Black Zetsu did not answer Kaguya's question.
He expanded the corruption at three points on the Lunar Surface at once.
The first lunged toward Hagoromo's echo.
The second cut off the Tailed Beasts' voices.
The last searched for an exit into reality along Ri's eye patterns.
As long as Kaguya went back to sensing nothing but chakra, names and memories would once again become inaudible noise.
Hagoromo's echo had no ability to fight.
The chakra it retained was only enough to deliver his final words.
As the black corruption approached, the echo rapidly faded.
Gen did not ask the Nine Tailed Beasts to provide power for protection.
That would give Black Zetsu an opportunity to bring their power together.
Each location only decided whether to send a remembered sound without any chakra output.
Each sound first underwent two local checks.
The Jinchūriki confirmed that it would not expose their usual whereabouts.
The Tailed Beast confirmed that the content was something they genuinely wished to provide.
The Neutral Station only delivered the sounds to the narrow slit on the Lunar Surface, retaining no complete copy that could be replayed.
If Black Zetsu cut a transmission off, the original contributor still decided whether to resend it.
Shukaku refused.
He had already answered to his name and did not want the Five Nations to hear anything more.
The record remained blank.
Matatabi permitted the transmission of a clip of flames burning.
It was not a battle.
It was her memory of first realizing she could control her own blue flames.
Isobu provided an echo of seawater striking his shell.
From the fifth seal came the tremors of the earth during a run.
The sixth sent only the sound of a bubble bursting.
Not a single clip exposed a Jinchūriki's location.
Nor did any