Kimura Fifth

Naruto was dead.

At the place where Naruto had died, crack, crack—his body split open from the inside out.

The power of nothingness spreading across countless spacetime continua stirred, about to usher in a final eruption capable of containing incomparably terrifying power.

Of course, amid such an eruption, destruction would also give rise to life. Possibilities that had never understood containment and had been bound by fixed patterns would be completely, freely unleashed.

"Finally, the day has come."

In Star Hall, Jigen set down his red wine, filled with anticipation.

Within the primordial nothingness, his connection to it had been exceptionally close. In the coming "Great Freedom," he would be able to obtain the possibilities that belonged to him at the earliest opportunity.

Elsewhere, Orochimaru, dressed in a white lab coat, arrived with an ugly expression.

"Do you want to kill me, my chief scientist?"

Orochimaru clenched his fists.

Of course, he knew killing Jigen was meaningless. Jigen had arranged everything long ago. Even if he died, he could be reborn through Mitsuki's collapse.

And in the course of that collapse, he would steal much vital information.

In fact, there was a knife beside Jigen. He had already prepared it. If he picked up that knife and aimed it at his own heart... it would be enough to kill him, and it would also let him step into a new realm.

Yet Jigen was in no hurry, because there was still some time left.

"You have been delaying this day's arrival. You have remained in contact with Mother of Red. The Magical Girls who have been purifying the power of nothingness across the pan-spacetime continuum were researched by you and Mother of Red together. You even tried to create the strongest Magical Girl—a girl with your and Mother of Red's