The sinister aura around Zetsu grew heavier.
He hurriedly made the Zero-Tails attack.
In the blink of an eye,
all manner of jutsu had been unleashed.
But
Aogetsu Hyuga casually swatted every attack aside.
As for
stronger attacks,
Zetsu
didn't dare use them at all,
afraid he might hurt his mother in the process.
Kaguya was in agony.
She couldn't draw a breath,
and it felt as though her entire chest had been clamped tight.
Her head felt ready to burst.
Even the world around her
had blurred beyond recognition.
Her pale face
had taken on a bluish-purple tinge.
She even
thought she was about to die!
Just then,
amid the chaos,
her Rinne Sharingan opened on its own.
Immediately,
their surroundings began to change.
BZZZ!!!
The other dimension of clashing ice and fire
became a jade-green expanse of earth
beneath a pink sky.
As the space shifted,
Aogetsu Hyuga immediately sensed the difference.
He hadn't expected Kaguya, restrained as she was,
to still be able to shift them into Gravity Space.
As he thought this,
a powerful force of gravity
pressed down on him.
Of course,
"powerful" was only relative.
To Aogetsu Hyuga,
it merely
made his body tremble.
Yet
that single tremor
created an opening in the hand gripping Kaguya's throat.
Zetsu seized the chance
and thrust upward with all his strength,
knocking Aogetsu Hyuga's hand away.
At the same time,
Kaguya instinctively pulled free the hand Aogetsu Hyuga had been holding.
She sucked in a desperate breath.
Cold air rushed into her lungs,
like rain falling on parched earth.
Kaguya's body
shuddered violently.
Her chest heaved, and the whole world seemed to come alive again.
A stinging pain
spread through her body,
but Kaguya felt nothing but relief and joy.
"Oh, you actually broke free."
The young