Neji's breath caught for a beat.
Itachi's fingers tightened around the hilt of his sword, his knuckles turning white.
The two exchanged a glance and saw the same thing in each other's eyes.
Enemies they might not have been able to defeat even by risking their lives back then were, in Uchiha Akira's mouth, nothing more than "a waste of a little time, might delay my meal" if he killed a thousand of them.
That casual understatement made their backs prickle more than any display of power could have.
Uchiha Akira's strength had already exceeded the limits of what they could understand!
"Let's go. There's no need for this world to exist."
Uchiha Akira withdrew his gaze and took a step.
Space folded in front of him, and golden light wrapped around Itachi and Neji as well.
He waved his hand.
The planet created by Ada and Kaguya Otsutsuki vanished in an instant, and the original Ninja World reappeared before their eyes. A planet that had required Ada and Kaguya Otsutsuki to work together to create...
With a single thought from him, it disappeared!
The three of them vanished from where they stood.
"How could an ant possibly ascend into the God of Ōtsutsuki?!"
Kushiki was still hiding deep inside some fold of space, like a frightened loach burrowing into silt, his gaze filled with terror and intense jealousy. The God of Ōtsutsuki was the existence every Ōtsutsuki longed to become.
And now, an ant had actually become the God of Ōtsutsuki.
And had slaughtered them!
Uchiha Akira's aura had already disappeared from his senses.
Kushiki curled up within the interlayer of the space fold, terror from barely surviving churning in his golden Rinnegan!
He had seen Raishiki's final fate.
A distance of over a hundred thousand kilometers, folded casually