Dio walked up behind Uchiha Madara, but he did not even glance at him. His gaze simply passed over Madara indifferently and looked toward the ninja world beyond the rift. In his eyes, a trace slowly rose…
Confusion.
After the Calamity Divine Tree pierced through the ninja world, Paisley Park immediately covered the entire ninja world with surveillance. With the authority to control the Divine Tree, Dio quickly noticed something was wrong.
The ninja world had two main worlds.
"No, it's a bit different. There are still some differences." Dio murmured.
Wonder of U walked over with its cane. With its authority, it could also see this abnormality. After thinking for a moment, it said, "It's like a man's b*lls. One is slightly bigger, one is slightly smaller. But without a doubt, these two worlds are completely different in status from the other parallel worlds."
The world they broke through the barrier to reach had Ryosuke. It was the absolute main world.
Behind the main world, there was a secondary world without Ryosuke. And the countless parallel worlds of the ninja world were all derived based on that secondary world.
A very strange way of existing.
But in nature, anything can happen. Their previous understanding of parallel worlds was only based on the JOJO timeline and the theory of Funny Valentine.
What kind of person was Valentine?
Just an old antique who lived in the 19th century.
For Dio, he only needed to know two things.
First, the Saint Ryosuke, who symbolized the locked base world of the ninja world, was dead. He died at the hands of Dio Brando. Only a wisp of his remnant soul remained, hiding somewhere unknown.
It did not matter where. Dio would eventually find Ryosuke and make him completely disappear.
Second, the Calamity Divine Tree had already pulled both the main world and the secondary world over. Dio would absorb double the world's power.
What did that mean?
"Fate is ultimately standing behind me!"
After this battle, Dio could accumulate more foundation to conquer new worlds, step by step, and build his own kingdom.
"Stop it, Dio! If you continue, you'll only hurt more people!"
Dio's smile slowly faded.
He looked at Big Joestar, whose body was covered in wounds, whose eyes were still firm, and whose entire body burned with Ripple flames.
At this point, the only one who could still try to persuade Dio to stop was this former "brother."
This made Dio think of the time he lived with Big Joestar in the Joestar mansion in the past.
Kicking the dog.
Kissing the sister-in-law.
Killing the father.
Burning the house.
"Boring memories."
Dio sneered and simply waved his hand.
Two black gusts of wind swept up Big Joestar and Uchiha Madara, who had released Susanoo and charged in to kill. They were thrown from the edge of the rift back into the ninja world.
"Why not kill them?" Kars asked.
Standing at the edge of the rift and watching the two falling figures, Dio said, "If the ingredients run out of the pot, would you eat them raw? Of course you throw them back into the pot."
For the ninja world, Uchiha Madara was an important figure.
If Dio killed him now, he could indeed absorb quite a bit of soul power. But if Uchiha Madara and the ninja world were gradually absorbed and destroyed by the Calamity Divine Tree, the energy gained would be even greater.
The ninja world was the first world Dio was absorbing. Their team could be considered a startup company.
Resources still had to be used sparingly.
If Ryosuke had not posed such a huge threat, Dio really would not have wanted to kill him.
As for Big Joestar…
Dio's expression turned silent.
He did not give a reason.
Suddenly, a giant arrow wrapped in crimson glow shot straight up from below toward Dio.
It was Sasuke, piloting the Ten-Tails.
Now that Ryosuke's connection to the power of faith had been cut off, all of that power had gathered onto the Ten-Tails.
Under the infusion of vast energy, its body grew taller and taller. Crimson lines appeared on the purple Susanoo armor. The divine arts belonging to Otsutsuki Shimei all appeared, as if a cheat had been turned on.
Sasuke only had one thing to do.
Charge.
After firing the arrow, Sasuke pulled out a lightsaber.
Looking at Dio standing above, he suddenly thought of the time in the past when he and Ryosuke had just escaped from Konoha and wandered outside. Back then, they drifted from place to place and struggled to survive.
Orochimaru, Danzo, and many financial groups and villages interested in the Uchiha bloodline were all watching them.
But Sasuke was not afraid.
Because Ryosuke had once said to him...
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[Past]
"If the sky falls, the tall one will hold it up."
At that time, Sasuke asked, "Who's the tall one?"
Ryosuke rubbed his head.
"Of course it's me. Who else could it be? You little shorty."
Five years ago, Sasuke was only seven years old, just over 1.2 meters tall. He really was a little shorty.
Later, Sasuke gradually grew up. In recent years, he was almost as tall as Ryosuke. But Ryosuke was still that "tall one," the one who held up the sky for everyone.
———
[Present]
Now Ryosuke was gone.
Sasuke, piloting the Ten-Tails, was the tallest one.
He had to step forward.
"Heh."
Dio's light laughter came.
He laughed like a big crab crawling out of a steamer. Not only was he not angry, he would even praise it.
"Looks fresh at a glance."
Sasuke's lightsaber was about to stab forward when Dio raised his hand and touched the tip of the blade with his index finger.
The next second...
BOOM!
The explosion started from the tip of the lightsaber and spread backward. In an instant, it traveled all the way behind. The Ten-Tails burst like a balloon, revealing a stunned Sasuke.
Sasuke, whose nerves were bound to the Ten-Tails, burst open with countless wounds across his body. Black blood flowed from his eyes. His life signals dropped to zero in an instant.
The combat suit detected the change in vital signs and emitted a sharp alarm. The healing agents hidden inside the suit pierced into his spine, heart, and neck artery at three positions.
Hiss!
As the medicine was injected, Sasuke, whose eyes had lost their light, suddenly gasped for air.
Just now…
Sasuke had even seen his deceased mother.
The ninja world was right below. Before he even fell, Sasuke heard screams and cries.
His injuries were too severe. Even the usually effective healing agent could only temporarily ease them. It could not fully heal him.
With difficulty, Sasuke turned his head and saw the city below. Explosions and annihilation were everywhere. People who looked exactly the same collided with each other and then died miserably in the streets.
Similar scenes were happening all across the ninja world.
"This is…"
Sasuke's pupils shrank.
"Spacetime annihilation!"
Dio controlled the Divine Tree and pulled the main world and the secondary world into one "pot."
He did not care how the ingredients annihilated each other. They were all in the same pot. In the end, everything would fall into Dio's hands.
For the civilians living in the ninja world, it was a disaster.
Countless people turned into ash and disappeared under the rules of spacetime annihilation.
The only piece of good news was that because of Ryosuke's reform policies, many people's life paths had changed.
They were living in different cities and different areas. As long as they did not approach their parallel world counterparts, the annihilation rule would not be triggered.
The cries fell into Sasuke's ears. He clenched his teeth, anger rising in his heart. But while worrying about the ordinary people, Sasuke also had to worry about himself.
His body was stiff. He might… fall to his death.
Sasuke tried hard to clench his fist. As long as he could recover even a little strength, whether it was Susanoo or Ripple, just a bit would be enough.
However, the ground was getting closer and closer. There was only the sound of rushing wind in his ears.
Sasuke could only shut his eyes tightly, curl his body, reduce the impact as much as possible, and try to rely on the body he had trained for years to endure the collision of free fall.
At that moment...
Sasuke was caught.
"Are you okay, Sasuke."
A voice that was unfamiliar yet somewhat familiar.
Sasuke turned his head and saw a pair of eyes with cross-shaped pupils. The other person was wrapped in a golden chakra cloak and had short hair, looking to be in his thirties.
Sasuke's mouth hung half open as he said a name in disbelief.
"Naruto?!"
[T/N: T-5 Days]
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