He wanted to see through Danzo's trick.
But aside from Hozuki Suigetsu and the others still brawling with Danzo's bodyguards, there was not the slightest trace of Danzo anywhere.
As the glow of the lightning arcs faded, Sasuke slowly advanced toward that spot, unsure of what he was feeling.
Everything had happened too fast. Was he dead just like that? Sasuke had not even felt the satisfaction of revenge.
For some reason, instead of feeling happy, he felt a little irritated.
As the lightning arcs completely dissipated, a charred, blackened, foul-smelling object lay at his feet.
Sasuke lowered his head and looked at it for a while before raising his head again. He could confirm that this was Danzo's corpse. But now that things had come to this, what should he do next?
Just as Sasuke stood there in confusion, he suddenly seemed to sense something.
Looking down, Danzo's corpse, which should have been by his feet, slowly began to fade away like an illusion.
While Sasuke was still at a loss, Obito, who had been watching from the side, flickered his gaze.
Before Obito could explain anything to Sasuke, someone suddenly appeared out of thin air behind Sasuke. Naturally, it was Danzo.
Sasuke immediately noticed him and instinctively moved to attack.
But Danzo performed several backflips, then quickly formed a series of hand seals.
Self-Exerting Curse Binding Seal.
Patterns immediately began spreading from beneath Sasuke's feet.
They rapidly crawled upward from his ankles.
Until they covered Sasuke's entire body.
Sasuke immediately felt as though he had been completely immobilized, unable to move at all.
Yet when Obito saw this, he paid no attention to Sasuke's rather dire situation.
Instead, he began explaining Danzo's attack to Sasuke as if nothing had happened.
Danzo had originally intended to take advantage of