Hyuga Tamamo gave him an expressionless glance, then swept her Tenseigan over the surroundings, hoping to find where Hinata was being held.
Inside the dungeon, Naruto Uzumaki suddenly became excited when he heard the resounding echo. Even the pain in his body seemed to vanish at once. He sprang to his feet and exclaimed, "That voice... that's right, it's Master Shin. He's come to save us."
"Master... Shin?" Hinata tilted her head slightly. How had she never known that Naruto Uzumaki had a teacher she had never heard of? Then again, she did not know much about him to begin with, so it was normal that she did not know.
That was what Hinata thought. Children's thoughts were always simple.
Yet Naruto Uzumaki's shout also made Hinata think of her own teacher. In a voice only she could hear, she murmured, "Teacher Tamamo... where are you?"
Meanwhile, in a distant alternate dimension, within an ash-gray space of deathly silence.
Atop the mountain that gave off the only light, two white-robed sages stood side by side. Before one of them—the elderly sage—floated several Truth-Seeking Orbs. They shifted shape on their own, forming a mirror that clearly displayed the scene within Otsutsuki Momoshiki's dimension.
The Sage of Six Paths smiled. "Heh, they moved faster than I expected. They've already clashed after so little time. Good. This way, Uchiha Shin will no longer be able to become a variable, and we can finally relax."
Otsutsuki Hamura calmly watched the scene in the mirror. "But Asura's reincarnation has also been captured by Momoshiki. That does not seem to serve our interests."
The Sage of Six Paths pondered briefly before murmuring, "It is not a major problem. This much is still within my control. As long as Uchiha Shin dies, the remaining cleanup will not