"Shinshiki" suddenly appeared in the sky, gazing coldly down at everyone.
As the crowd reeled in uncertainty, Naruto abruptly rose and shouted, "Shinshiki, how on earth did you find this land?!"
"Sh-Shinshiki... isn't that the Ōtsutsuki Naruto told us about, the one who destroyed the Shinobi World?!"
"Wasn't the Bull-Headed Heavenly King, the one that caused spatial disturbances, already destroyed?!"
"How did he find us?!"
As everyone struggled with their shock and confusion, Shinshiki turned his gaze toward Naruto. "Oh? You know my name. Then you must be the culprit who used our clan's temporal treasure, Pear!"
Naruto's pupils contracted, and he clenched his fists tight!
Shinshiki looked down on him from above. "Perhaps you weren't aware. With Pear introducing an element of uncertainty, spacetime existed in a chaos state. But everything that happened was recorded in our clan's sacred relic-the Kabi Kojiki Monument. The moment we noticed the chaos state had vanished, we read the monument and learned everything that had occurred. In other words, your every move was within our grasp. You thought you could defy heaven and change your fate? Heh... utterly laughable!"
"Damn you!!!"
Naruto leaped into the sky, his golden Chakra Cloak unfurling into the enormous form of the Ten-Tails. A gigantic Tailed Beast Bomb condensed and shot skyward!
"What a boring trick."
Shinshiki sneered and raised a finger. Zap! A golden beam pierced three targets in a straight line-the Tailed Beast Bomb, the Ten-Tails' chakra, and... Naruto's heart!
"Aaaaaaargh!"
Naruto spat blood in midair and plummeted to the ground!
It had happened so quickly that no one had time to react!
"Be destroyed..."
A terrifying sphere of chaos swelled above Shinshiki's palm until it blotted out the sun!
In the darkness, suffocating terror... enveloped the entire arena. People even forgot to scream or flee.