Chapter 177: The Tale of Two Brothers!
There was a fascinating silence in the room.
The Existence stared into Kai's eyes, trying to engulf this silence.
"There were once two brothers," the white-skinned being began solemnly. "One was a year older than the other. They were orphans, and when death came for them, they died together as well. Both were resurrected in the Primordial Tower and arrived in the Chaos' Valley. Their Initiation Mission took them to the Naruto Random World, and what they learned there became the outline for their future; their everything."
Kai listened as the two words gift and curse nailed him down. He didn't know what was the point of this tale, but he knew what would follow it, and the creepiness was crawling its way up from his heart to his mind.
"It didn't take long for their names to shake the Tower, either," the Existence continued. "But the reason for their stupendous growth was unknown to many. It turned out that in their Initiation Mission, the brothers had been Blessed by a Deep One.
"The younger brother got the Blessing of Kekkei Genkai, Byakugan, while the older brother got the Kekkei Genkai, Sharingan. Now equipped with their Blessings, no one could stand in front of them, especially when the brothers combined their powers. By the time they reached the 15th floor, only Kings could hope to fight them on the same footing.
"Such was the legend left behind by the brothers who went by a single name; Conqueror."
Kai even failed to fathom what kind of power they must have possessed.
"Alas, things changed once the brothers ascended to the 16th floor," the Existence said, his voice sharp, emotionless, but still solemn. "Both brothers loved each other deeply, but in between them now stood the very things that have brought them up. Their Blessings. The older brother, the user of Sharingan, thought that now they must look towards the Temples. In the Old Ones, he saw a path that seemed to have closed for him.