Pirate: This Marine has two Rinnegan.

As for who this Otsutsuki really is, one name popped into Chiga's mind.

He looked towards the Red Earth continent and said in a deep voice.

"Imura Otsutsuki?"

Chapter 213 The Mad Im

Mary Geoise, among the flowers

Im, sitting on the throne, seemed to sense something. He opened his red eyes and looked in one direction, where Chiga was at the end.

At that moment, two pairs of eyes seemed to clash across the void, unleashing an invisible surge of energy.

The entire holy land suddenly shook violently. Before many Celestial Dragons could react, they were shaken to the ground, startling their guards who rushed forward to help their masters up.

The Celestial Dragons all did the same thing after getting up: they slapped the guards hard across the face, and some even went so far as to execute the guards in a fit of rage.

Charlotte was fast asleep, hugging Chiga's doll, and the drool dripping from the corner of her mouth had already soaked the doll's head.

The sudden shaking caused her to roll off the bed, waking her from her sweet dream.

Upon waking, Charlia didn't shout or scream like the other Celestial Dragons. She rubbed her eyes groggily and muttered to herself,

"What happened? Why do I feel Chiga's presence?"

Returning to the flowers,

Im slowly rose from his throne, a faint smile playing on his lips, and addressed the empty hall.

"Did you notice? Uchiha Chiga."

At that moment, a voice rang in his mind.

"He must have found out something. So, should we 'take him back' now?"

A look of disgust crossed Im's face. He was fed up with the feeling of having another person inside him, especially since this person knew everything about him, including his despicable acts.

He ignored the voice, and simply waved his sleeve, and an image of Chiga appeared in the air in front of him.

Im stared fascinated at Chiga's Rinnegan and the horn on his head, murmuring...

"You've finally grown to this level. My prediction was right after all. I've been waiting for this for so long!"

However, the voice rang out again.

"His evolution has truly exceeded my expectations. I never imagined he could evolve from a human body to such an extent!"

Im chuckled dismissively, and said sarcastically,

"How can someone as worthless as you compare to me? Once my plan succeeds, you can just wait to completely disappear from my body!"

"..."

The voice in Im's mind was silent for a moment, then ignored Im's sarcasm and asked,

"So you're going to take back Uchiha Chika now? Although he's evolving in the right direction, he doesn't seem to be fully evolved yet."

"Hmph, of course I know that, so I will continue to wait patiently. I've endured hundreds of years, so what's a little more time?"

"You're quite composed. Aren't you afraid he'll surpass you after he successfully evolves?"

"Don't think of me as useless as you. I have my own methods, just you wait and see!"

"Then I wish you success."

After saying that, the voice in Im's mind went completely silent.

Im snorted coldly, his gaze focusing on a spot in the air.

A vortex-shaped black hole appeared in the air, emanating a series of chilling roars.

Through the black hole, you can see a blood-red eye staring intently at Im outside.

Such a terrifying sight would probably make an ordinary person faint immediately, but Im seemed to enjoy it.

He gazed at the monster in the black hole with the eyes of someone admiring a precious gem, and said with fascination,

"As long as you're here, I'm invincible!"

"Roar!!!"

He was met with another deafening roar, but Im ignored it and continued speaking.

"Don't worry, you'll soon become a part of me. Then, what will become of Joy Boy? What will become of all those prophecies? I will be the only true god in this world! Hahahaha!"

The monster inside the black hole grew increasingly agitated by Im's maniacal laughter, but its body was bound by lines of pitch-black threads, preventing it from moving an inch no matter how much it struggled. It could only vent its anger by roaring.

Im watched the monster's "performance" with a smile for a while. The monster's roar sounded like beautiful music to him, and he was always completely captivated by it.

The monster knew that it was just raging in vain and that it was doing nothing but making the human look even more disgusting, so it simply lay on the ground and remained silent.

Im lost interest in continuing; he looked away, and the black hole closed.

He looked in Chiga's direction again, opened his arms, and shouted.

"Uchiha Chika! I can give you anything you want! Just keep growing! Until..."

At this point, a sickly smile appeared on Im's face, and he continued,

"Until I become its nourishment! Hahahaha!"

Laughter drifted through the flowers to the sacred ground outside. Upon hearing it, the five elders, who were sitting together in the hall, immediately stood up and looked in the direction of the flowers.

The five elders in black flat caps hesitated and said, (I know this elder is called Jecarusia Satan Saint, but I don't know the others, so I can only describe him by his distinctive features...)

"That's Lord Im's voice. He seems to be in a very good mood today."

