60 Chapter-60: Hopes and dreams getting crushed!
(3rd POV)
After both the Otsutsukis were dealt with, Kazuya had made himself a small wood mansion using wood release as he checked their memories.
He was eating some chicken biryani and butter chicken masala, he cooked for himself painstakingly using system for the ingredients as well as the utensils.
It was hard dish to make as it was Indian and the dishes needed a lot of focus on spices. One small mistake and you have a disgusting spicy mess.
He was really happy today. He sat down to eat as he started eating.
"WHY?!" Kazuya suddenly screamed after a few minutes into the memory as his chakra went haywire and it destroyed everything near him, even the food.
Okay, maybe he wasn't so happy.
The reason for that was the memories of Isshiki as well as Kaguya.
It was the knowledge of Otsutsuki clan as well as the workings of the clan.
Otsutsuki clan had roughly 700 members in total.
The Otsutsukis didn't have only one ruler.
They had multiple rulers.
The top most group in the hierarchy were called prince candidates, the ones who were born with four eye slots or more on their body.
It didn't matter who were their parents or how they were born.
If they had four or more eye sockets, they were automatically a prince candidate.
They were really rare and were considered the rulers by everyone.
These prince candidates decided how will the clan proceed with literally everything after meeting up with together and taking the decision. The decision were peaceful as all of them were ardent believers of Otsutsuki will.
They received all of the chakra fruits and possessed the best chances to awaken the Jougan.
Most prince candidates' names as well as abilities were unknown to others, including, Isshiki and Kaguya but Isshiki knew that only four candidates were alive as of now and they were strong.
Extremely strong.
Both Isshiki and Kaguya belonged to Momoshiki's faction, the latest faction created. And other three...
Well, they only knew bits and pieces of their information. Intel on them was critically low.
The next group in hierarchy were royal guards.
These were possessors of unique dojutsus or three eyes sockets and were responsible for guarding prince candidates with their lives. Their quantity ranged from one to ten. As long as you had a met the qualifications and you were willing to put in the effort for sake of clan, you would become Royal guard. Some exceptions were their in their recruitment but nothing too complicated.
They received one fruit every 2000 years
They possessed superior genes and mostly gave birth to other royal guards and in some cases, prince candidates.
They were the planters as well. They planted Shinju in different worlds along with their masters, Prince candidates.
After planting, they were responsible for cultivating the fruit and bringing it back to the prince candidate, though in some cases, they were asked to eat the fruit and sacrifice themselves to become an enhanced chakra fruit which possessed absurd strength. Most of them were fiercely loyal and had immense pride in their jobs.
Isshiki was a royal guard responsible for Shinju's development and the current fruit was supposed to be eaten by him, after which, he would be consumed by Momoshiki to enhance his powers.
After that were the commoners, the last in the hierarchy, or as most prince candidates and royal guards referred to them, 'Sacrifices'.
These were standard Otsutsuki that looked normal. No fancy powers other than ones that is naturally possessed by Otsutsukis. Some were really strong and some were really weak.
They were, as Isshiki was described by his ancestors, slaves that should willingly become sacrifices for shinju tree and become part of the power of prince candidates and royal guards.
Otsutsukis didn't produce clones en masse as the soul was needed inside it for sacrifices to shinju tree to work and all candidates that had soul related powers were taken 'care' of.
The reason for that was because of Shinju tree.
Soul was a necessary part, that was needed to be sacrificed for the shinju to grow it and only an Otsutsuki with an aged soul could be sacrificed to shinju so that the fruit is created. That is the reason Otsutsukis didn't sacrificed children.
The prime age for being able to be sacrificed was 180 years, at least.
Others were simply bad material to be sacrificed and didn't have any real value.
Transplanting some other creature's soul in Otsutsuki body was useless as well. They would need around 980 years to mature as a sacrifice and hence was extremely inefficient.
There were also other reasons like, what if the some other creatures' soul was transplanted into prince candidates' body? Would he be considered a prince candidate or will he be a sacrifice?
The questions were endless and hence the Otsutsukis thought it'd be best to not delve into something they'd regret doing later.
The Otsutsukis that had strong soul related powers were either sacrificed the earliest or were made into royal guards, suppressed and controlled by Jougan forever.
