Gravity Control! New Moon

"Looks like it worked, hahaha!"

Nagato, drenched in cold sweat, gasped for breath, but couldn't stop himself from laughing.

He seemed even happier than Shirozumi.

"Indeed, it worked."

Shirozumi landed back on the ground and sat down, forcing a wry smile.

The Natural Energy within him was completely depleted, and now every cell was desperately absorbing the surrounding Natural Energy.

All abilities are divided into active and passive.

Passive abilities are similar to locked skills; in most cases, their effects cannot be controlled by the user.

Because they can't be adapted to changes in the environment or battle situation, they can easily be countered once the information is obtained.

But by the same token, you don't have to worry about being instantly killed before you can even use the ability.

For example.

No matter how powerful the Otsutsuki Clan is in Boruto, there is still an insurmountable gap between them and Kaguya Otsutsuki, who ate the fruit.

That is the passive immunity to all Ninjutsu damage.

This ability is also reflected in Six Paths Madara and Six Paths Obito.

The Otsutsuki Clan's absorption of Ninjutsu, and the simple Rinnegan's absorption of Ninjutsu, both require active use.

Madara could deliberately not use it and get hit in the chest by Dust Release, allowing the Five Kage to admire the face of his "beloved" Hashirama.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was also injured by an ordinary Rasengan because Naruto's stats in Baryon Mode were overwhelming.

In other words, no matter how powerful an actively used ability is, you must have the corresponding combat awareness.

Otherwise, it would be like Shisui's Kotoamatsukami against Danzo; a sneak attack and eye-gouging would result in instant death.

Shirozumi is well aware that both his Time Deletion and the derived Future Prediction need to be actively used.

And Shirozumi had just used it.

He specifically confirmed that Almighty Push would not injure him or awaken an ability.

Then he turned it off.

He didn't expect Nagato to suddenly get excited and create a Chibaku Tensei.

Shirozumi had said before that he was originally going to have Itachi help him experiment, but his Natural Energy had been completely depleted, and he had only replenished it during the time it took to return.

Shirozumi used his first awakening of Crimson King (Time Deletion) as an example, and after seeing the result with Epitaph (Future Prediction), he determined that he had enough Natural Energy, but not enough Rinnegan power.

That didn't matter.

He could just go to Iwagakure first and continue to accumulate Natural Energy along the way.

In any case, further strengthening Time Deletion wouldn't be very meaningful, and the Natural Energy it consumed would gradually increase.

--For high-speed combat, Epitaph's best effective time is between ten and thirty seconds in the future.

After all, watching the future itself also takes time.

He would save the Natural Energy to awaken new abilities next.

But he didn't expect Nagato to desperately "help" him.

If he had enough Natural Energy, Shirozumi wouldn't refuse Nagato's selfless offer.

The problem was that he didn't have enough!

Under Almighty Push, as long as Nagato didn't go crazy and use Super Almighty Push, it would have been completely sufficient.

Chibaku Tensei was a complete qualitative change.

Fortunately, Shirozumi's ability awakening requirements were not strict.

The more it consumes initially, the higher its initial strength will be.

Like now, the initial consumption was low, so the initial strength of the ability would be lower, and he would have to slowly strengthen it with Natural Energy later.

Just now, Shirozumi released his entire body, replenishing Natural Energy, while focusing all his energy into one point, finally awakening the ability.

After resting on the ground for a while, Shirozumi stood up and then floated up under Nagato's gaze.

"This is it, controlling gravity. The range is still a bit small at the moment. I'll call this ability... New Moon."

Shirozumi named the ability with reference to the Stands in JoJo, but the specific situation was still different.

First, Shirozumi does not have a physical Stand like "Limbo."

Second, the two are only similar in ability and may have subtle differences, which need to be studied in depth to discover.

Third, Stand users with mortal bodies can easily use terrifying Stands without any substantial consumption, at most so-called mental power, but Shirozumi needs to consume energy to use any ability.

Fourth, the precision of any ability will increase with Shirozumi's proficiency, and the duration will increase with Shirozumi's Natural Energy reserves. There is no fixed value.

"New Moon? That's fitting. Legend has it that the Sage of Six Paths used Chibaku Tensei to create the moon."

Nagato smiled with relief as Shirozumi described his ability; his sacrifice hadn't been in vain.

For Nagato, the Rinnegan was not only a "gift," but also a burden.

The power of gravity, representing the strength of a god, now resided within another comrade thanks to his help. Nagato felt much lighter.

"So how did the core of the Chibaku Tensei just disappear?"

Konan asked curiously.

"The core was right in front of me. I touched it and reversed its gravity, and it vanished."

Shirozumi picked up a stone, activated New Moon, and the stone instantly shattered, then strangely reassembled.

The inside of the stone was now the outside.

"Amazing. If that were applied to a person..."

Konan praised him generously.

"It's alright, but it wouldn't work on you, Konan."

Shirozumi tossed the stone away and smiled.

"Me?"

Konan blinked, thought for a moment, and tapped her chin. "Even if I activated my Dance of the Shikigami, wouldn't I be torn apart by the gravity reversal?"

Konan's paper transformation was terrifying.

It was similar to elementalization.

She was immune to most damage in the Ninja World.

The only thing limiting Konan was her own Chakra reserves.

It was difficult to injure her unless she ran out of Chakra.

Not many people knew this.

"You just need to turn the area being attacked into a Möbius strip."

"What strip?"

"...Come here for a moment."

Hearing Shirozumi's request, Konan's smooth cheeks turned into sheets of paper as she entered her Dance of the Shikigami state.

It was a pity that Konan had no connection to the Otsutsuki Clan, otherwise Shirozumi would have liked to see if this "angel" could awaken the "Heaven's Gate" for him.

"Like this."

Shirozumi peeled off a few sheets of paper from Konan and formed a Möbius strip in the air.

"Since it only has one surface, it doesn't matter how much the gravity reverses."

Shirozumi even thoughtfully explained.

Konan's expression was somewhat dazed as she slowly reached out and grabbed the paper ring.

Shirozumi had so easily revealed the weakness of his ability to her?

And it seemed that only she could achieve this kind of countermeasure.

While Konan was lost in thought, Shirozumi went to Nagato.

"Nagato, do you still hate Konoha?"

Shirozumi asked a question.

"Hmm?"

Nagato didn't expect Shirozumi to ask this.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Nagato replied, "Is Strategist trying to say something on behalf of Konoha? My personal hatred has long since disappeared, but it's useless for my hatred to disappear. People can't understand each other unless they feel pain..."

"Stop."

Shirozumi quickly called a halt when he saw that Nagato was about to launch into a long speech.

"You've misunderstood. I'm not planning to say anything on behalf of Konoha."