"Izanagi Shikigami!?"
The moment he heard those words, Sasuke Uchiha's thoughts were abruptly pulled back to his confrontation with Isshiki Otsutsuki.
"You have activated Izanagi as well. It seems the favorable outcome... is in my hands! Or could it be... Shadow's appearance has shaken your confidence and affected your Izanagi's effectiveness?"
"..." At the time, Isshiki's face had turned livid.
Sasuke's gaze was deep. "Yes... the essence of Izanagi is an intense sense of self that, under the fermentation of Yin-Yang Release, influences reality to a certain degree. It can be summed up as 'personal reality.'"
"And now, you can no longer sustain your 'personal reality'!"
Slash!
The black Lightning Spear extending from Sasuke's left palm pierced through Isshiki's chest.
Blood trickled from the corner of Isshiki's mouth, yet he smiled thoughtfully. "So that's how it is. You too... To perceive the deeper principles of Izanagi, you possess the qualifications to awaken an Izanagi Shikigami, just like me."
"..." Sasuke's eyes narrowed slightly.
Isshiki said gravely, "Yes, Izanagi also has a Shikigami... It was a power I had dreamed of ever since I awakened this Superior Rinnegan. Unfortunately, I could not succeed, and neither will you have the chance!"
Slash!
Isshiki snapped the Lightning Spear apart with his bare hand... The half embedded in his body, along with the wound itself, turned into a dream and vanished. Wiping the blood from his lips, Isshiki said calmly, regretfully, "Because during the thousand years I spent away from Takamagahara, Izanagi's Shikigami had already found a host!"
His thoughts returned to the present, and Sasuke clenched his fist. "So it was him too!"
Never in his dreams had he imagined that the Shikigami of Taketamayorihime-no-Mikoto and Izanagi-no-Mikoto would reside within the same person—the Ōtsutsuki before them, Torashiki!
Naruto asked uneasily, "Hey, Sasuke, did