"Do you know who Boruto is?"
Having received no response from Kaguya, the woman calling herself Uchiha Hikari asked again.
But once Kaguya confirmed that she was not the caster, she paid her no further attention.
People revived through Impure World Reincarnation could not be killed outright, and their chakra was not worth absorbing.
So Kaguya floated past her and continued searching for the Third Hokage.
Although the woman possessed an enormous amount of chakra, rivaling even the tailed beasts that had been split off, a dead person's chakra meant nothing to Kaguya.
In Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's eyes, this woman, whose chakra lit up her entire body like a light bulb, was less significant than an insect.
Yet Kaguya stopped.
Her gaze slowly shifted toward the woman, then lowered.
Uchiha Hikari had reached out and grabbed her broad sleeve. "I answered your question. Now it's your turn."
Kaguya froze for a second, looking again at the hand clutching her sleeve.
BOOM!!!!!!!!!!
Without the slightest windup, a blast of air erupted with a thunderous roar.
Kaguya's white hair whipped wildly as she formed a ball of intensely compressed chakra in her other hand and slammed it down at Uchiha Hikari!
Yet when the dust cleared, Uchiha Hikari remained unharmed, still holding on to Kaguya. This time, however, she was no longer gripping her sleeve.
She was holding Kaguya's hand.
Uchiha Hikari had caught Kaguya's strike just like that. Although contact with Kaguya visibly diminished the chakra aura enveloping her, it was also being replenished without end.
"She blocked it?!"
The ninja who had previously been killed in a single blow could not believe it.
After witnessing Kaguya's Divine Empty Strike, no ninja versed in taijutsu believed that a stronger taijutsu technique existed in this world.
Naturally, they did not believe anyone could