The atmosphere in the Expansive Truth-Seeking Ball Space had grown unbearably tense.
Chiya kept advancing, now less than ten meters from Kaguya. Flames flickered slowly around him, his gaze fixed on her, as though he had not noticed the deadly sneak attack about to come from behind.
With her back against the spatial barrier, Kaguya trembled uncontrollably. As she watched Chiya approach step by step, despair nearly spilled from her eyes. Her chakra was almost exhausted, flames continued to sear her wounds, and she no longer even had the strength to use Yomotsu Hirasaka. She had no trump cards left, no ability to resist.
Just as Chiya came within five meters of Kaguya, something changed.
Black Zetsu burst out of Kaguya's body. He became a black blur, making neither a sound nor a ripple of chakra. Concentrating the utmost power of Yin-Yang Release in his hand, he thrust viciously toward Chiya's back, right behind his heart.
That strike held all of Black Zetsu's strength, along with every scheme he had devised over a thousand years. He knew perfectly well that Chiya was far too powerful for a frontal attack to hurt him at all. Only a sneak attack without the slightest warning, delivered while Chiya's attention was entirely on Kaguya, had any chance of succeeding.
His goal was not to kill Chiya. He intended to use Yin-Yang Release to merge Chiya's body, chakra, and soul into Kaguya. If he could do that, his mother would absorb Chiya's power and return to her peak, perhaps even becoming stronger than before. Then they could eliminate this unforeseen variable and complete his mother's final resurrection.
This was his last chance, his only hope of turning things around.
Black Zetsu moved with incredible speed. The power of Yin-Yang Release had already touched the clothing