Afraid to Act Rashly

"Obito Uchiha."

Qian murmured the name and began thinking about why the other party had suddenly come after him.

Very quickly, Qian had his answer.

Thanks to his "foreknowledge," Qian knew very well what Obito Uchiha wanted and what he valued.

With that, working backward from the result to the cause, then connecting it to what he had done recently, it was not hard to guess that the reason Obito had come after him was most likely because he had captured the Four-Tails.

No, not just the Four-Tails. It was probably also because of the Seven-Tails.

After all, capturing one Tailed Beast could be explained as having some other purpose.

For example, to increase his strength, or to research some forbidden ninjutsu.

But capturing two Tailed Beasts in succession was rather hard to justify.

It was also because, after capturing the Seven-Tails back then, he had not been targeted in any way, causing Qian to instinctively lower his guard against Obito Uchiha and the others. That was why, after capturing the Four-Tails, he had not thought of them immediately.

"Damn it, I was careless!"

Qian felt somewhat vexed.

If, after obtaining Roshi's whereabouts at the time, he had considered things more thoroughly, he might have been able to act more covertly.

In that case, perhaps Obito Uchiha would not have noticed him.

However, the moment this thought arose in Qian's mind, he denied it.

Putting aside the fact that the deed was already done and there was no room for regret, even if he had acted more covertly back then, he probably still would have drawn the other party's attention in the end.

After all, Iwagakure was different from Takigakure. After Takigakure had its Seven-Tails forcibly taken by him, the Third Great Ninja War had only recently ended. As a