Kushina took a deep breath. All nine chain tails suddenly drew in, coiling around her body!
The next instant, the moment she lifted her foot to move, Kushina vanished!
What?!
Flying Thunder God!?
When had she placed a mark?
Oh, at the places her chains had attacked earlier!
She could leave marks with her chains?
That had never appeared in his memories.
Kabuto was slightly surprised, but the Autonomous Counterattack System was faster. Shadows, chains, and bone spears appeared along Kushina's path the very next instant.
But that information was not important at all.
Presumably, he had no corresponding information because he believed he could handle it.
"Useless," Kabuto mocked lightly.
"You may be strong, but—I stand downstream of time."
"You have never understood the true structure of space-time."
"To you, time is like a river, flowing from the past into the future. But to me..." Kabuto raised his head, his tone terrifyingly calm.
"The outcome of the future sends all information back downstream, to where I am now."
"Every breakthrough, every ninjutsu, every slightest change made by you all on Timeline 1 will be recorded in the future. Then, the future me—the continuation of Timeline 1—will bring all that information back into my current body, the me on Timeline 2, which traveled from Timeline 1 to the present."
"I, on Timeline 2, am standing here as a fixed point."
"The reason I on Timeline 2 can appear in your era means that the future me on Timeline 1 must have succeeded. Success in the future stabilizes the future timeline, and that stabilized timeline allows the future me to travel back to the present."
Kabuto spread his hands. "And since I on Timeline 2 can return, it means that every effort you are making now has already been witnessed firsthand