"No-"
Once the anesthetic wore off, the eunuch from earlier had men take Obito to a private room. The eunuch had barely stepped outside when he heard Obito's despairing cry from within.
Inside the room, Obito checked himself. What he had feared had indeed happened.
It was gone.
It really was gone!
Obito recalled one nightmare among those strange memories from his dreams: while saving Kakashi, a boulder had crushed half his body, mangling his vital parts as well.
At the time, Obito had paid that memory no heed.
As he saw it, he would never risk his life for Kakashi, so naturally, he would never suffer the same fate as in the dream.
Yet even without sacrificing himself for Kakashi, he had somehow arrived at the same ending.
Worst of all, there was no hope left.
The Red Moon Orb could reverse cause and effect and return someone to the past. That was why Obito had planned to seize it and save Rin before she was harmed.
The problem was that the Red Moon Orb could only save other people, not its user.
Even if Obito obtained the Red Moon Orb and traveled back countless times, he would still be the incomplete man he was now.
Then what would be the point of obtaining the Red Moon Orb and saving Rin?
Rin would still belong to someone else!
As for handing the Red Moon Orb to someone else after seizing it, so they could return to the past and save him?
It was theoretically possible, but Obito had no one he could trust like that.
His plan had always been to use the Imperial Court's power to seize the Red Moon Orb and secretly keep it for himself. How could he possibly hand it over to someone else?
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