"Settle the bill? I am the progenitor of all things! I will never lose to you!"
Kaguya's deathly pale old face trembled with rage.
She strained with all her might to command the wind and snow in the air.
But all the chakra inside her vanished like a clay ox sinking into the sea.
"Still spouting nonsense at a time like this? You're a real joke."
Sen grinned wide and drove the massive Wooden Spike in his hand down with all his strength.
Green light gushed along the spearhead, pinning her long white robe.
Along with the bones of her arms, it nailed her firmly to the Mud Flats.
"Damn it! Mother! The Demonic Statue's power can't hold out!"
Black Zetsu shrieked in the muck pit, frantic as a drowning dog.
"His wood is too sinister! It's sucking our power back through the roots!"
Kaguya's Byakugan widened, and the veins on her forehead nearly burst.
Beneath her deathly pale skin, green light writhed like millions of worms.
It squirmed frantically, mercilessly wresting control away from her.
"Naruto! Sasuke! Still playing dead over there? Move!"
Sen craned his neck and bellowed toward the distant high ground.
"I've got the old lady locked down! Get your asses over here and get to work!"
Naruto jolted upright in a mud pit hundreds of meters away.
He tore off his battered Forehead Protector and wiped the mud from his face.
"Got it, Sen! I'm coming to take her down!"
In a nearby snow pit, Sasuke wiped the blood away with his filthy cuff.
His gaze sharpened, and his feet struck the mud amid a rumble of thunder.
"Sen Senju, I don't need you telling me what to do."
His mouth protested, but his feet moved fast.
The black moon mark in his palm glimmered