Kuro vs. Obito!

In the dimly lit office, as Obito's voice faded, the already somber atmosphere instantly became even heavier.

The curtains remained tightly drawn, isolating their office from the bustling world.

His head was bowed low, and a few stray hairs fell across his forehead, obscuring his eyelids and making him difficult to see clearly.

Obito gazed at him silently, a complex expression creeping across his face hidden beneath the Spiral Mask.

He knew the consequences of being honest better than anyone else.

He understood that from this moment on, Kou would no longer have any expectations of him.

That once barely maintained daily life, called companionship, will be completely and forever... gone.

"And that's exactly what I've been hoping for."

Obito sighed inwardly, completely concealing the sadness that shouldn't have appeared in his eyes at this moment.

"After all, this is the most crucial part of the plan."

"... Yeah."

"Now I'm completely certain."

After a long while, Kou slowly raised his head, breaking the almost drowning silence.

His crimson Mangekyō Sharingan had been activated, and there was no hesitation in his eyes, only a chilling killing intent.

"Uchiha Obito, I will kill you here with my own hands."

Before Kou could finish speaking, Obito's wrist, which had been tightly gripped just moments before, was pierced through Kou's palm like an intangible afterimage!

In the next instant, Obito had already retreated several feet away.

A jet-black chain shot out from his wide sleeve, was firmly grasped in his palm, and swung violently in the direction of the knock!

Wherever the chains passed, the immense kinetic energy crushed the few furnishings in the office into dust!

Kou stood still, without flinching, his eyes showing not even the slightest ripple of the terrifying pressure that enveloped him.

Not far away, Obito stared intently at Koko, his fingers gripping the chain tightening slightly from an angle unnoticed by anyone.

Kou completely ignored the approaching black chain.

He simply stared silently at Obito in front of him with his eerie Mangekyou Mangekyō Sharingan, channeling the power within his eyes, and whispered:

"The Magatsuhi God."

The next moment, an ominous premonition rose in Obito's heart.

Based on his years of combat intuition, he made a decision instantly, voluntarily releasing the physical form of the chains and transforming himself, along with the chains in mid-air, into a ethereal state.

However, just as those ethereal, pitch-black chains were about to touch Kou's body and pass through the space he was in, they suddenly stopped in mid-air.

On the blurred and elongated chain shadow, fine cracks spread out like a spider web.

But at this Obito, Obito's attention was no longer on the strange scene in front of him.

He stood frozen in place, still maintaining the posture he had adopted when he swung the chains.

Obito's entire body, and the space around him, were now also covered with countless dense cracks, like shattered glass.

"Click, click--"

The crackling sounds as the cracks spread, accompanied by a piercing pain unfamiliar to him, spread wildly from every spot!

Obito looked down in disbelief at the cracks that were spreading across his body at an alarming rate, and his heart skipped a beat.

My body is immobile.

Kamui —didn't work either?

What on earth is going on?!

Not far away, Kouchi coldly stared at Obito, who was trapped in Obito by the Space Collapse, and without hesitation, raised his hand and snapped his fingers crisply:

"Smack!"

As the snap of his fingers fell, the fine cracks that covered Obito's entire body and the surrounding space instantly shattered!

Obito could even let out a complete scream, the cracks had already turned his body, along with the sealed space, into countless fragments, completely obliterating him in the collapsing space!

There was no blood, no residue, not even a trace of its existence.

It was as if the man with the orange Spiral Mask had never existed in this office at all...

Kouchi stared expressionlessly at the completely emptied space before him, as if nothing had ever happened, showing no sign of letting his guard down.

The next instant, Kou seemed to suddenly sense something, his eyes flashed sharply, and he turned around abruptly.

A scorching and violent heatwave was emanating from the shadowy corner behind him, surging towards him!

Fire Release: Blast Wave Wild Dance!!

A Uzumaki, blazing wave of fire instantly filled the entire office.

The wooden desk turned to ashes in the flames; the walls and floor scorched, cracked, and melted rapidly under the intense heat, emitting a shrill and piercing screech.

In the blink of an eye, the entire Mizukage's Office had transformed into a sea of crimson flames!

Facing the towering sea of fire, I steadily focused my right eye on the raging inferno:

"Inari God."

As Kou finished speaking, the fierce sea of fire momentarily froze, then transformed into a blazing red stream of light, which was drawn entirely into Kou's right eye and silently merged into his body.

After the flames subsided, a familiar figure emerged once more from the tattered shadows.

"This guy is definitely not so easy to deal with!"

Looking at the unharmed Obito before him, the coldness in his eyes deepened even further.

"Izanagi, what a troublesome technique..."

He murmured to himself, but felt no sense of unease.

After all, this was his last life left after this incident.

I will never give Obito the chance to get Sharingan!

"Uchiha Obito, you will die today!!"

"Clap, clap, clap."

Obito, seeing Kotori staring at him with murderous intent, clapped his hands and exclaimed in genuine admiration:

"Chakra absorption ability similar to that of the Preta Path? You've awakened a rather impressive Dōjutsu, kowtow."

He then changed the subject, saying in a somewhat strange tone:

"But your other Dōjutsu... is it specifically designed to counter Space-Time Ninjutsu's Space Collapse?"

"You've awakened such Dōjutsu? No wonder you were so fearless when facing me in the form of Shadow Clone."

Obito shrugged and gave Koko a meaningful glance:

"However, if I'm not mistaken, the energy required to activate that technique must be quite high."

The one standing before me now is ultimately just a Shadow Clone.

"How many more times can you trigger Space Collapse like that?"

Kō remained silent, staring intently at Obito ahead, his eyes filled with chilling killing intent.

Obito felt the pressure that was even more intense than before, he finally dropped his playful attitude.

He said no more and slowly raised his left hand.

A spatial Uzumaki silently appeared, and a round Gunbai with Tomo patterns engraved on its surface emerged from the Kamui Dimension, landing steadily in Obito's palm.

"Let's begin—Round Two."

Obito the Uchiha Gunbai horizontally in front of him and said in a cold, deep voice:

"Let me take a good look at you now, and see just how far you've grown!"