In the pitch-black stone chamber sat a bloated, grotesque white mass of flesh!
Faces bulged from the tumor's surface.
They were all Hashirama Senju's faces... or they would have been, if not for the distinctly different face squeezed to the edge.
The wrinkles on the right half of that face, along with the inconspicuous red glow above it—the Sharingan—were the only two signs that this tumor was Uchiha Obito!
That was right... utterly defeated by Minato Namikaze, he had barely survived only by exposing his identity and begging for mercy. Obito's injuries were beyond the reach of medical ninjutsu!
Thanks to Minato's compassion and Tobi's help, he had fled with all his strength. By the time he returned to the nest, he had only a breath left...
To survive, and even more so to wash away today's humiliation... though he knew the risks were nearly fatal, he had resolutely transplanted every Hashirama Artificial Body Madara had left on the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path into himself!
The result... was this hideous state!!
The excessively vigorous Hashirama Cells had multiplied in an instant, at a rate hundreds of thousands of times more terrifying than even the most dreadful cancer cells...
If Obito had not had the foresight to choose this room, reinforced by a special barrier, as the transplantation site, then with the expansive force of the Hashirama Cells, the flesh tumor they had swollen into would have been more than ten times larger...
By then... where would Uchiha Obito have found room to exist?
Though the barrier firmly confined the tumor within this cubic chamber, its internal tendency to proliferate and grow did not disappear. The Hashirama faces at its edges constantly "kissed" the barrier, making sounds of "Smooch! Smooch! Smooch!"
Obito's own face and eye were also constantly