"Ob... Obito... don't touch my happiness..."
"Forget it. As long as you like it..."
"Can you take off the ring?"
"Sorry, this is a watch."
"Hu--hu--"
Heavy, ragged breathing echoed through the deathly silent space like the bellows of a forge.
At the same time.
"Thump, thump—thump, thump!!"
A thunderous heartbeat rang out without yielding, weaving together with the breathing to form a bizarre symphony.
Obito felt as if an invisible hand had violently yanked him out of an endless abyss of darkness, jolting him awake.
His eyes flew wide, veins bulging on his forehead as beads of sweat slid down his cheeks. Before long, his clothes were drenched.
The sweat poured from every pore like floodwaters bursting through a dam, gathering into thin streams that snaked down his body.
"Where... where is this?!"
Obito muttered in terror, his voice trembling uncontrollably with fear.
He widened his eyes and looked around, but everywhere he looked was an eerie darkness that seemed ready to swallow him whole.
He instinctively tried to get up, only to find his limbs impossibly heavy, as though they had been filled with lead. He could not move a muscle.
An inexplicable panic surged through him. Obito struggled desperately, trying to draw on the Chakra within his body to break free of his restraints.
The moment his thoughts shifted, a faint blue light suddenly rose around him. Like furious waves, it swept wildly in every direction.
Then, with a thunderous boom, the surrounding darkness seemed to be shattered apart by the force.
However, before Obito could breathe a sigh of relief, he suddenly felt his insides churn as though the sea had been turned upside down.
"Urgh—"
After forcibly activating his Chakra, he expelled the alcohol from his body.
But the liquor he had drunk this time