Muzan Kibutsuji finally broke free of his restraints.
With the last of his strength, he shook off the Hashira's corpses and weapons pinned to his body, one after another, and let out a frenzied roar, as though he had survived a disaster.
"It's over! You insects!"
"The sun is about to rise! I just have to hide underground! Just a few minutes! Then I win!"
His enormous, mountain-like mass of flesh began to collapse toward the ground. Countless tendrils of flesh burrowed frantically into the rubble and soil like tree roots, trying to dig a deep pit where he could hide from the sunlight in the shortest time possible.
However, a voice so cold it held not a trace of emotion came from directly above him.
"I refuse."
Muzan snapped his head up and saw the man who terrified him to his very core.
Uesugi Sasuke hovered silently in midair.
The Chakra Armor of Susanoo no longer covered him, nor did the lightning of Chidori. He simply floated there calmly, like the final stillness before a storm.
Yet Muzan sensed a pressure emanating from him more terrifying than ever before, enough to freeze the soul.
The source of that pressure was Sasuke's left eye.
That purple Rinnegan, inscribed with six tomoe, was now spinning at an unprecedented speed, radiating an eerie yet sacred light, as though it would draw the entire world into itself.
"This power was meant to slay demons."
"Then let it fulfill this final mission."
Sasuke's mind was utterly clear. He could no longer feel the pain in his body or the depletion of his chakra. Without holding anything back, he converted all his remaining life force into ocular power and poured it into the Rinnegan in his left eye.
His once-black hair began turning white from