Rasa's Misery

Obito frowned slightly, his mind racing as he considered the possible reasons behind this change.

After a brief pause, he raised his right foot without hesitation and stomped down hard on Rasa's face.

With a dull thud, Rasa's cheek met the ground, kicking up a cloud of sand.

"You need to... understand... your own... place!"

Obito said disdainfully, each word seeming to squeeze out through clenched teeth.

At the same time, he steadily increased the force beneath his foot, viciously grinding Rasa's face into the ground.

Half of Rasa's face had sunk deep into the yellow sand. The coarse grains mercilessly scraped against his skin, sending waves of stinging pain through him.

The physical agony intertwined with the humiliation deep in his heart, crashing over Rasa like a surging tide.

Even so, Rasa refused to yield.

A muffled roar filled with rage and killing intent came from his mouth:

"Obito... I'll... kill you!"

At that moment, the anger and hatred in his heart burned like flames, growing fiercer and fiercer until they nearly consumed him whole.

The spiritual power produced by those intense negative emotions was absorbed by the Zero-Tails within Obito at an astonishing speed and converted into dark Chakra.

Obito took a deep breath, feeling that endless stream of dark power pouring into his body. An unconcealed look of pleasure appeared on his face.

As dark Chakra flowed through him, he could clearly feel his injured body recovering at a visible rate.

Having tasted such benefits for the first time, Obito's desire swelled even further.

Not only did he not stop, he ground Rasa's face harder beneath his foot and said coldly:

"With a brain like yours, you still became Kazekage? You clearly couldn't control Shukaku, yet you insisted on becoming a Jinchuriki yourself."

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