Outside.
Shinji glanced at the two little kids on the ground, then at the blond man and red-haired woman standing shoulder to shoulder.
He froze for a moment.
"What are you doing here?"
Naruto thrust his fist into the air. "Big Brother Shinji! We came to help you beat the bad guys!"
Shinji smiled. "The bad guys are already gone. Now... you need to get farther away, or you'll be in danger."
Minato Namikaze stared at the enormous "moon" before Shinji, his heart sinking. "Don't tell me..."
Shinji turned back toward the sphere. "I'm going to split this thing open, so everyone, stand back."
As soon as he spoke,
Blue-Green Chakra Flames surged up around Shinji. He raised a hand and pressed two fingers together like a sword.
Humm—
In an instant,
a terrifying blade stretched from Shinji's fingertips, so long its end was nowhere in sight. Then it came down—
"Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!!!"
Humm!
Crack!
A perfectly straight cut appeared across the enormous "planet," its surface smooth as a mirror.
The two halves split apart and fell!
Shinji raised an eyebrow as a white-clad figure drifted toward him and came to rest silently at his side.
A Tachi suddenly appeared in her hand.
She slashed across!
Boom—
Blazing heat swept out in a slash of flame, melting and vaporizing an entire massive half of the Planet in an instant!
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki stared wide-eyed at it all.
Her trust in Shinji quietly rose another notch. The first notch had come from Hagoromo.
As her dear son had faded away, he had sent her a message through Chakra.
He had whispered something to her.
At the thought, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki turned her head and gazed blankly at Shinji's handsome profile, tilting her head.
A dazed, thoughtful look crossed her cool, beautiful