Two afterimages clashed and twisted around each other in the lonely Kamui Space, leaving overlapping trails that made it seem as if far more than two people were fighting.
Boom!
With a thunderous blast, a shock wave surged through Kamui Space, shattering one of the enormous Stone Pillars in the wake of their fierce battle.
Amid the swirling debris, the two figures finally separated, each leaping backward onto a Stone Pillar.
"Huff, huff."
Panting, Nagato glanced at Obito in the distance, his expression growing darker.
Having controlled the Akatsuki Organization for years and wielded the Rinnegan, he lacked neither insight nor experience. He could tell at a glance that the technique "A" had used to restrain Obito was no ordinary ninjutsu like genjutsu, but something far more advanced and mysterious.
Shinji was panting, too.
Nagato was stronger than he'd expected. But Shinji had also realized that he himself seemed stronger than he'd thought—considerably so.
As for Obito, Shinji hadn't paid him much attention. He seemed completely confident that his technique could handle him.
And that was exactly what happened.
After being struck by Shinji's Imperial God Palace, Obito seemed to have frozen solid. He couldn't move a muscle—not even his eyes.
It was obvious.
The technique Shinji had just used, Imperial God Palace, was the Space-Time Dojutsu contained within his Rinnegan.
But unlike Sasuke's Amenotejikara or Madara Uchiha's Limbo: Border Jail, the technique awakened in Shinji's Rinnegan focused on time.
Once Shinji activated Imperial God Palace, time within the area he selected stopped flowing. Obito hadn't been caught in a genjutsu or restrained by a Sealing Technique. He was simply trapped in a relative state of temporal stasis because time in his surroundings flowed differently from time outside.
Of course, all Space-Time Dojutsu came at a heavy cost, and Shinji's