Sen sniffed, and icy air shot straight into his lungs. The tip of his nose had turned purple with cold, and his breath had coated his eyelashes in thick white frost. He kept both hands jammed in his pockets, rubbing them furiously as ice crunched beneath his feet. He had barely finished sweating buckets before being dumped straight into this giant freezer. The old hag switched dimensions faster than turning pages. Just great.
Kaguya floated amid the blizzard, her pale old face cold enough to scrape off ice shavings. With a sweep of her wide sleeve, savage winds hurled palm-sized snowflakes at him. "Still spouting slick-tongued nonsense with death at your door! I shall freeze you into an eternal ice sculpture and smash you to pieces!" The surrounding glaciers cracked with an earsplitting shriek, and dozens of sharp ice spikes erupted from the ground toward his face.
"Oh, auntie, menopause has really done a number on your temper. Who wants a frozen popsicle?" Sen could not even be bothered to dodge. He raised his foot and kicked the ice hard. Black roots beneath his soles instantly burst with warm life chakra, smashing the pointed ice spikes to pieces. Fine shards sprayed over his neck and slipped down his collar, making him shiver.
Black Zetsu poked his black, muddy head out of her white sleeve, trembling from the cold as he screeched, "Mother! This freak's wood generates its own living heat! All this ice and snow can't freeze through his thick hide! Hurry, let's switch to somewhere deadlier and melt that damned wood, bones and all, into black sludge!"
Kaguya bit through her pale lip, murderous intent churning in her Byakugan. Not only had Sen failed to freeze to death, but he had casually pulled out a dry twig and rubbed