It's... it's over...
Rinnegan... This bastard had already evolved the Rinnegan!
What he had truly been waiting for was this moment! The moment I was truly driven into a desperate corner! His hands and feet trembling slightly, involuntarily drawn toward the pitch-black sphere the size of a ping-pong ball, Chiba's former composure and calm had utterly vanished. In their place was a deathly pale realization.
His eyes, meanwhile, were fixed on Uchiha Nobuhiko, whose head had tilted to one side as he flew close to the water's surface toward Chiba's right. His eyes displayed ripple-like patterns, radiating a pupil power that felt almost blinding at first glance.
That time?
Was it then?
He had already prepared Planetary Devastation. This was his trump card, his final trump card!
At the same time, Chiba recalled Uchiha Nobuhiko's hand hidden behind his back after that underwater sword strike, when Chiba had dispelled the Water Wall because Uchiha Nobuhiko had not attacked for so long.
Back then, Uchiha Nobuhiko had not refrained from attacking because he hesitated. He had been preparing Planetary Devastation, timing it so that after Chiba dispelled the Water Wall and regained his vision, he deliberately switched the Rinnegan to the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
He had misled him, making him believe that he had not yet evolved the Rinnegan.
I never thought that, in the end, I would be the one to screw myself over.
As that irresistible gravitational force grew ever stronger, his entire body began moving uncontrollably toward the black-hole-like sphere. Even his posture gradually changed, shifting from a leaping side kick into an unnatural pose of being pulled through the air while desperately trying to get away. Yet a complicated smile appeared on his face.
Part bitterness, part helplessness, and one part...
Relief.
"Pop! Pop! Pop!"
At that