Just as Obito thought he had succeeded and returned to the Kamui space, a blurry phantom suddenly appeared where Shinichi had been sucked into the vortex. The phantom swiftly solidified, as though something had been created from nothing, and an Uchiha Shinichi identical to the one from before appeared out of thin air.
"Whew..."
After letting out a soft breath, Shinichi did not pause. He immediately used the Body Flicker Technique and vanished from where he stood.
The moment Shinichi left, the twisting vortex reappeared behind him. Obito emerged from it with a dark expression, glanced in the direction Shinichi had fled, and said coldly, "You can't escape the palm of my hand!"
Then Obito leaned back and slipped into the vortex again.
As Shinichi fled, his Mangekyō Sharingan had already activated in his eye sockets.
Shinichi really had been caught off guard and sucked into Obito's Kamui space. For anyone else, making such a mistake would have meant it was all over. Obito would not even have needed to fight them in the Kamui space. He could simply leave his target there without food or water for a few days, and they would naturally become fish on the chopping block.
But Shinichi was different. The instant he realized he had been caught, he activated the Mangekyō Sharingan ocular technique in his right eye, Timehold, turning back time by several seconds and returning his body to the moment just before Obito's ambush. By directly warping time in this way, he had cleverly escaped Obito's Kamui space.
Before long, the twisting vortex appeared in front of Shinichi again, cutting him off.
Obito stepped out of the vortex and smiled. "Shinichi, I know you've studied me, and I've studied you as well. Although you rarely used your Mangekyō Sharingan after joining the