"Done?"
"...yes." Orochimaru nodded as he was still at a loss about what had happened, then looked at Shinra, who was just reading a book quietly, while enjoying the afternoon tea.
While Shinra was strong, he possessed the power to destroy everything, including the world. Using his mind only, he was able to turn everything to his favor, and the day of the coup was closer.
By then, Orochimaru would have held the position of the Hokage and then stood on the side of justice.
"...it's incredible."
"Don't be that surprised. It's easy for me." Shinra put down his book and said, "Sarutobi and the rest aside, those things are nothing compared to the danger that we might encounter."
"What kind of trouble do you mean?" Orochimaru was confused.
"It's those creatures who think that they are a god. Not those nobles who use their status, but those who are similar to the First Hokage or Uchiha Madara, who can conquer the world with their strength alone."
'It's you, right?'
Orochimaru thought inwardly, but then this also made him wonder. "Are there others like you?"
"...do you think I treat myself like a god?"
"....." Orochimaru.
While Shinra rolled his eyes, he also felt that it was okay since it was normal that in history many those who stood at the top, such as a king, a tsar, an emperor, and many others, often linked themselves to a god, the higher being, the one that everyone should worship. Frankly, while he didn't ask others to treat him like a higher being, the others would do so, and he also didn't say much about it since it was troublesome to fix them.
"Well, you are not wrong."
"..." Orochimaru.
Shinra didn't want to think that he was a god, but sometimes, he felt angry when others tried to fight him, trying to argue with him, and then thought to punish them, especially those who wanted to harm him.
However, for those who weren't, he didn't have that many thoughts, and he also hardly felt that he was superior to many, especially when he wasn't perfect, and in a certain area, some were better than him.
Still, instead of thinking that he was superior to many, he just didn't care since his goal was just to look around various worlds, and if he had to say, he wasn't that much different from Ootsuki, who tried to colonize one planet after another, trying to suck all the values.
However, while the Ootsuki Clan was a bandit that would rob everything before moving to the next target when the place that they had been to had lost its value, Shinra was like a sheep farmer, trying to make a buck from sheep's wool, and took care of his sheep till they grew more wool.
In his mind, all of those people that he had been with were his sheep, and their value came from the wool that they could give him. When they lost all of their wool and grew old, then well, they would pass away, becoming the nutrients for the planet, bringing eternal prosperity to him and everyone.
"But... that Sage of Six Paths in the legend was the Ootsuki Clan?"
Still, Orochimaru didn't care if Shinra acted like a god or not, and even if Shinra tried to act like one, it didn't really matter since Shinra had the power to become one. Even a certain man in the Rain Village also often proclaimed himself as a god, even if he was defeated by Shinra.
"..." Nagato.
What Orochimaru was more curious about was the Ootsuki Clan that Shinra mentioned, who was also his ancestor, the one who had given birth to ninjas, which also gave him the title of the God of Shinobi, yet unexpectedly, this god that everyone worshipped was an alien?
"He isn't exactly an alien since he is half human of this planet."
"I see..." Orochimaru nodded and understood the Sage of Six Paths' origin, whose father was an emperor of this world, and whose mother was the Rabbit Goddess, the calamity of the world of ninja, Kaguya Ootsuki.
Only—
"Wait, wait! But, even so, he sealed his mother because he thought that his mother would bring danger to the world?"
Orochimaru felt weird when he heard that the Sage of the Six Paths, Hagoromo Ootsutsuki, sealed his mother, or even tried to kill her.
Unfortunately, while Hagoromo was the God of Shinobi, he was still weaker than his mother.
Yet, those problems aside, why the heck did this God of Shinobi do that to his mother?
"That's right."
"But... that's his mother, right?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Because he thought that his mother would bring danger to the world."
"Why did he think his mother would bring danger to the world?"
"Because he befriended the frog, who could do divination, and believed in that divination."
"..." Orochimaru.
"But, that was the truth since his mother would bring danger to the world since she planned to create something by absorbing most of the things in the world to make herself stronger."
"Why did she have to grow stronger?"
There must be a reason why people wanted to grow stronger, or simply change their fate, but what was it?
Moreover, if one was strong or wealthy from the beginning, why did they have to work hard, right?
So, for Kaguya Ootsuki, who was worshipped by everyone on this planet as a goddess, trying to become stronger, there must be a reason, right?
"Because another Ootsuki clan member planned to kill her."
"....." Orochimaru.
"While Kaguya might be a goddess in this world, she is just a slave of the Ootsuki Clan that comes from outer space, and she tried to grow stronger to defeat them. Unfortunately, her two sons betrayed her and sealed her on the moon. By then, it would be the start of the age of a ninja, the time where all of those with superior powers would exchange their strength for money, starting a war, tragedy, and many other things."
"....." Orochimaru.
Even if Orochimaru was smart, there was too much information that had entered his head, and he felt like it would overload him.
Whether it was Kaguya, Hagoromo, the toad, the Ootsuki Clan, or the start of the age of shinobi, there were many things that made Orochimaru feel at a loss, but he couldn't help but ask, "Did that toad and the God of Shinobi know about the Ootsuki Clan, who wanted to rob this planet?"
"No."
"..."
This world was fucked up, Orochimaru thought.
As he let out a helpless sigh, it was impossible for him to do anything to change the status quo, especially when he had to face a powerful race that had always robbed a planet and everything for their own purposes.
Yet, even so—
"Let's start the coup first."
"Okay."
While many things had happened, what they needed to do first was to start the coup, but before that, Shinra thought to take away all of the Tailed Beasts, so that way, it would give him a moment of respite, as the other ninja villages wouldn't have time to make a move on them.
He thought so and left, but Orochimaru had made up his plan to take away the throne that was supposed to be his.