"Those are..."
As Hinata steadily added wounds to the Starry Sky Beast's body, she noticed something emerging from inside it.
Those things seemed to be alive.
"Its offspring? No, they're too small."
Compared to the Starry Sky Beast's moon-sized body, the things emerging from it were only the size of large dogs.
Even a newborn Starry Sky Beast would not be this small.
"Could they be parasites, or some kind of symbiotic bugs?"
These things looked utterly disgusting, too.
A fleshy lump with a dozen or so tentacles growing out of it—that was the entirety of what had emerged from the Starry Sky Beast.
Nothing about these things looked good.
The moment they appeared, they swarmed toward Hinata.
Clearly, they must have had a symbiotic relationship with the Starry Sky Beast.
As soon as they emerged, they filled the space around her.
There were at least several thousand of them!
Hinata swung the sword of light in her hand, slashing at them.
There might have been plenty of them, but they were not particularly strong.
Under Hinata's sword of light, they were cleanly sliced in half and killed.
After Hinata killed every last tentacled lump of flesh, she discovered that the Starry Sky Beast was flying toward the Shinobi World.
It wanted to descend upon the Shinobi World.
"Not a chance!"
While Hinata fought the Starry Sky Beast, back where the meteor hiding Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had exploded—the man she had stopped paying attention to after a single attack—
Someone was fleeing the area.
Judging by his limp, he was clearly injured.
"I never imagined she would be this strong!"
This man was none other than Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
The Ōtsutsuki Clan might not have been particularly impressive in terms of offensive power, but they had plenty of ways to stay