—I will create a brand-new world!
The madness of 'Yagura Karatachi' before him left even Zabuza speechless, unable to utter a single word of condemnation for a long moment.
After a while, Haku could no longer hold back. "You're truly a madman!"
It was precisely because of this! The Fourth Mizukage escalated the brutality of the Third Mizukage! He relentlessly hunted down and slaughtered the Kekkei Genkai users of the Land of Water! That's why the Land of Water became a place where people couldn't live in peace, where fear was constant, and that's why I lost my once harmonious family!!
Zabuza swung his great sword!
He blocked Haku's path.
He kept his head lowered in silence for a while before finally lifting it again.
Staring at Yagura Karatachi, he said, "I'm certain now—you are not Yagura Karatachi."
Obito's heart skipped a beat. Had he slipped up again?!
He thought to himself, This is my limit! To keep this demonic energy at bay, he had even maintained this state without greeting Minato-sensei or Naruto. He hadn't joined Rin and Kakashi for breakfast!
He had rushed here early in the morning for just an A-rank mission!
He was about to call Minato-sensei to come and take him away.
Zabuza spoke again from across the room.
"You're the Yagura Karatachi everyone knows, but I'm sure the real Yagura Karatachi is being manipulated by you."
Obito's face remained expressionless.
Inside, his thoughts ran wild: What?
The masked man hidden within Kamui's Dimension: ...
"That man is correct. The real Yagura Karatachi was childish and stubborn, yet he loved Kirigakure dearly."
Zabuza recalled Minato Namikaze's words.
"He intended to bring about great changes to the Third Mizukage's tyranny, but because you manipulated him, he became an even more brutal tyrant than the Third—becoming the Fourth Mizukage!"
After a pause, Zabuza's voice turned hoarse. "It's even possible the Third Mizukage was manipulated by you—or perhaps by all of you—long before this!"
Since controlling two successive generations of Mizukage would strain any one person's energy, Zabuza used the word 'you all'. He suspected that both the Third and Fourth Mizukage might have been manipulated by two different people!
Haku beside Zabuza stood stunned!
The Kirigakure ninja behind Zabuza stared in disbelief at the man before them—Yagura Karatachi!
They were all completely confused!
Was this man really Yagura Karatachi?!
They couldn't understand it, but Obito did!
The information Minato-sensei had given him earlier wasn't false—that was the true identity of Yagura Karatachi from twenty years ago! The Fourth Mizukage that Zabuza and the other Missing-nin feared afterward was an imposter!
Damn it!!!
He had actually managed to extract such crucial information from him!!!
Should he call Minato-sensei now?! If he didn't come soon, a fight would surely break out!
Even with the two-tomoe Sharingan, could his half-baked skills really stand a chance against Zabuza and Haku?
While Obito was agonizing over this, the masked man wrestled with his own doubts.
Staring at the 'Yagura Karatachi' in front of Zabuza, he couldn't fathom the man's true identity.
The only possibility that kept circling in his mind was: the genuine Madara Uchiha—who had controlled two Mizukage through his Sharingan!
Just as the masked man wondered how to confirm the true identity of the 'Yagura Karatachi' before him…
Outside Kamui's Dimension, not only Zabuza Momochi, Haku, and Yagura Karatachi, but even Zabuza's underlings from Kirigakure stood in stunned confusion!
They vanished together?!
Right before his eyes…
Just vanished into thin air?!
"?!?!"
The masked man materialized from Kamui's Dimension, his orange-yellow whirlpool mask leaving only a hole for his right eye.
He stared at the vast base—every single soul had vanished in an instant?!
What had he just witnessed? An illusion?!!
Impossible!
No one could cast an illusion on him under the Sharingan, especially not within the Kamui Dimension.
A sudden disappearance?!
Apart from Minato Namikaze's Flying Thunder God Technique, he couldn't think of anyone capable of vanishing so abruptly that even he couldn't trace their whereabouts!
Combined with the sudden appearance of Yagura Karatachi earlier, an ominous feeling settled in his heart.
...
Zabuza and the others, who had been at the stronghold moments ago, found themselves in a completely different place in the blink of an eye. The dry climate clearly indicated that this wasn't the Land of Waves anymore!
He never knew Yagura possessed such abilities!
The other Kirigakure ninja were already getting restless!
Zabuza himself felt a surge of tension and irritation at the situation.
Boom!
A massive explosion echoed from the distance!
Zabuza: "Let's go check it out!"
The explosion sounded relatively close, perhaps a few hundred meters away.
Haku and Zabuza quickly moved closer.
But the scene before them instantly left them dumbfounded!
"This... is a battlefield?"
This was unlike any mission they'd been on before. This was a full-blown war between ninja villages!
Haku: "It's Iwagakure versus Konohagakure. Iwagakure still has at least fifty ninja. Konohagakure only has about twenty."
Moreover, these twenty-odd Konoha ninjas weren't particularly skilled—they were practically being overwhelmed.
"At this rate, Konoha could be wiped out at any moment," Haku said.
Zabuza raised his hand, signaling to observe the situation first.
"Where's the backup?! Captain Mimura!"
They heard a Konoha ninja shouting from behind an Earth Release: Earth Wall.
Hamaki Mimura: "Hold your fire! Word is the village has sent that person from another mission to reinforce us!"
"That person?!!" The ninja behind the Earth Wall paled instantly. "The enemy has over fifty elite Jōnin from Iwa. Sending just one person is a suicide mission?!!"
"You idiot!!!" Mimura Hamaki roared. "Once that person arrives, one is enough!"
Zabuza and Haku stood atop a high vantage point, gazing toward the distant Iwa forces.
Hmph.
One person against fifty elite Jōnin?
Dreams should have limits!