Regarding the fact that Obito Uchiha had reclaimed both eyes and gained a level of troublesome ability that, at the current stage, was not at all inferior to Madara Uchiha when he was alive, Rei Kaguya did feel that it was troublesome to a certain degree.
But more than that, there was probably a sense of helplessness.
Rei Kaguya had indeed made quite a few precautions and preparations to prevent this from happening.
But in the end, if Kakashi Hatake, the final line of defense himself, did not want to resist, then no matter how many layers of external protection were arranged, it would be impossible to stop Obito Uchiha from taking back that Mangekyo Sharingan from him.
At the end of the day, Kakashi Hatake at this point in time was still the sensitive brat trapped in the deaths of Obito Uchiha and Rin Nohara, constantly torturing and blaming himself.
The will that had slightly recovered through the comfort of his teacher and companions was utterly useless in the face of two things: the war that had started because of him, and Obito Uchiha returning to the world and demanding that Sharingan from him.
"Since you, Kakashi Hatake, gave up on resisting…"
"Then you had better properly shoulder the responsibility for Konoha being completely flattened by the aftermath of today's battle."
Looking at Obito Uchiha, who had reappeared on the Nine-Tails' head, and the White Zetsu clone that had presented him with his left eye, Rei Kaguya had already prepared a scapegoat in his heart for the destruction that would be caused by the following battle.
He moved his shoulders, then slowly took an attacking stance toward the enormous demon fox that stood dozens of meters tall.
"You still have the leisure to think about how to throw responsibility onto someone else, Rei Kaguya?"
Obito Uchiha removed his mask and pressed the left eye offered by White Zetsu's clone into his closed eye socket.
His expression carried a trace of madness before losing control.
"I at least have the leisure to protect some valuable people… There is no need to bring upon myself resentment without reason over a mistake they committed themselves."
The tightly closed left eye opened.
The original three-tomoe pattern quickly assimilated into the same three-bladed pinwheel pattern as his right eye.
After reconnecting his left eye, Obito Uchiha's ocular power and chakra began to surge violently without any way to conceal it.
They rose.
They soared.
They erupted.
They were more than ten times, even dozens of times stronger than when he had been at his angriest and most sorrowful.
And as that power surged up seemingly without end, his expression became increasingly wild and arrogant, increasingly frenzied and haughty.
That illusion of being even more powerful than the full-strength Madara Uchiha from the dream world made his entire body tremble with excitement.
"So this is the complete Mangekyo Sharingan…"
"So this is the power of the Six Paths…"
Obito Uchiha lowered the hands covering his eyes. Feeling the ocular power rising higher than ever before, he grinned viciously and aimed his gaze at the area where Rei Kaguya stood.
Almost the instant his gaze arrived, Rei Kaguya's figure vanished from where he had been standing.
The complete Kamui ocular power easily twisted and devoured every building within a radius of ten meters, silently gouging away all matter in that area as if erasing a drawing from paper with an eraser.
Then, Obito Uchiha immediately activated Wood Release: Cutting Technique. A giant wooden spike growing from his right arm precisely blocked a slash from Rei Kaguya, who had Body Flickered behind him.
The collision between wood and bone clearly should have been organic materials clashing, yet it produced a crisp sound almost like metal striking metal.
Looking at Obito Uchiha, who slid backward more than ten meters across the Nine-Tails' body and merely shook his hand after stopping, Rei Kaguya narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Roar!"
The Nine-Tails roared furiously and leapt in place, trying to throw Rei Kaguya, who had stepped onto its head without permission, off.
Unfortunately, such disorderly thrashing could not cause Rei Kaguya any trouble at all.
He only paused briefly before once again holding the bone blades that slid from between his palms. Stepping across the twisting muscles and fur of the Nine-Tails, he pursued Obito Uchiha directly.
Obito Uchiha also had no intention of using Kamui to decide the outcome at this moment.
He likewise grasped a weapon created from Wood Release and charged toward Rei Kaguya.
Clang————
The sound of weapons colliding stretched across the Nine-Tails' enormous body like an endless note.
