Time around them froze at that moment. Only within the area Yoru Machi was looking at did time begin to flow backward.
Sasuke, who had been reduced to ashes by Corpse Bone, was restored under the power of Yoru Machi's Rinnegan as though a recording were being played in reverse. The fragments gradually reassembled into his body, until time rewound to the instant Corpse Bone shot toward him.
After roughly ten seconds had passed, time around them resumed its flow. Yoru Machi, floating in midair, covered his eye and began panting heavily.
After his Mangekyo Sharingan had evolved into the Rinnegan, Yoru Machi's Amenotachikara had become stronger in both ability and effect.
During the previous Mangekyo stage, he could rewind time by three seconds, but it came with severe backlash and even carried the risk of blindness.
At the Eternal Mangekyo stage, the backlash had been greatly reduced, while the limit for rewinding time had become five seconds.
Now, in the Rinnegan state, the limit had become ten seconds. There was almost no backlash, but every use consumed an enormous amount of ocular power and Chakra.
The stronger the ability, the greater the cost it usually entailed. In truth, this ability only worked because it belonged to Yoru Machi. If anyone else possessed it, Yoru Machi did not believe they would have enough Chakra to activate it.
The resurrected Sasuke stared at his own hands with an utterly astonished expression. But after that brief shock, he quickly returned to battle and did not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Why was this opportunity so rare? Because his sudden resurrection had not only shocked him. Naruto, Black Zetsu, and Kaguya, who had witnessed it from afar, were all stunned as well.
Since Yoru Machi had warned him beforehand, Naruto was surprised, but he