"Crack!" Just as everyone was looking at the statue, a cracking sound rang out, much like the sound the Tailed Beasts had made when they awakened earlier.
Bits of stone continuously fell from the statue.
"Could this guy have been sealed in here too?" Shikamaru muttered.
Li snorted. "Everyone, step back. Don't get hurt."
Although Li spoke very calmly, everyone quickly retreated. They naturally knew that the statue was not something they could handle. If they stayed here, they would only cause Li more trouble.
Li raised his head and glanced at the statue. Earlier, he had not sensed any chakra activity within it, which meant it should not have been able to move.
Yet now, it had begun moving as naturally as the Tailed Beasts had. This could only mean that someone had altered something in this world. And the ones capable of altering this world were probably the two people who had exiled him here, right?
Then wasn't their plan to use this statue against him a little naive? This was not a world within Genjutsu, where anything could happen just because someone wanted it to. If they altered things too drastically, the entire world's system of laws would collapse, and the final result would naturally be the destruction of the whole world.
Surely they would not destroy an entire world just for the sake of one person like him?
Then again, perhaps not. Those people seemed to be beings completely beyond him. Maybe they truly did not care about destroying this plane...
As Li thought this, the statue suddenly opened its mouth wide and spat out a sphere. It was a ball emitting an inexplicable glow, and Li instinctively thought, could this be Hamura's other eye? If Toneri had taken one of his eyes, then was this