They returned to the ruins of Sand Death Star.
The dazzling ball of fire deep in the starry sky, and the galaxy dotted with starlight behind it, stood in stark contrast to the desolate, lifeless blackness nearby.
Naruto still clung to a shred of hope, his eyes sweeping the void.
But in that pitch-black silence, even darkness itself could be buried, let alone a mere Black Zetsu.
After confirming that Black Zetsu had perished, Naruto clenched his hands and turned a gaze heavy with hope toward Sasuke.
"Sasuke, please. This is the one thing I'll ever ask of you."
"Yeah, I understand." Sasuke closed his eyes. Beneath his white-and-purple Divine Robe, he brought his hands to his chest and formed a peculiar Seal.
—Divine technique: Omotaru!
Hum! A silver halo appeared behind his head, radiating countless threads of silver light!
Whoosh! Sasuke vanished into thin air before Naruto and Obito's eyes, leaving a white feather that looked frozen in place.
A strange gleam flickered in Obito's eyes. So this was how the divine technique... actually worked?
I thought Omotaru reversed time directly. Instead, the caster detached himself from the current timeline and jumped back into the past?
Just then, whether out of curiosity or some other reason, Naruto reached toward the white feather Sasuke had left behind.
"Don't touch it." Obito stopped him.
"This white feather resembles the spatial beacon of a space-time technique. If Omotaru is a time-based divine technique, then it should be some kind of marker on the timeline. Sasuke needs it to return. If you touch it, there's a chance it could cause consequences neither of you can predict..."
Naruto lowered his hand.
Obito released Naruto's wrist and rubbed his chin, sinking into thought. *If Sasuke jumped into the past, to before Black Zetsu was killed