'Save you?'
'Are we that close?'
Isshiki and Momoshiki knew very well what Kaguya was capable of.
Aside from her brain, every divine technique Kaguya possessed could absolutely be said to be the strongest among the three.
Leaving everything else aside, Kaguya, who had fused with the Ten-Tails, could not be killed, only sealed.
This alone placed her in an undefeated position when facing enemies.
And yet, even such a Kaguya had been shattered by Ryosuke with just a single strike. That previous attack, the Lesson 4 Golden Spin at forty times power, if it had landed on Momoshiki or Isshiki…
It could be said that the battle would no longer have anything to do with them.
Just as the two were about to flee, their feet suddenly tightened. They saw chains condensed from sand and dust tightly wrapping around their legs.
"Don't go! If I'm going to die, then we die together!"
It was Kaguya.
She possessed a nature-integration ability similar to the White Snake Sage's Inorganic Reincarnation.
"Let go! You stupid woman!" Momoshiki cursed loudly.
He kicked apart the sand and was about to tear open a spatial portal to escape, when he saw a meteor appear behind the portal, smashing heavily into his body.
On the other side, Isshiki met the same fate. When he opened the portal, behind it was still a dark, safe corner of the universe, but before he could even step one foot through, a star swept past, and surging flames forced him back.
The universe's acceleration process was far too fast.
Every time a spatial portal was opened, it was a gamble with one's life.
No one could be sure whether behind the door would be a star, a black hole, a white hole, or some other ghostly thing.
Even more terrifying was Ryosuke.
A few seconds ago, Isshiki could still see Ryosuke's afterimages when he moved.
Now, that afterimage was becoming increasingly blurred, and corresponding to it was a storm-like barrage of attacks.
Even if they wanted to gamble and rush into a portal, they couldn't, Ryosuke would sever the portal with a single strike before they entered.
Under such horrifying speed, they could neither escape nor fight. The ending awaiting them seemed to be only one.
Death.
In Momoshiki's eyes was helpless despair and confusion.
Despair, because he could not resist.
Confusion, because everything he was seeing and hearing had already surpassed his understanding.
The tides of the ocean rose and fell.
The land split apart and then closed again.
The sun's path formed a straight line.
Sand grains on the battlefield that had been blasted into crystal re-weathered into fine dust.
Everything before his eyes was like the end of the world, yet also like the dawn of chaos.
Under infinite acceleration, all non-living things became weapons of destruction.
Fortunately, earlier, in order to extract the world's chakra, the small slugs had already been spread across the world, scattered among every person.
Even if they were truly injured, under the protection of the Slug Sage, they would not die.
However, physical immortality did not mean the mind would not be damaged.
The endlessly accelerating changes were like the descent of a god from the Cthulhu Mythos, continuously scouring the psyche.
Whether human or Otsutsuki, perhaps they had touched the universe, perhaps traveled between different galaxies.
But compared to the vast universe, such exploration was like a baby merely rolling over once, far too insignificant.
And now, the changes of the entire universe were laid bare before their eyes, played back at tens of thousands of times speed.
Shock.
Madness.
Absurdity.
"Everyone, please close your eyes."
The gentle voice of the Slug Sage sounded across the world. "I will do my best to reduce the impact on everyone."
People closed their eyes one after another. Small slugs landed on their heads, sealing off their five senses.
But humans could rely on Ryosuke, rely on the Slug Sage.
The Otsutsuki trio… Had no one to rely on.
Kaguya's eyes gradually went vacant.
At some point amid the repeated attacks, Momoshiki loosened the fists he had been clenching tightly.
Yes, what was the point of clenching fists anyway?
It wasn't like he could hit anything.
"It's not time to give up yet! There's still a way!" Isshiki roared. "Kaguya, Tsukuyomi!"
Though it was extremely difficult.
Though he was covered in wounds.
Isshiki was still fighting.
Unlike his two companions, whose hearts had already collapsed under Ryosuke's terrifying pressure, Isshiki had witnessed too many rises and falls. Ryosuke could kill him, but he could not defeat him.
With brief observation, Isshiki discovered the greatest, and only, weakness of Made in Heaven, Ryosuke himself.
Compared to the infinitely accelerating, collapsing universe, Ryosuke's physical body did not seem all that powerful.
Killing Ryosuke was the way to end everything.
