The final sealing did not cut Black Zetsu's consciousness into fragments.
His residual core was left at the center of the spatial scar.
He could still remember.
He could still refuse.
He could also raise objections to the responsibility records that had already been made public.
What had been dismantled were his four means of interacting with reality.
The first layer sealed off possession.
Black Zetsu's outer tissue was fixed between chakra-free minerals.
The minerals neither absorbed consciousness nor provided his residual core with a new body.
If any physical entity tried to pass through, pressure readings from three different directions would change simultaneously.
A change at any one point could only trigger closure.
That same point could not reopen it.
The second layer sealed off textual tampering.
The black connections extracted from the Stone Tablet, the old orders, and the pseudo-Ten-Tails core were stored in separate locations.
His residual core could hear the public summary.
He could not access the originals or write his own statements directly into anyone else's records.
If he raised an objection, he could only convey it through a single-use, chakra-free voice channel.
The original evidence and the objections were placed side by side.
Neither could overwrite the other.
The third layer sealed off the command network.
The Five Nations' old wartime orders were not consolidated at the sealing center.
Each nation closed only the Black Zetsu contact points within its own borders that remained active.
If one developed a problem again in the future, it would not open the other four at the same time.
The fourth layer concerned the Lunar Surface and the Demonic Statue.
Black Zetsu had already severed the chakra connection sharing Kaguya's origin.
All Lunar Surface Anchors had become inactive.
The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's nine interfaces had