All Stand manifestations except Star Platinum were dispersed.
9.9 seconds of exclusive time stop.
Ryosuke gave equal respect to every Otsutsuki member.
Isshiki, his true body was parasitizing the brain.
So Ryosuke cut off his head with a single slash, forcibly terminating his reincarnation process.
Momoshiki, his body itself was an Otsutsuki body.
So Ryosuke aimed his fist at his heart.
Just now, Momoshiki had underestimated his opponent and carelessly threw a punch at Ryosuke. He ended up being caught by Star Platinum instead, turning it into a defensive counterattack. At that moment, Ryosuke had already keenly sensed that something was off.
"Too weak."
Even though Momoshiki kept muttering about how weak his opponent was, the instant Star Platinum's fist landed on Momoshiki's face, Ryosuke clearly sensed the other party's "weakness."
Momoshiki's physical toughness… was far too low.
Compared to ordinary people in the ninja world, Momoshiki did have Otsutsuki blood, so his resistance to blows was still quite strong.
But when placed in a same-tier comparison, especially compared to Otsutsuki Isshiki, the gap in physical toughness was not even on the same level.
Based on the information fed back by Star Platinum, Momoshiki's physical strength was roughly between Isshiki's Karma Stage One and Stage Two.
If Isshiki completed reincarnation and appeared with his true body, then there wouldn't even be anything to compare.
"ORA ORA ORA ORA!"
Star Platinum's barrage ended, and at the final moment it shifted aside, giving Ryosuke enough space to throw his punch.
Ryosuke stepped forward, his entire body's muscles tensed tight. Under spatial dislocation, the world seemed to turn into a Picasso abstract painting.
Spatial slingshot.
Under the rebound force of space, the fist fell like a beam of light.
Momoshiki's eyes moved.
"Hm?"
Star Platinum frowned deeply.
"Looks like the same type of ability as mine," Ryosuke murmured.
After so many years in this world, this was the first enemy Ryosuke had encountered with a similar type of time-based ability.
Momoshiki did indeed have the ability to move during time stop.
However, compared to Ryosuke and Star Platinum, his actions were far more limited, mostly on the mental level.
In the original story, Momoshiki had repeatedly spoken with Boruto within stopped time.
On the other hand, his influence on reality was extremely minimal, or rather, almost nonexistent.
The instant Momoshiki sensed time stop unfolding, his brain short-circuited, leaving only one question in his mind, 'This is what you call weak?!'
Momoshiki really wanted to crush Nakajima Daisuke to death for passing on false intelligence. Now, facing Star Platinum's nonstop barrage, there was only one thing he could do, take the beating.
A long nine seconds.
To Momoshiki, it felt like an entire century had passed.
As someone who could also stop time, Momoshiki could clearly feel that Ryosuke's control over time stop was nearing its end.
He deliberately disguised himself as someone fully affected by time stop, just so that at the very instant time resumed, when Ryosuke thought Momoshiki would be stunned by sudden injuries, he could catch Ryosuke off guard and launch a counterattack.
Momoshiki admitted it, he really had underestimated Ryosuke.
The human in front of him did have some tricks, no wonder he could seal the self-important Isshiki.
But Momoshiki's level didn't stop there.
"As long as you give me a chance, a single chance to counterattack..."
The moment that thought surfaced in Momoshiki's mind, Star Platinum stepped back, revealing Ryosuke, whose fist was already swinging.
Momoshiki looked at Ryosuke in terror, at the descending fist, at the frozen world.
Death had never felt so close.
Before the spatial slingshot even landed, the surrounding space had already become taut under pressure, firmly locking Momoshiki's body in place, making it impossible for him to move even a finger.
At the brink of life and death, his survival instinct erupted.
Momoshiki's eyes widened as power burst forth from the Rinnegan in his palm, "Shinra Tensei."
Surging repulsive force rolled outward. The ground shattered, countless rocks flew everywhere, and that repulsion, carrying Momoshiki's intense, desperate will to survive, was imposed upon Ryosuke.
In the stopped world, it was impossible to summon a new moon.
Under the absolute repulsive force, Ryosuke took half a step back.
Joy burst into Momoshiki's heart.
At that moment, a large hand landed on Ryosuke's shoulder.
It was Star Platinum.
Star Platinum's legs were like nails, driven deep into the ground, its palm braced firmly against Ryosuke, preventing him from being pushed away by Shinra Tensei's repulsion.
"What?!"
The joy that had just surged in Momoshiki's heart was instantly wiped away.
He felt a gaze upon him and jerked his head up.
Ryosuke's eyes were blazing with a wheel of golden light.
