My right hand swept half a circle overhead, like I was swatting a fly.
But the instant I turned my palm over, that enormous black-and-red ball suddenly stopped, frozen dead in midair.
The raging waves of chakra hit what felt like an invisible sponge wall. Without so much as a sound, they were smoothed away.
The scorching heat in the air vanished completely. Cool wind rushed up my trouser legs, making my calves shiver.
"What... what the hell is that?!"
Naruto stood with both feet in a mud pit, his mouth wide enough to swallow a giant soup bowl. The Nine-Tails' golden glow crackled and sputtered out around him.
Sasuke's lone arm still braced stubbornly against his sword hilt. A bead of sweat fell from his nose, only to freeze in place in the motionless air.
The arrogant grin froze on Momoshiki's face. His mouth twitched, and the red Rinnegan in his palm blinked frantically, as though sand had gotten into it.
Behind him, Kinshiki held a massive glowing red axe over his shoulder. His mountain-like body swayed for the first time, and a whimper escaped his throat like a beast being strangled.
An invisible hand forcibly flattened the clouds above.
The Divine Tree connected to the earth veins of the entire planet. This slap borrowed the strength of the whole world.
The astral gales high above followed the path of my palm, gathering into an invisible fleshy hand that blotted out half the sky.
It wasn't a solid construct formed from chakra. It was nothing but air compressed into an iron plate.
Before that invisible Big Slap, Momoshiki's world-destroying Tailed Beast Bomb looked as tiny as a lump of coal.
Smack!
It didn't sound like thunder. It sounded more like a butcher slapping a freshly scalded pig's bare rump