You and I, Heart to Heart?

Shinya charged at Obito Uchiha once more with tremendous force!

Obito Uchiha, standing opposite him, merely shifted slightly to the side and easily avoided the ferocious blow.

Boom!

Shinya's massive impact slammed directly into a nearby tree.

In an instant, wood chips flew everywhere. The entire tree was snapped from its roots and crashed to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

After missing twice in a row, Shinya saw red!

Shinya puffed out his cheeks and instantly spewed a huge amount of venom from his mouth.

The venom spread in every direction like raging waves, blotting out the sky.

Wherever it passed, whether flowers, grass, trees, or other living creatures, anything touched by even a trace of it gradually stiffened before ultimately turning into lifeless stone statues, standing silently where they were.

Obito Uchiha remained expressionless. These attacks looked like a clown show to him.

Even if Shinya's venom sprayed onto him, it would have no effect. In Sage Mode, he was immune to all poisons and could completely ignore such toxins!

At most, the venom would make him feel sticky.

It was like someone had sprayed Ambrosial yogurt all over him.

Obito Uchiha's eyes slowly shifted from the Three-Tomoe Sharingan into the Mangekyo Sharingan as he fixed his gaze on Shinya.

The instant Shinya saw the Mangekyo Sharingan, he froze slightly, but he immediately shook his head and continued attacking!

Back and forth they went, Shinya losing battle after battle, yet fighting again after every defeat!

Pfft!

A muffled thud rang out.

At the very moment Obito Uchiha seemed to carelessly expose a tiny "opening"!

Shinya suddenly struck like lightning! His enormous yet flexible body shot forward, coiling tightly around Obito Uchiha with astonishing speed and strength!

"Hahahahahaha! Finally caught you, didn't I?"

Shinya let out an incomparably smug laugh, though it was impossible to tell what sort of sound he used to make it.

Excitement and cruelty gleamed in his eyes as he muttered, "Today, I'll let you taste my power. Feel the terror of Death Coil properly!"

Before his words had even faded, Shinya began to move.

His gigantic body shifted with lightning speed, every movement carrying unparalleled force and might, making the ground tremble!

In the blink of an eye, Obito Uchiha had been tightly bound by Shinya's thick, powerful body, unable to move in the slightest!

Obito Uchiha calmly looked over his situation, contempt curling at the corner of his lips.

"Hmm? Why aren't you afraid?"

Seeing that Obito Uchiha showed no fear at all, Shinya could not help frowning.

He had wanted to see this human cry and beg for mercy out of fear of death.

For example, kneeling down and pleading through tears and snot for him not to kill him.

"Heh... why don't you take a look at your own situation?"

The corners of Obito Uchiha's lips lifted into a faint smile. It seemed calm and indifferent, yet it contained endless killing intent!

Hearing this, Shinya was briefly stunned, confusion and bewilderment appearing on his face.

His blood-red eyes blinked, as if he could not understand why Obito Uchiha had suddenly said such a thing.

But soon, acting on instinct, Shinya still lowered his head to inspect himself.

At that instant, the previously clear scene shattered like fragile glass into countless tiny fragments, then swiftly vanished like an illusion reflected in water.

The sight before his eyes blurred in an instant, and a powerful sense of unease rose within Shinya.

When everything became clear again, Shinya discovered in shock that the situation between himself and Obito Uchiha had undergone a complete reversal!

He, who had held the upper hand just moments ago, had now fallen into an extremely disadvantageous position.

His enormous head had somehow been tightly coiled up by his own thick, powerful tail, as though locked in place, unable to move at all.

What was even more unbelievable was that his open mouth had bitten the tip of his own tail! This bizarre posture made Shinya look utterly strange, like some twisted, deformed monster.

Shinya's eyes widened as he stared blankly at his miserable state, completely unable to believe what he was seeing.

No matter how hard he thought about it, he could not understand how he had suddenly ended up like this.

And he had been trapped by himself! What an utterly absurd thing!

"Sharingan!"

Shinya suddenly remembered that during their earlier battle, he had looked directly into the eyes of the person before him!

"Damn it! It must have been then! Damn it!"

Shinya looked up at Obito Uchiha, and the sight instantly stunned him.

Behind Obito Uchiha, the sun slowly rose. Under its rays, the scales on Obito Uchiha's body seemed vividly alive!

The two horns on his forehead were also savage dragon horns, and bathed in sunlight, Obito Uchiha seemed like a true dragon made manifest!

Shinya froze instantly!

Watching such a divine scene, Shinya's snake pupils continued to widen!

"This..."

Shinya suddenly felt himself becoming much calmer. His mind also began to think, no longer consumed by rage.

Obito Uchiha held Shinya's reverse scale in his hand, though it was unknown when he had removed it.

The White Snake Sage and the Three Divine Princesses had also been drawn over by the sea-like venom Shinya had just released.

This time, however, the White Snake Sage appeared in the form of an old woman.

"It seems little Obito has tamed Shinya..."

The White Snake Sage looked at Obito Uchiha with a smile.

The Three Divine Princesses, meanwhile, stared brightly at Obito Uchiha's Sage Mode.

"Perfect!"

The three spoke in unison.

Obito Uchiha slowly handed Shinya's reverse scale to the White Snake Sage.

"My, what a good child. He had been giving me headaches for quite some time..."

With a gentle wave of the White Snake Sage's hand, the plants and animals that had been turned into stone statues by the venom instantly returned to normal.

"Shinya, staying in Dragon Cave does you no good. Why not follow little Obito out into the Shinobi World? The Shinobi War is fierce right now. Although we are neutral, we do have some ties with Konoha. Go lend them a hand!"

The White Snake Sage looked at Shinya as she spoke.

Though Shinya looked somewhat unwilling, he still nodded.

"As long as this human does not betray me..."

Shinya watched Obito Uchiha warily.

Obito Uchiha swiftly made his position clear.

"You and I are heart to heart. How could I ever betray you?"

Obito Uchiha instantly became a master actor, looking at Shinya with sincere eyes.