Behind the Wood Locking Wall.
The sounds of battle rang out beyond it.
Shinji blinked, feeling his eyes rapidly take on their new form. He scratched his head. "Hmm... I have everything I need now. I just need a little time. At this rate, two or three months should do it?"
He raised a hand and touched the "great rift" on his forehead.
"Ugh, this giant eyeball looks awful." He tried controlling it and found he could close it, so he promptly did.
All that remained on his forehead was a narrow vertical slit.
Then he looked down and turned his hands over, chuckling. "Good thing my skin didn't turn that corpse-white color... Kaguya can pull it off, but a man with deathly white skin? That would be too weird. Thank goodness!"
He touched his forehead again.
"Yes! Good! No horns!"
Beside him, Shisui maintained the Wood Locking Wall, looking utterly speechless. "What are you talking about? There's a battle going on outside, man!"
"Ah—"
Shinji stretched, looking languid and in no hurry. "It's nothing. I'm just not used to this power yet. Let me get a feel for it first. As for the fighting outside, let them fight... Isn't that what we agreed on in the plan?"
"The plan?" Shisui stared at him. "Your plan was to watch him take every Tailed Beast?"
"You said yourself there's also the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. Now that the Rinnegan has fallen into his hands, what if..."
"Hmm?"
Shinji turned to him. "What's wrong with that?"
"..."
Shisui frowned. "Why?"
"Why?"
Shinji scoffed. "Because I don't care if he gets them. I don't want Obito Uchiha dead. I want Obito Uchiha as the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki. After that... whether he lives or dies has nothing to do with me."
Shisui shook