I Give Up! Let Shisui Die. Bye~

Hearing Obito Uchiha's words, Ensei Uchiha couldn't help sighing.

As expected, Shisui Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan ability had been leaked. Shisui himself was probably the only one who would have let something like that slip.

Since they both had Mangekyō Sharingan, Obito couldn't possibly have used a genjutsu on Shisui.

Black Zetsu... that seemed unlikely too.

Given Shisui's strength, he shouldn't have been captured unless he'd been ambushed or betrayed.

In the original story, he'd lost one of his Mangekyō only after being caught off guard by Izanagi. Even then, he'd activated Susanoo and fought his way out. There was no way he'd been captured without a sound.

As for who he'd told, leading to this situation, that was hard to predict.

All he could say was, if you didn't go looking for trouble, you wouldn't end up dead.

"Fine, I give up! Let Shisui die. Bye~"

Ensei Uchiha said offhandedly. The next second, his body turned into a puff of white smoke and vanished, leaving only a stunned Obito Uchiha behind.

"He... just left?"

Obito Uchiha asked helplessly.

Just then, Black Zetsu suddenly emerged from the ground beside him and said slowly, "He never intended to come in person. That was just a Shadow Clone."

"Obito, looks like you got played."

At Black Zetsu's words, the ground around them suddenly split open. A large swarm of Self-Destruct Flies rushed out and began detonating in an organized barrage.

When creating the Self-Destruct Flies, Ensei Uchiha had focused on increasing their flight speed.

That was how they'd been able to wipe out five of Pain's bodies in one fell swoop not long ago.

And now, it kept Obito Uchiha from reaching the Kamui Dimension in time, leaving him no choice but to dodge the attacks by turning intangible.

Explosion after explosion rang out, one after another.

Obito Uchiha remained intangible for about five minutes straight.

As for "White-Black Zetsu," who had just emerged, he'd been blasted into black sludge scattered everywhere.

The White Zetsu half of "White-Black Zetsu" had already died in the explosions.

Unfortunately, although Black Zetsu's body had been blown to pieces, with patches of black sludge scattered all over, it was still twitching as if trying to pull itself back together.

More than five minutes had passed. Obito Uchiha couldn't hold out any longer, so he had no choice but to use the Three-Tomoe Sharingan Madara Uchiha had left behind to activate Izanagi.

Six minutes later, the explosions stopped. The timing had been just right.

But thanks to Izanagi, Obito Uchiha reappeared unharmed. At the same time, Black Zetsu, who had been blasted into patches of sludge, began slowly pulling himself together.

Just then, Ensei Uchiha rushed over from Konoha again. Seeing what was happening, he immediately pulled out a finely crafted sealing scroll and pressed it against the ground.

But at the crucial moment, the sludge seemed to suddenly learn the Nara Clan's Kekkei Genkai, turning into shadows and slipping underground...

No, perhaps the Nara Clan's secret techniques had also originated with Kaguya Otsutsuki long ago.

"What a shame. Is this thing really Madara Uchiha's will? It's so hard to catch. I'd love to study it properly."

Ensei Uchiha said regretfully.

The next moment, a pitch-black hand pierced through Ensei Uchiha's chest, and Black Zetsu appeared behind him.

With a puff of smoke, Ensei Uchiha vanished without a trace, leaving Black Zetsu behind after his failed ambush.

It was obvious that this Ensei Uchiha was also a Shadow Clone.

Obito Uchiha didn't pay any attention to Ensei Uchiha's Shadow Clone disappearing. Instead, he gave Black Zetsu a strange look before using Kamui to return to the Kamui Dimension.

Just now, when Obito Uchiha had used Izanagi, he'd intended to include Black Zetsu in the technique's reality-altering illusion.

But clearly, Izanagi had failed.

Izanagi was a forbidden technique that required the sacrifice of a Three-Tomoe Sharingan. It worked by casting a genjutsu on the entire world, allowing the user to evade an impending crisis—even death.

But a ninjutsu of this level had failed to affect Black Zetsu. Was it because Madara Uchiha had awakened the Rinnegan, allowing the Black Zetsu he created to ignore Izanagi's reality-altering illusion?

Although he'd found himself a perfect excuse, Obito Uchiha couldn't help starting to pay attention to Black Zetsu, whom he'd ignored all this time.

In Konoha, Ensei Uchiha was looking through materials in the Konoha Library when he suddenly froze, then nodded as if he understood.

He shook his head, which felt a little muddled after the brief disruption, set down the book, and headed toward an unremarkable house in Konoha.

According to Hiruzen Sarutobi, this was where Kushina Uzumaki lived now.

He was standing at the door when it opened before he could even knock.

"I met you a few years ago. Minato has also told me about you..."

The moment Kushina Uzumaki saw Ensei Uchiha, she spoke eagerly, very quickly.

"Uh, aren't you going to invite me in?"

Ensei Uchiha stared at the diamond-shaped mark between Kushina Uzumaki's brows, momentarily lost in thought.

Looks like I've changed quite a lot.

Kushina Uzumaki had actually learned the Yin Seal. And with the Yin Nine-Tails...

Good grief, Kushina Uzumaki might be the strongest person in Konoha now!

"Oh, right. Sorry, sorry! Come in..."

"Minato fell into a coma, and I haven't been out in a long time. I'm afraid I've been a poor host."

Kushina Uzumaki was exceptionally friendly. It seemed she wasn't on Hiruzen Sarutobi's side, which was good news.

Looks like Hiruzen Sarutobi wasn't as foolish as Shimura Danzō.

He was at least a fairly competent politician. He knew how Ensei felt about him, so he'd arranged for someone else to use a conciliatory approach. That was a smart decision.

"Wait, Minato's in a coma? He's not dead? I thought he'd used the Reaper Death Seal."

As Ensei Uchiha pondered this, he suddenly caught what Kushina Uzumaki had said and couldn't help asking.

At that, Kushina Uzumaki paused, then said, "Looks like you haven't heard the news yet."

"That makes sense. Minato used to be the Fourth Hokage. If word got out that he was in a coma, it would cause a lot of trouble."

As she spoke, Kushina Uzumaki led Ensei Uchiha to a place that looked like a storage room.

But when she opened the door, he found a whole other world inside. All kinds of advanced medical equipment monitored the vital signs of the person lying in the hospital bed. For a moment, Ensei Uchiha felt as if he'd been transported to another world again.

That brought up the unique worldview of the Naruto world. All kinds of technology already existed here, and in some respects it wasn't far behind the world Ensei Uchiha had come from.

But because of the shinobi, all that technology had never really taken off. It barely seemed to exist.

"Kushina, could you let me see the Fourth Hokage's current condition?"