Otsutsuki Toneri floated in midair, the cold aura radiating from his body carrying a stench of rot, illuminating the surrounding vacuum like the gates of hell.
In his hand, he gripped a long Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion sword that gleamed with an icy blue light, his eyes full of contempt for the surface-dwelling natives.
A smear of blood from when he had been blasted away earlier still stained his corpse-pale face, making him look especially eerie.
"You vermin of the lower realm."
Toneri spoke, his voice hollow as though it had been sealed inside a coffin for half a century, carrying that lofty, hypocritical air.
"You actually managed to use that crude lump of iron to injure this old man's divine body."
"Truly unforgivable. Yes, unforgivable."
His Tenseigan stared fixedly at Sasuke across from him, as if he wanted to see a flower bloom from the boy's soul.
Sasuke could not be bothered to waste words on him.
The intricate six-pointed-star Rinnegan in his left eye rhythmically contracted and expanded.
Like a pair of lungs breathing, every pulse caused tiny fractures in the surrounding space.
He drove the Kusanagi Sword, still wreathed in purple-black flames, into the ground.
The blade pierced the gray-white rock of the moon's surface with a hard click.
"Those eyeballs of yours are making my eyes hurt from all that staring."
Sasuke frowned and casually wiped sweat on the black short-sleeved shirt around his sweat-stained collar.
The sweat carried the burnt stench left over from the battle, foul enough to make one sick.
"And that pathetic 'god' routine of yours? Save it for your clan members who've been dead for ages."
"You're at death's door, and you still dare run your mouth!"
Toneri flew into a rage.
The muscles on his ghastly pale face twitched violently,