The five elders with short, blond hair nodded, but his expression looked rather grim because he had heard the name "Uchiha Chika".

For some reason, he just hated this Uchiha brat so much that he wanted to execute the guy who challenged their authority on the spot.

However, there was nothing that could be done. It seemed that Lord Im valued Uchiha Chika very much, and even punished him severely because of him.

So he could only keep this hatred to himself, which made him feel like he had to swallow his pride and bear it.

The five elders in white kimonos continued wiping their katana, their expressions calm and composed, as they spoke softly.

"Isn't something that pleases Lord Im also a good thing for us? There's no need to make such a fuss."

The remaining five elders with birthmarks and the five elders with long beards immediately nodded in agreement.

Clearly, there are factions among the Five Elders, and these three are obviously from one faction, with the Five Elder in the white kimono being the leader of this faction.

The Five Elders in black flat caps and the Five Elders with short blond hair showed displeasure upon hearing his words; they had long disliked this pretentious guy.

This guy is closer to Lord Im than they are, so the Five Elders with the birthmark and the Five Elders with the long beard look up to him and they stick together tightly when something happens.

Sometimes, the two of them even had to listen to their opinions, which was simply intolerable for the two men in their high positions of power.

Out of respect for Lord Im, they had no choice but to comply in the end.

The blond-haired elder grew increasingly angry, but he couldn't vent his anger on the other three, so he could only mutter curses under his breath.

"Damn Uchiha brat! I'll..."

Chapter 214 Chiga's Justice

Chiga looked away; he had gotten the answer he wanted.

He saw a pair of "eyes" during his exchange with Im.

It was a pair of red "Rinnegan," but the ripples within them did not cover the eyes; there were only two rings.

Of course, Chiga couldn't be certain based on appearance alone, but as someone with the Rinnegan, he could sense a familiar aura from those eyes.

That was the scent of "one of our kind".

However, this aura was very strange; it appeared and disappeared intermittently, and when it did appear, it was extremely weak, as if it had suffered some kind of trauma.

Chiga lowered her head, lost in thought.

"It seems that Im is hiding some secret."

Judging from Im's reaction just now, he is indeed paying attention to me all the time, but what makes him so interested in me?

Is it simply because they are "of the same kind"?

As far as Chiga knew, the Otsutsuki clan had a very weak concept of clan members, but this Im was so "caring" towards her, which could be said to have opened wide doors for her growth.

"Ten-Tails," "Otsutsuki," "care," "faint aura"

Keywords flashed through Qianhe's mind, and suddenly, a conjecture struck like a thunderbolt.

"He's planning to feed me to the Ten-Tails after I grow into an Otsutsuki!?"

Once this conjecture appeared, it lingered in Chiga's mind for a long time, and he felt that he had guessed Im's thoughts pretty accurately.

But there's another problem: isn't Im afraid that once he fully evolves into the Otsutsuki, he won't be a match for him?

Based on that faint aura just now, he probably couldn't even beat his current self, so where did he get the confidence that he would be a match for his evolved self?

After much thought, there is only one possibility: Im is not a member of the Otsutsuki clan. He was marked with a "wedge" by an Otsutsuki, just like the relationship between Otsutsuki Isshiki and Jigen.

This explains why I felt that aura was so weak.

Im's trump card is very likely to be using the "Karma" to temporarily gain the power of the Otsutsuki, thereby taking down himself.

If that's the case, it seems that the Otsutsuki who carved the "Wedge" on Im's body is definitely not weak, and he is confident that he can defeat himself when he first became an Otsutsuki.

But regardless of what's really going on with Im, his goal should be the same as what Chiga was thinking: to feed him to the Ten-Tails so that it can eat the fruit and increase its power.

Perhaps Im is even more anxious about Chiga's evolution than he is about Chiga himself.

If Chiga hadn't been so picky about Devil Fruits, and if it weren't impossible to force him to swallow them by stuffing them into his mouth, Im might have even tried to shove the Devil Fruit into his Rinnegan himself.

Chiga naturally guessed that Im wanted his evolution to be faster, but he couldn't think of a way to deal with it for the time being.

Chiga's evolutionary path will definitely continue, because even if he delays evolving, Im will eventually lose patience and forcefully feed his incomplete Otsutsuki form to the Ten-Tails.

Furthermore, since Im is so confident that he can deal with an Otsutsuki, his strength is likely to be above his own.

Instead of relying on our current strength to fight Im head-on, we should evolve and then fight him. That way, we'll have a better chance of winning.

Chiga refused to believe that the Rinnegan, having absorbed so much Devil Fruit power, would be no match for Im after its evolution.