A month later.
Peace had no sound.
Just the wind brushing leaves.
And the hush that followed war.
No spirals.No time fractures.No ancient beings clawing from the void.
Just silence.
Ryuki didn't trust it.
He sat under the same tree.
Mount Reikan in the distance.
His cloak untouched.His eye… sealed.
The six spirals on his chest now faint.Dormant.Like scars carved into time.
He hadn't used them since the Spiral War.
Didn't need to.
Didn't want to.
Eri sat beside him.
No mark on her hand.
No glow in her chest.
Just a small smile.
The kind only people who had died and come back could wear.
She leaned her head on his shoulder.
They didn't speak.
They didn't need to.
But far beyond them—
Things were moving again.
Konoha.
Tsunade opened a scroll.
The ink bled outward on its own.
Words rearranged.
A warning.
Not written by hand.
But left behind by Kurashiki.
"Every end becomes a spiral for the next."
"The Eye is not the final vessel."
"The Spiral will be born again."
Jiraiya frowned.
He looked toward Mount Reikan.
"…It's not over."
Elsewhere—Hidden Grass.
A child stood alone in a field of broken stones.
No parents.No name.
Just an eye.
Wide open.
And it spun.
Not red.Not gold.Not void.
White.
A spiral of silence.
A wandering shinobi spotted him.
Tried to approach.
The boy blinked.
The man vanished.
Not dead.
Erased.
In a distant temple, an ancient monk stirred.
"Another one," he whispered.
"They always return."
He lit a candle and placed it before an altar.
On the stone slab, seven names were carved.
Six scratched out.
The seventh left blank.
The eighth…
Still glowing.
Back to Ryuki.
He dreamed again.
Not of war.
Of a voice.
Eri's?
No.
Older.
Familiar.
"You passed the Spiral War.But legacies echo.What you sealed…is now watching."
He woke in a cold sweat.
Eri was gone.
Just for a moment.
A note rested on her blanket.
Five words.
"Don't follow me.Trust me."
His eye twitched.
The sixth ring spun once—on its own.
Flash—A glimpse.
Eri standing before a temple.
The child with the white spiral staring at her.
She reaches for him.
He reaches back.
Time bends—
And the Spiral opens again.
Back to now.
Ryuki grabbed his blade.
Didn't say a word.
Didn't call anyone.
He just walked.
Toward something he thought was finished.
Toward the legacy spiraling back to life.
End of Chapter 134.