Uchiha Obito spoke in a hoarse voice. Something strange flickered through his scarlet Sharingan as he slowly opened his mouth. A flash of delight appeared in Kabuto Yakushi's eyes, only for his expression to abruptly go blank.
A kunai suddenly stabbed into Kabuto Yakushi's chest.
"W-why...?"
Kabuto Yakushi spat out a mouthful of blood. His eyes lost focus as he spoke in disbelief.
"You've worked hard all this time, so please, go to sleep."
Uchiha Obito spoke indifferently, without a trace of emotion in his tone.
"So that's how it is? It turns out I was only..."
Kabuto Yakushi frantically drove the mysterious cells of Hashirama's flesh, trying to repair his injured heart. Yet the cells that had once made him nearly immortal now seemed to be asleep. No matter how he urged them, they did not respond.
At that moment, he finally understood.
From beginning to end, he had been nothing more than a pawn.
He no longer had any value to be exploited. After losing his usefulness, Kabuto Yakushi gave a miserable smile as his consciousness gradually left his body.
"It's settled. Now it's time to let the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path display its true power." Uchiha Obito looked at Kabuto Yakushi's corpse on the ground and spoke calmly as he took out a new spiral mask from behind him.
In the darkness, a scarlet Mangekyo Sharingan gleamed with an eerie light. Then, the hollow in the other eye socket slowly opened.
A mysterious eye radiating purple light, patterned with countless ripples—the Rinnegan!
"Summoning!"
Terrifying chakra erupted forth.
It formed wave after wave of chakra tides. Kabuto Yakushi's corpse was violently smashed into the stone wall by the terrifying tide. "Crash—" Countless chunks of rock shattered and fell, leaving the entire stone chamber utterly ruined.
"How