In the gray-white space of stopped time, their positions seemed reversed.
Ryosuke was the god standing on high, controlling space and time, while the self-proclaimed god Momoshiki was nothing more than an insect about to be crushed.
"Die!"
A fist, wrapped in spatial power and carrying boundless killing intent, swung down.
In Momoshiki's despairing eyes, time began to flow again.
Space, stretched to its limit, was like a released slingshot. The instant time resumed, all of its stored force detonated against Momoshiki's chest.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Momoshiki's chakra defense was torn apart, flesh and blood splattered, the bones in his chest shattered, and his entire body was blasted away like a torn sack.
The entire scene erupted in shock.
Everyone knew Ryosuke was strong.
But no one expected that in just a single exchange, Ryosuke would completely crush a pure-blooded Otsutsuki.
No, not absolutely no one expected it.
There was one person who had guessed it in advance.
That was Otsutsuki Isshiki, hanging at Ryosuke's waist.
"Again with this space-time ninjutsu!"
Isshiki gritted his teeth.
Among everyone present, he was the most familiar with Momoshiki and Kinshiki.
He was also the one most familiar with Ryosuke's combat abilities.
Otsutsuki Kinshiki, in terms of combat experience and intelligence, he was absolutely an above-average Otsutsuki. Combined with the ever-changing "Takemikazuchi" weapons, his close-combat ability was extremely outstanding.
Unfortunately, he spent years following the not-so-bright Momoshiki. Under blind loyalty to a fool, he obeyed every command. Over time, he degraded from a close-combat genius into a close-combat tool, becoming Momoshiki's "shield."
Otsutsuki Momoshiki possessed Takamimusubinokami, allowing him to absorb all techniques and convert and amplify them before releasing them with even greater power.
Moreover, this ability had no restriction on what counted as a "technique."
Ninjutsu, senjutsu, or anything else, so long as it was released in an energy form, it could be absorbed.
This was only natural. Ninjutsu existed only in the ninja world.
Momoshiki traveled the universe. If he could only absorb ninjutsu and not other forms of energy attacks, he would have been beaten to death by natives on other planets long ago.
Takamimusubinokami was Momoshiki's strongest and most core ability, but it was also his weakness.
Once he encountered enemies who didn't rely on ninjutsu, or rather, didn't use energy-based attacks, Momoshiki's combat strength would drop by half. As for his taijutsu ability, well… so-so.
His physical defense was even more ordinary.
From the original story, it could be seen that even a Rasengan thrown by Boruto could knock Momoshiki's head aside, and a single shadow clone could stab the Rinnegan in his palm.
Such things would be absolutely impossible if it were Isshiki.
Knowing all this, Isshiki was well aware that Ryosuke was the opponent Momoshiki was least capable of dealing with, overwhelming close-combat ability.
Bizarre space-time ninjutsu.
Numerous evil spirit abilities.
And physical regeneration comparable to an Otsutsuki… no, even more terrifying than an Otsutsuki.
As long as Ryosuke saw through Momoshiki's Takamimusubinokami, with his combat intelligence, he would absolutely not leak even a shred of energy for Momoshiki to absorb again.
Of course, if that were all, with Momoshiki and Kinshiki working together, they could still put up a fight.
But…
Because of Momoshiki's stupidity and arrogance, he let Ryosuke seize the initiative.
Based on Isshiki's experience of getting beaten, once Ryosuke seized the initiative, the follow-up attacks would come endlessly.
He didn't want Momoshiki to win.
If Momoshiki won, he would definitely refine Isshiki into a pill and eat him like candy beans, one after another.
Isshiki also didn't want Ryosuke to win.
If Ryosuke won, once the research institute produced results, Isshiki would die just the same.
Only if both sides kept entangling each other would Isshiki have a chance to break free from the seal.
But now…
Isshiki looked at the Momoshiki who had been blasted away, then saw the new moon appear behind Ryosuke. The gravity field had already locked onto Momoshiki.
"Even when given a chance, you're still useless!"
Isshiki gritted his teeth and released all the power he had secretly accumulated over nearly four months in one burst.
This was his final trump card. He had originally planned to use it at a critical moment when the battle was deadlocked to break free from the seal in one go. Now, he had no choice but to use it early.
A ripple appeared in the head seal. Ryosuke slapped it with his palm, reinforcing the seal again.
But that brief disturbance bought Momoshiki time.
Dozens of crimson weapons fell from the sky, smashing down toward Ryosuke. Along with them came a tall, burly figure.
Otsutsuki Kinshiki gripped a giant axe with both hands, wrapped in a howling gale, and chopped down toward Ryosuke.