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Chapter 191: Hagoromo Appear
[3rd Party POV]
Madara who had watched Raiken and his Great Grandmother suddenly freezed and his body convulsed badly.
His eyes widened as he lost control of his limbs, one moment he had been standing beside Raiken. The next moment, he dropped to one knee with his hand pressed against the left side of his chest.
"What is happening to me?" Madara growled.
The place where he had implanted Hashirama flesh began to swell. Veins spread beneath the skin as two different types of chakra gathered in the same location.
Everyone in the chamber stopped moving. The member of Otsutsuki guards activated their Byakugan, while Kazuma hurried towards the barrier
"Move away from him!" Kazuma ordered.
Madara clenched his teeth and tried to stand but another convulsion passed through his body, forcing his knee deeper into the floor.
Raiken narrowed his eyes, Madara chakra was mixing with the chakra remaining inside Hashirama cells. The first belonged to Indra chakra while the second belonged to Asura.
When those two types of chakra joined together, they recreated a small portion of their father power.
Raiken felt a strong sense of déjà vu. The livestream audience also recognised what was happening.
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"Whoever you are, get out of my body!" Madara roared after feeling something try to escape from his body.
Chakra burst from his chest. It formed a pale cloud several steps in front of him. At first, the chakra did not have a definite shape. Then a head, arms and the outline of a long robe appeared.
A semi-transparent man slowly formed before them. Two horns extended from his forehead. Six black magatama decorated the front of his white robe, and a black rod rested in his hand.
When the figure opened his eyes, purple ripples covered them.
Hagoromo Otsutsuki had finally appeared. Madara forced himself back onto his feet as control of his body returned. He immediately glared at the transparent man.
"Who are you?" asked Madara, he didn't recognize Hagoromo but the eyes are similar to him.
"I used the chakra within you as an anchor," Hagoromo explained. "Indra chakra alone was insufficient. However, the flesh you took from Asura chakra allowed a portion of my original chakra to form."
"Who are you?" asked Madara again and everyone become tensed.
"I am sage of six path, Hagoromo Otsutsuki," said Hagoromo.
Everyone except Raiken and Kaguya freezed, even Madara looked surprised.
"You are finally here unfilial son," said Kaguya.
Hagoromo attention moved towards Kaguya, who remained seated on the floor after awakening from her imprisonment.
"Give her some space," said Hagoromo while looking at Raiken, currently he didn't feel any pressure that he felt from his mother on the past.
Raiken also rose and stepped away from Kaguya and letting the mother and son talk, once again the livestream comment exploded with people who donated the money
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Kaguya stared at her son, for a moment she cried.
She had raised her son with loves but at the end, they are the one who betrayed her.
Although Hagoromo face was older than she remembered, and his body had become translucent, but she would never mistake him for anyone else.
"Hagoromo," she whispered.
For the first time since awakening, the coldness in her expression disappeared.
She slowly lifted one trembling hand towards him.
Hagoromo grip tightened around his staff.
"Mother."
Hearing him call her that seemed to break something inside Kaguya.
She tried to stand, but her weakened legs almost failed beneath her. Raiken instinctively moved to help her, only for Kaguya to pull away from him.
Her attention never left Hagoromo.
"You have grown old," she said.
"A thousand years have passed."
Kaguya froze. "A thousand years and you have sealed me for 1000 years?"
Everyone looked at the mother and son reunion, they didn't say anything.
Raiken watched the drama and he really hope he had popcorn and can of soda.
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Kaguya take a deep breath, she looked around the chamber.
With a second look she now finally understand, the person who had helped her escape from the seal are this red hair descendant.
She looked at both Raiken and Madara, then her eyes stopped at several Otsutsuki member who had the same eyes like her.
Kaguya turned back towards Hagoromo.
"If a thousand years have passed, why are you still here?"
Raiken also wanted to hear the answer.
Hagoromo physical body should have decomposed centuries ago. Yet the figure standing before them could think, speak and observe everything around him.
He was not a memory stored inside chakra that means he was still alive.
Raiken folded his arms while asking the same question.
"So you never truly died."
Hagoromo turned towards him.
"My physical body had broken a long time ago."
Madara studied Hagoromo with his Rinegan. The other Otsutski especially Kazuma and the other higher up also waited for an explanation.
"That didn't answer my question," replied Raiken.
"You are correct. I have not yet experienced true death," answered Hagoromo.
Hagoromo lowered the end of his staff towards the floor. It passed halfway through the stone before he made it solid again.
"Every living being who possesses chakra has two bodies," Hagoromo explained. "The first is the physical body. The second is an astral body formed from spiritual energy, memories and chakra."
"What happens when the physical body fails?" asked Kazuma.
"The astral body is separated from it and enters the astral dimension. Most people believe that separation to be death, but it's not," revealed Hagormo.
Raiken looked at Hagoromo's transparent form.
"True death happens when the astral body fails but even with that I can't get my physical body back," said Hagoromo.
"So you are not returning back from death?" asked Raiken.
"Correct, there is no way we could return from death, only god have that power and we are just a normal being with a chakra," replied Hagoromo.
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Mon activated his Byakugan and examined Hagoromo.
"How long can someone remain inside that dimension?" asked Raiken.
The others become interested even Kaguya paused didn't interrupt her son, they are things that she also didn't know.
"That depends on how much chakra they possess," said Hagoromo. "An ordinary person with very little chakra may remain conscious for only several seconds. Once that chakra is depleted, the astral body collapses and they die."
"And a shinobi?" asked Kazuma.
"Someone with greater chakra may survive for minutes, years or even centuries."
The answer explained the existence of the Reanimation Jutsu.
The jutsu did not revive someone who had already experienced death.
Instead, it reached into the astral dimension, captured an astral body that had not yet died and bound it to a living sacrifice. The dirt and ash covering the sacrifice merely created an imitation of the person old physical body.