Its posture had not changed in the slightest, as though the catastrophe it had caused with a snap of its fingers moments ago was no more significant than brushing away a speck of dust.
Then, that gaze lowered.
The chaotic, agonized core of the Ten-Tails' will abruptly froze!
That eye... the left eye of the master of the stone throne had now clearly entered its field of vision.
It was an eye that sent every particle born from its instinct for life into ultimate alarm!
A deep violet base was etched with ancient, mysterious concentric patterns, radiating an intent of reincarnation even more primordial and pure than its own Rinnegan!
The six pitch-black tomoe slowly revolved like six cold stars circling a central black hole.
With every rotation, they seemed to silently crush space, rewrite the laws, and proclaim absolute dominion!
The Six Tomoe Rinnegan!
The gaze of that eye instantly pierced through the will barrier weakened by its grievous injuries and branded itself fiercely upon the very core of its origin!
All its hatred, all its fury, all its desire to destroy the world...
Under that eye's gaze, all of it was extinguished in an instant!
At that moment, it was no longer a world-destroying beast, no longer the incarnation of the source of chakra.
It felt like an insect beneath someone's foot, about to be crushed!
Fear—a crushing fear born from the difference in their levels of life—washed over its remaining instinctive will like an icy tide.
It saw the indifference contained in the depths of those eyes, a void deeper and more terrifying than its own will to destroy.
As though its existence, its struggles, its suffering, were truly... nothing more than a play to the owner of those eyes.
All will to resist completely collapsed beneath