After spending so long together, Obito had become increasingly aware that Black Zetsu was hiding far more than he let on.
That deep cunning, those plans spanning thousands of years—they were even more unfathomable than Madara Uchiha's!
Black Zetsu was absolutely not just a fragment of will left behind by Madara.
But Obito did not confront him directly.
Madara had already been sealed by Uchiha Ren.
The Eye of the Moon Plan had yet to be completed.
The Rinnegan was still with Nagato.
The three of them were now in the same boat.
No matter what Black Zetsu was hiding, neither side could truly turn against the other before the plan succeeded.
Obito slowly released his hand and smoothed out the crumpled bounty notice.
"Uchiha Ren made our information public because he wants to use the entire Shinobi World to force us into the open."
"The more things are like this, the less we can act according to his wishes."
Black Zetsu nodded slightly.
"Correct."
"The bounty notices are only the beginning."
"What truly needs to be dealt with is the Uchiha Shrine."
White Zetsu looked at the two of them.
"They have already given Amegakure a ten-day ultimatum."
"Will Nagato hand us over?"
Obito sneered.
"The Akatsuki Organization is not his alone."
"Besides, he first has to be capable of catching us."
As soon as he finished speaking, he leaned back against the stone wall.
Black Zetsu did not speak again.
Both sides tacitly avoided the suspicion from earlier and continued maintaining their superficial cooperation.
But the impact brought by those bounty notices could no longer be stopped.
In just a few days, word of Kakuzu's hundred million ryo bounty, Sasori's hundred million ryo bounty, and the five hundred million ryo bounties on Tobi and Black Zetsu spread through