The Sage of Six Paths, concerned that the Ten-Tails' immense chakra would bring calamity to the world, extracted its chakra to create the nine Tailed Beasts, thereby weakening the Ten-Tails. He then sealed the chakra-less husk of the Ten-Tails, now known as the Gedo Mazo, on the moon. Ōtsutsuki Hamura and his descendants were to guard it for generations.
It could be said that guarding the Ten-Tails' husk, the Gedo Mazo, was one of their Ōtsutsuki clan's missions.
However, someone had stolen the Gedo Mazo. This was no longer just a minor skirmish; it truly crossed a fundamental line. This also led the Ōtsutsuki clan's Branch Family to believe that ninja were the root cause of the world's disrupted peace and order!
Toneri's father hadn't expected to see the very person who stole the Gedo Mazo here today. And these thieves now even intended to kill them!
"What?"
Hearing the words "Gedo Mazo" escape the person's lips in the air, Nagato's Rinnegan eyes involuntarily narrowed slightly.
Who exactly are these two? How do they know about the Gedo Mazo, and how can they use a repulsion technique similar to Shinra Tensei?
"Father!"
While Toneri's father was filled with shock and rage, Toneri let out a cry of panic and fear.
That single word, "Father," seemed to make him resolve something, a flicker of madness and resolve flashing in his eyes.
He would, here and now, kill the thieves who stole the Gedo Mazo, and ensure Toneri's safe return to the moon! Moreover, conventional methods could no longer withstand the Cero. To protect Toneri, he too must pay the price!
"Toneri!"
With this thought, he sharply turned to Toneri and said hatefully, "Remember, remember these two below! Kill them all! Destroy the Sage of Six Paths' world!"
"But, until you obtain the Tenseigan, do not return to the ninja world!"
Ōtsutsuki Toneri seemed to realize something. The expression on his tender, youthful face changed, and he quickly said, "No, no, Father..."
But before he could finish, Toneri's father floated up, pulling one hand away and aiming it at Toneri.
Bang!!
Under the effect of that repulsive force, Toneri and the flying ninja tool flew towards the moon at an even faster speed.
Toneri's father hovered in the air. Because a portion of his repulsive force had been withdrawn, the already overburdened barrier shattered.
Splat!
Even though Toneri's father desperately used repulsion to deflect the light beam, the Cero still slammed squarely into half of his body.
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only silent vaporization and annihilation! Half of his body vanished the moment it made contact with the red beam, shattering like paper, revealing the gushing blood and pale bones within!
Even the dark clouds above were pierced by that beam, allowing specks of starlight and moonlight to fall through.
"Father!"
The increasingly distant Ōtsutsuki Toneri, using his perception, watched his father's utterly tragic state. Immense sorrow and rage instantly overwhelmed him.
"Ah! Go! Go!!"
Gagging out a large mouthful of blood mixed with glowing particles, the intense pain made Toneri's father let out a pained howl, but he still grimly raised his arm towards the night sky.
Seeing those black chains about to shoot towards Toneri again, he poured all his remaining strength into this final technique, activating the giant Tenseigan on the moon! With this final technique, he would utterly destroy and obliterate any potential threats Toneri might face in the future!
"Come!!"
As his hoarse, almost weeping roar echoed, a powerful gravitational pull from the moon descended, snagging a giant rock orbiting the planet.
Buzz!!
Above the night sky, thick, lead-gray clouds, like a tattered curtain, were violently torn open, creating a colossal, almost circular裂口!
But what was seen within the rift was not the starry sky, but a terrifying, burning, colossal outline!
A meteorite!
A massive meteorite, forcibly pulled by the immense power of the giant Tenseigan on the moon, broke through the atmosphere's confines, carrying enough power to destroy everything, and came crashing down!
Whoosh!!
That meteorite, burning with furious flames, tore through the clouds with the might to annihilate everything.
The air around the meteorite was compressed to an extreme and ignited, forming visible rings of scorching white light. Terror and despair instantly engulfed the entire battlefield!
Whether it was the Konoha ninja, the Hidden Sand ninja, or the startled Nagato, Kakuzu, and Oroyashiki Honoka—all locked in battle...
Their movements froze, their pupils dilated to their limits from extreme horror, their blood seemed to congeal, and their thoughts utterly stopped!
"What is that?"
"A meteorite!?"
"Oh God..."
All beings who sensed the meteorite's descent were, at that moment, plunged into instinctual fear and despair! In the face of this cataclysmic power, personal strength, ninjutsu, hatred, ambition—everything seemed so tiny, laughable, and meaningless!
Desperate whimpers, some choked with tears, others utterly voiceless, echoed sporadically, but were soon completely swallowed by the violent roar of the falling meteorite.
Rumble!!!
The meteorite finally slammed squarely into the earth.
The point of impact was precisely the area where 'Kage' and the others had been.
At the moment of impact, time seemed to stretch infinitely.
The instant the meteorite's leading edge touched the ground, its terrifying mass and kinetic energy utterly annihilated and displaced all matter at the point of contact: rain, living beings, dead beings, and even air...
Immediately after, the accumulated energy, like a suppressed volcano, erupted with a roar!
A circular shockwave, mixed with the dust of all matter, instantly spread outwards in a perfect circle!
Wherever the shockwave passed, the earth was ripped up layer by layer, pulverized, and thrown into the air!
A hundred-meter-high blast wave swallowed everything like a tsunami. Whether it was ninja or buildings outside the meteorite's range, they were completely disintegrated and destroyed upon contact!
The earth, like a drum skin stomped by a giant, vibrated violently and madly!
Bottomless cracks spread across the surface like a spiderweb, and the shockwave's blast flattened the forests at the distant Land of Fire border!
And at this moment, Ōtsutsuki Toneri knelt on the increasingly distant flying ninja tool platform.
In his powerful perception, his father's shattered body fell towards the earth like a broken kite, his life force growing fainter and fainter.
"Father... no, Father..."
Toneri opened his hollow eye sockets, tears blurring his cheeks.
That land below, which his father called "filth," was now filled not only with disgust in his heart but also branded with deep-seated hatred and a cold will for destruction!
The Ōtsutsuki clan's mission, his father's tragic sacrifice...
His tender face gradually became grim, intensely memorizing those few chakras.
One day, sooner or later! I will kill those guys! And destroy this twisted, mistaken world!
With this thought, his figure completely vanished from the ninja world.