The instant [Kuninotokotachi] activated, Shingetsu's consciousness followed the God Tree's roots down into the swirling vortex of the Root.
It was a place filled with the origins of all things, and a place where everything existed, leaving nothing at all.
There, time lost its meaning, and an instant became eternity.
Shingetsu sank into the embrace of that eternal nothingness, letting her mind dissolve within it.
"Shingetsu!"
Tobirama hastily leaned out from the Wood Dragon's back, no longer even caring about the enormous meteor bearing down overhead.
Watching Shingetsu plummet like a drifting raven feather, he turned frantically toward Madara and Hashirama and screamed at the top of his lungs:
"You two muscle-brained idiots, stop fighting! Both of you, stop right now!"
Tobirama's face twisted with fury. He had lived through endless bloodshed, yet he rarely lost his composure or became this frantic!
He genuinely feared that Madara and Hashirama would accidentally kill Shingetsu.
But his worry could not have been more unnecessary.
As Shingetsu fell from high above, she finally regained consciousness just before the shock waves of their battle reached her. The rapidly spinning Three-Tomoe Sharingan in her eyes evolved into the Mangekyō Sharingan.
She held her breath, focused, and said in a low voice:
"Susanoo!"
With that murmur, Shingetsu's ocular power and chakra poured forth. A flawless white colossus in the form of a heavenly being rose up, standing between the Great Buddha and the Demon God.
"Ah, Shingetsu, you're here too!"
Hashirama waved happily, and his Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands waved its thousand enormous hands along with him.
The force of it was like a thousand Tailed Beast Bombs crashing down at once.
"Shingetsu, stay out of this! Wait for me over there!"
Madara, thoroughly caught up in the fight, also waved her away, telling