"Hand it over."
Ao was lucky.
To protect the Byakugan in his hand, he had not gone too close, remaining just beyond the several-dozen-meter range and becoming one of the few Mist Village ninja fortunate enough to survive.
Yes...
Of the several hundred ninja surrounding Kaguya, only a few remained.
Everyone else, including the Third Mizukage, had been reduced to ashes.
Not even a hair was left behind...
"Tap... tap... tap..."
Kaguya walked toward him step by step.
Her beauty was peerless, suffocating.
Ao had truly forgotten how to breathe...
"You... what exactly are you? Are you even human...?"
Faced with such power, his body inevitably began to tremble.
But Kaguya merely raised her perfect, snow-white little hand.
"Hand it over."
Ao could no longer make a sound. He did not even know how he returned the Byakugan.
Kaguya wrapped the Byakugan in chakra, turned around, and never looked at him again.
Against the backdrop of the water mist that never dispersed over Kirigakure Village, she was like an otherworldly fairy, untouched by a single speck of filth from this dirty world.
Yet no one noticed that her snow-white face had become so pale it was nearly translucent...
Using Six Paths-level power without that body consumed her life force.
When Hinata and Hanabi had used Divine Void Strike before, they had consumed half of Kaguya's life force and lost half her soul.
And now, she had lost the other half of her life force...
My soul... cannot leave...
She endured the piercing pain throughout her body.
I still don't want to leave...
Her vision gradually blurred, but her willpower forcibly held on.
She had not yet seen the person she wanted to see...
"Pfft!"
At that moment, a living tree branch suddenly shot out from the ground and pierced straight