Caught in the turbulence of space and time, Naruto still did not understand what kind of power those eyes had unleashed.
All he could see was the monsters freezing in place before the scene began to shatter and fade.
Watching this, the Fire God seemed to sink into his memories as well. "The Sage of Six Paths once divided his power in two and left it to his sons, Asura and Indra. But in this era, the powers of Asura and the Sage of Six Paths had already faded."
"But the Nine-Tails' power had reached that supreme realm. To stop him, I had no choice but to walk the Sage of Six Paths' path once more."
"And the result was my existence."
At that moment, Naruto finally got a clear look at the gold-red figure.
The light in his eyes gradually faded, revealing the very same Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan Naruto had just seen.
As the scenes continued to shift, Naruto watched a battle that could only be called brutal.
A giant shrouded in golden light and a vicious beast with nine tails tore into each other, every move aimed straight at a vital point. No matter how grievous their injuries, they recovered in an instant, leaving only devastation behind.
Attacks that would have killed anyone else seemed, between these two, like deliberate attempts to hold each other in check.
Until the Nine-Tails kept drawing the battlefield toward Konoha, toward where Naruto's friends were.
When the fighting nearly spilled over and destroyed the village, the giant stopped holding back.
A gold-red aura enveloped his entire body. When he attacked again, he sliced away the Nine-Tails' chakra like a hot knife through butter.
And this time, the Nine-Tails did not recover.
It was a method of attack that struck directly at the very