"What... is this?"
"This is..."
Blinding white light shone down, yet it did not seem all that dazzling when it fell upon their eyes. Looking up instinctively, they saw that the full moon had somehow transformed into a pattern with Rinnegan ripples as its base, decorated with nine tomoe. Hirohiko and Yukina gasped softly, the words slipping from their mouths.
"Crack! Crack! Crack!"
Then, before the Slug Sage Art clone of the young Chiba ahead of them could speak, the ground split apart. What looked like the roots of some colossal plant, like a gigantic tree, suddenly burst from the earth before them. Almost the instant they emerged, countless vines extended from the leafless branches. Within a few blinks, the twelve young ninja in front of them had been bound into vine-wrapped mummies, dragged beneath the branches, and hung up.
"It's fine!"
At that moment, the Slug Sage Art clone of the young Chiba finally seemed to have the chance to speak. He pressed down Hirohiko's hands, which were forming seals, as well as Yukina's palm, which she had thrust backward, and said this.
"It's fine?"
Hirohiko, who had stopped his attack and was looking at the vine mummies of the twelve young ninja ahead, and Yukina, who had vigilantly turned around to look at the vine mummies of Uchiha Saintess and the other black-robed figure behind them, both froze.
"Infinite Tsukuyomi is a technique used by the original body."
Compared to the two of them, the Slug Sage Art clone of the young Chiba naturally understood the current situation far better.
This display, this feeling of hanging themselves from the southeastern branch—it was clearly Infinite Tsukuyomi, the core of the Moon Eye Plan from the original story.
A technique that plunged everyone into a dream world.
It also seemed