"Damn it!"
"What a useless piece of trash!"
"Both of them are trash!"
Swamp Country, Moryo's Sealed Land.
After the volcanic eruption, the entire mountain range looked as though it had been ravaged by war.
As far as the eye could see, everything was steeped in gray.
Volcanic ash, like fine snow, blanketed the ground in thick layers, burying everything beneath it and leaving only faint outlines exposed.
Black rocks formed from cooled lava lay scattered everywhere, their shapes bizarre and irregular.
The ground was covered in crisscrossing fissures, like wounds torn open across the earth, still radiating heat.
The Volcano Crater no longer spewed torrents of lava, but it continued to release a pungent stench and curling smoke.
The entire area was terrifyingly silent, broken only by the faint crackling of lava.
Black Zetsu emerged from beneath such ground, weaving around layer after layer of lava.
At the same time, he kept cursing under his breath.
He simply could not understand how Obito Uchiha and Shinnō had managed to get themselves killed over such a simple mission.
One had Space-Time Ninjutsu, while the other was practically immortal, yet they had both vanished together without so much as a trace.
Black Zetsu truly felt exhausted.
It had not been easy to find a new member in the first place, yet now not only was the new member gone, but even Obito Uchiha, one of the organization's old guard, had disappeared with him.
In the current Ninja World, there were probably very few capable of keeping those two down—especially Obito Uchiha. Even Madara Uchiha would likely find it difficult.
After all, as long as Obito Uchiha entered the Kamui Dimension in advance, no one could hold him.
Still, it was not as though he had no weakness—for example, the other Kamui