The Great Collective's expansion plan was still underway.
The rapidly changing situation had finally made a certain aloe man completely cast aside his inner hesitation. After ending a three-year honeymoon period, he wholeheartedly jumped back into the camp opposing Director Yamada!
Only, unlike the way he had brazenly confronted him three years ago, Black Zetsu no longer had the nerve to swagger around in front of the seriously ill Director Yamada just because of his special constitution...
Not to mention Soji himself, whose methods had become increasingly unfathomable lately—even those deaf and blind ninja who had previously shown no reaction to him at all had gradually begun expanding the boundaries of their perception after undergoing the Great Collective's modifications. As a result, the range in which Black Zetsu could operate within Konoha had been drastically restricted lately!
Clearly, the good old days of eavesdropping on anyone he pleased were gone for good.
The failure of his full-map invisibility skill not only meant that Black Zetsu's cost of playing ghostly tricks was skyrocketing, but also that his ability to interfere with the course of history was rapidly declining!
He had to know that even over Black Zetsu's thousand-year lifespan, he had never experienced anything like this before...
With his underwear stripped away, he could no longer spare any thought for long-term objectives!
In his panic, Black Zetsu directly chose the most straightforward approach, laying out Konoha's increasingly out-of-control situation before Uchiha Madara. While he was at it, he added fuel to the fire and stirred up trouble between the elderly Madara and Director Yamada.
"At present, it appears that Yamada Soji's ambitions extend far beyond winning this North-South War or preserving his own life—he is even more decisive than expected. After the Spirit Body Transfer Technique was restricted, he immediately shifted