That bastard Uchiha Yan had hidden himself deeply indeed. No wonder he'd dared to call himself the strongest in the ninja world years ago. You fucking swept through the world with the Eternal Eye while hiding the Rinnegan—who could possibly be your opponent?
At this moment, Obito felt exactly like a clown from some storybook.
He'd been jumping around all over the place, only for his actions to look no different from a clown's in other people's eyes, as though they were watching a monkey show.
What unsettled Obito most was that Yan clearly had the strength to stop all of this, yet had shown no intention of doing so. He had stayed hidden and kept a low profile the entire time.
Only after everything had been prepared and the Ten-Tails had been born did he jump out to snatch the fruits of victory.
In Obito's eyes, Yan had become someone who had stolen the fruit.
He clearly possessed the Rinnegan, yet had no intention of gathering the tailed beasts or activating the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Instead, he let Akatsuki handle all that work, then jumped out to reap the harvest once everything was ready.
Just look at what he had done. He had directly sliced the Ten-Tails in two, then stolen half of it.
His goal in enduring all this was the Ten-Tails!!!
Obito's guess had some basis. Yan had been hiding his strength because he was after the Ten-Tails, though that was not entirely correct.
Yan's mindset had been simple: give it a try. Success would be ideal, allowing his strength to advance once more. If he failed, then he would do everything possible to stop it.
After taking away half of the Ten-Tails' body, Yan rapidly retreated from the battlefield. Right now, the Ten-Tails wanted nothing more than