White light completely swallowed the two of them.
Chiya felt as though all the space around him was moving at once.
Scenes from countless worlds flashed past him. One moment, it was a city filled with towering buildings; the next, it became a war-torn wilderness.
He could not tell which way was which and could only cling tightly to Kaguya's hand.
"Chiya!"
Kaguya had barely called out when a terrifying force surged between them.
Their clasped hands were forcibly torn apart!
Chiya immediately reached for Kaguya, but before his fingertips could touch her, two utterly different spaces collided.
Boom!
Chiya was sent flying.
Kaguya was swept away by another force as well, her long white hair quickly vanishing among the fragments of countless worlds.
"Kaguya!"
Chiya immediately activated his Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan, trying to catch up to her.
But in that instant, a tiny speck of white light broke away from Kaguya and followed the still-unbroken connection between them into another stretch of space-time.
Everything happened too quickly.
Kaguya did not notice.
Neither did Chiya.
The surrounding space-time shifted again the next moment.
Chiya had just caught Kaguya's presence when a massive rift appeared behind him and swallowed him whole!
A heavy stench of blood hit him head-on.
The moment Chiya steadied himself, a scream rang out beside him.
He abruptly looked up.
A familiar street lay before him.
Corpses littered both sides of the road, blood slowly flowing through the cracks between the stone slabs. In the distance, the Uchiha Crest was clearly stamped onto a courtyard wall.
This was...
The Uchiha Clan Grounds?!
A figure leaped down from a rooftop ahead.
Short black hair, Anbu attire, and a short blade in his hand still dripping with blood.
Itachi Uchiha!
Looking at the scene before him, Chiya immediately recalled