Ling's eyes, filled with silvery-white runes, hollowly reflected the chaotic sky. The milky-white pillar of light erupting from the Black Stone stood like an anchor against the storm, forcibly holding back the ever-descending "erasure domain." Yet the pillar itself swayed violently, flickering in and out. Bearing power far beyond his limits, his body was like a vessel on the verge of bursting. Fine wounds kept splitting across his skin, only to be barely mended by his remaining senjutsu chakra, over and over-a gruesome sight.
"...Thief who profanes the rules... shall suffer... the sentence of eternal slumber..."
That cold, ancient will reverberated, not through the air, but directly into the depths of every soul with sufficient perception. This was no threat. It was more like... a verdict.
"The Valley of Slumber... its last guardian will..." The Katsuyu Sage's enormous body trembled faintly in the distance, conveying a thought mingled with reverence and worry. "It has awakened... but the 'vessel' bearing it... is too fragile..."
The two Tobirama Senjus seized that fleeting opportunity!
"Now! The 'vessel' is forcibly stabilizing the passage! Twin Poles: Tracing Dust-Reverse!" they shouted in unison, abruptly bringing their hands together as they formed hand seals!
The two enormous silver-blue serpents of space-time, which had been coiling around and slicing through the pale vortex, abruptly changed direction. They no longer attempted to seal or destroy it. Instead, like deft needles and thread, they followed the temporarily stabilized "order path" opened by the Black Stone's pillar of light and plunged into the junction between the Consciousness Abyss and reality!
Their target-to forcibly strip away Obito's parasitic consciousness!
"No!! You can't!! This is mine!!!" Within the Consciousness Abyss, Obito let out a desperate shriek. He could feel an irresistible space-time force, designed specifically to sever an "illicit connection" like his, following