Fish on the Chopping Block

Kamui Dimension

After Obito brought Muku inside,

the abnormalities on Muku's body disappeared.

Obito narrowed his eyes slightly. It seemed Muku truly could not be separated from the Box of Paradise.

"Who are you?"

Muku panted heavily as his body slowly recovered.

He had not expected someone to be capable of using space-time ninjutsu to transfer the Box of Paradise.

What kind of space-time ninjutsu could be this powerful?

"My name is Obito. From now on, you will serve me."

Obito spoke calmly.

There was no room for negotiation in his tone.

But what was Muku? He was a product born from absorbing countless negative emotions and merging with Satori.

Since his birth, all he had known was slaughter and destruction, providing energy to the Box of Paradise.

When had anyone ever spoken to him like this?

Muku's fair, delicate face twisted with ferocity.

"Who the hell do you think you are?"

A smile tugged at Obito's face, but it was an unnervingly chilling one.

A vortex appeared in midair and directly threw Muku out.

Muku appeared in the wilderness.

The Box of Paradise was not in the same space as him.

Black smoke continuously rose from his body again.

He quickly grew weak.

Only then did Obito emerge unhurriedly from the Kamui Dimension.

Then he threw out the Box of Paradise as well.

Muku was like a fish returned to water.

His body slowly recovered.

Muku looked at Obito, his eyes filled with venomous hatred.

His body transformed into a streak of red light and charged at Obito. "Die!"

Then...

The red light passed through Obito's body as if it had struck an illusion.

After regaining his body, Muku stared at Obito solemnly.

What kind of ability was that? Why hadn't I hit him just now?

I clearly passed through his body.

In Muku's form, he had no way to read minds.

Muku's body twisted, transforming once more into Satori, the black-feathered, headless monster.

With a flap of his wings, Satori flew atop the Box of Paradise. He seized it with the two claws beneath his feet and began flying skyward.

Obito's voice turned cold.

"It seems you have made the wrong choice."

Obito instantly projected a gigantic Susanoo, which stretched out its massive hand and grabbed directly for the Box of Paradise.

Although Satori was also around ten meters tall, beneath the nearly hundred-meter-tall Susanoo,

he was still no more than a bean sprout.

Satori was incredibly fast, but that did not mean he could fly just as fast while carrying the Box of Paradise.

Satori narrowly evaded the Susanoo's giant hand.

But at that moment, the Rinnegan in Obito's palm glimmered faintly.

Banshō Ten'in!

A tremendous pulling force descended.

Satori was pulled back at once, and the Susanoo clenched the Box of Paradise in its fist.

As long as the Box of Paradise remained there, Satori could not escape far.

"Disobey, and you die!"

Obito's icy voice rang out as immense ocular power struck Satori's mind.

His entire world began to twist and warp.

Satori let out an enraged shriek.

"As long as the Box of Paradise exists, I will never die. You want me to serve you? What a joke."

As he spoke, Satori communicated with the Box of Paradise.

A tremendous suction force emerged from the dark doorway on the Box of Paradise.

Yet that suction could not affect Obito at all.

Obito used genjutsu, making Satori suffer a solid loss.

Yet even so, Satori was as stubborn and unyielding as a stone in a cesspit.

Obito's patience ran out, and he let out a maniacal laugh.

"Ha ha ha... Fine, then die!"

A vortex appeared directly atop the Box of Paradise.

The Box of Paradise's suction ceased.

A tearing agony swept through Satori's body, as though his entire body were burning.

With all his strength, he only managed to push the Box of Paradise slightly away.

Whoosh...

Without a sound, a huge hole opened on the right side of the Box of Paradise.

Satori was frightened out of his wits.

The Box of Paradise was made from an exceptionally special material. It was incredibly sturdy and had never suffered any damage in hundreds and thousands of years.

Satori had never worried that it might be destroyed.

By his understanding,

the Box of Paradise simply could not be damaged.

But now, everything had exceeded his comprehension.

The person before him could not only use space-time ninjutsu to transfer the Box of Paradise,

but could also wield the power of space to cut through it.

No one could block such spatial power.

No matter how hard a material was, it could not withstand the cutting of space.

At that moment, a second vortex appeared atop the Box of Paradise.

Satori hurriedly begged for mercy.

"Don't do it! We can talk this out! We can talk this out!"

Satori's voice was full of panic, and it even cracked.

Obito stopped releasing Kamui's power.

His pair of Mangekyō Sharingan stared at Satori.

"Have you thought it through?"

Fear and helplessness seeped into Satori's voice.

"I understand."

"From now on, I'll follow you."

This was the first time Satori had ever been threatened.

Anyone could see that the Box of Paradise was his lifeline.

But seeing it did not mean one could do anything about it.

Whether it was taijutsu attacks or ninjutsu attacks,

neither could leave a mark on the Box of Paradise, much less destroy it.

Who would have thought that the other party's attack was neither taijutsu nor ninjutsu, but spatial cutting?

The Box of Paradise's hard shell was like paper.

A hole was punched through it in an instant.

Had Satori not used all his strength to push the Box of Paradise, moving the hole closer to the door,

the Box of Paradise would already have been pierced straight through.

This man named Obito truly wanted to destroy the Box of Paradise.

Now, he had no choice but to abandon his arrogance.

Obito had directly seized his lifeline. Whether Satori lived or died now depended entirely on Obito's will.

Obito swept his gaze over him. "Very good."

Obito placed his hand on the Box of Paradise again and directly swallowed it into the Kamui Dimension.

Satori swiftly changed from the black monster form back into Muku's human form.

Black smoke continued to rise from Muku's body.

His entire body rapidly weakened.

Muku had already been pale, the kind of pale that came from never seeing sunlight for years.

Now that he had been cut off from the Box of Paradise,

he visibly weakened before the eye.

Muku spoke weakly.

"What exactly do you want? Didn't I agree to serve you?"

Obito looked at Muku's weakened state and asked,

"How long can you stay active outside like this?"

Muku moved his lips, originally unwilling to answer.

But he was fish on the chopping block, and the Box of Paradise was in Obito's hands.

He could only answer honestly.

"Without the Box of Paradise's energy to sustain me, I can only exist for seven days, and I cannot fight."

Naturally, Obito would not let Muku remain in the Kamui Dimension all the time.

After all, the Kamui Dimension held too many secrets.

It was also tied to his intangibility ability.

Now that he knew Muku could remain active for seven days,

he could take out the Box of Paradise every few days to recharge him.

When he needed to use him, he could bring out the Box of Paradise together with him.

Satori's abilities were still highly effective against most people.

It was only because he happened to encounter the fastest man in the ninja world that he had been beaten without any chance to fight back.

Against other ninja, he would still be extremely useful.