Sen grinned, baring a mouthful of white teeth that gleamed in the night. Black roots beneath his feet gripped the ground tightly as a vast surge of origin power poured into his shriveled body.
Under the crushing Supergravity, his bones creaked all over, but that did not stop him from slapping his thigh and laughing. "Old hag, don't start throwing your age and seniority around the moment you open your mouth. Progenitor? Mother of chakra? Is being an Otsutsuki supposed to impress me? I'll tear those old bones of yours apart today and show you who's your ancestors' nemesis. All right, stand straight and take your beating!"
"Insolent! You native insect who deserves to die in the mud! How dare you speak such vulgar nonsense to me? Your crime is unforgivable!"
Black Zetsu screamed from inside the cuff of Kaguya's great white robe, trembling with rage, his voice grating.
His eyes reddened as he shrieked, "Mother, hurry! Use All-Killing Ash Bones to turn this brat into a stinking pile of black ash! His wood keeps siphoning power back out of the Ten-Tails. We absolutely cannot let him live! Hurry and impale him!"
Kaguya's Byakugan were ice-cold, veins bulging at her temples. She raised her deathly pale hand, several gray bone spikes trembling violently in her palm as they pointed straight at Sen's heart.
"That origin power of mine inside you never should have belonged to you. Lowly thief, before my All-Killing Ash Bones, all of you will become weightless clouds of dead ash and burnt wood, with no grave to hold you!"
More than ten Ash Bones tore through the air like long gray snakes hungry for flesh, hurtling toward Sen with a corrosive hiss.
Sen neither dodged nor retreated. The dense golden-green wood grain on his right arm instantly