"Didn't you say... you were going to take on Yemu?"
Sasuke Uchiha stood atop a broken wall in the ruins, one hand in his pocket and a faint smile on his lips.
His gaze was tempered like steel quenched in ice water as it settled on the silent Naruto. "Now Yemu is right in front of you. Why aren't you making a move?"
Naruto Uzumaki pressed his lips together, struggling inwardly.
He looked at Yemu, standing proud and aloof before the broken God Tree, and his chest thundered like a drum.
Yemu's silhouette was like a solitary peak spanning heaven and earth, something others could only look up to, never approach.
"I will."
Naruto's voice finally steadied, like the first drop of water in a surging river.
Yemu had not turned around. He was looking at the God Tree piercing the sky, his eyes cold as he lifted the Silver Dragon Blade in one hand and traced a graceful arc through the air-
Crack-!!!
A thunderclap that seemed to come from the heavens rang across the earth.
A terrifying silver crescent slash swept between heaven and earth, as though tearing the entire sky apart!
Boom!!
The God Tree towering above the clouds was instantly cleaved in half. The deafening crash shook the surroundings, the earth trembled violently, and endless fragments of branches rained down.
This strike was not merely destruction-it was a declaration!
As the God Tree collapsed, the illusion of Infinite Tsukuyomi broke.
Countless ninjas and villagers who had been sleeping in their dreams stirred on the ground, opening their eyes, staring blankly, and crying out.
"We're... awake?!"
"Just now... I think I dreamed of my dead family..."
"The tailed beasts... the tailed beasts have escaped!!"
The tailed beasts surged out with roars, as though waking from a dream,