Obito watched the syringe flying toward him and sneered, ignoring it completely. Once he activated Kamui, no one in the world could hurt him.
However, the moment the syringe touched the space surrounding his body, ripples spread across its surface. It broke straight through Kamui's defenses and pierced Obito's arm.
"!!!"
Obito's eyes widened in shock. Beneath his mask, his face twisted with disbelief.
"How... How could this happen...? My power... My ocular jutsu is so powerful... How could I be attacked?!"
Obito stopped moving. He looked up in horror, then raised his other hand and hacked off the arm that had been injected with the drug.
He collapsed to the ground.
The anesthetic spread too quickly. If he hadn't cut off his arm fast enough, he would have passed out already.
"Impossible... Impossible!!!"
Sprawled on the ground, Obito felt his strength draining away. Like a broken record, he kept asking himself why, why Uchiha Brahman's attack could break through Kamui's defenses and hit him directly. This wasn't ninjutsu. This wasn't the ninja way.
However unbelievable or impossible it seemed, once something happened, it meant that it was reasonable, that it accorded with the True Dharma.
"If I remember right, you're called Obito, aren't you? Or was it Tobi?"
Uchiha Brahman glanced casually at Obito, who lay despairing in the distance.
Not far away, Yagura's body had been completely encased in ice. Countless ice flowers grew across his enormous form.
Uchiha Brahman casually snapped his fingers. The next moment, the huge frozen body began to crack and crumble, revealing Yagura beneath it. The terrifying cold had numbed him, and even caused his body to die.
"What terrifying power!"
Yagura lay on the ground, his body numb. He could no longer even feel the cold ice beneath him.
His life was drawing to an end. It was too cold. Brahman wasn't even from the Yuki Clan—he was just an Uchiha. It was one thing for him to possess Ice Release, but why, why was it so powerful and terrifying? This was a fearsome power capable of freezing a Tailed Beast to death.
He couldn't understand it. He simply couldn't understand!
Did Ice Release have some kind of suppressive effect on Tailed Beasts?
Compared to Uchiha Brahman's terrifying Ice Release, even the Ice Release of the Yuki Clan seemed like a firefly beside the bright moon.
Yagura had seen powerful people before. But he had never seen anyone this powerful: someone who could wipe out an entire village with just two jutsu, all while making it look effortless—like crushing an ant. Such overwhelming strength was horrifying.
Yagura had never seen anything like it. He had never even imagined that such power existed in the world. No—perhaps only the God of Shinobi from the past could have stood alongside Uchiha Brahman.
But Yagura knew that this still wasn't the full extent of Uchiha Brahman's strength. It was a terrifying power as deep as an abyss.
"The Uchiha Clan has spawned a monster!"
Yagura spoke. The next moment, a golden syringe flew over and plunged into his neck. Golden liquid flowed into his body, and his already hazy consciousness sank instantly into darkness.
"Obito, you idiot!"
In the distance, Black Zetsu watched through White Zetsu's eyes and cursed. He hadn't expected Obito to be so useless—no, it wasn't that Obito was useless. Uchiha Brahman was simply so powerful, so terrifying, that Kamui might as well not have existed. One move had been enough to defeat Obito instantly.
Looking at Uchiha Brahman, Black Zetsu felt, for the first time in all these years, what it meant to be desperate, what it meant to be terrified.
So far, no one had seen the great Brahman go all out. In every battle, no matter who he faced, he had defeated his opponent with that abyssal, terrifying power. His battles were like a terrifying game of playtime with a child.
An utter, absolute crushing defeat.
Black Zetsu even had the feeling that Uchiha Brahman's power wouldn't diminish much even without those eyes. So far, nearly every battle had been won with his overwhelmingly powerful jutsu and his chakra, as vast and deep as an ocean.
Because he was invincibly powerful—absolutely powerful.
It was as if the Sage of Six Paths were alive: powerful, invincibly powerful!
"Dear heavens, why? Why?! This was the closest we'd ever come to succeeding! Everything was ready! Why? Why?! Why did such a terrifying monster appear in the Uchiha Clan?!"
Black Zetsu howled in grief and fury inside. The Rinnegan had already been brought into existence. All the actors had assembled, and the script was written. So why, why...
Why had such a powerful monster appeared? Why had a monster as terrifying as Uchiha Brahman appeared?!
Why was this happening?!
If only he had wiped out the Uchiha Clan. Then this monster would never have appeared.
"Can Nagato really defeat this monster?"
Despair began to spread through Black Zetsu. He knew Nagato's capabilities. Nagato was powerful, but nowhere near invincible—nowhere near strong enough to subdue the full might of a village in just a few moves.
This was power beyond what any human could attain.
Though Nagato might not have thought so.
Although he was overwhelmed by grief and despair, Black Zetsu had no intention of stopping. He knew that no matter how powerful Uchiha Brahman was, he was still only human, not a god. Even the Sage of Six Paths had died of old age. Sooner or later, Uchiha Brahman would die.
He felt uneasy, but Black Zetsu could only reassure himself this way, lest the despair in his heart drown him. Normally, he wouldn't have felt so desperate. But he was just one step away! Everything was ready. All that remained was for the actors to follow the script, and he would be able to resurrect his mother.
He had been so close. Yet that final step had been ruined by Uchiha Brahman, who had suddenly appeared. Of course, that was only one reason. There was another, far more important one: not long ago, Black Zetsu had felt the threat of death for the first time.
In all those long years, no one had ever been able to detect him. But not long ago, he had been discovered.
Someone...
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