Water Release: Spiral: Heavenly Tide!

Hearing the familiar voice coming from behind him, Obito instantly stunned. He subconsciously turned his gaze and looked in shock at the black-haired youth standing behind him, exuding a chilling killing intent!

"Shadow Clone? No, it's the real body?!"

Obito looked at Kō, who shouldn't be there, and couldn't help but feel puzzled.

"How is this possible? Pain's true form should be in Konoha right now, fighting Pain and those Akatsuki guys. How could he be here?!"

Could it be that his true body remained in Mist Village? And the one who went to Konoha was also a Shadow Clone?!

"What... exactly is going on?"

Just as Obito was still trying to understand this completely unexpected turn of events, a sharp pain that was both strange and familiar suddenly came from behind him!

He moved his gaze with great difficulty, directing it toward the direction from which the excruciating pain was coming.

What came into his view was a deep blue Rasengan, its interior swirling and surging like waves.

Unlike the familiar appearance in my memory, the Rasengan had no shine on its surface, and countless fine water droplets were jumping and spinning wildly around and inside it.

Every drop of water contains the terrifying power to tear everything to dust!

At this moment, this deep blue Rasengan, infused with water-style Chakra Nature Transformation, was pressed against his heart on his back, frantically churning everything in its path!

"Water Release: Spiral - Heavenly Tide!"

With a low shout, the deep blue Rasengan exploded inside Obito's body!

The water-style Chakra, compressed to its limit, surged wildly into Obito's body along the trajectory of the rapidly spinning Rasengan!

With each rotation, with each pulsation, his body, strengthened by Hashirama Cells, was being shattered!

Obito felt the terrifying pain within his body, and his face beneath the Spiral Mask was distorted beyond recognition.

He stared intently at the Rasengan that was still bouncing behind him, and a sudden realization flashed in his eyes.

At this moment, just like any other day!

"Fly, Thunder--"

However, before Obito could even finish reciting the name of the technique, the excruciating pain, exceeding the limits of human endurance, rendered him speechless.

A roar became the only sound he could utter at that moment.

"Ughhhhhh!!!"

Under the terrifying power of the Water Release: Spiral: Heavenly Tide unleashed with all its might, Obito's back, along with his heart, the half of his body composed of Hashirama Cells, and most of his bones, muscles, and internal organs, were instantly pulverized!

Time seemed to stretch out for an eternity at that moment.

As the deep blue Rasengan in his hand finally dissipated completely into the air, Obito's broken body, which was almost no longer human, finally collapsed heavily onto the cold office floor.

Apart from his relatively intact head, almost the rest of his upper body had been reduced to unrecognizable minced flesh and bone fragments by the previous attack.

Both arms were broken off in the impact, with only a small section of broken bone on the right shoulder exposed to the air.

The orange Spiral Mask that had concealed countless secrets and emotions was shattered into pieces by the aftershocks of the spiraling celestial tide, revealing a deathly pale face beneath it.

At this moment, Obito collapsed to the ground, his mouth agape, but no coherent sound came out of his throat, and he spat out mouthfuls of blood.

At the same time, his once jet-black short hair turned visibly white in a very short period of time.

Having lost the support of half of Hashirama Cells, the terrifying backlash of the Body Activation Technique finally erupted on this battered body!

Obito collapsed to the ground, his already fading vitality appearing even more withered against the backdrop of his white hair, as if he would, like the dimly lit office, fall into complete silence at any moment.

Kō coldly looked down at Obito's mangled body, which was almost unrecognizable as human, without a trace of pity or wavering in his eyes. It was as if he was looking at nothing more than a walking corpse that should have been buried in the depths of darkness long ago and had finally reached its end.

He knew very well that even if he did nothing, Obito wouldn't last a minute.

But Kō had no intention of leaving this ending to time; Obito's life had to be brought to a final conclusion by himself!

"All of this... is about to end."

Without hesitation, Kou drew his Firebirth from its sheath, the silver blade flashing a cold light in the dim office.

He raised the Firebirth high, aimed it at Obito's head, which was almost devoid of any living energy, and then swung it down fiercely!

"Go to the Pure Land and atone to those you killed with your own hands!!"

Obito lay on the cold floor, struggling to shift his gaze to the silver-white blade of light that was crashing down on his head.

He gazed at the all-too-familiar face filled with icy killing intent, at the Mangekyō Sharingan of its former warmth, and a faint smile appeared on his pale face.

Just as planned, he died at Kou's hands.

The plan... went very smoothly!!