"Once she comes out, I'll beat her up too!"
Yoru patted the dirt off his coat, casually crushed the cigarette butt beneath his foot, and ground it into the muddy ground with his toe.
The icy rain raging across the sky struck the orange Sage markings at his temples and dripped from his sharp chin.
The mud beneath his feet made sticky, squelching sounds, but he did not even glance down.
The God Tree that Naruto and Sasuke had split apart suddenly let out an ear-splitting, shrill cry.
From the enormous gash in its thick trunk, great torrents of viscous green fluid poured out like a waterfall.
"Black Zetsu, the Yin-Yang Release chakra inside you is leaking away. Stop struggling pointlessly."
Sasuke rested one hand on the hilt of the Kusanagi Sword, the purple ripples in his left Rinnegan flickering in the darkness.
"That resurrection plan of yours is less worthwhile in my brother's eyes than one of Orochimaru's discarded lab proposals."
As he sneered, the muscles in his face twitched slightly in the cold wind, revealing a trace of arrogance.
"I don't believe it... I refuse to accept this!"
Black Zetsu's black body, now no larger than a palm, writhed frantically deep within the core of the God Tree.
Its two yellow eyes had shrunk to pinpoints with fury.
"My mother's will cannot be destroyed! As long as I sacrifice all this final power!"
"She can crush this hypocritical world beneath her feet once more!"
Its mud-like body suddenly burst apart, turning into a cloud of pitch-black light that completely merged into the deepest part of the God Tree.
With Black Zetsu's self-sacrifice.
The night sky over the entire Land of Lightning lost its last trace of light in a single second.
The enormous blood-red Rinne Sharingan in the