The Heavenly Jeweled Spear and Heavenly Pillar Time

"Let's finish this quickly!"

Clang—

With his next move decided,

Shinji controlled his Susanoo, spreading its wings wide enough to blot out the sky. One beat of those wings whipped up a massive storm, and the dark-gold giant's feet lifted from the ground.

The fully armored Susanoo raised its dark-gold spear and aimed at the Nine-Tails, which was darting about, ready to lash out at it.

"Beast, this ends now!"

Whoosh!

Boom—!!!

The dark-gold spear shot forward, becoming a dazzling streak of Hikari. It flashed past like a meteor, and the earth shook.

What happened next stunned everyone outside!

Inside the Four Red Yang Release Formation, Shinji Uchiha and the Nine-Tails-possessed Naruto suddenly vanished.

As though... the world had erased them!

"Roar—!"

Controlling Naruto's body, the Nine-Tails crouched low and snarled warily. It scanned the pitch-black space before it as it backed away step by step.

A massive black pillar stood before it, so long and so tall that its full extent was impossible to see!

It looked as if...

It held up the sky itself!

"Damn human! What trick are you playing? Where is this?!"

For the first time, the Nine-Tails felt afraid of the unknown. For a Tailed Beast that had lived since the time of Hagoromo Otsutsuki, that should have been unthinkable.

But...

It was happening!

Whoosh!

Shinji appeared out of nowhere. His Susanoo was already gone, and he hovered in the air, holding a gleaming crimson Tachi.

The Nine-Tails' slit pupils contracted. "Impossible!"

Flight!

That wretched human was flying?!

As far as it remembered,

only that damned old man could float in the sky without any outside force holding him up!

Shinji grinned. "Nothing's impossible, Kurama..."

"What?!"

The Nine-Tails' fur stood on end. "You... what is going on with you, human?!"

"Surprised I know your name?"