Shadow of the Rift

Two starships raced side by side through the streams of light in the Ultimate Void. The Starship Clan's Star Core vessel shimmered with silver-white starlight, reflecting the soft gold-blue glow of the Shinobi World's starship. The Nine-Fold Memories chimed softly like an invisible song, brushing over every drifting fragment of memory in the void. The Gap Net Perceivers turned into countless tiny Light Spots, spreading along both sides of the hulls in agile ribbons of light, precisely transmitting the aura of the dimensions along their path into the hearts of the three. Mitsuki closed his eyes, his Sage Chakra fully merging with his sensory network. With a faint tremor of his fingertips, he locked onto an unknown territory ahead, where warm golden stardust was surging.

"Ahead is the Stardust Dimension. The life-forms here use stardust as their bodies and bonds as their souls. They're the race in the void most skilled at gathering emotional connections, but in my perception... their bond networks are rapidly breaking." Mitsuki opened his eyes, a trace of gravity flashing through them. "It isn't Ji Wu's isolation, nor is it the Otsutsuki's plundering. It's an entirely new twisted power, forcibly severing the connections between them."

Boruto stood at the bow, his Jōgan fully opened. Pale blue light from his eye pierced through the mist of the void, letting him see the whole of the Stardust Dimension: within a boundless sea of stardust clouds floated countless translucent stardust beings. Their forms were like flowing light, and slender golden ribbons of bonds coiled between them. But now, countless ribbons were being cut apart by pitch-black, blade-like Severance Force. The stardust beings let out soundless cries of grief, their bodies gradually thinning, on the verge of scattering into the stardust.

The Starship Clan Head controlled the vessel and slowed