Countless silver runes and ribbons of light, as intricate and mysterious as the paths of the stars, poured from Otohime's wildly spinning golden Rinnegan. In an instant, they completely enveloped both her and Naruto, who was still holding her fast at close range.
The scenery around them began to warp, stretch, and fold violently.
The stone walls of the moon's Sealing Space, Kaguya's enormous figure, Hamura's calm face...
Everything in their field of vision dissolved into chaotic patches of shimmering color, then stretched into infinitely long lines before finally merging into an indescribable absolute void that seemed to encompass every color and "nothingness."
"What... ninjutsu is this?"
A trace of gravity crept onto Naruto's face.
He felt an unprecedented force acting directly upon his very existence, as though it meant to "erase" him from the coordinate known as "the present."
He immediately tried to activate Kamui, intending to pull himself-or both of them-into the Kamui Dimension and interrupt the process.
But the moment Kamui's space-time vortex appeared, a surge of space-time fluctuations struck. To prevent it from tearing apart the Kamui Dimension and harming Hinata and Hanabi inside, Naruto abandoned Kamui.
He tried Flying Thunder God next, only to discover that all his spatial perception had become hopelessly confused, like trying to identify stars in a raging storm.
Conventional space-time methods were like something caught in the thickest mire here. Not only were they difficult to use, but a clash with Shinkōsanrei's space-time power might trigger an even more dangerous backlash.
He understood Otohime's intent in an instant.
She was not trying to settle their battle here, nor was she launching a direct attack.
She was trying to escape.
Or rather, she was attempting an extremely dangerous "Time-Space Exile"!
All she needed to do was cast them both into some