The earth cracked, its scorched soil searing hot.
The sky was blood-red, the setting sun sinking as though even heaven and earth trembled at this battle.
Deep in the crater, Kaguya's robes were torn, her white hair disheveled, her expression vacant and terrified.
She resembled an ancient god cast into the mortal realm, her divine power torn apart and stripped away, leaving only a broken body and ragged breaths.
The shock wave, like Shinra Tensei, still reverberated deep underground, collapsing everything within a thousand meters, lifting rocks into the air and fracturing space.
Silver-white arcs of lightning gathered in midair like a woven net, coiling around the figure slowly descending.
Yemu-
His Silver Dragon Battle Armor seemed divinely forged, every inch gleaming with the cold fusion of metal and chakra. His feet touched down without a sound, yet the impact struck the soul like a pounding drum.
One slash.
Just one slash had dragged a "god" off her pedestal.
Kaguya held her pale eyes wide, struggling to support herself as she knelt on both knees.
She wanted to struggle, but the silver-white blade across her neck left her afraid to move even an inch.
She could feel that death was no longer a distant fate, but a cold reality pressed against her neck.
"You... who exactly are you...?"
Her voice was hoarse, filled with unprecedented terror and humiliation, as though every shred of her pride had been brutally crushed.
Yemu lowered his gaze, his eyes utterly emotionless, and answered softly:
"I'm just a good person passing through."
Space beneath his feet suddenly swirled into a vortex. Lightning burst into distorted ribbons of light, as though even time were beginning to freeze and shatter.
Not far away, high in the sky, the Perfect Susanoo towered like a mountain, purple flames