo returned to the Pure Land, and Aoba went home as well.
———
In just that short time, everyone had already decided where they wanted to place these "Anywhere Doors."
Though rather than calling it a final decision, it was more accurate to say they had listed every location anyone had suggested and written them all down on paper.
Aoba didn't say anything. After taking the paper, he glanced over it and made an "OK" gesture.
The hardest part of this had been going from zero to one. After that, all that remained was choosing suitable teleportation locations.
One door definitely wouldn't be enough, though. He would have to prepare several more, or there wouldn't be enough room to write all the place names.
———
After dinner, as usual, Tenten, Ino, and the others were taken home.
As for Terumi Mei, Samui, and the others, they stayed directly at the new house.
After all, with the "Anywhere Door" Aoba had set up, they could go straight to work the next day. It really was much more convenient.
After taking everyone home, Aoba went to see Kaguya.
Although his main purpose wasn't intimacy, intimacy definitely couldn't be left out.
———
After moving the progress forward another small step, Aoba helped Kaguya wipe herself clean.
"Haa..."
Kaguya lay on the bed, breathing lightly. Looking at Aoba, who was still holding her... she didn't know what to say, "Aoba, do you think I should try some other styles of stockings?"
Aoba: "?"
Kaguya said a little embarrassedly, "Because I heard Karin and the others say that you seem to like it more that way..."
"Ahem! Just wear whatever you like. There's no need to force yourself."
Aoba coughed lightly and interrupted her.
'Although Kaguya's legs really do suit all kinds of...'
He hadn't expected that she'd only been here for such a short time and had already been corrupted.
"Oh, I understand~"
Kaguya's eyes flickered slightly, already having made up her mind.
Because his heartbeat had clearly sped up just now.
"By the way, Kaguya, do you still remember Black Zetsu?"
Seeing this, Aoba decided to bring up the main topic.
Originally, he had planned to spend a little more time with her before mentioning it.
"Black Zetsu?"
Kaguya had been wondering whether she should ask Karin tomorrow what kind of stockings would be more suitable. Hearing that familiar name all of a sudden, she froze for a moment before nodding.
"He was a being I created with my own power before I was sealed away. His purpose was to find a way to free me from the seal... Hm? Come to think of it, I've never been able to sense his presence. Could it be that Hagoromo and the others already dealt with him?"
As she spoke, Kaguya also seemed to come to a sudden realization.
Logically, since he had been created from the last of her chakra, after she escaped she should have been able to sense where he was.
The current situation was indeed rather strange.
"Well... how should I put it? He's actually in my hands now," Aoba said directly.
"Huh?"
Kaguya froze again.
Aoba continued explaining, "He committed something very serious in Konoha back then. Right now he's being punished. Do you want to go see him?"
"I see..."
Kaguya thought for a moment, then sat up straight and lowered her head apologetically, "I'm sorry, Aoba."
"Hm?"
Now it was Aoba's turn to be stunned.
"I don't know what Black Zetsu did in Konoha, but because of the final order I left him, everything he did must have been to rescue me. If he hurt everyone because of that, I'm very sorry," Kaguya spoke with guilt.
Aoba hadn't expected that this was what Kaguya was worried about, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"You don't need to do that. About what happened back then... how should I put it? Although it had a huge impact on Konoha, it wasn't entirely a bad thing."
After all, the only person who truly died because of Black Zetsu that night was Hiruzen.
As for Hiruzen, Aoba's opinion of him was actually rather complicated.
He had done plenty of foolish things while he was alive. There were good things and bad things, and opinions about him were mixed. But his death alone couldn't really be criticized.
However, the history of the ninja world truly did undergo a tremendous change on that day.
"And Black Zetsu is already being punished now. I need him to cooperate with a research project."
"I understand. Then I'll have him cooperate with you wholeheartedly, Aoba. You don't need to consider my feelings at all."
After listening to Aoba's explanation, Kaguya also expressed her position seriously.
"You are the most important to me!"
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