[Kamui Space]
Obito's solitary figure looked somewhat lonely, as murmuring whispers continuously poured from his mouth.
It was unclear who he was speaking to.
There were two voices, very low, but obviously two tones alternating.
"This kind of desperate world should not exist."
"No, Rin watches me. I will become Hokage, then save this world!"
"Hah! Still daydreaming. Rin is already watching Kakashi. Don't forget, it was Rin who killed us."
"Rin killed you! Not me!"
"Is that so? Then who did she kiss?" [T/N: DAYUMN!]
"..."
After a long time, Obito stood up with a cold expression and opened the Kamui space.
Not far from where he appeared, neat and rhythmic footsteps kept coming.
Clack! Clack! Clack!
Amid the dull footsteps, an endless line of stone puppets moved along the Land of Earth's border.
Their speed was slow. They still had not left the Land of Earth's territory.
Obito leapt several times and arrived at the front end of the stone puppets, where Moryo was located.
Moryo glanced at Obito obliquely.
Obito's current state was very abnormal; black smoke poured from his whole body.
That was the embodied manifestation of a darkened mind.
Moryo did not know what had happened to Obito, but it was obvious that this Obito was not the same person as before.
"Can the shrine maiden resist these stone puppets?", Obito asked flatly.
Moryo snorted confidently, "Although her shamanic power is strong, these stone puppets are driven by earth energy. At most she can slow them down or control them briefly."
Thinking of Rengoku's forcefulness, Obito reminded him, "The people of Konoha will not just stand by and watch."
"I will not be a living target either."
Moryo had a look of full understanding on his face.
"If Konoha still had a Nine-Tails jinchuriki, these puppets would be nothing."
"But Konoha no longer has a tailed beast. Stone puppets can greatly drain Konoha's manpower."
"Although I am just a pebble thrown to test the waters, I have tied down enough of Konoha's forces. If other villages just stand still, that would be foolish."
So he also knew the aims of the major ninja villages, he just did not care.
"What about the ancient artifact I asked you to find?"
"I have already searched related books, but there is no news yet."
"Hmm," The two fell silent for a moment.
Obito asked, "What else can dark energy be used for?"
"Finally could not hold back?", Moryo had a trace of confidence at the corner of his mouth.
"I do not know what you experienced to make your mind so dark."
"But disappearing organs are only the most ordinary symptom of dark medical arts."
"Its greatest use is to let you regrow severed limbs, to reconstruct flesh."
"That part of your body is not really yours, is it?", Moryo pointed at Obito's half White Zetsu body.
That White Zetsu body no longer had any consciousness, as if the plant and his body were deeply fused.
Obito clutched his right arm, his expression changing.
"Can eyes be regrown too?"
"Of course, after all it is still your body," Moryo looked at Obito's face.
Obito was no longer wearing a mask now, so his scars could be seen directly. Moryo quickly formed a guess.
"How to regrow them?"
Moryo pondered back and forth for a moment, "I can teach you, but we need to make a trade."
"No problem," Obito agreed in one breath, without even asking what the trade was.
A twitch passed across his face, and he revealed a strange smile.
Moryo did not notice Obito's expression, and casually said, "If your eye needs to be reborn, then we must remove what occupies the spot."
Obito suddenly reached out and, with a soft ripping sound, tore off the three-tomoe Sharingan he had installed.
Then after a moment's thought, he cut open the skin on his White Zetsu right arm and shoved the eyeball inside.
This White Zetsu arm had been a casually severed limb taken from a random White Zetsu after Obito's "death."
The White Zetsu right arm was like the perfect petri dish. After Obito placed the eyeball inside, it quickly connected.
Under Obito's control, the eye rolled and turned in the White Zetsu arm, an indescribable disgust.
Moryo sneered in his heart. Another person whose mind had been corroded by dark energy.
"To regrow a limb...", Moryo explained as a whirlpool of dark energy appeared above Obito's eye.
At the center of the whirlpool, a piece of flesh was continuously extending.
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[Amegakure]
Kakuzu came over with a strange expression to tell Deidara.
"You're lucky. This mission was completed excellently. The leader wants to see you."
Deidara had always been curious about Pein.
Such a powerful secret technique.
"Great! Where is the leader?"
Kakuzu looked Deidara up and down, "Come with me."
Deidara followed Kakuzu and walked toward a very tall building in Amegakure.
Because it rained year round in Amegakure, many buildings were tall towers like this, convenient for drainage and with lightning rods at the top for safety.
"The leader is on the top floor. You go up yourself," Kakuzu pointed toward the spiral stairs and turned to leave.
Konan had only allowed Deidara to come. Kakuzu did not want to poke his nose into the fun.
The Akatsuki's relationship with Konoha, whether Pein was dead or alive, he did not care.
As long as he followed Konan's orders, he could earn money, and many times more than before.
So he never worried about such matters.
Deidara looked up at the spiral stairs. It was at least a hundred meters to climb.
He took out a lump of explosive clay, put it in his mouth to mix the ratio.
After mixing, the clay in his hands was rolled and quickly formed into a small clay bird.
He straddled it and the clay bird took off rapidly, flying toward the roof.
He soon reached the rooftop platform.
Konan and another person were waiting for him.
"Monk Senku?", Deidara looked around curiously, but besides Konan and Senku there was no one else.
"No need to look. I was the one looking for you," Senku's voice came out unusually different from before.
Deidara's expression changed. That voice was very familiar.
With a bang, Senku dispelled his transformation technique and turned into Rengoku's appearance.
"Senku… you, you are Uchiha Rengoku?"
A smile rose at the corner of Rengoku's mouth.
"I was planning to introduce you into the organization, but I didn't expect you to join on your own."
Deidara sized Rengoku up, "I always wondered where the sealing arts master in the ninja world came from. So it's you."
Although the other was the head of the Uchiha clan and now Konoha's Fifth Hokage, Deidara was not worried for his safety. In his memory, Rengoku had never shown malice toward him.
And they were all people who liked art. That was an automatic plus.
"Why are you disguised as a monk?", Deidara asked curiously.
The previous Senku had been indifferent to him, so he did not expect a familiar face.
Rengoku opened his mouth and spun a story, "To experience different kinds of art, other identities are also normal. Deidara, do you want to see my latest art?"
Deidara's eyes immediately lit up.
"Show me!!"
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