Rumble...
In an instant, a massive repulsive force erupted from Karin and swept toward Obito.
"Th-This...!?"
Caught completely off guard, Obito, along with the surrounding trees, dirt, rocks, and everything else, was violently blasted away as though struck by a storm.
In the blink of an eye, the vast forest before them was instantly flattened. Its once lush greenery seemed to have been erased by an enormous eraser.
Suigetsu stared dumbfoundedly at the devastation before him. "Am I under a genjutsu?"
Karin ignored Suigetsu. With a flash, she darted into the dust cloud that blotted out the sky.
Within the dust cloud.
"Cough, cough..."
Obito coughed as he climbed out of a heap of mud.
He was in a miserable state, his conspicuous Akatsuki red-cloud cloak covered in filth.
When using Kamui, he needed to keep his body materialized. Even after reclaiming the Mangekyō Sharingan he had given Kakashi and reuniting the two Kamui, he had merely gained the ability to cast Kamui from a distance. He still needed to materialize himself while activating Kamui.
Thus, while he had been using Kamui on Karin just now, he had been in a materialized state and taken Karin's furious Shinra Tensei head-on.
Compared with his bedraggled appearance, however, the shock in Obito's heart was even greater. Looking around at the wreckage and dust-filled surroundings, he gritted out, "Damn it, why does a Kirigakure Genin possess this kind of ability?"
As far as he knew, there were currently only three people in the ninja world capable of using repulsive force without hand seals.
They were Nagato, the leader of Akatsuki; Otsutsuki Toneri, the leader of the God Organization; and Hyuga Aoki, who had died at Otsutsuki Toneri's hands.
Other than them, neither the Five Kage nor any other expert possessed the ability to