He was waiting.
Waiting for that window.
Time ticked by, second by second. Urashiki Otsutsuki had no idea how long it had been! Amid such extreme agony, time became distorted and blurred.
But he could feel that the sealed Kāma inside him was indeed producing faint, rhythmic fluctuations under the stimulation of the energy pulses. Those fluctuations seemed to be responding to something, yet also seemed to be calling out to something.
Suddenly!
An extremely subtle change occurred in the energy field inside the container.
Urashiki Otsutsuki's senses had never been so keen. He caught that tiny change! The energy density was dropping, and the shielding was weakening. The decline was so slight that he would never have noticed it without deliberately sensing for it.
Now!
Urashiki Otsutsuki desperately mustered every bit of power he could command within his body! It amounted to almost nothing, but with the help of the Kāma, he barely managed to condense a thread of energy sufficient to transmit information.
He compressed all the information-the location of Rōran, the situation in the laboratory, the presence of the Otsutsuki-into that thread of energy, then transmitted it through the window in the weakened shielding!
The instant the information was successfully transmitted, Urashiki Otsutsuki felt as though his last scrap of strength had been drained away. He collapsed at the bottom of the container, gasping for breath, his heart pounding wildly.
He had done it.
He had contacted Ōtsutsuki Isshiki!
The true powerhouse of the Ōtsutsuki Clan who had descended alongside Kaguya Ōtsutsuki a thousand years ago, been betrayed and gravely wounded by her, yet survived to this day!
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki would come. He would definitely come to save him. He would...
Urashiki Otsutsuki struggled to pull the corners of his mouth into a faint smile.
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