"Am I... already dead?"
"Not yet... but I've already healed you!"
Uchiha Obito regained consciousness, and the moment his hoarse, dry voice sounded, someone immediately replied.
"Not dead? Then what is this...?"
Fully awake now, Obito moved his body and felt unbearable pain all over.
His entire body was wrapped up like a rice dumpling.
Feeling that the Izanagi in his left eye had not been triggered, his expression abruptly changed.
When he had been attacked before, even the lower half of his body had been completely shredded.
If Izanagi hadn't been triggered now, then didn't that mean...
Clinging to a sliver of hope, Uchiha Obito endured the agonizing pain and reached down beneath himself!
Thud!
His arm dropped limply to his side, symbolizing the ruins his heart had become.
"It's gone... everything's gone! Not even a little bit is left!"
Obito collapsed despondently onto the stone bed, his lifeless eyes staring at the familiar rocky ceiling overhead.
"Is this my fate? Seriously injured twice in a row, and waking up twice in a row in this godforsaken place!"
Thinking of how only a quarter of his body remained, Obito was overcome with grief and roared, "Fuck my mother!!!"
Black Zetsu silently watched the bandaged man on the bed vent his frustration.
Only after he had vented enough did he speak a few words of comfort.
"Obito, it's just a couple ounces of flesh. If it's gone, it's gone! As long as Infinite Tsukuyomi succeeds, everything will return in the end."
Those words were like a shot to the heart, waking Uchiha Obito from his self-destructive despair.
It had to be said, even though Black Zetsu didn't have a dick, he had lived for over a thousand years. Comforting a teenager was easy for him.
"That's right! I still have