Ōtsutsuki Tetsuto slowly rose from the center of the enormous crater.
Then he lifted his eyes.
Deep within his azure irises, two rings of light like miniature suns slowly revolved.
A pale cyan wave of light swept outward from the crater, visible to the naked eye, as though an enormous bowl had been overturned across the land!
Ōtsutsuki Tetsuto swept his gaze across the surroundings.
He looked from the surviving reefs nearby to the evaporated seabed and the seawater rushing back in, then farther out to the battlefront stretching for dozens of miles along Grass Wave Coast, the retreating Konoha forces, and the Kirigakure pursuers who had stopped in their tracks...
Then he looked farther still.
The Tenseigan's field of vision spread in every direction with him at its center, like an invisible net passing over every treetop in the Nameless Forest, every inch of scorched earth in Crow Forest, and every crack in the rocks along Grass Wave Coast.
Ten kilometers. Fifty. A hundred!
The pale cyan wave covered land within a hundred-kilometer radius. Like a vast sky curtain, or the cold, indifferent eye of a god opening to look down upon all living things.
But Ōtsutsuki Tetsuto frowned slightly.
Nothing.
The presence he had been searching for—the distinctive Tenseigan chakra signature of Hyuga Tenjin—was nowhere within his sensory range. Within a hundred kilometers, not a single chakra source matched the words "Heavenly Ninja."
Had Sunagakure received false intelligence? Had the Heavenly Ninja never come?
Or was the man hidden so well that even his Tenseigan could not see through it?
Ōtsutsuki Tetsuto's expression cooled. Unable to find his intended target, he drew a deep breath, quieted the furious cries and battle shouts of the countless Otsutsuki Branch Family members within him, and suppressed the urge to march into