Just as Li was speaking with Black Zetsu, an intense killing intent suddenly surged forth. Li casually waved a hand. "Chomei, protect yourself."
Chomei obediently and slowly melted into the darkness. Meanwhile, the killing intent on the other side steadily pressed closer to Li. Li rubbed his nose. The other party clearly knew nothing of the art of assassination, actually exposing such powerful killing intent. Of course, if their strength could crush their prey, such killing intent would instead make the prey reveal enormous openings.
But Li had never believed he would become prey. Even if he did, he would make the hunter shatter their teeth!
As the other party drew nearer, Li could not help but frown. That feeling...
That was right. It was Timaria! But why was that idiot here? Even if she had mastered some time-based magic, there was no way she could have crossed such a vast span of time to reach this place, right?
"Li! I'm here!" As Timaria came closer, Li's expression turned exceedingly grim. At this moment, Timaria seemed to no longer be Timaria. Her body was mixed with a great deal of strange aura—an aura Li remembered. Toneri. That was right, it was Toneri's aura!
When Timaria finally stood before Li, he saw that her right eye had changed. It was a Byakugan—no, it should be called an incomplete Tenseigan.
It seemed Toneri really had prepared a backup plan. He simply had not expected that backup plan to end up benefiting Timaria instead. But according to what Shikamaru had said, hadn't he taken Timaria back to Earth?
"Surprised?" Timaria said slowly. "You probably don't know this, do you? There's more than one path from Earth to the moon." She then pointed at her eye. "This was the payment Toneri promised me. He