Heaven-spanning power, death at your doorstep!

RUMBLE, RUMBLE, RUMBLE!!!

The bombardment of one trillion Explosive Tags lasted a full ten minutes before finally ending (with the addition of Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, the explosions were more densely concentrated, so the trillion tags lasted as long as the original six hundred billion, but their firepower was far more ferocious).

Long after the explosions ended, the sea still churned. Urashiki was nowhere to be seen in the sky.

"Hah, hah, hah..." Konan panted heavily. "That took more chakra than it did during my rehearsals. Adding the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags formula really did... put a greater strain on the Paper God Technique! With that, I should finally have rid the Shinobi World of one menace!"

"Aunt Konan, our opponent is an Ōtsutsuki. I'm still worried, so even after you're certain you've succeeded, I hope you won't let your guard down..."

Konan remembered Xiaoxue's warning from their last meeting!

Instinctively, she looked behind her and saw... a bloodied hand reaching out of Yomotsu Hirasaka!!

Bang!! She spun around and retreated, dodging the hand!

Urashiki stepped out of Yomotsu Hirasaka... both horns broken off, his clothes in tatters, his entire body covered in blood!

The sword wound on his chest went deep enough to expose bone. Three months ago, Zatoichi had slashed him with the Black Blade: Famous Item Kanze Masamune. That very slash had made Urashiki afraid to venture into the Ninja Kingdom, leading him to hunt along its outskirts instead!

"Hahahahahahahahaha...!!" Urashiki laughed maniacally. "I, Urashiki, have been brilliant all my life, yet today I fell for your trap!"

Konan stared fixedly at him. "How did you escape!!"

Urashiki said, "Yumotolu. My ocular technique can turn back time. During the explosions, I activated Yumotolu and repeatedly rewound time to one second earlier. Nine minutes and forty seconds—a full