Beyond the stars.
"I wasn't torn apart...?"
Otsutsuki Toneri awoke and dazedly sensed his own body.
His body was intact, having suffered no serious damage.
"Was it that, at the moment of being pulled in, it tore apart one's perception without actually tearing the body itself?"
He quickly began moving through this dim, lightless environment.
Trash floated everywhere.
It was like a gigantic space junkyard.
He had not wandered for long before he sensed the dead planet that had been dragged into the Space-Time Rift alongside him.
"So it wasn't torn apart either..."
He continued forward.
After only a few steps, he suddenly heard strange rustling sounds.
A living creature?
His heart tightened.
He hurriedly slowed down.
Since he could survive here, it was not impossible for other living creatures to exist as well.
If he had eyes, he might have already seen what it was.
But he had no eyes and could only rely on perception.
Perception could determine an opponent's outline, but many things—such as colors—could not be distinguished.
As he shifted forward bit by bit, an enormous presence gradually entered his sensory range!
At this distance, he could clearly sense that it was a huge creature!
But its size was utterly exaggerated!
It was at least thirty or forty meters long!
It even seemed to be eating something!
"What is that..."
His perception slowly enveloped it completely.
The instant it did, the rustling stopped!
The enormous creature seemed to have stopped devouring whatever it had been eating.
Yet at that moment, Otsutsuki Toneri finally identified what kind of creature it was.
It carried an aura that shared the same origin as his!
The aura of an Otsutsuki!
"What kind of Otsutsuki could possess such a massive body?!"
His face instantly went pale, though it had been pale