"Tap!"
The soft sound of a foot landing on a branch, coming to a stop, echoed faintly through the dim mountain forest.
"Cough! Cough, cough!"
Then came a faint but familiar coughing fit.
The Water Clone's information had fed back. Obito wasn't dead yet?
Half-crouched on the branch beneath his feet, Chiba wiped away the moisture that had spilled from his nose due to coughing with his other hand, then raised his head. At some point, the sky above the sparse forest had turned overcast. Chiba's expression darkened unconsciously as well.
Even my strongest direct offensive ninjutsu can't kill him? Worry began to rise in his heart.
Honestly, he had no idea what method Obito could have used to escape that S-rank Fire Style Ninjutsu. When he had conceived that Fire Style Ninjutsu, its main purpose had been to incinerate the enemy in an instant, with trapping and burning as secondary effects. Obito could use Space-Time to escape the technique, but at the time, he had been restrained by Chiba's Spirit Transformation Jutsu. Although the Spirit Transformation Jutsu had not lasted long before being forced out by powerful ocular power, that time should have been enough to burn Obito to death.
At this moment, he truly could not understand why Obito had survived under those circumstances.
It was even somewhat unbelievable.
If Obito could really survive under such circumstances, then Chiba likely had no way to kill him.
In a sense, Obito was invincible to him.
Looks like I can only return to the village first. The Water Clone should be able to stall him for a while. After all, it was a Water Clone created in Gate of Limit Mode. It even had more Chakra than I did at my peak in my normal state, so it should be