At the top of the Divine Tree.
At that moment, Shinji looked utterly bewildered.
He had been waiting for the Chakra Fruit to mature when a Space Gate suddenly opened in front of him.
A hand reached out from the Space Gate and snatched at the Chakra Fruit, which had just finished ripening inside the flower bud. It all happened so suddenly that even he, a man who had seen his share of storms, froze for a moment before reacting and grabbing the hand reaching for the fruit.
Then, naturally, he pulled its owner through the Space Gate.
"Otsutsuki Urashiki!"
In an instant, Shinji recognized the figure he had dragged out of the Space Gate.
At this point in time, Shinji had already begun considering how to lure the Otsutsuki in the stars down to the Shinobi World and use them as sacrifices. But it was only an idea, and the Chakra Fruit had only just ripened, so it had never occurred to him that the Otsutsuki Urashiki before him was the very one he would later lure with the fruit.
Even so, that didn't stop Shinji from taking action.
Knowing the other man was an Otsutsuki—and a Kekkei Mōra user, at that—he skipped the probing and immediately used Imperial God Palace to imprison him a hair's breadth from the Chakra Fruit.
Then Shinji stepped forward, took the Chakra Fruit from the flower bud, and put it into the Daikokuten dimension of his Black Eye.
Only after he had safely secured the fruit did Shinji turn his gaze to Urashiki.
This was their first encounter, but Shinji knew that Urashiki, a Kekkei Mōra user, possessed not only a time-based Dojutsu but a space-based one as well. His direct combat ability might have been mediocre, but he was still quite capable