"Then I'll help you massage it later."
Hearing Kurama Yakumo say things so directly, Aoba naturally didn't bother beating around the bush either.
"Really, Aoba-nii?"
As soon as she heard that, Kurama Yakumo imitated Karin's tone, sounding soft and delicate, acting all coy as she spoke.
Her small face moved even closer, the watery shimmer in her eyes almost stretching into threads.
"Really."
Aoba supported Kurama Yakumo's hips with both hands and walked toward the front door.
But as the door opened, Kin and Yugito, who were each busy with their own things in the living room, were both startled. When they saw who it was, they were even more stunned.
"Lord Aoba?"
"Aoba?"
"You're both home today?"
Aoba was also taken aback. He had forgotten to sense whether anyone was at home. Otherwise, he would have just used Flying Thunder God to return straight to his room.
"..."
"It's almost lunchtime, of course we're home. It's you two though…"
Yugito's expression immediately turned a bit strange, because she noticed Aoba's somewhat restless hands as he held Kurama Yakumo.
"You two sure know how to have fun."
"..."
Aoba didn't feel embarrassed at all from Yugito's odd look and remark. They were already an old married couple, so there was nothing to fuss over.
He just gave a light cough, then looked at Kurama Yakumo, who was currently hugging his neck with moist eyes, and didn't waste words, only saying simply,
"Then when you prepare lunch, make a portion for us too."
After saying that, he directly carried Kurama Yakumo to his room.
"Tch!"
Seeing this, Yugito could only smack her lips lightly. Although she was a bit dissatisfied with their daytime… behavior, she didn't feel much jealousy.
After all, tricks like the ones Kurama Yakumo used were things she had already played with before.
And when she played, she didn't use her hands, clearly, she had won.
Yugito walked expressionlessly into the kitchen, only to find Kin still standing there, staring in the direction Aoba had left. A teasing smile couldn't help appearing at the corner of her mouth.
"What, you want to join in too?"
"No!"
Kin snapped back to her senses immediately.
She was just a little afraid of Kurama Yakumo.
Back then, it was Yakumo who defeated her with that strange genjutsu, and then she ended up coming to Lord Aoba's house to work as a maid.
Thinking about it this way, it seemed like she should actually be thanking Yakumo.
———
At the same time, atop Mount Myoboku, a place with a unique landscape. Inide a grand hall, the Great Toad Sage opened his frog eyes from a long slumber.
He sensed a familiar yet powerful chakra responding to his summons.
A summoning array in front of him lit up, and a somewhat illusory figure appeared at its center, a figure with horns and an aged face.
The Sage of Six Paths, or rather, Otsutsuki Hagoromo.
Although his physical body had long since died, his soul had persisted from a thousand years ago until now.
At this moment, Otsutsuki Hagoromo seemed to be seated in the void. As he appeared, he also opened those ripple-patterned eyes and looked at his old friend.
"It's been a long time, Gamamaru."
There was a feeling of reunion after a long separation between the two, after all, they had been partners for many years.
"Yes."
The Great Toad Sage's eyes also carried a trace of reminiscence as he slowly said, "It's been almost a thousand years."
Otsutsuki Hagoromo also fell silent for a moment, but quickly brought up the main matter and asked, "So, the reason you contacted me this time, what is it?"
"It's about Otsutsuki Kaguya."
The Great Toad Sage didn't beat around the bush and directly pointed out the key.
"Mother?"
Hearing this long-unheard name, Otsutsuki Hagoromo couldn't help but be slightly taken aback.
And since the Great Toad Sage knew about that period of history, he naturally used "mother" to refer to her.
"Is there a problem with her?"
"..."
"It's my prophecy."
The Great Toad Sage said, "In my prophecy, in the near future, she will come out of the seal."
"What?"
Otsutsuki Hagoromo immediately frowned. Although his soul had remained in the Pure Land, he had never relaxed his vigilance over the seal on the moon.
Moreover, his younger brother was there as well. For a thousand years, the seal had never had any issues, and it was still stable now.
"What exactly is going on?"
His expression turned serious. There was no way it couldn't. That woman was the nightmare of both him and his brother.
"Well…"
But at this critical moment, the Great Toad Sage instead showed hesitation, as if he wanted to speak but held back.
Otsutsuki Hagoromo grew even more puzzled. The other party had already called him here, so why act so hesitant now?
"Is there something hard to say?"
"This…"
The Great Toad Sage hesitated for a moment, then said seriously, "Hagoromo, what I'm about to say next, you must not get agitated."
"?"
Otsutsuki Hagoromo didn't respond, only quietly looked at the old toad in front of him.
"You know that under normal circumstances, my prophecies don't deviate much. This is only what I saw in the prophecy…"
The Great Toad Sage first gave himself some leeway. Seeing Otsutsuki Hagoromo nod slightly, as if prepared, he then took a deep breath and spoke of what he saw.
"I saw Otsutsuki Kaguya… holding a child. Beside her was a man whose appearance I couldn't make out clearly. They looked like a very happy family of three…"
"?"
A question mark slowly appeared over Otsutsuki Hagoromo's head.
He really wanted to say, 'Old toad, have you been asleep too long and gotten muddle-headed?'
'In that case, why don't you go back to sleep for a bit, then think carefully about what you're saying right now.'
'Are you saying that after a thousand years, I, the great Sage of Six Paths, am about to have a new younger brother?'
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