The world rippled.
Not with chakra.Not with jutsu.
With time.
Reality folded over itself in waves, like cloth soaked in fire.
And at the center—
Ryuki stood motionless.
The six spirals on his chest now glowed dim red.Not with power.
With presence.
Something ancient stirred behind his eyes.
Eri screamed.
"Ryuki! Fight it!"
But he didn't move.
Didn't blink.
Didn't breathe.
His eye spun—Slower now.
Each ring aligning.
Click.
Click.
Click.
Like a key turning in a lock.
The silver-haired boy—bleeding, shaking—crawled backward, terrified.
His future-self clone had already been erased.
Not defeated.
Erased.
The spirals didn't kill.
They rewrote.
Lightning struck Mount Reikan.Not from the clouds—
From above them.
The sky opened like cracked glass.
And something began to descend.
Not a body.
A shape.
A being made of red rings and endless spiral flame.
It had no face.No voice.Only gravity.
The mountain groaned beneath it.
Birds dropped dead mid-air.
Chakra sensors in every major village exploded.
Tengoku had returned.
Inside Ryuki's mind.
A void.
He stood alone.
Before him—A figure.
His face.
But not.
Older.Calm.Cruel.
Six spirals burned on his body like scars.
"You opened the door," the figure said.
Ryuki narrowed his eyes. "You're the one they sealed."
The man smiled.
"I'm the one they feared."
Flash—Ancient Past.
A time before villages.
Before shinobi.
There were no clans.Only bloodlines.Each tied to nature.To elements.To memory.
And one bloodline… to time.
Tengoku was its last heir.
He saw too far.
Knew too much.
He broke the world just to see how it would rebuild.
They couldn't kill him.
So they shattered his soul.
Six pieces.
Scattered across centuries.
Now, Ryuki was the first to hold them all.
And the god behind the eye wanted his body.
"Step aside," Tengoku whispered.
"Be nothing. And I will spare the girl."
Ryuki lowered his head.
For a moment—
Silence.
Then:
"No."
In the real world—
Ryuki's body flared.
Light and shadow fought across his skin.
A battle of identity.
Tengoku's shape recoiled in the sky.
The spirals blinked.Uncertain.Resisting.
Eri ran to Ryuki's side, screaming:
"Don't leave me!"
Her hand touched his.
And the spiral on her forehead burned gold.
Not red.
A new light.
Inside the void—
Tengoku hissed.
"What is she?"
Ryuki smiled.
"She's not a weapon. Or a vessel. She's the lock you missed."
And suddenly—
Eri was there.
Inside the void.
Her spiral outshone them both.
She reached into Ryuki's chest—
Pulled one spiral out.
A piece of Tengoku.
And crushed it in her hand.
The sky shattered.
The spiral shape screamed.
Mount Reikan exploded in light.
When the world stilled—
Ryuki collapsed.
Eri caught him.
His eye returned to broken.
The spirals on his chest faded.
But didn't disappear.
Later.
They sat at the edge of a forest.
Broken. Bloody. Silent.
Eri leaned on him.
He whispered, "Did we win?"
She didn't answer.
Because behind her, in the distance—
The sky still spun.
Faint.
But turning.
Far away.
A masked elder lit incense.
The spiral symbol above his shrine pulsed.
He bowed.
"Tengoku has failed.But the eye still lives.And the girl…"
He closed his eyes.
"…the girl has begun to awaken."
End of Chapter 130.