Using Chibaku Tensei to seal Otsutsuki Kaguya had been Hiko's plan all along, but he had not expected her to be far stronger than before. He had been forced to wear down her strength first before taking the chance to seal her away.
As he watched the enormous sealing stone slowly sink into the sea, Hiko felt utterly exhausted.
After fighting for so long, Hiko's consumption had been astonishing. Especially later, when Otsutsuki Kaguya had set the island ablaze with Amaterasu flames—he had fought within the fire itself, enduring the damage while battling her. The physical drain had been even more terrifying.
"Phew!" Hiko drifted down and landed on a reef that had not yet sunk, breathing heavily as he glanced over the holy land that had been resplendent only a day ago. He had never expected Mary Geoise, which had supported the World Government for more than eight hundred years, to be destroyed by his own hand.
All of Mary Geoise had been shattered beyond recognition. Countless fractured areas were gradually sinking, though several larger sections had remained above water. A massive tree that reached the heavens had rooted itself across the ruins, binding them tightly together and preventing Mary Geoise from sinking completely.
Hiko glanced at the Divine Tree, which could bring about the destruction of a world no matter which world it existed in, and a trace of hostility appeared in his eyes.
Something capable of changing the rules of power in the world was itself a seed of disaster. In order to nurture it, Otsutsuki Kaguya had not hesitated to feed it hundreds of thousands of lives. If an even crazier person came along, seeking greater power and using one million or ten million innocent lives to nourish this evil tree, would the order he had