Obito Uchiha looked at the people below and, with a thought, vanished from atop the Buddha statue.
When he reappeared, he was already beside Nagato's corpse.
"I'll be taking Nagato's body," Obito Uchiha deliberately announced as he appeared.
Only after hearing Obito Uchiha's voice did the elite jonin guarding the corpse realize an enemy had arrived.
They immediately sprang into combat readiness.
A dense barrage of shuriken and kunai flew toward Obito Uchiha just as he prepared to absorb Nagato.
Obito Uchiha had to abandon the absorption. To absorb an object with Kamui, he needed to manifest in real space—in other words, he had to become tangible.
Of course, he had done this deliberately. Kamui's absorption was actually extremely fast. In the original story, when Ōnoki tried to kill Sasuke with Dust Release, Obito Uchiha had still managed to absorb both Sasuke Uchiha and himself in time.
To Karin's senses, Sasuke Uchiha's chakra had vanished outright. This meant that, to some extent, Obito Uchiha's absorption was faster than sensory perception. At that speed, it was almost instantaneous teleportation.
The main reason Obito Uchiha had not completed the absorption immediately was to mislead everyone present into misjudging his abilities.
Although his information had leaked and everyone knew Kamui could absorb objects quickly, there were still differences between degrees of speed. Sometimes, even the slightest gap in information could lead to unexpected consequences.
The moment the enemy appeared, the jonin present unhesitatingly pulled out signal flares and fired them.
Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others, who were heading toward another battlefield, saw the signal and immediately turned back.
"This is bad! He must have gone over there!" Ōnoki grew frantic when he saw Obito Uchiha disappear.
That signal flare explained everything. The fighting there had already ended, so a new flare meant an