The Seventh Hokage: Cry? Crying Won't Save You!

The light of the Six Paths Rasengan's explosion swallowed everything.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's entire palace, along with hundreds of square kilometers around it, was pulverized by the blast.

The violent shock waves of energy made the entire separate dimension tremble and groan. It was clear that Isshiki's dimension was far less stable than Kaguya's.

At the same time,

Six Paths Naruto didn't wait for the explosion to end. He immediately activated Asura Nine-Tails Mode, sweeping his nine enormous tails downward.

He swept all the remaining shock waves of the explosion straight toward the ground.

This also revealed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's battered figure.

He had been blasted to the brink of death by the Expanding Truth-Seeking Orb's explosion. He had only just regenerated and recovered, and now Naruto's Rasengan had left him gravely wounded again.

The blast's impact tore open Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's flesh. The intense heat melted it, leaving a gruesome hole in his chest. Several broken ribs jutted out like snapped strings, still strung with dark red, charred flesh and gray-black fragments of carbonized bone. Ruptured blood vessels hung like withered vines, oozing a thick, dark red fluid.

The pain in his body and the pressure weighing on his mind had robbed Isshiki of most of his ability to think.

Right now, all he wanted was to flee from Naruto on instinct!

To get away from this monster!

He didn't have the courage to fight Naruto to the death. The other man didn't even care about his own son—who would dare risk their life fighting someone that twisted?

Besides, he couldn't win even if he tried!

Dragging his grievously wounded body, Isshiki frantically flew downward.

His space-time ninjutsu was restricted by the other man's Rinnegan. No matter how fast he flew, he couldn't outrun a Rasengan. His only chance of survival was