Facing the blade descending from the sky, Momoshiki's Rinnegan suddenly widened.
The purple light deep within his pupils seemed to ignite, instantly bursting into a boiling rainbow of colors.
An unprecedented fury surged in his chest, a final madness born of fear.
"Get-away!"
The roar nearly tore his throat apart.
Momoshiki thrust both hands out to either side, and a visible ring-shaped shock wave erupted between his palms, its edges haloed in a deathly white glow.
The air before him compressed violently before exploding, as though an invisible planet were collapsing and erupting in his palms.
The earth split open a thousand meters beneath his feet.
Rather than blasting straight toward Naraku, the shock wave spread out in a fan, covering such a wide area that even Isshiki, pursuing Naraku from behind, was forced to stop momentarily.
Wherever the shock wave passed, the air compressed into a transparent wall, sweeping tiny white shock fronts in every direction.
Even the space before Naraku rippled, and the air scraped his face with a knife-like sting.
His pupils contracted slightly.
Although he did not know the name of this move.
An image flashed through Naraku's mind in that instant.
In the original story, Momoshiki had used this very move when facing Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha together.
From halfway across the battlefield, a single strike had severed the God Tree's roots at their base while plowing a rift hundreds of meters deep and several kilometers long through the earth.
Naraku did not hesitate.
His left foot stamped hard against empty air, and he shifted sideways to the right, moving so fast that he left an afterimage behind.
The shock wave thundered past less than a foot outside his left shoulder, and violent air currents exploded behind him.
The raging air continued forward, passing