Is that so...
So that was it... The thing I had never considered, the thing I had always overlooked, the thing that had always felt like something was missing—it was this! Such an obvious loophole—how had I not thought of it?!
Such an obvious discrepancy—how had I failed to notice it?!
What plan to stall for time?!
What plan that required keeping me alive to stall for time?! It had merely been a smokescreen! Nothing but a smokescreen!
By now, his plan had most likely succeeded. Kushina and Minato Namikaze were probably...
No! No, no, no! As he looked at the face before him, at those pupils bearing the Mangekyō pattern that only an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan could possess, the last faint, humble trace of hope slowly crumbled into dust. In his eyes, widening bit by bit from despair, shock, and horror, self-mockery and regret gradually surfaced!
He could have figured it out. He could have foreseen this situation. And the answer had been so simple.
From the very beginning, he could have deduced that things would come to this.
He could have prevented this! He absolutely could have! But he had not! He had overlooked it. Though he had always felt that something was missing, though he had even known what he had missed, he simply had not thought deeply about it. He had wishfully believed that the situation before him was real.
And so, he had been forcibly held here.
He had fallen headlong into the other side's trap, creating this irreparable situation! He should have realized it sooner!
He should have realized it sooner! The Obito before him was not Obito at all, but someone else!
He should also have realized during the battle why Obito had repeatedly refrained from using Space-Time intangibility. It was not because