Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield...
Ripples as calm as those around Kaguya Ōtsutsuki spread before Naruto and Sasuke.
A Wooden Sword and a Silver Spear slowly emerged from their bodies and hovered in silence, flickering as they absorbed the Yang Power and Yin Power within them.
Neither screamed nor struggled.
Unlike Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, their expressions were calm.
Or rather, Naruto's expression was calm, as though he had known this moment would come.
"Hey." Sasuke frowned. "You knew this would happen?"
"Yeah." Naruto paused. "More or less."
Sasuke had no idea what was going on.
He stared at Naruto for two seconds, then asked nothing. Following Naruto's lead, he let the Sacred Annihilation Arrow draw out his Yin Power.
As far as he was concerned, Naruto would never hurt him. He had only gained that Yin Power thanks to Naruto in the first place.
So he let it happen.
With no idea what was going on, Sasuke decided to stop thinking about it.
It was too fast.
Everything had happened too fast.
Black Zetsu, long missing, had suddenly appeared and stabbed Nagato in the back—
Nagato's body had swollen and reshaped itself into the Rabbit Goddess, a being whose mere silhouette in the distance filled people with helplessness—
Then a Tachi had burst from her body, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki had screamed, and the Black-Purple Giant Eye had opened out of thin air—
One event after another, each more absurd than the last.
Sasuke wasn't alone in his confusion. The two old men who had personally brought the Warring States Period to an end could barely process it either.
Yet the same thought surfaced in both Uchiha Madara's and Hashirama Senju's minds.
The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it.
Nagato had plotted every move. He was