The Takigakure and Hoshigakure ninja within the blast zone were terribly unlucky. They had not even shown their faces before the shockwave blasted them straight into ashes.
Yomotsu Hirasaka slowly closed, and Naruto stepped out from within. Squinting at Otsutsuki Toneri, he still wore a smile.
"Where are you in such a hurry to go? Back to the moon to find your Tenseigan?"
Otsutsuki Toneri's expression changed at once. He shouted angrily at Naruto, "How did you know? No... You were the one who severed my connection to the Tenseigan!"
"I'm helping you," Naruto said with an utterly natural smile. "So you don't get devoured by the consciousness inside the Tenseigan."
"Utter nonsense!"
Toneri did not believe him at all. Raising a hand, he activated the Tenseigan's gravitational pull, intending to forcibly drag Naruto before him.
Yet when that gravitational force landed on Naruto, it was like striking a mountain. He floated in midair without moving even an inch.
"How... is that possible?"
Only then did Toneri clearly see the rings of patterns in Naruto's eyes. His expression instantly twisted, and he nearly roared through gritted teeth, "The Rinnegan! You are a descendant of Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki!"
Naruto raised a hand and scratched his head. A strange old programmer joke suddenly surfaced in his mind—the code had started running in a very strange way.
By blood, he really could be considered a descendant of the Hagoromo clan. It was just that Toneri had recognized it through the Rinnegan, while Naruto's Rinnegan had never belonged to him in the first place.
"Want your Tenseigan back?" Naruto took a scroll from his robe and waved it with a grin. "How about this? If you win this competition, I'll return it to you."
Those words completely ignited Toneri's fury.
Tenseigan Chakra Mode unfolded in