The two figures moving at extreme speed treated the Nine-Tails' body as a battlefield they could not leave. Each displayed their own abilities, using their Kekkei Genkai and taijutsu in a death match so fast that even jonin-level dynamic vision could not fully follow it.
Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets against Cutting Technique.
Glowing white bones pierced straight through wooden spikes several times larger than themselves, shattering them from the center. Then, without losing momentum, they drilled into the Nine-Tails' fur, tearing through its flesh and punching through its bones, causing the demon fox that symbolized disaster and destruction to let out a high-pitched scream.
Using the transfer of the Kamui dimension, Obito Uchiha's figure became like a ghost, appearing everywhere at once.
At the instant weapons clashed, he would phase and disappear, causing his enemy to lose balance. Then, in the instant their weapons missed each other, he would return and launch a counterattack.
One movement would be a downward slash from overhead.
The next instant, it would become an upward reverse slash from below.
Between illusory and real, between constant and unpredictable changes, every one of his movements could potentially become a lethal strike that decided victory, defeat, life, and death.
But no matter what form Obito Uchiha's changes between reality and intangibility took, those emotionless Byakugan saw through all chakra flow within them completely.
Then, with a posture as casual as clouds drifting and wind passing, Rei Kaguya broke them one by one—and even returned them.
Although they were only ordinary Byakugan of insufficient purity, cultivated rapidly through Hashirama cells that were not perfectly compatible, under the stimulation of Rei Kaguya's Dead Bone Pulse, which had already surpassed its limits, and his enormous chakra, they still displayed observational precision beyond any pair of Byakugan in the Hyuga clan.
With this observational precision combined with Rei Kaguya's already perfected Kaguya-style taijutsu, a taijutsu attack like Obito Uchiha's, which relied merely on novelty to win, had no possibility of breaking through his defense.
Rip.
When Obito Uchiha, unable to break through after a long offensive, finally could not help attaching Kamui's spatial properties to a thrown kunai and narrowly cut a long tear in Rei Kaguya's sleeve, their battle entered the next stage.
Rei Kaguya stomped heavily on the Nine-Tails' head, making the Nine-Tails, which had been howling in fury, crash face-first to the ground like a dog eating dirt.
Then, with several Body Flickers, he pulled several hundred meters away from Obito Uchiha.
From afar, he looked at Obito Uchiha, whose expression was gradually turning gloomy, and whose body was now covered by a massive blue chakra entity. Rei Kaguya smiled lightly and asked, "As far as taijutsu goes, it seems to be my complete victory…"
"As for genjutsu, I cannot use it, but you cannot control me either. So what comes next? A contest of ninjutsu, or a contest of Kekkei Genkai?"
"Then watch carefully."
"The true, ultimate power of the Uchiha clan."
As his voice fell, the blue chakra surging outward suddenly began to manifest into a concrete form.
First came ribs and enormous arms that wrapped around Obito Uchiha's body.
Then it rapidly grew into a half-bodied skeletal form large enough to cover him and the surrounding area entirely.
Along with Obito Uchiha increasing his chakra and ocular power output, the half-bodied skeleton began to grow flesh and meridians. Cloak-like chakra and a more concrete black face also appeared.
Then, under Rei Kaguya's narrowed gaze, the Susanoo, which should have transformed toward a complete humanoid form clad in armor, suddenly seemed to melt.
It began flowing toward the Nine-Tails beneath Obito Uchiha.
Blue chakra transformed into scale-like armor covering the Nine-Tails' entire body.
Its claws, serving as weapons, were covered in black spatial cracks that twisted constantly. Adding on the complete covering over the Nine-Tails' head, leaving only its murderous Sharingan eyes and a mouth full of white fangs exposed, the already terrifying Nine-Tails now gave off an even stronger impression of an flawless weapon of war.
"Majestic Attire: Susanoo…"
"If you cannot open a Complete Body Susanoo, you combine it with the Nine-Tails to exert even greater power? Not a bad idea…"
"But this is fine too."
"In that case, I no longer need to hide it either."
Before Obito Uchiha, using Susanoo to this extent for the first time, could even catch his breath and throw out a few threats at Rei Kaguya, another skeletal giant rapidly growing in size was reflected in his Mangekyo Sharingan.
"Asura: Six-Heavens Vajra."
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