White Zetsu froze, stunned. "You actually lost to a little brat?"
Obito said coldly, "That guy is nothing like an ordinary Hyuga. Don't underestimate him."
As he spoke, Obito plucked the completely blind Three-Tomoe Sharingan from his left eye socket. He took a spare Three-Tomoe Sharingan from a Sealing Scroll and pressed it into the socket.
Seeing the thoroughly ruined Three-Tomoe Sharingan, White Zetsu swallowed the taunt he'd been about to direct at Obito.
Anyone who could kill Obito once was no empty threat.
Black Zetsu, standing nearby, seemed deep in thought.
The Hyuga clan were descendants of Hamura Otsutsuki.
The Byakugan could evolve into the Tenseigan, a power no weaker than the Rinnegan.
Hyuga Neji had defeated Obito. There was a very good chance he'd awakened the legendary Tenseigan.
The thought made Black Zetsu uneasy.
In over a thousand years, not a single member of the Hyuga clan had awakened the Tenseigan.
Not even the peerless "Tenin" of the Warring States Period had managed it.
It had tracked the souls of Asura and Indra for over a thousand years, and had finally seen the possibility of freeing its mother in Uchiha Madara.
Although the plan wasn't progressing very smoothly, everything was moving in the direction Black Zetsu had anticipated.
But the Tenseigan's appearance had been completely beyond Black Zetsu's expectations.
Black Zetsu rasped, "Raise the threat level of the 'Star of the Clouds.' He could interfere with our plans."
Obito gave a slight nod and fell silent.
This defeat had dealt Obito an even greater blow than his retreat during the Nine-Tails' Rampage.
The destruction of the Kirigakure he'd spent more than ten years cultivating was only part of it. Obito had also realized that the Star of the Clouds had seen through all his trump cards.
The importance