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They stayed one more day in Konoha. Early the following morning, Shin decided to leave with the others.
Tsunade informed Hiruzen Sarutobi of her departure and left the village together with Shin. Though Hiruzen tried to persuade Tsunade to stay, she was set on going. He had no choice but to let her go.
As for Shin, his leaving actually put Hiruzen’s mind at ease. At least he wouldn’t have to worry about Shin Uzumaki running loose in the village.
“All right, I’m heading to the moon right away. Are you coming with me?” Shin asked.
Shin had decided to attack the Ōtsutsuki Clan now. Perhaps he could even obtain the—Tenseigan.
The Tenseigan was an eye on par with the Rinnegan, perhaps even stronger in terms of destructive power.
There were two ways to obtain it: one was to have pure Ōtsutsuki blood and the Byakugan of the Hyūga Clan’s main family, and the other was to fuse a large number of Byakugan.
“I’d like to, but—how do we get there?” Kushina asked.
“I have my ways. There’s a passage to the moon somewhere in the Shinobi world. I don’t know where it is, but I have other methods.”
Without that fabled gateway, the only option was brute force—literally flying there.
“Since you’re going, we’re definitely tagging along. I want to see the moon,” Tsunade said.
“Alright, let’s go then.”
Shin activated his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and opened a Yomotsu Hirasaka portal.
He couldn’t teleport directly to the moon yet, not with his current level of power. Perhaps he could with the Rinnegan.
But he could use Yomotsu Hirasaka to shorten the distance.
They stepped through the portal and emerged high in the sky.
The air was thin, and Tsunade and the others felt suffocated.
“Susano’o—Full Form!“
Shin enveloped them all in his Complete-Body Susano’o and unfurled its giant wings. Then, with a powerful thrust, he soared upward toward the stratosphere.
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“I didn’t realize Susano’o could actually fly…” Tsunade said in awe.
“Of course. You don’t think those wings are just decorations, right?” Shin replied with a smirk.
“How long will it take us to reach the moon?” Kushina asked.
“At top speed, less than a day.”
Shin calculated based on the Susanoo’s speed.
By channeling tremendous chakra for propulsion, Shin flew faster than a modern rocket.
They soon broke through the atmosphere and escaped Earth’s gravity, heading towards the moon.
They encountered several meteoroids, which the Susanoo easily sliced through. The Chakra consumption was immense.
Even Madara Uchiha couldn’t fly to the moon with his Susanoo. But Shin had the Perfect Sage Body and Chakra to spare.
“Sage Mode—activate!”
Shin activated Sage Mode, enhancing the Susanoo with Senjutsu Chakra. Though the form’s size didn’t change, brilliant red patterns spread across its armor.
Their speed increased, and the moon grew closer.
“I can’t—I can’t take it anymore… I feel sick…” Kushina said, then fainted.
Mikoto and Konan had already fainted, leaving only Tsunade awake—albeit barely.
“Can’t you slow down a bit?” Tsunade asked.
“Sorry, but we need full speed if we want to get there quickly,” Shin answered.
He didn’t want to linger in the silent darkness of space any longer than necessary.
Inevitably, Tsunade also succumbed to the dizziness and fainted.
Shin didn’t wake her up. There was no point.
He didn’t know how long it took, but time seemed to pass slowly in the silence of space.
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They finally reached the moon.
The hundred-meter-tall Sage Susano’o stood on the moon’s surface and raised its sword.
BOOOOOMMMMM!
The sword cleaved the moon’s surface, creating a massive chasm. Shin entered the chasm, reaching the moon’s interior.
“I wonder how this was created. Is this the power of a Six Paths level being?”
Shin looked at the bright interior of the moon. A giant artificial sun hung in the sky.
He landed on a floating island and deactivated the Susanoo, then woke up Tsunade and the others.
“Where are we?” Kushina asked, rubbing her eyes.
“Inside the moon.”
“—This is inside the moon?” Mikoto looked around in surprise.
“It’s so bright! And what’s that in the sky?”
She pointed at the glowing sphere in the sky.
“It’s some kind of artificial sun, If it were the real sun, the moon would melt.”
Shin shook his head. “We made a lot of noise coming in. We’ve probably alerted the Ōtsutsuki Clan. Let’s rest and prepare for battle.”
The Ōtsutsuki Clan’s main and branch families probably hadn’t started fighting yet.
In other words, Shin might be facing the entire clan at once. Since the Ōtsutsuki had the purest bloodline of all, he wouldn’t underestimate them.
The Senju and Uchiha Clans were powerful. The Ōtsutsuki Clan, which had been living on the moon, preserving their bloodline, should be even stronger.
The Divine Replication Card wouldn’t be easy to obtain.
But Shin wasn’t afraid. He had another Divine Replication Card. He could handle anything.
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After two hours of rest, Shin’s Chakra had fully recovered. He was at his peak.
Tsunade and the others had also recovered from their dizziness.
“Strange. We made so much noise, but the Ōtsutsuki Clan hasn’t noticed?”
Shin was puzzled. It had been two hours, and no one had come.
He had used the Susanoo to cut open the moon’s surface. The Ōtsutsuki Clan couldn’t have missed that.
“Isn’t it better if they haven’t noticed? Should we go to that floating island?” Kushina pointed at a large island in the distance.
That was the largest island here. The Ōtsutsuki Clan was probably there.
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