Ereshkigal!
This was the point Shiro was most wary of. As for the other two, the Will of the Shinobi World cast a wide net, so it would have been strange if it did not set its sights on Kakashi, and for now, the Will of the Shinobi World did not have much competitive power. It was the kind where whoever won would not affect The Entity much—of course, Shiro winning would be best.
It belonged to the moderates—or rather, the fence-sitters.
The Sage of Six Paths was still all right. At the very least, Shiro knew where his limits lay. But Ereshkigal was different!
She was a true big shot!
No matter how formidable the Sage of Six Paths was, his Divinity was limited in the end. With Enkidu combined with the few anti-divine Noble Phantasms Shiro could Project, his odds of victory were still very high. But Ereshkigal...
She was not someone Enkidu could bind. Even the Enkidu in the hands of Enkidu and Gilgamesh might not necessarily be able to restrain her.
Though Enkidu was said to grow stronger the greater the opponent's Divinity was, that was only a description. Once Divinity rose to a certain level—for example, reaching the level of a god—Enkidu would have a very hard time restraining them.
That was why Shiro had strictly forbidden Kakashi from using Death Realm Form. If the powers of these three sides went berserk, then Kakashi really would be finished.
Boom!
Just as Kakashi fell to his knees and howled in agony, a gigantic white worm burst out from underground and bit viciously toward him!
Zzt—
At that moment, a flash of silvery-white lightning streaked past, cutting the white worm into dozens of pieces!
The lightning stopped beside Kakashi. It looked at him with tender concern, then