The clash on the moon continued.
Neither Ōtsutsuki Isshiki nor Ōtsutsuki Toneri had gone all out. They had tacitly kept the intensity of their fight at a moderate level.
Isshiki's top priority was still the one who possessed the Ten-Tails, "A," so he saw Toneri as a potential ally he could recruit.
The Superalloy Puppet and Delta, locked in battle near the floating rock belt, had no such understanding.
By now, both sides were fighting in earnest. Delta had used every trick in her arsenal to destroy the Superalloy Puppet. In the end, she had even used herself as bait, relying on her regenerative abilities to trade wounds for a chance to kill it.
But the closer it got to the Giant Tenseigan, the stronger the Superalloy Puppet's Chakra became. So it activated its drone module and used the module's laser weapons to fire a Tenseigan beam, dismembering Delta.
Just then, Boro arrived and joined the fight.
"Huh?"
Noticing that Delta had been defeated, Isshiki was rather surprised. He deliberately put some distance between himself and Toneri.
Toneri did not pursue him. Instead, he turned to look toward the temple. After confirming that the Superalloy Puppet had held off Isshiki's subordinates, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Isshiki withdrew his gaze and smiled at Toneri. "It seems there's something over there you care about very much!"
Toneri's expression darkened.
Isshiki continued smiling. "We're both Otsutsuki. I have no intention of prying into your secrets, and there's no need for us to fight!"
"What exactly are you after?" Toneri asked.
"Given the state of the Shinobi World, you, living on the moon, should have some idea of what's going on," Isshiki said. "'A' took the Ten-Tails that rightfully belongs to the Otsutsuki Clan. There's only one reason I came to