"What... what are you going to do?"
Otsutsuki Toneri's voice had grown slightly hoarse. The pride and confidence deep within him were crushed to dust by Yemu's steadily approaching footsteps.
He had planned to stake everything on his soon-to-awaken tenseigan and give it his all.
Who could have known-
Yemu was faster.
Yemu raised his right hand, and an utterly pure beam of silver-white chakra suddenly flashed at his fingertip. Its radiance held not a trace of impurity, like divine light piercing heaven and earth.
The next second, it shot straight into Otsutsuki Toneri's eyes like an arrow.
"Aaaah!!!"
His agonized scream echoed through the empty expanse.
Otsutsuki Toneri clutched his eyes, his face instantly turning deathly pale. He almost thought his eyes had been destroyed outright.
"What the hell did you do to me?!"
That bastard actually ambushed me while I was distracted?!
Despicable! Shameless!
Yet after that brief panic, he froze.
-There was no stinging.
-There was no burning.
Instead, he felt a warm current stirring around his eyes, like spring sunshine melting solid ice.
That warmth did not destroy anything. Instead, it spurred some sort of evolution within his eyes.
"This... this is..."
Otsutsuki Toneri's breathing quickened. To his astonishment, the energy flowing through his eyes was accelerating rapidly.
The tenseigan's initial stirrings, which should have required time to develop, were now making a transformative leap.
This was-a sign of awakening!
"This guy... is he helping me?"
Countless thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant.
Confusion, doubt, wariness, and even a trace of greed and excitement.
-Why?
Yemu clearly had overwhelming strength, so why would he give me a helping hand?
Was he looking down on me?
Or was he setting some sort of trap?
But when the awakening power truly began to surge, Otsutsuki Toneri