BOOM—!
The light shattered, and a hemispherical shockwave flared to life.
A massive hollow opened up in the ground.
Peering into it,
they could see endless darkness... and countless gleaming lights.
Among the innumerable specks of starlight floated a blue-green celestial body.
A beautiful planet shimmering with blue arcs of light. Clearly...
"Earth?!" Shikamaru and the others stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
"Naruko...!!"
Otsutsuki Toneri and Naruko began to drift farther away.
Sasuke was filled with boundless unwillingness.
His body continued to fall, and his consciousness eventually plunged into the endless abyss...
Earth.
"We now continue our coverage of the Moon's fall..."
"More fragments are currently beginning to appear..."
"Fragments of the Moon are orbiting Earth one by one, gradually forming a gigantic ring..."
"Thousands upon thousands of fragments will become hypersonic meteors, tearing through the atmosphere as they descend..."
The television station continuously broadcast updates on the Moon's condition.
They fully explained the reality of the situation to the public.
With the help of the Nano-dragons,
most places on Earth would escape danger.
—Except for places like Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Mount Myōboku.
The ninjas from those factions desperately destroyed the meteors in the sky.
They fought to minimize the damage on the ground.
But... the meteors raining down from the sky never stopped, day or night.
The exhaustion of the ninjas holding the line had already reached its limit.
At this rate,
the Emperor would not even need to make a move. They would destroy themselves.
As for Mingren,
he completely ignored the Moon's fragments.
He continued doing whatever he pleased,
until...
"Hmm?!"
After sensing things briefly,
he realized Naruko seemed to have been taken somewhere very far away.
"The Moon..."
BAM!
Mingren blew apart Mei Terumi's Water Release Defense Jutsu with a single strike. Completely ignoring her twitching