"The Ten-Tails..."
Madara Uchiha still made his way before the Ten-Tails.
He reached out, his Rinnegan gleaming with an unusual light.
For an instant, heaven and earth, space and time seemed to freeze. The next moment, a tremendous transformation changed the very color of the world!
The mountain-sized Ten-Tails turned fluid, flowing into Madara's palm!
Elsewhere, Black Zetsu watched Obito, unable to shake the feeling that something was strange.
Why had Kakashi and the others treated Obito without a moment's hesitation?
Weren't they enemies?
And their treatment had been so practiced, as though they had rehearsed it beforehand...
Then there was Orochimaru...
"Orochimaru... if he's an undercover agent... then Obito..."
But the more Black Zetsu thought about it, the stranger it seemed.
If Orochimaru and Obito weren't truly loyal to Project Tsuki no Me, why had they fought so desperately?
"Forget it... there's no point thinking about it anymore.
The great wheel of history has begun hurtling forward. No one has the power to stop it!"
Like everyone else, Black Zetsu turned his gaze toward the transforming Madara Uchiha.
"Madara is what matters most..."
Now, Madara Uchiha was pure white from head to toe, wearing a feathered robe and a white crown. The tomoe-patterned fabric behind him snapped in the wind, and Truth-Seeking Orbs radiated an eerie light.
Holding the Black Truth-Seeking Orb Staff, he couldn't stop the corners of his mouth from rising!
"Hahahahaha... hahahahahaha!"
"The Ten-Tails' jinchūriki... I have ascended to immortality!"
Just like... the Sage of Six Paths!
And the real Sage of Six Paths had quietly entered the battlefield as well.
Time turned back to when Naruto and Sasuke had entered a state of suspended death.
Xuanhui and Pakura stood guard beside Naruto and Sasuke.
"Honey, will this work?"
"No problem. Naruto knows Sage Mode, and