"Hashirama."
"Kaguya..."
Tetsuhiro and Madara passed each other.
Faced with Madara's burning gaze, Tetsuhiro chose to drift slowly toward the petrified Kaguya.
"Tch..." Madara curled his lip and stood with his arms crossed, saying nothing more.
But the fire in his eyes had not faded.
Tetsuhiro picked up the black box at her feet. The gray mist inside, which had been used to freeze time, was gone.
But that was fine. Since this thing was used to store it, it should be able to take it back.
He gently stroked the stone statue and whispered, "Come back, my love..."
Then he opened the box fully.
"No reaction?"
"Master, cracking things like this is my specialty. Leave it to me." Little Black jumped out of the bracelet on its own and volunteered.
It was still holding Urashiki's fishing rod.
"All right. How's your research on the fishing rod going?" Tetsuhiro asked as he handed over the black box.
"No luck yet. There seems to be some kind of restriction inside. If anyone outside a specific group uses it, it absorbs their energy."
"Are you all right?"
"I'm different. To be precise, I'm a digital intelligence, not a carbon-based life-form, so it doesn't work on me."
"Then can you use it?"
"No. I don't have the energy to power it."
"All right. In the end, we'll still have to work it out slowly."
Tetsuhiro turned back and stroked Kaguya in disappointment, saying softly, "You'll have to put up with this for now."
With that, he told Little Black to take the black box and fishing rod back to the Cyberse for research. He gently lifted Kaguya's stone statue into his arms and said:
"Tobirama, unlock the space."
"Really? It's over already?" Tobirama struggled to sit on the ground, holding the Dimension Cube