The Difference Between One Hostage and Another

"Madara!"

"Tobirama!"

Seeing Madara gravely wounded and Tobirama captured, Hashirama was frantic outside the barrier.

As expected, when fighting an enemy as powerful as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, having more people on your side wasn't necessarily a good thing.

The more people there were, the worse their teamwork became.

And the easier it was for their enemy to pick them off one by one.

If that idiot Tobirama hadn't interfered, Madara would never have let Isshiki catch him off guard. He would have simply switched places with his Limbo Shadow.

If he could do it all over again,

Madara would have Hashirama use Wood Style to tie up that useless, troublemaking pig of a teammate, Tobirama, before the battle even began!

He wouldn't let him ruin things.

Unfortunately, there were no second chances...

For a moment,

when they saw Tobirama captured alive by Isshiki, everyone on the Ninja World's side had no choice but to stop attacking.

Six Paths Nagato, the Hokage Minato, and Kamui Obito... all halted their attacks, afraid they might accidentally hit Tobirama.

Madara retreated at top speed, using his Limbo Shadow to flash over beside Six Paths Nagato.

He panted as he recovered, his expression dark.

Though that fool Tobirama had interfered, Madara had indeed made a spectacular fool of himself this time. And to make matters worse, it had happened in front of the other representatives of the Ninja World. His face burned with humiliation.

"Senior Madara, Nagato, stop fighting for now!"

Minato flashed over beside the two and called out to them.

"Ugh... That useless Second Hokage? He actually got captured alive? Teacher, what do we do now?"

Obito looked at the captured Tobirama Senju, his eyes full of disdain and disgust.

If he could have thrown two more Kamui shuriken, he could have sliced Ōtsutsuki