"All right, it's about time."
At the Valley of the End, atop the head of Hashirama Senju's statue, Sasuke slowly rose. He brought his left hand, bearing the mark of yang power, together with his right, bearing the mark of yin power, and formed the Rat seal!
—Infinite Tsukuyomi: Release!
Rumble...!
The Divine Expansive World Bloom spreading across every corner of the five nations began to wither all at once. The white Tree Vines binding billions of living beings slowly lowered them to the ground, then melted into liquid that silently nourished the earth!
Across the world, countless people awoke from a dream of the World-Ending Calamity!
"What on earth is going on?"
"Wasn't the world destroyed? Why are we still standing here, safe and sound?"
"Could it have been... a dream?"
"A dream?? You're telling me something that felt so real was a dream??"
"Only a dream could explain what we went through!! All the ninja were wiped out!! This entire land fell!! That guy called Ōtsutsuki Yae did it with a mere flick of his hand..."
"Ōtsutsuki Yae!!! That name belonged to the final boss in my dream!!! How do you know it too!!! Did we all have the same dream!!!"
After contacting one another and comparing accounts, the people who had awakened reached a consensus!
After the moon emitted that mysterious light, everyone in the world had fallen asleep and experienced the same dream.
In the dream... they had remained consciously aware of themselves, but they had not seen it through their own eyes.
Instead... they had seen it through the eyes of a ninja named Sasuke Uchiha!!
"Uchiha... wasn't that the famous ninja clan from Konohagakure in the Land of Fire that was wiped out??"
For the vast majority of ordinary people in this world... that