Sen burst out laughing.
He raised his huge, fan-sized hand high.
It carried a low, muffled rumble of thunder.
Smack!
An exceptionally crisp slap landed across Kaguya's face.
In the dead of night, the sound carried far.
Five bright red, muddy fingerprints remained on Kaguya's deathly pale old face.
The wind tossed her white hair into a tangled mess.
Her head snapped to one side.
The two large, misshapen horns on her forehead swayed with it.
"How dare you! You lowly insect dare slap me?!"
Kaguya clutched her swollen cheek and shrieked.
"You're exactly the unreasonable old hag charging admission at random that I wanted to slap."
Sen brushed the mud crumbs off his hands, grinning brightly.
"Not happy? Then stand still and take another beating!"
His huge hand shot out and clamped around her pale neck.
[Life Drain] went to full power at that instant.
Golden-green sage art light surged wildly from his fingertips.
Like countless little green snakes brought to life, it burrowed into her flesh.
It crawled inward along Kaguya's somewhat shriveled, deathly pale blood vessels.
Kaguya felt a chill sweep through her entire body.
The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's residual core inside her shook violently.
"What... what is this absurd, thieving suction?!"
"Why is my Ten-Tails essence flowing out beyond my control?!"
Cold sweat covered Kaguya's forehead, and genuine panic filled her face.
She felt the deepest connection between herself and the Divine Tree snap.
That chakra poured out like muddy floodwater through a breached dam.
It surged through Sen's palm and into his body like mad.
"Mother! The Tailed Beast power is draining fast! Shake him off!"
Black Zetsu huddled in her sleeve, his black mud body bubbling with anxiety.
"His hand is a specially made straw! He's robbing you of your reserves!"