Before Kaguya severed the pulls, the living world first verified the cost.
They could not simply open the inner layer of the lunar surface because the terms sounded favorable.
The Land of Rain observed the nine empty ports on the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
The Land of Rivers inspected the twelve rings on the lunar surface.
The Nine Tailed Beasts and their jinchūriki only monitored their local seals for any tugging.
If any location called for a stop, the severing process would halt immediately.
Ri did not become the final authority for confirmation.
She was responsible only for the narrow voice slit inside the Seventh Ring.
Each location kept its own results.
Kaguya first withdrew a strand of pale chakra.
The first outline of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path lost its orientation toward the lunar surface.
It did not draw closer to the other eight.
When the second pull was severed, a tailed beast's seal somewhere briefly trembled.
That location immediately requested a pause.
Kaguya stopped.
She did not stretch the agreement to sever the pulls into permission to proceed without interruption.
The jinchūriki confirmed that the tremor came from the old seal recoiling, not from a new extraction.
Only after the tailed beast also agreed to continue did the third severing begin.
The nine pulls took far longer than expected.
Each was verified independently by its corresponding side.
There was no coordinated countdown.
Nor was there a single master mark that could determine success for all of them at once.
When the ninth pull broke, an enormous void appeared inside the lunar surface.
Kaguya lost her direct perception of the Ten-Tails Husk.
She could still sense that the Nine Tailed Beasts shared her origin.
But she could no longer trace that shared origin to locate