"It truly grieves me. Though these eyes saw your end long ago, witnessing it in person still fills me with sorrow for you, Kaguya."
An ethereal female voice rang out.
Kaguya looked bewildered at first, then turned a wary gaze toward Urashiki's corpse.
A name from the distant past came to her: Urashiki's partner.
"Otohime, weren't you dead?"
"Hmph. I am a god, the princess of the Dragon Palace, and sovereign of the endless blue seas. Unless I wish it, I shall not die."
White light radiated from Urashiki's body. Naruto threw the Sealing Scroll toward it, then used Kamui to take Hanabi and Hinata into the Kamui Dimension.
Hamura's soul involuntarily knocked the Sealing Scroll open, only to be sealed inside it.
Naruto's eyes widened as he watched the outside world through a Kamui projection. The seal on that Sealing Scroll shouldn't have been capable of sealing souls!
Was this the ability of that woman named Otohime?
The white light took the form of a young woman with skin whiter than snow. Like Kaguya, she had a pair of wooden horns on her head, though hers resembled a young deer's antlers.
Her figure was slender and graceful, her long silver hair flowing freely.
The instant she appeared, all the physical energy in Urashiki's body was drained away, leaving his corpse a desiccated husk.
Unlike the Otsutsuki who generally wore plain white clothing, Otohime wore an elaborate white gown that seemed woven from water and gauze, with faint scale patterns interlaced with starlight.
A subtle ripple crossed Otohime's frost-white face, like a shadow passing beneath a tranquil sea.
Her gaze shifted as she studied Naruto with a hint of curiosity.
"How peculiar."
She spoke again, her voice still ethereal but now carrying a more probing note.
"Ordinary jutsu are no