Departure and Taking the Blame

As if sensing the turmoil in Obito Uchiha's mind beneath the mask, Zetsu, who had been standing silently beside him with a Venus flytrap on his head and a body divided into black and white halves, suddenly said, "Did you find something?"

Hearing this, Obito Uchiha took a deep breath, then told Zetsu about his discoveries and conjectures.

He said, "Iwagakure's Four-Tails has indeed gone missing, and the one who did it was most likely Qian."

"Qian? You mean that Qian from your Uchiha clan?"

Zetsu confirmed.

"That's right!"

Obito Uchiha nodded. After a brief hesitation, he explained, "I forgot to tell you, this Uchiha Qian awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan long ago, just like me."

"What?"

Hearing this news, even Black Zetsu could not help letting out a sound of surprise.

After wandering around the Ninja World for over a thousand years, Black Zetsu had seen if not a thousand Uchiha ninja, then at least eight hundred.

And among so many Uchiha ninja, in the same generation, or even over a longer period of time, at most only one or two could awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan at the same time.

Yet in this generation of the Uchiha clan, there were already Obito Uchiha and Uchiha Shisui, and now a third person had actually awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan. How could that not shock him?

That was right—Black Zetsu had known long ago that Uchiha Shisui had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Because it had happened when he and Obito Uchiha were acting together, and Shisui had awakened it after being stimulated by Obito Uchiha.

Only...

"This Qian...?"

Zetsu glanced at Obito Uchiha's profile.

He did not know when Qian had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, nor when Obito Uchiha had learned of and confirmed it.

But no matter how one looked at it,