Moryo's physical body was sealed in the Land of Swamps.
Kurotsuchi used Light-Weight Rock Technique to levitate the stone ball containing the villain Yomi (and Moryo's soul), and Makoto's group began walking toward their destination.
Along the way, Tsunade recalled her earlier cooperation with the group and felt a strange sense of exhilaration she hadn't felt in years.
This wasn't because Tsunade had developed sadistic tendencies.
This exhilaration ca from finally finding people who matched her rhythm!
As soone who had survived the brutal Ninja World Wars, Tsunade had no naive idealism or moral purity left.
Back when the Sannin encountered the Rain Orphans (Nagato, Konan, Yahiko), each of them had different attitudes:
Jiraiya leaned emotionally toward naive idealism ("Let's raise them").
Orochimaru leaned rationally toward cruelty ("Let's kill them to spare their suffering").
Tsunade stood in the middle, pragmatic but hesitant.
But facing enemies they'd just t today?
Deciding based on intelligence that reconciliation was impossible?
Dismbering all four limbs instantly without any burden to ensure the opponent couldn't resist.
Such ruthless efficiency was refreshing.
Tsunade had previously thought the problem with Jiraiya and Orochimaru was that they were too extre.
Now it seed the opposite was true.
They weren't extre enough.
Jiraiya wasn't extre enough in his kindness—he left the orphans alone in a war zone after training them, leading to a tragedy.
Orochimaru wasn't extre enough in his evil—he didn't kill them when he had the chance, leading to Pain destroying Konoha.
If Orochimaru had truly wanted to kill them, Jiraiya wouldn't have been able to protect them forever.
If he had killed and cremated them back then, even Black Zetsu would have been clueless.
"Honorable Ones! Release , and I can bestow upon you Lord Moryo's infinite power!"
Yomi's voice erged from the floating stone ball.
Thanks to Tsunade's expert bleeding control and Moryo's soul sustaining him, Yomi's voice remained full of vigor despite being a nugget.
So why did Yomi wait so long to speak up?
Because earlier, he was hoping Moryo would break him out.
But Moryo, the "Great Demon," realized Makoto was taking it to its body anyway.
Moryo thought: Why waste energy fighting? Let the dude take to my destination first.
So Yomi could only try to tempt Makoto and the others with promises of power.
As soon as Yomi said this, Shion beca anxious.
She clutched her priestess robes tightly, afraid they might agree.
"You can grant power too, right?" Tsunade smirked, tapping her chin. "Sorry, but we're all filled up by this guy here—no room for anyone else."
She pointed at Makoto and said sothing rather bold.
"What?"
Yomi inside the sphere was stunned.
Moryo inside Yomi was equally stunned.
'Filled up?'
"Yeah. What Makoto gives is clearly way more powerful than whatever this Moryo could offers."
Kurotsuchi glanced at the Red Stone Makoto had given her and nodded in agreent.
"Plus, Moryo's aesthetic is too creepy—it just all Tentacles. We girls have to stay away from that stuff. I've read enough books to know where that goes."
A Shrine Maiden and a Tentacle Monster—bound together by destiny?
Yeah, that's a specific genre for so culture dudes out there.
Earlier, when Yomi used "Dark dical Ninjutsu" to cut open his body, Moryo appeared as a mass of purple tentacles.
Of course, according to the "Lore," Moryo was a formless energy mass described as a "Congloration of Humanity's Negative Emotions" that could only be sealed.
But such "settings" didn't matter.
Given Moryo's power level, sothing like "the embodint of all evil" would probably get slapped by a generic Rasengan.
"..."
Silence fell within the stone ball.
Both Yomi and Moryo were montarily at a loss.
Yomi had only considered that "Righteous Heroes" might sternly refuse power.
He never imagined soone would look down on Moryo's power entirely as "creepy" and "inferior."
After hearing their conversation, Shion grew very curious about Makoto and spent the rest of the journey quietly pestering Uchiha Hikari.
"Who is he? Is he your boyfriend? Why is he so strong?"
Hikari, annoyed by the questions, finally snapped.
"He is my.... Sun."
Before running ahead to clear the path, Hikari used Susanoo to smash a squad of Stone Soldiers into rubble.
CRASH.
"Throw the stone over there." Makoto pointed to a crater.
"Leave it to ."
Kurotsuchi lifted the stone ball with her jutsu.
She spotted the entrance to the underground shrine.
"Hah!"
Kurotsuchi tossed the stone sphere into the air. She attached a cluster of rocks to her foot for weight, leaped up, and executed a spectacular Bicycle Kick.
BOOM!
The Light-Weight Rock-enhanced projectile flew like a cannonball.
(As the Tsuchikage, Kurotsuchi no longer wore the bulky Iwagakure uniform, but she hadn't adopted her Boruto-era high-slit cheongsam yet, so there was no risk of a "Tatsumaki-style wardrobe malfunction" during her acrobatics.)
The stone sphere soared mid-air, cracking open in several places as small purple tentacles erged from within.
CRASH!
After the stone sphere completed its perfect "shot on goal" into the crater, the ground began to tremble violently.
Rumble...
Magma from beneath the Land of Swamps' surface churned and erupted.
Moryo's body was reacting to its soul.
"Is it ti to use This?"
Kurotsuchi called down from the sky, clutching the Red Jewel as she addressed Makoto on the ground.
"Go ahead. I'll amplify it for you," Makoto replied, raising a hand toward the empty space next to him.
"Huh?"
Kurotsuchi tilted her head in confusion.
Makoto can fly—why wasn't he ascending to assist her directly? What was the point of gesturing at empty air below?
But she didn't dwell on it.
Closing her eyes, she tightened her grip on the Red Jewel and began attuning herself to the Natural Energy within.
Flash.
As Natural Energy flooded her body, Kurotsuchi's attire transford.
Her clothes shifted into a deep crimson bodysuit with black, jagged patterns resembling tectonic plates.
Simultaneously... Gravity happened.
She descended uncontrollably, dropping out of the sky like a rock until she landed firmly on the ground next to Makoto.
Thud.
When Kurotsuchi opened her eyes, she found herself already earthbound, with Makoto's raised hand now resting perfectly on her shoulder.
"Eh?"
She tried to jump.
She bounced experintally a couple of tis.
She couldn't fly.
Bewildernt washed over her.
'Why can't I fly anymore?! I'm the Tsuchikage!'
Makoto smirked internally, 'Groudon is a Ground-type and ground-types stay on the ground!'
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For anyone confuse, what makoto create and gives to i, Kurotsuchi and tsunade is a sage stone, a stone filled with natural energy when they fused with the user (i etc) they beco a sage, and the aesthethic of the transformation follow their respective elent, Tsunade as a healer beco like xerneas, i specialize in water beco kyogre and Kurotsuchi beco groudon... well basically Makoto make them go primal reversion.
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