"Tsunade, I'm afraid your seat as Hokage... won't be secure much longer."
Yoru's voice was soft, yet amid the rain, it was as cold as a poison-tempered blade.
He slipped the communicator back into his pocket and casually brushed at the filthy mud splashed across the hem of his trench coat.
The mud carried a heavy stench of sulfur and rotten blood, impossible to wipe clean no matter how hard he tried.
High in the sky.
The enormous black stone sphere formed by Chibaku Tensei hovered several thousand meters above the ground.
A fierce wind swept past, making the golden sealing runes across its surface flicker in and out of sight.
Inside the sphere.
Ōtsutsuki Kaguya was pinned in the central vacuum by countless massive boulders.
Her flawless white Byakugan were now webbed with red veins from extreme oxygen deprivation and fury.
Her lips had been crushed out of shape, leaving her unable to exhale even a full breath of stale air.
"Hagoromo... Hamura..."
Her mind still rang as the overwhelmingly tyrannical sealing power forcibly suppressed her consciousness.
She could accept having been locked in a dark cell by her own sons a thousand years ago.
But today, she had been sealed away again by an Uchiha brat barely in his twenties using the very same technique!
"Mother!"
Black Zetsu's sticky mass of black sludge huddled deep within the sleeve of her tattered, scorched robe.
Its two bean-sized yellow eyes spun in terror as rocks all around it were compressed nearly into powder.
"The chakra purity of this seal is wrong! It's draining our essence!"
Black Zetsu shrieked, sounding like a duck with its throat stepped on.
In despair, it realized that Yoru had not merely sealed them away—he had also installed Orochimaru's damned energy conversion formula inside the stone