The Limbo shadows reappeared.
There were... two!
One shadow looked like Obito, and the other... Sasuke!
"What... did you do?"
Obito stared at the impossible sight in shock.
The Tengai Shinsei hanging over Sasuke's heart finally came crashing down.
An unforeseen complication had arisen midway through, but fortunately, the information he most wanted to verify had yielded the answer he had hoped for.
Madara's Rinnegan without tomoe was, ultimately, slightly inferior to the six-tomoe Rinnegan.
That allowed Yamato Takeru in Sasuke's left eye to affect it, with the support of Susanoo-Tails' Rinne Sharingan.
But... the timing required particular care.
Both chakra and eye power had to be weakened!
Weakened eye power... meant the cooldown period of the eye's original dōjutsu.
Weakened chakra meant the moment when Susanoo-Tails' attacks and Samehada's absorption had drained the greatest amount.
That was when the technique was commandeered. However, Sasuke had deliberately set a "delay," so Yamato Takeru took effect at the same moment Limbo recovered.
Whether Sharingan or Rinnegan, the eyes could only display their greatest power when their original owner possessed the complete pair.
Each of them having one Limbo shadow was precisely the result of successfully commandeering one Rinnegan... because a single Rinnegan produced one Limbo shadow. Four was the bonus granted by possessing both eyes.
Obito had once received Madara's personal tutelage, so he quickly worked out the mechanism behind it.
His expression turned cold.
Limbo charged in for the kill, and Limbo lunged to meet him... launching a dizzying exchange of attacks and defenses in empty space!
With a beckoning gesture, the Truth-Seeking Orbs behind him abruptly gathered into a spinning top, rolling toward the recovering Susanoo-Tails to slice through it!
Sasuke met it without hesitation... Susanoo-Tails raised its fully restored fist and forcefully blocked the cutting strike!
Then his