"What is going on?"
"What happened?"
"We already sensed someone fighting earlier, but the battle was moving too quickly."
"Is someone coming to harass the village again?"
The trembling of the earth instantly jolted all the residents of Konohagakure awake.
Although the current situation appeared somewhat complicated, these people did not panic.
After all, they had truly experienced far too many situations like this.
"Sensei, what is going on again?"
Atop the Hokage Rock of Konohagakure, the aged Sarutobi Hiruzen painfully ran out.
At over seventy years old, encountering such things now truly made him feel more and more powerless.
And seeing a sensei who looked even "younger" than himself and still needing to behave obediently—this feeling was honestly not very pleasant.
"Your vigilance is too poor."
Senju Tobirama crossed his arms and let out a light snort as he looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen, yet Senju Hashirama spoke with a smile.
"It seems to be that Uchiha Obito, right? He came, but was caught by Gen."
"Uchiha Obito?"
Hearing this name, Sarutobi Hiruzen instantly felt another wave of helplessness.
That guy excelled at space-time ninjutsu—no matter how vigilant ordinary shinobi were, it seemed it would not matter much, right?
Only, very quickly, he could not help but let out a sigh.
"Fortunately we have Gen, otherwise—"
"You cannot rely on him for everything. He is the Hokage; he needs to put his energy into proper duties."
Senju Tobirama glanced at Sarutobi Hiruzen and spoke; those words left Sarutobi Hiruzen momentarily unsure of what to say.
He pondered for a moment, and suddenly a strange thought arose.
Should he perhaps go die once?
"But that Uchiha Obito seems somewhat off."
Just as Sarutobi Hiruzen's face was full of strangeness, Senju Hashirama could not help but speak.
"He seems stronger than what you all described, but it also feels like he is somewhat weak. And what exactly is his purpose in coming to Konohagakure?"
"Who knows him? But…"
Senju Tobirama sensed briefly, then finally spoke.
"The battle over on Gen's side also seems about to end."
...
Thick smoke billowed, and the earth collapsed.
Uchiha Obito lay inside a massive deep crater, struggling as he tried to sit up.
"Wah—"
But with just the slightest movement, a mouthful of fresh blood instantly spewed out.
His head was still ringing, seemingly completely unable to recover his senses.
Yet at this moment, Kitagawa Gen's voice—one that caused him pain—rang out once again.
"This is the 'shared will between you and Rin'? Truly unexpectedly weak."
"Damn…"
Obito desperately wanted to stand up, but more than half of his body had already been beaten to a pulp!
Black patterns constantly writhed across his body, strange power continuously repairing him.
But the damage caused by Yin-Yang Release was not so easily restored.
"And I am very curious about one thing."
Just as Obito was struggling, Kitagawa Gen had already appeared in front of him.
With his back turned to the moonlight, the coverage of natural energy made even his face appear somewhat hazy, yet those white eyes of his were so soul-piercing.
"How did you determine that the one guiding you is 'Rin'?"
"You—"
"And have you forgotten? I asked you—do you truly know who you are right now?"
"…"
When these words were spoken, Obito's reaction was not all that intense, for at this moment he had already been beaten senseless.
But within his body, Isshiki's expression had turned extremely unsightly.
"This guy has probably noticed that Obito's power is off."
Although this question seemed to be asking Obito whether he understood his own heart, or something else entirely, the one asking was Kitagawa Gen, so Isshiki naturally could not think along some simple direction.
"Especially since he fought against Genshiki, especially since he fought against Genshiki, it is perfectly normal for him to be more perceptive."
Watching Kitagawa Gen walk over step by step, Isshiki immediately sensed the unsealing of Obito's Kāma.
At once, a faint smile appeared on his face; although the battle had not lasted long, the effect was still very remarkable!
Even though he had wasted quite a lot of power repairing Obito's body, this had likewise accelerated the unsealing of the Kāma.
"Go on, the harder you beat him, the faster it will unseal."
Isshiki murmured, but at this moment Obito suddenly let out an angry roar.
"Of course I know who I am! Stop saying this kind of useless nonsense to me!"
His body was continuously being repaired under the power of the Kāma, and such repair also made the release of the Kāma become even more intense.
He shakily stood up, his face full of anger and unwillingness, but when he saw the White Fang Short Knife in Kitagawa Gen's hand, a strange and terrifying power was interwoven upon it, and this caused his furious heart to cool slightly.
Then, in Isshiki's astonished gaze, he instantly activated Kamui!
Isshiki: "…"
"Kitagawa Gen, you truly live up to being an 'Evolver'."
Obito had absolutely no idea that Isshiki already wanted to pinch him to death; gritting his teeth, he stared at Kitagawa Gen.
"But do you really think you are… one of a kind?!"
"Are you referring to yourself?"
Kitagawa Gen casually answered with a remark, and he did not mind Obito entering Kamui.
