Return to the Village

Seeing Zetsu fall silent, Obito Uchiha said no more.

He turned and approached the group of Leaf shinobi he had killed earlier. Activating Kamui's power, he sent all their bodies into a Different Space.

Clearly, he understood that corpses could not be kept completely secret.

So he simply took them all away, leaving no loose ends.

That way, Konoha would have no chance of obtaining information about him from the corpses.

At the same time, this showed that he had decided to give up waiting here for Qian.

Zetsu immediately understood what he meant.

As it happened, he did not want to continue entangling himself with Qian either.

Thus, after Obito Uchiha finished collecting all the corpses, he left together with him.

Meanwhile.

Land of Fire.

The southern sea.

On that island.

Qian's tightly shut eyes suddenly opened.

Just now, a Shadow Clone's memories had once again surfaced in his mind. They belonged to the Shadow Clone that had just fought Obito Uchiha and Zetsu.

Reviewing everything in those memories and carefully observing Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu's reactions, Qian finally relaxed slightly.

Judging from their reactions, his strategy had apparently succeeded. He had smoothly stabilized Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu with the excuse that he wanted to become the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki.

This did not fundamentally conflict with their ultimate goals.

Thus, he no longer had to worry about the two of them exposing his capture of the Four-Tails and Seven-Tails.

At least, he did not have to worry about it in the short term.

It was not that the two were especially easy to deceive. Qian's age and identity were simply too misleading.

After all, no one would expect a thirteen-year-old boy of clear origins like Qian to know so many secrets of the Ninja World.

The disparity in