Kaguya activated Tsukuyomi. The three Otsutsuki appeared within the Tsukuyomi space where time flowed extremely slowly, counteracting the external time acceleration and gaining a brief moment to communicate.
After hearing Isshiki's idea, the tiny spark of hope that had risen in Kaguya was extinguished, "Did you really need to say that? If there were a way to kill him, he'd have been dead long ago!"
"No, it's different now."
Isshiki spoke faster. "Ryosuke can maintain an accelerated state himself within accelerated time. Aside from his lifespan not being affected, all his actions are accelerated."
"That means once he's poisoned, he'll die at tens of thousands of times the normal speed!"
Momoshiki shook his head. "It's useless. Ryosuke's body has already surpassed humanity. Poison has no effect on him at all."
"Poison indeed won't work, but..."
Isshiki looked at Kaguya. "You can."
Kaguya was stunned. "Me?"
The next second, both of them reacted.
All-Killing Ash Bones.
An attack that meant certain death upon hit. Wherever the All-Killing Ash Bones touched would begin to disintegrate, rapidly spreading outward until the entire body turned to ash.
"No. Once injured, with Ryosuke's control over his body, he can immediately sever the connection with the injured part," Momoshiki said.
Isshiki narrowed his eyes. "Then don't let him know which part is injured."
———
The exchange within Tsukuyomi lasted only an instant in reality. Seeing that he couldn't kill Kaguya, Ryosuke was about to deal with Momoshiki first.
At that moment... Time stopped.
The one who activated time stop was Momoshiki.
His time stop could not move the physical body normally; it was more a mental-level time stop.
Normally, this move was suitable for use after Momoshiki's death, when he possessed someone via Karma. But today, it had another use.
In the stopped world, no matter how much Ryosuke accelerated, he would still stop.
Not to mention that Ryosuke hadn't summoned Star Platinum, even if he had, it wouldn't help. With Made in Heaven plus Star Platinum, Ryosuke could only move for 5.5 seconds within the time-stopped world.
Momoshiki had no such limitation.
He locked onto the Ryosuke who was charging at him.
The next moment, Momoshiki canceled the time stop, firing a beam of light from each palm.
They were true beams of light, with no killing power whatsoever. The only thing worth mentioning was their speed.
Since they were light beams, they naturally traveled at the speed of light.
The two beams crossed in midair, forming an intersection point that locked onto Ryosuke's position at that instant.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
One enormous black Daikokuten cube after another suddenly appeared, sealing Ryosuke from front, back, left, and right, trapping him inside a confined, airtight space.
"Kaguya! Now!"
Momoshiki and Isshiki roared.
This was an attack that gambled the honor of the Otsutsuki clan. Their blood had never boiled like this before, nor trembled like this.
They were no longer lofty gods, but challengers who looked up at their opponent.
Kaguya spread her hands, channeling massive amounts of chakra. Hundreds of All-Killing Ash Bone rods flew out from her palms, while Isshiki activated Sukunahikona, shrinking all the ash bones.
Before her was a torn-open spatial portal, and behind it was the space where Ryosuke was trapped.
This was Isshiki's plan.
The rapidly fired All-Killing Ash Bones would silently burrow into Ryosuke's skin, pores, blood, flowing along his blood vessels. Once they spread throughout his entire body…
That would be Ryosuke's death.
"Did it work?" Kaguya asked.
"It will definitely work!"
With Daikokuten sealing him and the infiltrative attack of the All-Killing Ash Bones, Ryosuke had no way to dodge, nor could he tank it with an ultimate lifeform's physique.
The only option would have been to use C-Moon to manipulate gravity and forcibly push everything away.
"Don't forget, we personally witnessed Ryosuke stab C-Moon to death with the Divine Tree in order to obtain the evil spirit that accelerates the world."
Isshiki raised his hand and pointed forward, his gaze resolute and firm.
"This is the death that someone who abandons their comrades deserves."
"Heh..."
A soft chuckle appeared behind the three.
Isshiki, Momoshiki, and Kaguya felt their scalps go numb and immediately turned around, Ryosuke was floating in midair.
Made in Heaven.
C-Moon.
White Snake.
The Civil War.
Four Stands stood beside him.
"You...!"
Isshiki couldn't believe his eyes and instinctively wanted to ask how Ryosuke had gotten out, but...
"That sounds really nice."
Ryosuke's voice appeared behind Isshiki.
Isshiki abruptly turned and threw a punch.
White Snake was faster.
Zzzzt!
Two discs popped out.