"It sounds like I should be thanking you, then?"
Though Kaguya said those words, the coldness in her voice could not have been more obvious.
Even under that overwhelming pressure, Namikaze Kirito remained completely at ease.
He admitted it.
Ōtsutsuki Kaguya was the strongest existence he had encountered in this world so far. Her presence alone was enough to make even him feel a trace of pressure.
But that was all it was.
Pressure.
In the end, the one who would win was still him.
The only thing that truly concerned him was that mysterious and unfathomable order.
If that order appeared after he killed Kaguya, would he be able to face it?
The order of the world would undoubtedly possess the power to erase every living being within that world.
If it were only personal strength, that would be one thing.
But if it was truly the "world" itself, then fighting it would become extremely troublesome.
In anime and novels, the phrase "fighting against the entire world" sounded passionate and heroic.
But in most cases, "the world" only meant the living beings within it.
The order of the world, however, was different.
It was not a creature.
If it did not even possess the characteristics of a living being, then how could one kill it?
While Namikaze Kirito was still thinking, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, standing opposite him, finally lost her patience.
As the Progenitor of Chakra, every native of this world was nothing more than a thief in her eyes.
And the man before her had not only stolen chakra.
He had also absorbed the power of her own clan.
No matter how one looked at it, he was a thief through and through.
And now, that thief had even dared to say he would kill her.
Even someone as detached as Kaguya could not suppress her anger.
"Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack!"
A divine taijutsu that transformed chakra into overwhelming physical force.
It was an extraordinary technique that only Ōtsutsuki Kaguya could use.
By concentrating chakra into her palms, she released countless devastating fist strikes through the air.
Naturally, those fists could be used to attack.
But when combined with Kaguya's dōjutsu, they could also form an absolute defense, creating a formation that was both offensive and defensive.
It resembled the Hyūga Clan's Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, which released a vacuum palm strike from the hand.
But the difference in power was like heaven and earth.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Countless enormous transparent fists appeared in midair, tearing through space with terrifying force as they reached Namikaze Kirito in an instant.
Kaguya had opened with one of her strongest moves.
Clearly, she understood this much herself.
Anyone capable of enduring her full power and pressure without being affected in the slightest could not be defeated by ordinary techniques.
That was why she directly used a taijutsu that surpassed even the Eight Inner Gates.
In the original timeline, Might Guy had opened the Eight Gates Formation, and his final kick had nearly brought the story to an end.
That alone showed how terrifying its power was.
Yet Kaguya's Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack surpassed human taijutsu. Every single fist shadow was no weaker than Night Guy, and some were even stronger.
Facing such an attack, Namikaze Kirito's gaze finally became serious.
He had always wondered just how far his current physique had reached.
Now, he would test it.
His feet planted firmly against the ground.
His fist clenched before his chest.
A pale, transparent vibration force completely wrapped around his fist.
"Come," Namikaze Kirito said calmly. "Let's see what you can do, Kaguya."
Then he punched forward.
Crack, crack, crack—!
Space itself shattered like glass.
With Namikaze Kirito's fist as the center, dense cracks spread through the air.
The incoming fist shadows were no exception.
Boom!
The entire ground was ripped apart.
The earth screamed beneath the impact, and bottomless trenches tore open in every direction.
A monstrous physique, combined with the full power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
This punch had completely surpassed the upper limit that the Tremor-Tremor Fruit should have possessed.
It had even touched the edge of rules themselves.
If anyone had been standing directly before him, they would have been reduced to dust in an instant, erased from their physical form entirely.
Seeing her Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack destroyed, Kaguya did not pay much attention at first.
But when the shockwave that followed reached her, her pupils suddenly constricted.
That strange power was something she could not understand at all.
Worse still, the chakra inside her body began to turn chaotic.
The white magatama robe covering her body started to crack, and fractures even appeared across her flesh.
"Yomotsu Hirasaka!"
Kaguya immediately activated her space-time ability, trying to escape from the front.
But the moment the black portal appeared, it shattered into countless fragments and scattered into the air.
"Amenominaka!"
Realizing Yomotsu Hirasaka was useless, Kaguya directly activated Amenominaka, shifting the entire world into an ice-and-snow dimension.
Only after the vibration force disappeared did the cracks on Kaguya's body begin to heal at a visible speed.
She was truly immortal.
That was why, even after the Sage of Six Paths reached the peak of power in this world, he still could not kill her.
He could only seal her.
The same was true for Naruto and Sasuke.
As the Children of Destiny, even they could only seal the final enemy, Kaguya.
They could not kill her.
Because of that, Namikaze Kirito had formed a certain guess.
The cycle of the world, the Child of Destiny, and the Villain of Destiny—perhaps all of them were indispensable parts of the world's order.
Where there was light, there had to be darkness.
Otherwise, the world itself would collapse.
If that darkness was truly wiped out completely, then the order of the world would inevitably appear before him.
"Mother, are you all right?"
At that moment, Black Zetsu was more worried about Kaguya's safety than anyone else.
One reason was that Kaguya was his mother.
The other was that if Kaguya could not defeat Namikaze Kirito, then he and his mother might not simply be sealed again.
They might actually be killed, just as that man had said.
"I am fine."
Kaguya spoke, though a trace of lingering fear remained in her voice.
"This child can absorb the power of our clan. His ability is truly terrifying."
That strange vibration force just now had genuinely made her feel the danger of death.
She had never seen such power before.
Could it be that, like her, he was not from this planet?
Namikaze Kirito did not take the chance to attack.
Instead, he looked around, calmly admiring the beauty of the ice-and-snow world.
"All-Killing Ash Bones."
Seeing that her Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack had failed, several gray bone spikes suddenly emerged from Kaguya's back and palms.
These spikes were not the Shikotsumyaku of the Kaguya Clan.
They were something far beyond that.
They even surpassed weapons formed from Truth-Seeking Balls.
Even those brought back through Impure World Reincarnation would crumble and vanish the instant they touched these bones.
Let alone ordinary living people.
Kaguya understood very clearly.
If she did not fight with everything she had, she would not be Namikaze Kirito's opponent.
So she no longer tested him.
Every move she made now was meant to kill.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!
Countless gray-white bone spikes shot out from her body.
Namikaze Kirito, who knew the original story, naturally understood how terrifying those bones were.
Even just sensing them, he could feel the destructive aura wrapped around each spike.
And yet, he still had no intention of dodging.
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