Perhaps it had simply been too long since Otsutsuki Hamura had encountered someone who treated him with so little respect.
Hamura fell silent for several seconds before finally speaking again.
"The Karma Technique."
"The Sakura Technique?"
Renji raised an eyebrow slightly.
"This is a technique that only members of the Otsutsuki clan can use. By placing one’s chakra inside another person, even after death, one can leave one’s chakra behind within the host and continue to exist."
Otsutsuki Hamura calmly explained,
"However, the Karma Technique used by my brother and me is somewhat special. Our chakra can remain within the reincarnated individual even after the host’s reincarnation."
"For several thousand years, we have remained within our descendants, observing the changes in this world. Whenever an unforeseen incident occurred, we would intervene to stop it."
"So... so amazing."
Hinata covered her mouth with both hands in astonishment.
"I see. Your brother used the Karma Technique to reside within his two sons, while you probably did something similar and chose descendants from your direct bloodline, right?"
Renji sneered.
"Ultimately, you simply weren’t willing to die, were you? And the Karma Technique’s abilities aren’t limited to this, are they?"
Renji had never quite understood how Black Zetsu had been able to use Six Paths Madara’s body to resurrect Kaguya.
But after hearing Otsutsuki Hamura explain the Karma Technique, he had basically figured out the reason.
This time, Hamura remained silent for a long while before speaking again.
"The chakra of an Otsutsuki residing within a host can consume and overwrite the host. Once successful, the Otsutsuki can use the host’s body to achieve resurrection."
If Hinata had merely been astonished before, then after learning the Karma Technique’s complete function, she was completely dumbfounded.
Th-This wasn’t simply a technique that allowed the dead to resurrect?
It was a perfect resurrection at that.
Rather than calling Black Zetsu Kaguya’s son, it would be more accurate to call him the embodiment of her chakra.
Renji narrowed his eyes slightly.
When he had inserted himself into Six Paths Madara’s body, he had completed the Karma Technique, instantly allowing Kaguya to resurrect.
That was the principle behind it.
"What an utterly shameless technique, you bunch of albinos."
Renji clicked his tongue in disdain.
"Then what? Why did you drag me and this girl into this spiritual world? Don’t tell me you’re planning to use that brat Toneri’s body to resurrect yourself?"
The wrinkles on Otsutsuki Hamura’s face twitched slightly as he spoke in a deep voice.
"Although my brother and I used this technique on our descendants, we never once had the intention of using our own children as vessels for resurrection. Toneri and his father committed grave sins, and receiving this punishment is only natural. This old man will not interfere."
Halfway through his explanation, Hamura suddenly changed the subject.
His gaze shifted toward Hinata, who had been standing there quietly and had barely attracted any attention until now.
"This old man never expected that the branch family remaining in the world created by my brother would actually give birth to a descendant possessing the bloodline of the direct family."
The Hyuga clan had been divided into the main family and branch family since the Warring States period, or perhaps even earlier.
Many members of the main family took great pride in their status as members of the main house.
Yet they did not know that those who had remained on Earth and carried the name "Hyuga" were also, in a sense, members of the branch family.
When Otsutsuki Hamura had once moved his entire clan to the Moon to protect the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path sealed there, the main family had been the ones who went to the Moon, while the branch family remained on Earth.
Later, the main family on the Moon split into another main family and branch family.
Meanwhile, the branch family on Earth also split into a main family and branch family.
These people really had nothing better to do.
And now, Hinata, a member of the branch family, actually possessed the direct bloodline of Otsutsuki Hamura.
It was indeed something that shocked him.
Renji blinked.
Thinking about how, near the end of the Fourth Great Ninja War, the Sage of Six Paths had given his two sons’ reincarnations massive power-ups, he could not help asking:
"You can give this girl a power-up too?"
"A power-up? What is that?"
Otsutsuki Hamura frowned in confusion.
Fine.
He needed to put it another way.
"Can you make her awaken eyes like yours?"
Wasn’t the power system of the Naruto world basically all about the eyes?
In the original story, the sisters Hinata and Hanabi both possessed extremely pure Byakugan that could be described as the "Byakugan Princesses."
Once Otsutsuki Toneri, a direct descendant of Otsutsuki Hamura, transplanted the eyes of these sisters, he could awaken the Tenseigan, just like his ancestor.
It was essentially the same principle as Uchiha Madara, a direct descendant of the Sage of Six Paths, transplanting Hashirama Senju’s cells and evolving his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan into the Rinnegan.
But Renji had no intention of transplanting that brat Toneri’s cells into Hinata.
Just imagining Madara and Shisui with Hashirama’s face and features growing out of their chests...
Damn, that image was disgusting.
He would much rather let Hinata remain a beautiful flower vase.
Wasn’t that perfectly fine?
"This old man’s chakra can indeed serve as a key to unlock the power hidden within her eyes. However, I cannot guarantee how much of that power she will ultimately be able to wield."
Otsutsuki Hamura answered.
"Are there any side effects? If there are, then forget it."
Renji clearly didn’t care.
There was nothing wrong with Hinata remaining beautiful just the way she was.
Why did she need overwhelming power?
He alone was enough.
Otsutsuki Hamura blinked twice.
He couldn’t help wondering inwardly:
Why doesn’t this kid follow the usual script?
Doesn’t he know how powerful the Tenseigan is?
Doesn’t he understand what awakening these eyes actually represents?
Otsutsuki Hamura let out a long sigh.
"If Toneri dies, this old man will not know whose body he will reincarnate into in the next life. Once I help this child awaken her power, the last trace of chakra I have left in this world will also disappear, and I will finally be able to enter the Pure Land."
"This old man already learned through Toneri that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path has been summoned away. Clearly, someone who has inherited my mother’s will is plotting something in this world."
"I hope there is someone who can stop them."
Otsutsuki Hamura fixed his gaze firmly upon Hinata.
"Child, are you willing?"