The winds of the Omni-Dimension Land swept over Leaf's new leaves as Niansheng hovered from the corner of the academy eaves, kneading a wisp of faint light into the children's pages. The words on the paper glowed softly, and the Boundary Guardian's loneliness across hundreds of millions of years, the rush of Boruto and the other two, and the awakening of the beings of the Omni-Dimension Land all turned into tiny specks of starlight that settled in the children's eyes.
Mitsuki's fingertip Gap Net trembled lightly. Unlike the usual warmth of Heart Sound, what came through now was an extremely faint disturbance from the edge of the Omni-Dimension Land. It was not the corrosion of Void Nether, but the awakening of an older, forgotten order.
"Something is moving beyond the boundary." Mitsuki withdrew the threads of light, a faint worry in his brows. "It isn't an outside enemy. It's the Heart-Trace sealed away by the Boundary Guardian when the Omni-Dimension Land was first born."
Boruto set down the Wooden Kite in his hands. The silver radiance of his Jōgan swept across the sky, piercing through layers of Dimensional Barriers. At the chaotic reaches on the farthest edge of the Omni-Dimension Land, countless pale golden patterns were surfacing from nothingness. They were the first vows of protection made by hundreds of millions of beings, the covenant the Boundary Guardian had carved into the chaos with his own divine soul as ink.
"The Heart-Trace is the root of the Omni-Dimension Land. Back then, the Boundary Guardian sealed it away because he feared all beings would depend on the covenant and lose the courage to protect things by their own will." Sarada opened a dust-sealed storybook, her fingertip brushing across the blank footer. "Now the beings of the Omni-Dimension Land have learned to