Whoosh!
A white vortex erupted from the Six-Tomoe Rinnegan on Ubiji's forehead, churning the vast starry sky!
Time reversed... The dust that had already been annihilated rose from the void, reconstructing the battered, hole-ridden Earth!
Yu and the others, whom Ryushiki had killed, also returned from the dead as time flowed backward...
Naruto scratched his head. "What's going on... Weren't we already killed? Could it be that we'd been caught in an illusion before?"
Yu stared intently at the heavens. "This Chakra... it's Teacher's... Just as I thought, he is the awakened bearer of that ocular technique's Shikigami! I can't imagine any other possibility capable of doing this!"
In the starry sky, Ubiji and Ryushiki, teacher and student from long ago, faced each other once more after a thousand years.
"I'd only vaguely suspected it before. I never imagined Yumotolu's Shikigami was truly within you."
Ryushiki looked directly at Ubiji. "Teacher... Is this like the story you once told, where a cat teaches a tiger how to hunt but keeps the ability to climb trees to itself?"
Ubiji smiled. "It's not quite that. No one can be certain what happens after death, and I never expected that after my soul reached the Netherworld, I would be chosen by its master to continue fulfilling my mission..."
He raised a hand to his forehead and said in a low voice, "But aside from your mistress, no one knew that I had awakened this Shikigami's secret. I never used this power in Takamagahara, either."
Ryushiki pinched his chin with his small hand, pondering seriously. "Come to think of it, the Heavenly True Name Record, which could record the ownership of Shikigami within the clan, also vanished during the period of your rise. If I'm not mistaken, you did it... to conceal the fact