The twin moons hung in the same sky, with stars scattered around them.
Inside and outside the canyon, countless tree shadows swayed.
Its roots reached deep underground, spreading veins that extended across every corner of the world.
Its growth soared toward the heavens, with no end in sight.
Its trunk was majestic enough for a hundred people to link arms around it, while its luxuriant canopy seemed capable of blotting out the sky and moon.
Amid those billions of branches and leaves, a fruit that gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the twin moons had already formed. Aside from minor flaws in its surface patterns, everything else was complete.
In another month or so, the fruit would be fully ripe!
Since there are so many people who keep asking, let me explain this one last time: time flows ten times faster in Double-Moon Space than in the present world. Three days in the present world equals thirty days in Double-Moon Space. Thirty days is one month, understand!??
Beneath the shade of the tree, Tobirama lay on the crossbeam of a Myojin Gate, propping his cheek up with one arm, bored out of his mind.
"Another peaceful day. Ever since Dust Style broke in back then, no Heavenly People have come calling..."
"Hee hee ha ha, A-Fei, look..." A lively young girl's voice drifted down from overhead.
Tobirama looked up to see a petite, lovely girl dressed in animal skins, barefoot atop the tree, waving at him nonstop.
She was the little girl Yu had desperately saved in Aqi Country. Yama had confirmed that she was the reincarnation of Tobirama's childhood sweetheart, Senju Ling'er.
To keep Ling'er from being traumatized, Yu had permanently sealed her memories of the disaster before sending her away.
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