"Damn it!"
Obito clenched his teeth so hard that he bit his tongue bloody, the sweet, rusty taste of blood filling his mouth.
He forcibly used his left hand to wrestle against the violently reversed meridians, desperately suppressing the chakra inside him, which had been thrown into complete chaos by Orochimaru's missile-sealing attack.
"Kamui... get moving, damn it!"
The lone eye beneath his mask instantly transformed into a bloodshot Mangekyō Sharingan. Space tore violently through the air as he tried to teleport directly onto the largest Stone Village command ship and smash Uchiha Yoru's and that old man's faces to pieces.
The swirling spatial ripples had only just spread halfway through the air.
Obito could practically see the dawn of victory.
As long as I touch that deck, with my intangibility and Wood Release, I can definitely slice that dead snake Orochimaru and that traitor Kakuzu into hundreds of pieces!
He panted heavily as he ground his teeth and muttered to himself.
But before his body had even become one-third intangible, something changed without warning above his head.
"Beep beep—warning! Abnormal high-energy spatial reaction detected in Zone Zero!"
On the deck of Iwagakure's vanguard flagship, three genin wearing Orochimaru's latest Chakra Spatial-Sensing Goggles almost simultaneously slammed the alarms by their ears.
Green data light flashed wildly across the lenses, dazzlingly bright.
"Target locked! Coordinates directly ahead, three o'clock!"
The squad leader spat out a mouthful of sandy phlegm and slapped his thigh. "All right, this is the rat we've been waiting for. Light him up!"
"We've got him, Brother Minato."
Yoru lounged against a leather sofa, chewing on grilled lamb skewers without even moving his butt.
He held a crude clay teacup in his hand, black grime from the construction site still lodged beneath his nails.
"This brat wanted to