We're at war, big brother!

The thought had barely arisen before Black Zetsu snuffed it out.

As the incarnation of Kaguya Clan's will, he had inherited all of Kaguya Clan's memories and knew full well that she had left behind only him. There was nothing else.

After hesitating for a moment, Black Zetsu made his decision and quietly crept toward the other party.

No matter how mysterious and bizarre the other party was, he would first probe his background.

Shusen had been hiding in the shadows, silently observing the battle.

"It's about time to make a move."

Seeing that more than a dozen Uchiha clansmen had already fallen, he immediately grew restless and was about to slip into the battlefield to gouge out some eyes—

At that moment, he suddenly had an intuition, a premonition of extreme danger, as though prey had been targeted by a ferocious beast.

Shusen trusted his instincts deeply and instinctively turned his head.

"..."

"..."

The two Black Zetsus stared at each other, wide-eyed.

The situation became exceedingly awkward.

At that moment, Shusen thought of many things.

He had been using Black Zetsu's disguise for four years. He had always been careful whenever he appeared, and he had long expected that one day he would run into the real deal. After all, if you walked by the river often enough, your shoes were bound to get wet.

But wasn't this day coming a little too suddenly?!

At least give me a heads-up, big brother!

Black Zetsu paused, then asked in a deep voice, "Who are—"

"Whoosh."

Without another word, Shusen burrowed into the ground and fled.

What a joke. Even against Kaguya Wuzhan, he had to use Izanagi. He had no confidence in dealing with the genuine Black Zetsu.

If he wanted to destroy Black Zetsu, he would at least need to fuse the Rinnegan and Tenseigan first. He and Kaguya Wuzhan were not even on the same level.

Seeing the other party flee so decisively, Black Zetsu was initially stunned. Once he came to his senses, he hurriedly gave chase.

After only a few steps, he sensed that something was wrong. The other party's tunneling speed was outrageously fast. With just one burst of speed, he had already left Black Zetsu more than ten meters behind.

How could he let him get away?!

Black Zetsu immediately formed hand seals and slammed his palms into the surrounding earth. "Ten Directions Solid Rock Technique!"

The soil around them instantly hardened into impenetrable walls of iron, no longer passable with tunneling techniques.

"Clang."

Shusen slammed headfirst into an iron wall and was bounced back.

"Who exactly are you?" Black Zetsu coldly demanded, gripped by an unprecedented curiosity.

With his escape route cut off, Shusen was no longer in a hurry to run. He vigorously rubbed his forehead, then turned back to face Black Zetsu with an unfathomable smile.

"This day has finally come," he said calmly. "Black Zetsu, actually, this is not yet the time for us to meet."

"!!!"

Alarm bells rang in Black Zetsu's mind.

Black Zetsu was a name he had given himself. There was no way anyone else should have known it!

He took a deep breath, his gaze growing even sharper. "Stop talking nonsense. Tell me who you are!"

"A thousand years have passed, and you're still so impatient." Shusen sighed leisurely.

Black Zetsu said nothing, only stared at him fixedly.

"It's normal that you don't know me. Fine, since things have come to this, I shouldn't keep it from you any longer," Shusen continued.

"Fate has guided us to this encounter. When Ragnarok arrives, all those who defy us shall perish..."

"???"

"Speak plainly!" Black Zetsu gritted his teeth.

"Calm down." Shusen soothed him while secretly gathering chakra.

"It's a long story, so I'll keep it short. I am actually—"

Shusen deliberately drew out the final word, building anticipation.

Black Zetsu held his breath, inexplicably becoming nervous.

"Your father, whom you lost a thousand years ago."

"..."

Nothing was scarier than the sudden silence in the air.

Black Zetsu's eyes turned red with rage. "You bastard..."

"Wind Release: Rasenshuriken!"

He who struck first gained the advantage. After stalling for so long, Shusen successfully unleashed his ultimate move. A massive shuriken formed from condensed chakra appeared in his hand.

Black Zetsu was startled. The shuriken contained immense power, and he was about to evade its edge when he realized that Shusen was not attacking him with it. Instead, he swung it upward and smashed it into the ceiling.

"Boom!"

A heaven-shaking explosion rang out. The earth above, which Black Zetsu had hardened into an iron wall with ninjutsu, was instantly blasted through, opening a hole more than ten meters wide that led straight to the surface.

Without hesitation, Shusen leaped upward through the opening.

Black Zetsu flew into a fury and leaped after him.

"Unforgivable! I'll kill you!"

Never in his life had Black Zetsu been so enraged. Kaguya Clan was his reverse scale. He lived solely for Kaguya Clan. Shusen's audacity in defiling Kaguya Clan before his very eyes had completely ignited his killing intent.

"Let's see where you can run!"

Black Zetsu pursued relentlessly, as though he had gone mad.

The moment Shusen emerged onto the surface, he used the Transformation Technique, turning into a blood-soaked Uchiha clansman. He ran desperately toward the battlefield and shouted:

"Black Zetsu has appeared! Clan Head Tajima, save me!"

He infused his voice with chakra, making it roll across the entire battlefield like thunder.

"What? Black Zetsu?!"

The Uchiha clansmen, who had been fighting fiercely, shuddered in horror as they all recalled the terror of having their eyes gouged out.

"You bastard!"

Uchiha Tajima looked in the direction of the voice and indeed saw one of his clansmen being pursued by Black Zetsu. He would never forget Black Zetsu's hateful appearance, even if it were reduced to ashes!

"Amaterasu!"

Tajima's pair of three-tomoe Sharingan instantly shifted into Mangekyo Sharingan. He focused his chakra and stared at Black Zetsu as a streak of bloody tears ran down his face.

The true art of killing with a glare.

Black Zetsu's killing intent was surging. He had decided that regardless of the other party's identity or origins, anyone who dared defile his mother had to be ground to dust. Yet his body suddenly grew scorching hot, and in the next instant, black flames ignited around him out of thin air.

"Ahhh!"

Black Zetsu screamed miserably as the black flames on his body burned ever more fiercely, covering his entire body in the blink of an eye.

"Move!"

Uchiha Madara abandoned his decisive battle with Hashirama and charged fearlessly toward Black Zetsu, shouting at Shusen.

A large group of Uchiha clansmen followed closely behind him. They no longer cared about the battle; Black Zetsu was the only enemy in their eyes.

"Great Fire Annihilation!"

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

Hundreds of fireballs erupted in unison, carrying world-destroying might.

Shusen had already darted far aside when Madara warned him, but he still felt a wave of heat rush at his face.

Hundreds of fireballs struck Black Zetsu almost simultaneously. With a deafening boom, the forest was instantly ignited into a sea of flames, and a huge mushroom cloud rose into the sky.

"Ahhh!"

Black Zetsu truly was the incarnation of Kaguya Clan's will. Even after taking such a mountain-burning, sea-boiling attack head-on, he was not blasted into pieces. He only screamed miserably as he tunneled away into the distance, black flames roaring over his entire body, impossible to extinguish.

"Chase!"

Madara gave the order resolutely. "This time, we must completely destroy Black Zetsu once and for all!"

"Kill Black Zetsu!"

"Use Black Zetsu's dog life to comfort the spirits of the fallen Uchiha!"

The Uchiha clansmen roared furiously. Every last one of them withdrew from the battlefield and chased after Black Zetsu without regard for anything else.

The Kaguya Clan members were dumbfounded.

Their allies' bizarre maneuver had utterly confused them.

Were they playing around? Making trouble?

We're at war, big brother!

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