Endless Sand Sea.
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki was relentlessly pursuing Sasuke Uchiha!
Their figures crossed through this Alternate Space, the energy spilling from them constantly destroying their surroundings. Deafening explosions periodically sent rings of transparent ripples through the air.
Flying grains of sand scattered high into the air, even obscuring their vision.
Thud!
A heavy, muffled impact rang out!
Sasuke fell from the sky and slammed into a dune.
The tremendous force instantly destroyed the dune, blasting a deep crater dozens of meters across into the ground!
Lying at the bottom of the crater, Sasuke could already clearly see Kaguya's approaching, ferocious face through the swirling sand.
With time running out, Kaguya could no longer maintain the indifferent expression she had worn when she first escaped her sealing.
Her delicate, beautiful face had now twisted into a savage expression.
Sasuke could even see the madness and hysteria Kaguya was desperately concealing beneath her calm!
Clearly, something he knew nothing about had happened.
Otherwise, Kaguya could not possibly have been in such a hurry!
Sasuke now had an inkling that Kaguya might have suffered a setback while facing Shihōin Naraku or Naruto in the other Alternate Spaces.
There was even a strong chance she had lost to those two.
Otherwise, her change would not have been so drastic.
"Amaterasu!"
Pitch-black flames appeared in an instant, surging straight toward Kaguya at point-blank range and engulfing her entire body.
Of course, Sasuke knew that killing Kaguya with Amaterasu was impossible.
He only wanted to use this move to buy himself some time.
So when he saw Kaguya being harried by Amaterasu, he seized the opportunity and flipped aside, dodging the All-Killing Ash Bones shooting toward him like an arrow.
The gray-white bone spike grazed the hem of his clothes and plunged into the desert with