The ashes in Chenshu Senju's hand scattered in the wind, leaving not even a trace behind. He casually dusted off his hands and released the five fingers wrapped around Kaguya's throat.
Having lost her support, Kaguya crashed heavily onto the half-melted ice, splashing freezing water everywhere.
She stared blankly at Chenshu Senju's empty palm. For the first time, her pure white eyes, which had always been utterly devoid of emotion, showed an intense feeling akin to human collapse.
Black Zetsu, who had accompanied her for thousands of years and whom she had regarded as her sole emotional anchor, had been burned to ashes right before her eyes. She had not even been given a chance to save him.
Her lips parted, but only a meaningless hoarse sound came from her throat, like a broken puppet.
Then, an incomparably violent surge of white chakra erupted from within her, blasting the remaining icebergs around them into fragments.
Chenshu Senju looked down at her and sighed. "You couldn't even handle that? Your mental fortitude is pathetic. You've lived for thousands of years, and it's all gone to waste."
He took two steps back, avoiding the icy water spreading beneath his feet.
She could not hear a word of his mockery. Her body began to swell uncontrollably, and the rampaging white chakra churned wildly, instantly engulfing her formerly slender figure.
Huge fleshy bulges rose across her skin, while her bones let out a teeth-grinding sound as they reassembled. In mere seconds, the lofty Rabbit Goddess vanished, replaced by a massive white Rabbit Monster as large as a mountain, chakra boiling over from its body like scalding water.
It did not roar. It simply stared fixedly at Chenshu Senju as the chakra behind it writhed, suddenly extending more than a dozen enormous white arms that