"Purification is the destiny of the universe."
Tenshiki's voice was calm and level, as though he were stating an eternal truth.
The golden Rinnegan on his forehead suddenly erupted with blinding light.
In an instant, the already fractured sky above the Land of Hot Water shattered completely!
Countless enormous fragments of space fell like meteors, each carrying enough destructive energy to effortlessly erase mountains and rivers.
This was no mere physical attack, but the distortion and strangulation of space itself!
"Tch, going all out right from the start? That's one generous demolition budget."
Shinichi curled his lip, his tone as languid as ever, but his half-lidded, dead-fish eyes reflected the spatial rifts raining down from the sky, gleaming with unprecedented sharpness.
He did not dodge. He merely raised his right hand slowly.
"Myriad Things Severance."
As his low voice rang out, an invisible ripple spread outward from Shinichi in every direction.
The instant those countless fragments of space, laden with destructive power, touched the ripple, they vanished like creases smoothed flat by an invisible hand, reverting to pure spatial energy and dispersing into the air.
Even the jagged cracks in the sky healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Tenshiki's golden Rinnegan narrowed slightly, showing a trace of surprise for the first time.
His Space Collapse had been neutralized that easily?
"Your power truly is... 'special.'"
Tenshiki offered a word of praise, but there was no hint of frustration in his tone. Instead, his eagerness for battle only grew.
"Then how will you handle 'purification' on this scale?"
He slowly pressed his palms together.
"Divine Art: Dimensional Shift."
The next moment, the space around Shinichi abruptly warped, as though it had become a funhouse mirror.
Tenshiki's figure blurred amid the distorted light and shadow, appearing on the left