Take Another Look Behind You

At last, Obito reached the very bottom.

This was the lowest level built within the underground cavity by Hamura's descendants.

There was nowhere lower to go. Beneath it all lay solid rock.

For the entire moon, this was probably no more than scraping off a layer of skin.

What should they do next?

Keep digging downward by hand?

Obito had considered it, but before that, he wanted to know where Kushina had gone.

If she had also dug downward manually, where was the tunnel she had left behind?

Obito had brought Konoha's investigation team, each with their own special abilities.

Whether it was the Hyuga, the Aburame, or the Inuzuka, none of them found any hollow space on the lowest level that could lead farther down.

But Obito did not dwell on it. He assumed Kushina had been digging three parts and filling one, digging downward while sealing the path behind her.

No matter what, he had to act.

As long as he found the sealed Kaguya before Kushina did, he would be invincible.

"You all move aside. I'll go down alone from here."

Obito raised the Heavenly Spear and the Truth-Seeking Orb high, using the Truth-Seeking Orb's transformation ability to turn the Heavenly Spear into a massive electric drill.

"Stop it, Obito—"

Naruto rushed over. He had just opened his mouth to shout a few routine warnings when he suddenly saw the huge thing in Obito's hand. He was so startled that his words cut off.

Obito's enormous Truth-Seeking Orb drill immediately brought back painful memories for Naruto.

In the Engraved Tsukuyomi World, he had been harmed by the Six Paths Holy Relic. But even before that, in the Real Shinobi World, a Kaguya Kimimaro with a voice identical to his father's had nearly taken him down with the