The stranger's sudden appearance immediately put Obito and Zetsu on alert. They braced themselves and demanded, "Who are you?!"
The stranger pulled back his hood, revealing his face.
"Nagato?!" Obito was startled at first, then exclaimed, "No, you're not Nagato. Who are you, really?"
Though the man bore some resemblance to Nagato, a closer look at his expression made it clear that he wasn't Nagato.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki said coolly, "You may call me 'Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.'"
"Ōtsutsuki?!"
Obito and Zetsu were both taken aback.
Obito hadn't expected the man to call himself an Ōtsutsuki. That was no ordinary name in the Shinobi World.
Black Zetsu was even more astonished. As a being created by Kaguya Otsutsuki, he had inherited much of her memory and knowledge. So when he heard the name "Ōtsutsuki Isshiki," even he couldn't hide his shock.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki casually found a bench and sat down, as if this were his own base. Unbothered by the wary Obito and Zetsu, he said leisurely, "You must be the so-called Akatsuki Organization, right? No, I suppose I should say the 'Dark Dawn'!"
After 'A' successfully seized the Ten-Tails and won the Fourth Shinobi World War, the various factions in the Shinobi World had pieced together the differences between 'A's Akatsuki Organization and Nagato's. Even the terms Shinji had casually coined back then, 'Breaking Dawn' and 'Dark Dawn,' were now widely accepted as the names of the two separate Akatsuki Organizations.
As a result, Nagato's and Obito's Akatsuki Organization had come to be regarded by the various factions as the 'Dark Dawn.' There were even rumors that the 'Dark Dawn' was merely a splinter group created by traitors and heretics within the Akatsuki Organization, while the 'Breaking Dawn' controlled by 'A' was the real Akatsuki Organization.
They'd completely turned the tables!
Steadying