Now some good questions would be to ask would be:
'Why didn't the clan go under a revolution or implode?' or 'Why were they doing this' or 'Why didn't commoners rebel?'
The clan didn't go under revolution because the commoners were enslaved by prince candidates.
One of the powers of Jougan, the dojutsu their alleged 'god' had, was to control the Otsutsukis.
One of the current prince candidates, who had Jougan, took the control too far and controlled all the Otsutsuki in his faction and made them roleplay as maids.
Even some men were made into maids, if they looked female enough and a sizable chunk of Otsutuski clan looked like that.
The fear, that even the strongest commoners, even males, were being controlled and used as maids was enough for all the commoners in other factions to shut up and stop complaining at all.
The prince candidates were not intimidated by his powerplay, however and there was no discord between them as most of the prince candidates possessed a Jougan except, Momoshiki.
He was working on getting one through awakening currently, though he was also searching for its location now, which was this planet.
He was the youngest Otsutsuki prince candidate after all.
The purpose of Otsutsuki clan was to slowly implode. Each and every Otsutsuki, along with all that exists becomes one, the Otsutsuki god. That is the true god that can casually swing his arm to destroy multiple realities, according to them.
This meant that the strongest would survive and all the others would become food for him, even prince candidates but that was the ending part. They were still really far away from taking in all the planets and sources of natural energy.
The reason for Kazuya's rage was because not one but four prince candidates existed, who were stronger than one another, dethroning him from the strongest list before he could even establish himself as the strongest. This list was excluding the royal guards as they were the prince candidates' lap dogs. If they were included in the list, then Kazuya's rank would sink even further, even after taking a safe assumption.
The situation was now getting more and more complicated and Kazuya was afraid as he would might even be hunted.
Another reason he was mad was because of Jougan.
It was a power that remained constant in the world. This meant if some world was meant to produce Jougan.
It cannot be stopped anyhow, no matter how many changes are done, even if planet is destroyed from existence.
It was a destiny thing.
Regardless of everything, if a Jougan was meant to be produced here, then it will be produced. Others things could change but not this.
"GOD DAMN IT! F*CK THIS CLAN! F*CK THIS GOD DAMN CLAN! F*CK THIS BROKEN WORLD! F*CK EVERYTHING!" Kazuya once again raged as he stomped his feet rapidly into the ground as he created earthquakes.
"All my efforts were useless! All this manipulation! All this deception! All this pain! All for nothing! This is the f*cking fate and even with system, I can't defy it! Not unless I possess obscene amount of points!" Kazuya screamed as he hyperventilated as his chakra destroyed the surrounding due to sheer presence and he punched the earth repeatedly, in sheer anger, creating giant craters with each punch.
The sheer anger he was experiencing was enough to open the second gate in his body.
His anger issues from his previous life were showing up now.
The inhumane control he had over himself all the time finally slipped.
After a while, rain started as if the planet was weeping from the beating it got but didn't deserve.
Or was the planet crying for the wasted chicken biryani and butter chicken masala?
Who knows.
Kazuya's eyes finally started looking a little hollow.
It was akin to crossing an ocean, only to discover the place you reached was just a checkpoint, not the real location. The whole another journey existed ahead of him.
Also his efforts to make sure that Jougan doesn't come into existence to complicate already complex dojutsu b*llshit was a complete waste of time and energy as well. He underestimated Jougan a little too much because the owner of the eye was a male Sakura which went by the name of Boruto.
It was a disgusting nightmare for him and he seriously wished that someone would come to him and say 'hey bro! that was a prank!'
The situation was looking tougher for him now.
It was either you own the Jougan or you leave it.
And leaving it for someone else to get meant becoming a sacrifice in grander scene of things, disappearing forever.
His hopes were beginning to dwindle once again, just like his previous life.
His interest in power was finally starting to drop.
He didn't know what to do from here.
To go and struggle for endless power, living away the life for it or choosing to do something else?
"So what now?" Kazuya asked himself as tears welled up in his eyes but he was still trying to control his emotions.
He sniffed as he lied down in the rain, staring at the rain.
The scene was really similar to the day he entered this cursed world.
Oh, the irony!
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(A/N: Another chapter.
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