After all, if the fighting continued, that Kāma would soon usher in another round of eruption.
He had not yet planned to let Obito become Isshiki, especially since he had not finished plundering all of Isshiki's things!
"That so-called 'evolution'—do you really believe in it?"
"Because this is the truth!"
Obito shouted in a low voice; his body had already been completely repaired, and he once again stood up.
The mottled black marks on his body became even more conspicuous, and the power of Yin-Yang Release also quietly gathered on his body.
"If you had not obtained 'evolution', what do you think would give you the right to possess such power, what do you think would give you the right to come this far?!"
"..."
Kitagawa Gen was somewhat at a loss for words; wasn't that evolution stuff something he had just casually made up?
How had it now, for Obito, become something like the Bible?
"Are you… jealous of me?"
Suddenly, Kitagawa Gen tilted his head and asked in puzzlement.
"I heard that you once also longed to become Hokage, longed to gain everyone's recognition in Konohagakure, that you basically longed for everything I have now, but—"
"Shut up!"
This time, Obito really did seem somewhat enraged out of shame; he looked coldly at Kitagawa Gen, and only after taking a deep breath did he speak.
"The only thing about you that I envy is just that you obtained the power of 'evolution' one step ahead of me, but I also have something that you do not have!"
"?"
"I have Rin's guidance, and this makes me no longer the least bit alone; no matter how full of hardship the road ahead of me may be, I will keep moving forward!"
"..."
"Besides, what do you think I came here for? My objective has already been achieved!"
"..."
Kitagawa Gen looked silently at Obito; for a moment, he truly admired this guy.
Setting aside the issues of his convictions, his vision, and so on, just his words now alone left Kitagawa Gen unsure how to respond.
It had always been him beating others until they were left speechless, yet this time he had actually been made somewhat speechless by Obito.
[Buzz—]
Obito's body slowly twisted at this moment; it looked like he was planning to leave this place.
This involuntarily made Kitagawa Gen raise his eyebrows, and Obito spoke once again.
"Take a guess—what do you think things are like in the other places right now?"
As he spoke, his figure completely disappeared from where he had been, leaving behind only the full scene of devastation.
"The other places, huh…"
Kitagawa Gen tilted his head; he had already guessed that Obito's coming here this time was, with high probability, a scheme Isshiki had planned in the dark.
Right now Obito deliberately speaking like this made Kitagawa Gen form a new guess.
"This guy wants to draw me over to look for that 'White Kāma', but is Isshiki really that generous?"
Of course, Kitagawa Gen also felt that this was Obito's own thinking.
"The 'White Kāma' should be meant to lure Ōtsutsuki Genshiki, but Obito probably concluded that he cannot defeat me, so…"
Thinking of this, Kitagawa Gen seemed to have made a decision, but at this moment the First Hokage and the Second Hokage had already arrived at his side.
"Are you alright, Gen?"
The two of them swept their eyes over everything around them and could not help but ask.
"That guy ran off again?"
"Mm, he already left, but he was probably here to draw my attention."
Kitagawa Gen nodded, and simply spoke along the lines of Obito's intention.
"They should be targeting the tailed beasts in the other places, and they are also our allies, so…"
"Uchiha Obito came over just to distract you, to keep you from reinforcing too quickly?"
Senju Tobirama understood instantly, and he even guessed the location.
"It is Kirigakure, right? Only Kirigakure is our ally, and Uchiha Obito once ruled there, so he is even more familiar with it."
"In that case…"
Senju Hashirama's eyes lit up, and he could not help asking curiously.
"Then would Madara also be there?"
"That is hard to say; maybe he has not recovered yet?"
Kitagawa Gen scratched his head, thought about it, and spoke.
"After all, last time he was taught a harsh lesson by Ōtsutsuki Genshiki, and his Impure World Reincarnation body also collapsed, so it is hard to say whether he has recovered."
"Regardless of whether he has recovered or not, this time we will go take a look together with you."
Senju Tobirama spoke instantly; it had taken him great effort to recover, so he did not want to do nothing!
"As for the people of the Akatsuki, I also need to gather some intelligence."
"I think I can go take a look as well."
Senju Hashirama thought for a moment and could not help speaking.
"I think my appearance can draw out Madara, and this way you can also fight better, since that guy took something of ours…"
At this point, Senju Hashirama stopped, while Senju Tobirama's fists had already hardened.
Uchiha Obito had taken the 'relic' of their clan right in front of them; this grudge could not just be let go!
"Are we going together?"
Kitagawa Gen pondered slightly, and suddenly he raised his head a little and looked toward the starry sky.
His expression also became somewhat strange, but after quite a while, he lightly nodded.
"In that case, let us go together, after all—"
"This time, there may truly be troublesome matters about to appear."
And for this trouble, it would probably require his "alt account", Ōtsutsuki Genshiki, to descend.
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