"Revived?"
Naruto froze for a moment.
Because Hyuga Kagami in his Edo Tensei Body state looked no different from usual—still composed, powerful, and mysterious in Naruto's eyes, not at all like a dead man—Naruto had never truly grasped the fact that Hyuga Kagami had died.
So when he learned that Hyuga Kagami was about to be revived, he did not feel much emotion instead.
The Nine-Tails thought Naruto was questioning it and snorted. "What's so strange about that? I told you long ago that for someone as powerful as him, death is merely an experience, not the end!"
Once one's strength reached a certain realm, the boundary between life and death was no longer so distinct.
If the Sage of Six Paths had not divided the Ten-Tails, founded Ninshū, and personally passed his chakra on to everyone hand in hand, he would never have aged and died.
Upon hearing Naruto murmur the word "revived," Shion, Gaara, Haku, and the others beside him all stirred, anticipation shining in their eyes.
To them, this was a miracle they had awaited for a long time!
Aboard the Aerial Fortress.
As the ocular power of Karin's Rinnegan surged rapidly, that immense power seemed to open some twisted space and forcibly summoned back Hyuga Kagami's soul as it returned to the underworld.
"So this is the underworld?"
Neji stared in stunned disbelief.
The Rinnegan's phenomenon of twisting space-time and blurring the divide between life and death was impossible for ordinary people to perceive. Even shinobi with ocular bloodlines could not see it. Yet because the Tenseigan in Neji's eye sockets were Hyuga Kagami's "Six Paths-level" Tenseigan, he was able to glimpse this phenomenon and witness the earth-shattering scene of the Rinnegan warping space-time to summon Hyuga Kagami's spirit back from the underworld.
Slap...
Just then,