[The Central Battlefield]
A pitch-black energy sphere that blotted out the sky was falling.
Momoshiki's wild laughter echoed.
Sasuke's ninjutsu nullification was activated.
Ryosuke charged through the black fragments exploding all around him, rushing straight at Momoshiki, and threw the iron ball in his hand.
Along with Isshiki's despairing roar.
Everything happened far too fast. It didn't feel like a continuous scene so much as a series of frozen comic panels, short, sharp, and forceful.
Now, the center of that comic focused on the iron ball that had been thrown.
Setting aside the more mystical aspects of the Golden Spin, just talking about its practical effect, the ability Ryosuke gained upon reaching Lesson 3 in his training was target acquisition.
And the ability of Lesson 4, put simply, was, 100% super penetration and super critical hits.
Momoshiki's eyes went wide. His whole body stiffened, unable to move at all.
It wasn't that he didn't want to move. He simply didn't know which direction to escape to.
The iron ball advancing along the Golden Spin's trajectory was something Momoshiki couldn't observe at all.
In his mind, he imagined countless escape routes, and every single one ended with his chest being pierced through.
The result was as if someone had cast a paralysis spell on him, Momoshiki was frozen in midair.
"Roar!!!"
A furious roar rang out as Kinshiki returned, the crimson light in his hand transforming into a thick, heavy shield. At the final moment before the iron ball smashed Momoshiki apart, he planted himself in front of him.
BOOM!
A dull impact echoed, spreading outward at the speed of sound and shattering all the clouds in the sky.
Kinshiki lowered his head slightly, hunched his back, and was forced backward step by step, finally managing to block the iron ball's impact.
He bared his teeth in a grin.
Crack!
A fracture appeared in the nearly half-meter-thick crimson shield.
Kinshiki's pupils shrank.
The still-spinning iron ball shattered the shield and entered his field of vision, blasting him away again with irresistible force.
The divine weapon was after all a treasure of the Otsutsuki clan. It blocked most of the impact, and combined with Kinshiki's body honed over thousands of years, he didn't suffer serious injuries.
But he could no longer stop Ryosuke.
Only two or three meters remained between Ryosuke and Momoshiki.
Kinshiki's teeth ground together, his entire body crackling with blue lightning as flames formed at his fingertips.
He intended to use his own flesh and blood to block the monster called "Ryosuke" and save his master.
Just as Kinshiki was about to leap into the air, he suddenly heard a stuttering voice, "Get… down…"
C-Moon pointed a finger at Kinshiki.
BOOM!
It was as if the gravity of the entire world had descended upon him. Kinshiki was slammed hard into the ground, unable to take flight no matter what he did, forced to watch helplessly as Ryosuke charged toward Momoshiki.
Momoshiki stared in horror at Ryosuke rushing toward him, countless thoughts flashing through his mind, 'Eat Kinshiki, evolve again.'
'Eat Obito, evolve again.'
'Eat...'
The thoughts stopped. He couldn't eat anything.
Because Ryosuke's fist landed squarely on Momoshiki's face.
Bang!
Momoshiki's eyes bulged. Stupid as he was, he had never been a coward. Since energy attacks were nullified by Sasuke, he simply summoned a black rod and thrust it fiercely toward Ryosuke's shoulder.
Shhk!
'It hit?!'
Not just Kinshiki watching from below, even Momoshiki himself was shocked.
It was that easy to stab him, Ryosuke was nothing special after all.
"Idiot! Fall back now!" Isshiki roared.
Only then did Momoshiki see that after piercing Ryosuke's shoulder, the splattered blood transformed in midair into dozens of poisonous bees, stabbing toward his eyes and palms.
Drops of blood also clung to the black rod, as if they had lives of their own, crawling along it to Momoshiki's fingers. Fangs grew from the blood, biting down hard on his fingers.
A sharp pain shot through him. Along with that pain came the analysis and destruction of Momoshiki's bodily genes.
As an ultimate lifeform, what Kars could do, Ryosuke could also do, and do even better.
Momoshiki hurriedly let go.
Too late.
His movements slowed, his reactions dulled, and even his smooth, flawless skin developed faint, abnormal wrinkles.
This was a genetic attack.
With the power of the Otsutsuki bloodline, it might take two or three minutes to heal.
But right now, the Ruin Greatsword was already swinging down.
Momoshiki could only futilely raise the black rod to defend.
One slash severed it.
The black rod broke, and the Ruin Greatsword carved a deep gash into Momoshiki's chest, exposing a purple-black heart that throbbed violently. Borrowing the momentum of the swing, Ryosuke stepped forward again.
Killer Queen appeared, overlapping with Ryosuke, and together they drove their fingers toward Momoshiki's heart.
The fear of death engulfed Momoshiki.
At this moment, in Momoshiki's eyes, Ryosuke was the most terrifying demon imaginable.
Click! BOOM!
The first bomb detonated.
A Truth-Seeking Ball exploded and vanished.
Momoshiki seized the chance to escape Ryosuke's attack range.
Just moments earlier, a Truth-Seeking Ball had suddenly appeared, blocking Ryosuke's finger and becoming the target of the explosion.
"So this is the choice you made as a 'human'?"
Ryosuke stood suspended in midair, slowly turning his head to look at Obito, who had just intervened. Rare anger surfaced in his usually calm voice, "Helping aliens fight your own people, do you have any idea what will happen if these Otsutsuki win?"
Obito shook his head slightly. His eyes were no longer confused, filled instead with a determination most people couldn't understand.
"I know."
"But don't worry. What you fear won't happen. I've already received guidance from fate..."
He raised the staff formed from Truth-Seeking Balls and pointed it at Ryosuke.
"As long as I choose to act against you, fate will inevitably move toward the 'beautiful ending of Infinite Tsukuyomi.'"
"This is the only path of light deduced from a dark reality."
Others might be completely confused by this, but Ryosuke knew exactly what he was talking about.
"Amenotajikarao."
Just seconds earlier, the White Snake Sage had returned and handed Amenotajikarao's eye to Obito, deducing a path leading to "Infinite Tsukuyomi", joining forces with the Otsutsuki to attack Ryosuke.
Hard as it was to imagine, that was the result of the deduction.
Obito, the White Snake Sage, and Kabuto Yakushi all understood the consequences of using Amenotajikarao, but they were willing to bear them, as long as they could win today.
As for tomorrow's consequences, they would leave them to tomorrow.
"I understand."
Ryosuke sighed softly. "A beast is still a beast in the end. I shouldn't have had excessive expectations of you."
He touched the corner of his eye and slowly drew out a half-transparent blade of tears.
The Tear Ride Ticket, a Stand Ryosuke rarely used because of its severe side effects.
But today, he had no choice but to rely on this calamity-laden power.
With the tear blade in his left hand and the Ruin Greatsword in his right, Ryosuke hovered in midair.
Opposite him, Otsutsuki Momoshiki, Kinshiki, and Obito all stared at him coldly.
Suddenly, a massive flower bloomed behind the Ten-Tails. The next second, a Tailed Beast Ball formed within the flower and burst forth, shooting straight toward Momoshiki.
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