"You really guessed it right — this Bullet has really caused trouble."
Inside the Hall.
Matatabi, its whole body wreathed in blue flame, was once again lying on the conference table pretending to nap, while Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo sat in the chair to the right.
At this moment, Enma looked at the screen where Bullet had his hand clamped around the Wraith Lord's neck and was hammering her to death.
She had expected Bullet to revive immediately; she really didn't think things would develop like this.
These past days she had been busy directing her subordinates to receive the Falmart Underworld's dead, and, incidentally, to remodel the natural environment of the North District.
After all, it had already been confirmed that the Falmart world would be completely swallowed by the "Void Mist."
So of course those tens of thousands of dead from its Underworld should be brought back to the Starfish Underworld homeland for continued use.
"Shouldn't Lady Enma stop him?" Hagoromo asked in a deep voice.
Since these Wraith Lords had submitted to the World Government, and the World Government allowed them to remain in their respective towns, the two sides had established a subordinate relationship.
So strictly speaking, Bullet was now slaughtering his own people.
"It doesn't matter. Killing a few disobedient ones will also intimidate the other Wraith Lords, make them behave during this period. When we free up our hands, sooner or later we will carry out a major purge of the homeland anyway."
Enma waved her hand indifferently.
Bullet would stay here at most less than a day; that amount of time was not nearly enough to exterminate many Wraith Lords.
"Of course, if he wants to stay, that's even better — kill as many Wraith Lords as he wants!"
Hagoromo nodded.
"All right then. I'll remind General Ghost-Shark two hours early; otherwise once the time passes he won't be able to use the Sacred Seal Tag to revive."
"It doesn't matter, right? You still have Rinne Tensei, don't you?"
"Enma asked calmly, only to hear Hagoromo hurriedly explain: 'Rinne Tensei generally requires the caster to pay with their life, and although this old man wouldn't actually die, the cost would still be significant.'
'So it's still better to use a Sacred Seal Tag. As long as natural energy is abundant, one tag can be produced in eight months.'"
"I see."
Enma nodded, then smiled and said: "Since that's the case, once the World Government relocates the living beings of the Falmart world, let the toads go over and manufacture a few Sacred Seal Tags."
"Anyway, that world will be swallowed before long; better to extract its remaining value first!"
...
Twenty hours after his 'death', Bullet was revived by Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo using a Sacred Seal Tag.
When Bullet's body opened its eyes inside a bioresearch institute, in a nutrient pod filled with green liquid, he was no longer a Devil Fruit user.
...
On the other side.
Just as the entire World Government had fallen into endless busyness due to the population movement from the world of Falmart as well as the technological and infrastructural assimilation granted by a modern world like the Nuclear Weapons World, Imu, situated in the shinobi world, unhurriedly left Noah's Ark alone.
He arrived at this moon that Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki and Hamura Ōtsutsuki had jointly created back then.
Imu floated in midair, extending his hand with his fingers spread in a deliberate motion looking down thoughtfully at the pitted, uneven lunar surface.
"ROOM!"
As a mass of white whirlwind blossomed in his palm, a faint blue light visible to the naked eye instantly spread out in all directions.
And Imu immediately sensed a distinct spatial fluctuation at a certain location.
That was where Kaguya's seal was.
The present Imu had not the slightest misgiving.
Because "Truth" had already been placed by him into this universe and could act at full strength for him at any time.
In the next second, Imu gave a casual wave.
A circular spatial passage immediately propped open before him, its edges a bit unsteady as it struggled against the sealing force.
Knowing the passage would not hold for long, he at once turned into a streak of white light and slipped inside.
A few seconds later, the power of Chibaku Tensei completely erased the spatial passage.
"So dark?"
Imu discovered that this space had not the slightest light.
This made Imu sigh that Hagoromo and Hamura, these two brothers, were ruthless enough.
At once Imu drew his sword Seika, making it radiate sunlight-like golden brilliance.
Although now he did not particularly need to observe the outside world with his eyes, it still felt more comfortable this way.
Very soon, Imu discovered above his head, lying flat, was a figure clad in white.
When he instantaneously moved over, he immediately confirmed that this excessively pale-skinned woman, with twin horns growing from her head, was Kaguya.
At this moment her three eyes were tightly shut, her red lips closed, and her hands folded across her abdomen.
Expressionless, she floated in midair, allowing the white hair longer than her body to gently drift in the air.
"How am I to awaken her?"
Imu had come to seek out Kaguya mainly to have a talk with her.
To see whether he could make her sign a Truth Contract with him and become a member of the Star God Hall.
Yet now Kaguya showed no sign of waking.
This was completely different from Imu's expectations.
Imu pondered for a moment, then wrapped Colorless Haki around his hand, and placed it on Kaguya's forehead to test if he could awaken her consciousness.
"Hmm?!"
He discovered that this body of Kaguya's was actually a spiritual body.
That is to say, without using Haki, or invoking the divine power of the Lord of the Underworld, he could not even touch her.
"If I remember correctly, Kaguya had fused with the God Tree itself, becoming the Ten-Tails."
"The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path is her body, the nine Tailed Beasts are her chakra, and what lies before me should be her soul and consciousness."
"So if I want to awaken her, do I have to follow the process all over again?"
Imu recalled the entire procedure for reviving Kaguya.
But right now he only wanted to have a talk with Kaguya.
As for whether to let her resurrect—that was something to consider later.
"So it means Infinite Tsukuyomi is the necessary condition to awaken her consciousness, while the vast chakra is only to let her break free."
"But since I have the ability to open a passage for a few seconds, does that mean I don't need to gather the chakra of the entire shinobi world?"
Just as Imu was preparing to leave and go talk with Hagoromo, he suddenly felt a faint mental fluctuation from the palm he had placed on Kaguya's forehead, touching his Colorless Haki.
Imu immediately realized that his Colorless Haki still had a certain effect.
He instantly gave her a response, his mind immediately linking with hers.
In the next moment.
Imu, in a vast white spiritual world, saw a perfectly normal-looking Kaguya.
"Who are you?"
Kaguya asked coldly, expressionless.
"Before introducing myself, how much do you still remember?" Imu countered.
Kaguya was silent for a moment, then pursed her lips and said, "You mean the foolish things those two stupid sons did?"
"So you know you were sealed?" Imu pressed further.
Kaguya grew a little impatient: "Who exactly are you, and how did you awaken me?"
"No, you haven't awakened. Right now you are only…"
Imu looked at her with a strange expression.
"…stimulated by my Haki, which caused a brief fluctuation in your spirit."
"So I should indeed seize the time, though I don't know whether you will remember in the future the things we speak of now."
Kaguya remained expressionless.
She could feel that she now had no power whatsoever, otherwise she would already have opened her Byakugan to release pressure.
"I am called Imu, the ruler of the World Government. The shinobi world is now also under the banner of the World Government."
"What is the shinobi world?"
Just as Imu was preparing to first give a simple explanation of the situation, he suddenly heard Kaguya in front of him ask.
This made his tone freeze.
Of course—after all, the reason it was called the shinobi world was because Hagoromo had founded the shinobi sect, followed by shinobi and shinobi villages.
So naturally Kaguya did not know the shinobi world.
"Then what do you call this world where you planted the God Tree?"
Understanding his meaning, Kaguya replied indifferently: "Seedbed."
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