"Uh... Mother, no, I still haven't seen Mother..."
Black Zetsu's voice was filled with despair.
His life force was rapidly fading, yet his body was pinned in midair, space itself locking him in place so he could not move an inch!
Screech—!
A flash of white light streaked past, brutally tearing Black Zetsu's body apart. He turned into countless black threads and vanished between heaven and earth.
"Uchiha Akira... you knew all this long ago?"
Uchiha Madara could hardly believe it. He was not stupid; he immediately realized that Uchiha Akira had known everything from the start.
That meant everything he had done before had been nothing more than a clown show in the other man's eyes.
"Smart."
Uchiha Akira looked at Madara with a trace of pity.
"Who would have thought? Madara, who possessed a two-sided Susanoo, was stabbed in the back twice. This is your fate—to offer up your life to Kaguya Otsutsuki under everyone's watchful eyes, allowing her to be reborn."
Was Madara pitiful?
Extremely pitiful.
From beginning to end, Madara had only ever wanted one thing: true peace. But unfortunately, he had been deceived by Black Zetsu.
He had spent a hundred years on it, only for it all to end as nothing more than a dream.
Madara's will was strong enough, resolute enough. If not for Black Zetsu and Kaguya, then after achieving the Infinite Tsukuyomi, he would have endured eternal solitude alone for everyone else's happiness and peace.
In Madara's hands, no one would have turned into White Zetsu.
They would only have remained happy forever.
But unfortunately.
Madara had been destined to fail.
Screech—!
Without mercy, Uchiha Akira's palm pierced through Uchiha Madara's endlessly swelling body. He violently pulled outward. "Then, at the very end, release the Nine Tailed Beasts!"
The nine Tailed