"Hm?"
Watching the Senju Brothers block the Ten-Tails' path, Uchiha Obito frowned slightly and secretly glanced at Uchiha Madara in the distance. A trace of gloom appeared on that savage face.
Because of Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Asuka, he had not taken the First Hokage and Second Hokage seriously.
But now, it seemed those two had no intention of stopping the Senju Brothers. They had even deliberately allowed them to come over and stop him.
"Didn't he always want to fight Hashirama Senju? Didn't he dream of completing the Infinite Tsukuyomi?" Obito muttered under his breath. He simply could not guess what Uchiha Madara wanted.
At this moment.
An unmistakable trace of confusion surfaced on Black Zetsu's half-black, half-white face.
Its gaze drifted involuntarily to the side, where it found Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Asuka casually eating as though they did not care in the slightest about what was happening around them.
Black Zetsu's expression darkened at the sight, and a sense of foreboding spread through its heart.
"Things seem to be heading in the worst possible direction... that Uchiha Asuka."
Black Zetsu narrowed its eyes slightly, trying its best to calm down.
For a thousand years, it had secretly plotted the Eye of the Moon Plan in order to revive Mom. It had endured countless failures along the way, but in Uchiha Madara's generation, it had finally succeeded in awakening the Rinnegan and summoning the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
Originally, Uchiha Madara had been the ideal candidate to carry out the Infinite Tsukuyomi Plan, while Uchiha Obito had merely been a spokesman temporarily pushed into the spotlight after Madara's death—a puppet through and through.
That had been the case... but once Uchiha Asuka's name began appearing over and over in the intelligence reports, once that name began